Success University launched in January 2005 and became the #1 most visited personal development website on the Internet in their first year, a record which they still hold today.

As at April 2008, over 80,000 students have now enrolled worldwide (from about 180 countries) into Success University to date. Whilst many of these students would have since let their membership lapse, this is nonetheless indicative of the tremendous growth of Success University in only a little over three years - and we are only so far scratching the surface.

Part 1 - Section 1: Key People Behind Success University

The founder, president and CEO of Success University is Matt Morris (see pic at left with Les Brown). He was 28 years young when he founded Success University in 2005, yet he had already generated a six figure income prior to the age of 24 through his involvement as a distributor with another network marketing firm.

Just three years earlier at 21 he had been homeless, living in his beat up Honda Civic, and bathing in gas station bathrooms! Between the ages of 24 to 29 he became the top money earner in two network marketing companies, as well as a millionaire several times over.

Matt's experiences on the road to success demonstrated to him that personal growth always precedes business growth, reinforcing his belief in the value of personal development materials. His father committed suicide when Matt was only 13 years old, and Matt firmly believes that his father would most likely not have done so had he been exposed to self improvement materials and principles.

These two factors, coupled with others, fuelled Matt's vision to create Success University in order to provide a medium for people to access education that could improve their lives, in the framework of a system that provides an incentive for fellow students to "spread the word". Matt has been profiled on both U.S. national, as well as international, television and radio.

The second of the three key figures behind Success University is the Vice-President of Sales, Tony Michael (see pic at left with myself). Matt and Tony became friends in their early twenties when both of them were growing as network marketing distributors.

Tony has an amazing story which I was privy to hear from him on stage when I attended the Success University Convention at the Melbourne Sofitel in February 2008. I won't go into his story here as it's best shared by Tony himself (I'm sure he will do so on stage again in the future), but in summary his mother disowned him at age 16 and he spent 1½ years living in an old 1980 Subaru (from memory) which he would park at truck-stops, whilst bathing in gas station rest-rooms (Matt & Tony have this in common!), and paying his way through school with multiple part-time jobs.

He finally tracked down his father in his late teens, and moved to California to be reunited with him for the first time since he was about 3yrs old (when his mother had left his father and changed their family name).

Tony was the youngest person to have been featured on the front cover of Six Figure Income magazine at age 22. Whilst Tony achieved spectacular success at a very young age, it didn't come easy.

On one of his CD's, he recalls someone asking him what was the best training he had ever been through, to which Tony answered "the training of 30,000 phone calls". The guy said: "Wow! Where do you go to that training?", thinking that someone had broken it down and provided an encapsulated blueprint to follow, to which Tony answers "No, I did it. I worked it out. I made so many phone calls every day for this period of time, and it came to well over 30,000, but rough figures I just say 30,000".

So whilst Tony's rise to success was rapid, he paid some very significant dues to achieve what he did in his first twenty four months as a network marketer. He lacked a lot of confidence when he started out, so obviously, an enormous Dream and Desire were the driving force to make him take the extraordinary level of action that he did.

The third leading figure behind Success University is Johnny Wimbrey (see pic at left with his wife Crystal). Unlike Matt or Tony, Johnny and Crystal came onboard Success University as regular students and have achieved the status as Success University's top money earners at the Ambassador level.

Although not a partner at the corporate level of Success University, Johnny has become a de-facto Director of Training, and accompanies Matt and Tony to the companies' worldwide conventions.

Johnny also has come from a challenged background. His earliest memory is of living in a battered Women's shelter where his mother had fled with her children to avoid an abusive family situation. Johnny wrote about his teenage years in a book entitled "From the Hood, to Doing Good".

Johnny had already become successful prior to his involvement with Success University. He was pursuing a speaking career and writing books and audio programs but realised that Success University would complement what he was doing. He also realised that Success University was going to move with or without him, so he decided to join Matt Morris at the outset when the company launched.

Part 1 - Section 2: Success University's "Raison D'Etre"

In the first instance, Success University is an online campus that contains a wealth of structured human potential and personal development courses provided from 50 of the world's most famous personal success speakers, trainers and authors, and delivered in the form of streaming audio, video, and eBook courses.

There is also the option to receive the physically mailed Monthly Empowerment Series, which includes a newsletter, an audio CD as well as a DVD shipped to you for only $5.95 p/mth above the regular membership fee.

Success University's faculty members include many of the biggest names in the personal growth and self-improvement industry. People such as Jim Rohn, Zig Ziglar, Les Brown, Dr. Denis Waitley and Brian Tracy. Courses from these people as well as the courses of many other notable achievers are contained in the Success University members' area.

The available curriculum allows you to delve into, adopt and emulate the timeless philosophies, beliefs, thinking and personal behaviors that successful people use to design and live their dream life in both personal, family, financial, and spiritual spheres.

Repetition and persistence are the keys to success when applying personal development information in your life.

What I mean by this is that it is necessary for us to be reading and listening to personal empowerment materials daily (ideally), if not at least regularly.

Enroll into "Automobile University", as Zig Ziglar has coined, and turn your drive time into personal growth time. As I work from home, I don't drive much, so I slip in a CD when I am preparing meals or doing the dishes, and will watch inspirational and personal development DVD's whilst I eat lunch and dinner.

Listening to, watching, and reading self-improvement material consistently over time will ensure that these success principles seep into your consciousness and become second nature to you. Listening, watching and reading interrupts the conversation going on in our minds, and directs your thoughts in a positive, inspirational and constructive direction. Over time you will see the principles and knowledge you are learning start to bear fruit in your life.

Think of your mind as a garden. You can clear the weeds, till the soil and add the positive stuff (seeds, organic fertilizer, water), but if you don't regularly tend to your garden on an ongoing basis, the weeds will return! The same applies to your mind, and the positive and negative thoughts within it. And at the end of the day, the results we produce in our lives are directly related to our state of mind and the beliefs that we each hold about ourselves. We all need to tend to our garden daily to achieve the best results in our lives.

Success University provides the cream of the crop in personal growth materials, structured into specific subject matter categories. At the same time however, it is a business and vehicle which you can use to not only empower the lives of others, but to also free yourself financially.

With the Success University curriculum, you can learn time proven success principles to not only grow personally, but also to develop a long-term passive income through the Success University business opportunity should you choose to do so.

In other words, you can Learn and Earn at the same time, and your earnings can become passive, long-term and residual in nature.

The second purpose of Success University, for those who wish to build a business and create an ongoing passive income, is the Success Uni referral system. All members automatically receive their own websites exactly like mine (below) which we can refer other people to:

1. Success University Video Presentation and Program Overview

2. Success University 14 Day Trial For $2

3. Success University Newsletter / Lead Capture Page (with phone capture)

4. Success University Newsletter / Lead Capture Page (no phone required)

To be continued...

Note: Update as at 30-May-2008. Thus far I have only developed the first section that I outlined in the Introduction. I am about to start packing up as I am immigrating from Australia to Canada, and spending two months travelling in between, including one month with my family in France in August. Hence, I won't have the time to re-visit this lens again before August, but when I do, I will develop the following additional sections:

Part 2 - Success University Educators and Curriculum

Part 3 - Success University "Earn While You Learn" Business Overview

Part 4 - Success University Business Building Strategies

This will end up being a very comprehensive and detailed lens which I will complete progressively, and update on an ongoing basis once complete, so stay tuned for more coming shortly.

Warm regards,



The content on this lens is Copyright © 2008 Financially Free Pty Ltd. All Rights Reserved Worldwide.