Lloydeology
by Lloyd Luna

Lloyd A. Luna, author of the book “Is There a Job Waiting for You?”, is a futurist, a strategist, a motivational speaker, and a career coach. He is the managing director of LLOYD LUNA Communications, founder of the University of the Winners and webdeologist of Webdeology.com. Text us at +63918.625.8951 (Smart) or +63927.756.2777 (Globe) or email your questions to mail@lloydluna.com.

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Success has no secrets

Admit it. We know very well why people succeed as well as why people fail. So I really wonder why many people keep on asking me what my secrets of success are. The basic principle has not changed centuries ago.

In my personal search for meaning, I've learned why some things become "secrets" to others. As you would realize after hearing the best speaker in town who has delivered a success speech, what successful people could have told you are the same thing you know. They are obvious.

And whenever I'm invited to talk about success, I don't really give a new idea about success. What I give are principles that have worked over centuries—“secrets” that will always work. But my audience always gets amazed.

Why? Because they thought that my speech contained the secrets. And, because they thought that these alone will make them successful as well. But here's the idea:

Because people are so busy looking for quick answers to their questions or quick fixes to their problems, they forget the minor details. And when they forget these seemingly boring, irrelevant, insignificant minor details in their lives, they become "secrets" that only a few people realize that they are not secrets at all. These few people are called the "successful."

Life accumulates. And we cannot escape the accumulation of our activities, the selection of our attitudes, our philosophies and beliefs, our personal realities whether they are major or minor, boring or interesting. So, there's really no secret at all, only forgotten principles and rules of the game. The bad news is that winning takes knowing the rules of the game first.

Career, financial independence, health, business, success, relationship—they are all a never-ending process to build. When we stop building it, chances are, it will collapse. Why? Because that's the essence of life—accumulation of details.

In my fast-selling book on career and personal development, Is There a Job Waiting for You? I wrote: What you don’t know will hurt you. We are affected by knowledge. But I must say still that a lot of people know a lot of things and yet they are not successful. The reason? Knowledge is not power. It is only a potential power. Organized knowledge is power.

Go for the things that you don’t know. Go to places, events and seminars that you think would add knowledge that would equip you toward your dreamed success.

However, I must also tell you that the greatest value in life is in the becoming, not in the getting. Because when you become the person you need to be or the person you have always wanted yourself to be, you can do whatever you need or want to do in your life. Doing is the only way that will make yourself attractive in the eyes of "success."

Getting up from bed early in the morning, doing regular exercise, eating a healthy diet, reading books or listening to audio books, writing your goals, planning activities, connecting with “successful people,” keeping a journal, smiling, getting, getting away from unbalanced stress, controlling emotions, going to bed early at night—these are some details that we don’t appreciate. That’s why we wake up one morning asking “what are the secrets of success?”

Details are very important. That makes “secrets” secret that many people fail to understand. And so they call it "secrets of success." And only those who take time to pay attention to these seemingly boring, irrelevant, insignificant details make it to the top.