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One way to attract more success in 2010 is to learn about other successful people of African heritage.
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We are highly talented, highly skilled, highly gifted and highly successful. Black people are good at everything.
How can we achieve more success in 2010? The more we dwell on success, the more success we attract. One way we can achieve this is to read about successful Black people.
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What Is Your Response to Success?
When you see a successful person, someone who has achieved the things you want to achieve in life, what do you think?
Do you resent the person, and think 'Who does she think she is?
What questions do you ask yourself? How did that person achieve that career, beautiful home, great new car, happy marriage and family?
What were the steps he or she took in order to achieve it? What do you do in order to get this information? Do you ask the person?
Do you think to yourself, that person got a lucky break, he or she obviously has connections, 'I could never do that'.
Well, you are right. If you have that attitude, you will never achieve outstanding success in your career or in your personal life.
Do you resent the person, and think 'Who does she think she is?
What questions do you ask yourself? How did that person achieve that career, beautiful home, great new car, happy marriage and family?
What were the steps he or she took in order to achieve it? What do you do in order to get this information? Do you ask the person?
Do you think to yourself, that person got a lucky break, he or she obviously has connections, 'I could never do that'.
Well, you are right. If you have that attitude, you will never achieve outstanding success in your career or in your personal life.
Lessons from the Top
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Did you know that John H. Johnson, founder of Ebony magazine and the Johnson publishing empire, studied biographies of Black achievers such as Frederick Douglass and Booker T. Washington? To read more, see Black Wealth.
Did you know that John H. Johnson, founder of Ebony magazine and the Johnson publishing empire, studied biographies of Black achievers such as Frederick Douglass and Booker T. Washington? To read more, see Black Wealth.
What Can We Learn from Successful Black People?
Living Your Dreams with the Hero Technique
A sense of success is essential to our self-esteem and self-worth.
Successful people are often happy to share with others how they got there. They enjoy helping others to achieve their goals, and if you learn from them and follow their example, you too can achieve your goals.
I have asked people of African heritage who are successful in their fields how they have achieved their success.
I asked them what problems and difficulties they have faced, and how they overcame them.
Several of them have said that, had it not been for the particular circumstances in their lives, they would have ended up as 'bad boys', in trouble with the police, or in the prison system. Or dead.
A sense of success is essential to our self-esteem and self-worth.
Successful people are often happy to share with others how they got there. They enjoy helping others to achieve their goals, and if you learn from them and follow their example, you too can achieve your goals.
I have asked people of African heritage who are successful in their fields how they have achieved their success.
I asked them what problems and difficulties they have faced, and how they overcame them.
Several of them have said that, had it not been for the particular circumstances in their lives, they would have ended up as 'bad boys', in trouble with the police, or in the prison system. Or dead.
Sir Herman Ouseley
In his foreword, Sir Herman Ouseley wrote: My definition - Success is part of a continuum; being able to maintain your own personal integrity alongside measurable results.It is all down to perspective, but the view therefore from the African Caribbean community could be different. My work over the last 35 years has been around contributing to developing a socially just world. Where we can all be proud and celebrate our achievements. However. there is the reality of our experience which is not just confined to the UK which is why this book is so poignant.
It is also important as well for us to be reminded that you're not going to get anything out of this world without hard work.
Diane Abbott MP
The first-ever African Caribbean woman elected to the House of Commons tells the story of her success.
Diane Abbott MP was the first-ever Black woman to be elected to Parliament. In her interview, she said:
I think we have to understand that people don't give you power as Black people. You have to take it. We as Black people need to campaign again for Black representation, as we did in the '80s.
In the '90s, people lost faith in collective solutions. People got very individualistic. So the idea that you can work and campaign collectively to improve things for everybody else is an idea that we may have lost sight of.
I think we have to understand that people don't give you power as Black people. You have to take it. We as Black people need to campaign again for Black representation, as we did in the '80s.
In the '90s, people lost faith in collective solutions. People got very individualistic. So the idea that you can work and campaign collectively to improve things for everybody else is an idea that we may have lost sight of.
Gratitude
Successful Black people know how fortunate they are. Each one of them has expressed his or her own creativity, individuality, and unique vision. And each one of them has focused, not just on his or her own individual needs, but upon the needs of the collective.
Because they are aware of how fortunate they have been, and perhaps out of gratitude to those who went before them, they have chosen to give of their time and talents to those who need them. These people have gone on to become role models themselves, helping, supporting and inspiring those who have come after them.
Now, they have chosen to share the secrets of their success with you.
Because they are aware of how fortunate they have been, and perhaps out of gratitude to those who went before them, they have chosen to give of their time and talents to those who need them. These people have gone on to become role models themselves, helping, supporting and inspiring those who have come after them.
Now, they have chosen to share the secrets of their success with you.
Great Stuff on Amazon
Success Strategies for Black People
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See also Allowing Success.
Amazon Price: $8.99 (as of 01/01/2010) 
Black Success Stories Volume 1
Highly talented, highly skilled, highly gifted and highly successful. Black people are good at everything.
Includes an interview with the late Len Garrison, founder of the Black Cultural Archives in South London.
Amazon Price: $12.99 (as of 01/01/2010)
Resources
- 7 Reasons Why We Break Our New Year's Resolutions
- Seven factors that cause us to break our new year's resolutions, and how we can overcome them.
- Nurture Success
- This is a web community for people of African heritage to help you to overcome your difficulties and achieve your goals.
My job is to help you achieve and surpass your goals and go beyond your wildest dreams.
Are you serious about changing your life in positive ways? Then I can help you. - Allowing Success
- The more we dwell on our successes,the more successful we become. The Law of Attraction says that in order to achieve success, we need to vibrate at the level of success.
- Barack Obama: African American Success Story
- Barack Obama is one of the most important African American successful role models in history.
People all over the world are still celebrating Barack Obama's election victory.
What can African American people learn from his success? - Celebrating Black Heroes and Sheroes
- Africle about storytelling, narrative and African traditions.
- Black Success
- Articles and blogs to help you achieve your unlimited possibilities.
by Zhana21
Author of The Key to Everything, Success Strategies for Black People and Black Success Stories.
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