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Some Thoughts on Being Successful!

What does it take to be a successful adjuster. Your working all over this fine country of ours because Mother Nature has provided you an opportunity to become successful. Success in not always how much money you make, but how you fit into society and how you feel about yourself and how others feel about you.

Being a Success! We want to be successful in school, in our jobs, in our relationships. In fact, we dream about being successful in everything. But what a challenge this is!

Most of the people believe that they just can't achieve great success because they don't have what it takes, or because they're not educated enough! They complain that luck is never on their side or that they weren't born to be successful, or even that they are too poor to ever even think about being something else!

You know what? You don't need luck or any diploma to accomplish the success you deserve.

You just need faith. Faith that you will indeed be successful, faith that you have all that it takes to make it to the top! You have to BELIEVE that YOU ARE the most successful person you ever met.

If you don't believe in yourself, who on earth do you think will?

The most successful persons in the world (businessmen (women), signers, physicians, adjusters, claims managers, etc.) all have that point in common: They all believed firmly that they were going to be exactly what they expected to be. They never doubted themselves, they had faith in their potentials and they were absolutely convinced that they would make it to the top! They never accepted a No for an answer. Nothing as ever stopped them, slowed down maybe, but never stopped!

Well that is very neat on paper, but I can hear you tell me: "It's easier said than done! How can I have faith in myself, when all that I have done so far hasn't brought me the success I am dreaming of? Everything that I'm trying ends up in a mess! Oh, I have attained some results of course, but I want more than that!" And that mindset could go on and on.

There is a lot of things that ANYBODY can do to become a success in any field they choose: relationships, business, career, anything you can think of!

First, you have to understand that you will need to make an effort, not necessarily a huge one, but let's put it that way: you will definitely need consistence in your doings.

With anything that you're trying to attain if you don't give consistent efforts, you'll just simply NEVER get what you expect. The main point is to believe that YOU CAN be successful, and YOU WILL indeed.

One good method I am using for years now is Affirmation. And that doesn't really take a great deal of an effort to do. Simply keep repeating to your self, while looking at yourself in a mirror, some sentences like these ones:

- I am a successful person!
- I can attain any success level I desire!
- I will be rich because I deserve it!
- I will be successful in anything that I do!
- And any other statement to make your attitude higher and your love of knowledge higher.

There are some rules that have to be followed when using the Affirmation Method.

Never use any negative form in you sentences (i.e.: I will not fail in anything anymore. It's better to use: I will succeed in everything I'm undertaking from now on.) And trust me, affirmations really works! So if you affirm anything negative, this is what you'll get! So be aware of it, and very careful in your affirmations.

You also have to be repetitive. Repeat at least 10 to 20 times each affirmation every day, for several days. What I like to do when I have a goal to attain is to pick up 2 or 3 sentences that make sense to me. Then I write them down 10 times each, and I repeat the process for at least 7 days in a row.

Remember, consistency!!! You can even go further and do it for 2 to 3 weeks in a row. The longer you do it, the better results you'll get. In fact, just make it a morning habit while your in the bathroom while your getting ready for the coming successful day.

You will be surprised on how effective that simple and easy method is. Many years ago I started with affirmations to help me care about my self. Yeah! I was like that! A person that didn't like himself/herself enough to believe that he/she could do anything good. Well that simple method had simply change my life for the better! I am happy with myself, my life with my family and friends is wonderful. I feel that I have been and still am, a successful adjuster. You can have those same feelings and you can accomplish anything that you decide you want to do.

So, let me tell you that this method can really change your life too if you only give it a try! Many years ago I went from living in a stressful mood all the time, never expecting anything good could ever happen to me, to being loaded with confidence in my possibilities and chances of being successful in all the aspects of my life! And still sometimes when something doesn't go the way I want it, I grab my pen and start writing positive affirmations. And back on the good track I am!

I met a lady 19 years ago that changed my view of love, compassion and marriage. Her name is Janice and she is my true love, my soul mate, my kindred spirit partner, my lover, and my daughter's mother they really never had. She affirms herself daily and has become on of the best female insurance adjusters of our community. She now works with FEMA through Cunningham Lindsey and is highly successful at being a project writer for FEMA. From the word I get, she is outshining some of the old veterans that have been with FEMA for many years. How does she do this when 17 years ago she did not know that much about insurance. She went with me on her first Cat in 1991 for hurricane Bob in Massachusetts, near Cape Cod. She was going with me to assist on looking at losses, living with five other adjusters, several of which were General Adjusters and the others were high quality adjusters. We all shared a large home to cut down on expenses. We all shared the cleaning, cooking, making coffee and had meetings at night to help each other with questions or problems. When we got back home, (this is before we got married), she said, "lets do this all the time, I had a wonderful time, enjoyed the comradery, and I would like to become an adjuster too". That's all it took for me, I started training her and other GA friends of mine helped also. She had a desire to succeed and a compassion for the ability to help others during their time of stress and need.

Why would she want to do this. Her desire to be successful, not only income, but respect for herself and respect others give her for doing an exemplary job. My hat is off to Janice for becoming what she is now in this little community of ours. She has set an example to all newbies as to what they can become, if they affirm themselves, and create the proper attitude.

Good luck to all of you.

Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts.

True happiness comes from within, never from external sources. So do not expect financial success to bring you happiness on a personal or spiritual level. You don't have to go any further than headlines at the grocery check out line to figure that one out

There are two thing money can never buy, health and happiness. Don't forget what matters most on your road to financial success. Learn to love yourself. If you don't love yourself, who else is going to?

The following is the philosophy of Charles Schulz, the creator of the 'Peanuts' comic strip.

You don't have to actually answer the questions.

Just read the e-mail straight through, and you'll get the point.

1. Name the five wealthiest people in the world.

2. Name the last five Heisman trophy winners.

3. Name the last five winners of the Miss America pageant.

4. Name ten people who have won the Nobel or Pulitzer Prize.

5. Name the last half dozen Academy Award winners for best actor and actress.

6. Name the last decade's worth of World Series winners.


How did you do?

The point is , none of us remember the headliners of yesterday.
These are no second-rate achievers.
They are the best in their fields.
But the applause dies..
Awards tarnish.
Achievements are forgotten.
Accolades and certificates are buried with their owners.



Here's another quiz. See how you do on this one:


1. List a few teachers who aided your journey through school.

2. Name three friends who have helped you through a difficult time.

3. Name five people who have taught you something worthwhile.

4. Think of a few people who have made you feel appreciated and special!!

5. Think of five people you enjoy spending time with.

Easier?


The lesson:

The people who make a difference in your life are not the ones with the most credentials..the most money...or the most awards.

They simply are the ones who care the most.


'Don't worry about the world coming to an end today. It's already tomorrow in Australia !'



''Be Yourself. Everyone Else Is Taken!

Christmas is forever, not for just one day,

for loving, sharing, giving, are not to put away

 like bells and lights and tinsel, in some box upon a shelf.

The good you do for others, is good you do yourself...

 

 

What do you see nurses? ...What do you see?

What are you thinking.....when you're looking at me?
A crabby old man ...not very wise,
Uncertain of habit.....with faraway eyes?

Who dribbles his food.......and makes no reply.
When you say in a loud voice.....'I do wish you'd try!'
Who seems not to notice..the things that you do.
And forever is losing......... A sock or a shoe?

Who, resisting or not...........let's you do as you will,
With bathing and feeding .... The long day to fill?
Is that what you're thinking? Is that what you see?
Then open your eyes, nurse......you're not looking at me.

I'll tell you who I am ......... As I sit here so still,
As I do what you're bidding, ... .as I eat at your will.
I'm a small child of ten ......with a father and mother,
Brothers and sisters ........who love one another.

A young boy of sixteen..with wings on his feet
Dreaming that soon now. .......a lover he'll meet.
A groom soon at twenty ....my heart gives a leap.
Remembering the vows......that I promised to keep.

At twenty-five, now .......... I have young of my own.
Who need me to guide .... And a secure happy home.
A man of thirty ........ My young now grown fast,
Bound to each other .......... With ties that should last.

At forty, my young sons .....have grown and are gone,
But my woman's beside me.......to see I don't mourn.
At fifty, once more, ....... Babies play 'round my knee,
Again, we know children ...... My loved one and me.

Dark days are upon me ............. My wife is now dead.
I look at the future ..............I shudder with dread.
For my young are all rearing......young of their own.
And I think of the years... And the love that I've known.

I'm now an old man.........and nature is cruel.
'Tis jest to make old age ....look like a fool.
The body, it crumbles..........grace and vigor, depart.
There is now a stone........where I once had a heart.

But inside this old carcass ...... A young guy still dwells,
And now and again ......my battered heart swells
I remember the joys........... I remember the pain.
And I'm loving and living.............life over again.

I think of the years .... all too few......gone too fast.
And accept the stark fact........that nothing can last.
So open your eyes, people ..........open and see..
Not a crabby old man. Look closer....see........ME!!

"Woman's Gift"

Whatever you give a woman,
she will make greater.
If you give her sperm,
she'll give you a baby.
If you give her a house,
she'll give you a home.
If you give her groceries,
she'll give you a meal.
If you give her a smile,
she'll give you her heart.
She multiplies and enlarges
whatever is given to her.
So, if you give her any crap,

Death is not the greatest loss in life.

The greatest loss is what dies inside us while we live.