Whatever you have defined your success, you need to have a perfect plan to achieve that place without compromising your life’s other critical attributes. To learn and adapt how to handle your journey to success carefully, you need a good mentor to be by your side. But having a great successful mentor by your side all the time is always almost impossible considering their busy schedule and the cost involved in having them by your side. This is where books written by those mentors come in handy.
Born to Win by Zig Ziglar is one such book that, in my opinion, can always be among the best of your books on success guidelines.
You probably might feel the content repetitive if you are an ardent reader of personal and self-development books on success. But this is the last book written by Zig Ziglar in which he has summarised his decades of experience in coaching millions of people into simple yet powerful to use techniques. So continue to read below for a glimpse of the book’s content.
Ziglar’s view on the Born to Win experience is, “You were born to win, but to be the winner you were born to be, you have to plan to win and prepare to win. Then and only then can you expect to win”. He found this secret working wonders by implementing these steps in his sales career and saw it victorious. Therefore, he has organized this book to cover these three categories with the best stories, ideas, and principles that you could replicate in your life and career to see yourself successful.
Here is the summary of what Zig Ziglar has discussed in the three sections of this book.
Planning to win
How do you plan to win? What do you want in your life to consider yourself a successful person? If you have a clear answer to these questions above, you are ready to plan to win. But how can you declutter the several thousand wants passing through your mind every single day and get clarity? Ziglar recommends having clarity on the below items.
Vision:
Have a clear idea of what you want in life. Having a clear picture of where and how you want to see yourself in the next few years clears the path to the next item in the list. Having a clear vision for the future creates desire. Desire is the motivation that fuels the motor to sustain your success.
Goals:
When you have a clear vision, you know what goals to set for the short and long term. If you do not have a clear vision for your future, you will all over the place, and it is challenging to get clarity on what you want.
Measure:
The goals you have set should be measurable. If you cannot measure your progress, you have to revisit the entire plan of having a clear vision, setting the goals, and measuring it until you can measure your progress.
Though having the above plan seems good to go, Ziglar also recommends having six good qualities that will help you speed up your journey and remain successful. The qualities that Ziglar recommends are honesty, character, faith, integrity, love, and loyalty.
Preparing to Win
At first, it may seem similar to planning to win. But you will understand that there is a whole lot of difference between planning and preparing to win.
While planning is to get ready to win, preparing is to equip yourself with the proper knowledge, tools, and support to help you move in the right direction towards achieving your goals.
This section will help you understand to
-get the proper knowledge you need to win,
-keep improving your performance consistently,
-acquire tools that will help you work smarter and faster, and
-keep yourself moving in the right direction with the proper direction support of the right influencers.
Planning and preparing, Ziglar states, should be a lifelong process with consistent improvements.
Expecting to Win
When you have planned and prepared to win, you have earned the right to expect to win, Ziglar states. In this section, Ziglar explains how expectation can be influential in helping you achieve your goals.
When you have planned and prepared to win, your level of hope rises, which gives you the energy and confidence to win by pushing your limits. In this mindset, you need not worry and expect the best things to happen as you have planned and prepared for the best. So you can expect the best possible result in all that you do.
Proper planning and preparing keep you highly motivated, and you keep performing at your best at all times.
Success may be subjective to everyone. But below points can be expected to be shared for most of the human beings out there.
You are successful in your family life if you can join your family for dinner regularly.
You are successful in your professional life if you can deliver your works on time.
You are successful mentally if you regularly find time to resonate with your inner thoughts.
You are successful financially if you have the financial security to meet your requirements each month and of your family’s even in case of your demise.
You are successful personally if you can spend enough time on your hobby or interests regularly.
You are successful spiritually if you know whom or where to turn to when you have nowhere or no one to go to.
You are successful physically if you are feeling energetic all the time, stress-free, and healthy.
The best is reserved for the last. The most valuable content, the tools, and simple yet powerful exercises you can do to plan your success journey are provided in the final chapter. This exercise helps you to self-evaluate your current state and where you have to concentrate more to bring balanced success in your life.
If you are one of those people who want to find your success code, then this is the book you should probably read it at least once in your life before your competition does.
