Natural Success Principles: Everything You Need to Succeed Was Inside You Before You Were Born

by Jack Hatfield

Overview

There are self help books littering the shelves of every book store in America. People are searching for a way to improve their quality of life as they digest the pages of every one of them. This book is different.This book contains no promises of great monetary success in less than twenty four hours if you read the book. There is no mystical secret contained between pages forty and sixty. Instead, there are simple truths. Truths are so often overlooked; they seem to be revelations of a new and exciting horizon. There are methods of reaching goals and what you need to do to reach yours, but the astonishing fact about those methods are that they are already in you. I had hidden the true principles inside myself. I had to witness them to rediscover them. At times, I wondered, with amazement, at the ability my mind had to ignore what was right under my nose. You wonder at the reasons that you struggle with the complexities and difficulties of life, when it should be so simple.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781600376672
Publisher:	Morgan James Publishing
Publication date:	07/28/2009
Pages:	166
Product dimensions:	5.90(w) x 9.10(h) x 0.60(d)

About the Author

In his first book, Blessed With Tragedy: A Father’s Journey With His PreeMiracle, Jack tells the story in day-by-day diary format written while in the struggle for life and death with his daughter Jonna.

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CHAPTER 1

Not Just Surviving, but Thriving (True Success)

Everyone knows someone who beats the odds life stacks against them. Maybe it's you or perhaps a loved one. It might even be a complete stranger. Few people stop to think about why that person overcame more than most individuals see in a lifetime. No one concerns him- or herself with the reason. The only true acknowledgment comes in the form of recognizing what appears to be a miraculous event.

We accept that survival is an instinct that we can draw upon in a time of need. It isn't a far stretch to realize even more of the truth: the survival instinct we so readily accept is only a piece of some basic success principle drawn on some blueprint residing deep in our brains.

We are constantly perusing and exploring opportunities. Every action we take, every choice we make is the pursuit of those opportunities. We can see a difference only when we make decisions for success. Before you wonder if I'm just some crazy goofball, perhaps I should give you some background information that brings you up to speed on how and why my thoughts have turned down this unconventional alley.

My daughter Jonna was born prematurely — not by days but by months. She had a slim chance of living and spent 130 days in the hospital. Now she is living and thriving. Not to say we don't have our daily struggles with stuff other parents don't deal with, but for the most part, it is the best it could be every day. For day by day details on those 130 days, you can read Blessed with Tragedy: A Father's Journey with his PreeMiracle. She faced a mountain and struggled to climb it without any of the skills and knowledge that mountain climbers obtain before trying the same feat. Jonna hadn't read any books on choices or any that would give her the gift of miracles. Jonna did it alone.

As I watched her fight for every breath, for the right to live, I realized that she must be tapping a source of strength from somewhere. Since there were no outside sources for her to have drawn on, her strength had to be coming from an internal well — which meant that she had to have manifested it sometime after conception. Then I observed the other babies with the same plight. They were all doing the same thing. Some days were better than others. It was not an easy battle, but the babies were combating their circumstances just the same.

It wasn't uncommon to see a baby in the neonatal intensive care unit advance tremendously one day and give up the next. Some of the babies didn't survive, as is the way of prematurity. Prematurity is the number one killer of newborns. Jonna had days when we wondered if she would be able to pull through to see another one. She also had days when her progress astounded us completely. Even when it was hard, Jonna seemed consistently to choose to live.

I watched Jonna feel pain and struggle to take breaths. I watched her fight to live. Amid the pain, the anguish of living that was her world, she continued to hold on. When I observed her doing this, I first had a thought that believing in a survival instinct may not be accurate. I felt instead that Jonna drew upon an inborn natural success mechanism that we couldn't see. I also came to the conclusion, after comparing Jonna's struggle to other events in my life, that everyone has this system of natural success tucked inside them. But we don't all choose to use it, and some may not even know it exists.

Take an observation that came to me during a drive down a busy, dusty highway one day. As I drove, I listened to some motivational speakers, and I found myself absorbing some of the ideas they offered. As my eyes took in the scenery and the monotony of the road disappeared under my tires, I saw a stand of small, scraggly trees. One seemed scrawnier than the others. I realized that although the tree didn't have a survival instinct or even a sense of life as we perceive it, it did know to grow. Its only goal was to grow, regardless of the conditions facing it.

Before you decide I've lost my marbles, I'll agree that a tree doesn't have a brain. Or it doesn't have a brain as we have. It has a special code held within its DNA structure that dictates what the tree has to do, what purpose it holds. In that DNA structure, the seed of the tree is imprinted with the information to grow. So it does have a predestined Natural Success Principle as well, since growing for the tree is success. Not growing is death.

A seed, too, knows when success is obtainable for the tree it will become. If conditions are not conducive for the tree's growing, the seed will lie dormant until those conditions are met. This is similar to what I witnessed in my daughter.

Jonna did not enter the world under the most perfect conditions. Machines made it possible for her to survive. In a world filled with constant pain and agony, respirators would assist her breathing until the conditions were right for her lungs to function. Without aid from a bunch of tubes connected to a hissing apparatus, her body was ill-prepared to breathe as we know it. She had to have a feeding tube because her mouth did not understand to suckle as most newborns do. She had to learn it all. She had to have all of her conditions altered to survive. She had nothing in her world to give her what she needed, except what science had created.

This goes well beyond a survival instinct. The idea of a survival instinct presupposes that the conditions are ripe for succeeding at life. Each element of the idea of survival instinct relies upon all conditions for growth, for progress, for life being in place. For Jonna, this was not the case. She did not rely on the instinct to live, but rather the will to live. For her, the desire to have the life she was promised determined her fate. Jonna wanted what was rightfully hers and fought to get it, regardless of the difficulty or pain of that life. Jonna didn't just survive; Jonna succeeded.

The idea of these principles' natural foundation lies not on having the conditions properly in place, but rather on insisting on success, even in the absence of all environmentally necessary components for obtaining success. Success is built on the purposeful pursuit of desires through the use of the subconscious mind. Jonna didn't rely on instinct; she made a conscious choice within the confines of the definition of natural success to reach a goal regardless of the environmental conditions in place to achieve that goal.

This book will focus on the Natural Success Principles Jonna unlocked within her. With this knowledge, I discovered that we all have access to these principles, but what we do with them depends upon our own desires and our individual definitions of success. These principles are utilized in a different manner by each of us. As you peruse the landscape of society, you will also take note that you can see the different utilization within others. Some may only want to be a top cashier while some may want to be the president of an organization. The amount of strength we gain from our own store of these principles depends largely upon what we each define, based upon our desires, as success.

In short, we control our own success through our subconscious minds. No one else can do this for you, since each person's brain is different. So before we go any further, you need to decide what success looks like for you and how far you want to go in your life. If it isn't far, then this book will be of little value to you. It will help, no doubt. But if you only want to achieve small things, life is simple. This book will make that effortless. If you want to discover the full potential you hold, then this book will be the beacon that lights the way.

CHAPTER 2

Your Choice – Keep Growing or Die

The use of Natural Success Principles can occur at multiple times within one lifetime. It is what drives the type of courage that endures instead of the courage that is short-lived and spontaneous. If you want an example of this, and I'm sure you do, you really don't need to look beyond yourself for the answer to see the truth of this statement. The validity of it is so commonly seen that it is overlooked until you are in a situation in which it must be acknowledged.

Case in point: I must look no farther than my grandfather to see the result when Natural Success Principles are employed in the opposite spectrum of possibilities in the choices we make. He made a choice not to employ Natural Success Principles and gave up on the battle of life at the age of ninety-two.

Let me clarify that before anyone decides he was simply old. He was an old man who had enjoyed a very successful life. His life touched everyone he met and influenced those lives in a way that showed a positive edge. He touched my life in a way that propelled me forward toward my own destiny.

My grandfather took a fall, which is common in elderly members of our society, at the age of ninety-two. He cracked vertebrae in his neck, but did not sever the spinal cord and therefore had a chance of full recovery. The doctors told him and the family that this was not a life-threatening injury. It would, they conceded, be painful for him to breathe at times. They did say he would have to take it easy for a while during the healing process. They warned that he may not like the confinement his injury would cause in the short term. He had been in perfect health prior to the fall.

My grandfather did not choose to live after his injury. He willed himself to die because he was tired. His breathing did not become an instinct that he did daily. He simply stopped. He chose to stop. He wanted out of this life.

That doesn't make him a quitter, nor does it mean he didn't have a good life. He had a great life. He used natural success within himself many times over the years, but chose to stop using it after his fall. He was ready to pass on and made a choice to do just that.

Jonna chose a different path. She too had the choice of fighting or quitting. She even had odds stacked against her. Her lungs were underdeveloped; she was removed from the womb too soon for them to reach the maturity they required to work properly. She had pain; she had agony. She was confined more than full-term babies were. She faced her battle daily and strived to take breaths when no breath wanted to come easily.

Jonna chose to live. My grandfather chose to die. Both events were decided by drawing from Natural Success Principles and not an instinct. If it had been instinct, my grandfather would have lived to be even older than he was at the time of his death. His health indicated that he would. He had a great many years left in him, but he didn't have the desire to see those years after his fall.

Jonna had little of the environmental necessities that are required to sustain life, yet she fought to overcome those odds by using her Natural Success Principles. She wanted the years that were not guaranteed her, regardless of the pain that came with getting them. Jonna used these principles because she had no instinct that could operate within the parameters of her environment. The conditions simply were not available for her to succeed on instinct. She had determination. It was only through sheer determination that she overcame all obstacles.

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CHAPTER 3

Change Your Point of View, Perceive Success Every Time

Everyone goes through hard times. It is during these periods that many people, myself included, become aware of the Natural Success Principles that are held within us, awaiting our recognition and need for them. Some people choose to endure those more difficult times without utilizing any of the knowledge they already have in order to overcome their situations, and others make mountains look like molehills.

This raises some questions concerning the ability of people in general to be able to tap into their own Natural Success Principles in a constructive manner. Does it take a hardship to reach a point in which these principles can be accessed? Is the degree of the hardship relevant to that ability? Are other learned behaviors inhibitors to these principles? What impact do environmental factors or religious and individual beliefs have upon the accessibility of these principles? Is there a specific time in life in which these principles are easier to access than others? And can Natural Success Principles in others be recognized as such if the hardship is self-induced?

We are always perusing ideas and looking for opportunities. Natural Success Principles are opportunities waiting to be realized in opportune moments of daily life. This doesn't mean we can only access the power inside our own treasure chest of success during predetermined events, but rather that our awareness of these principles first occurs within the confines of a life-altering experience or hardship.

For example, a man who sits day after day eating orange cheese crunchies, playing a video game in clothes that seldom get changed while he complains of having nothing in his life of value can be said to be having a hard time. However, it is important to note that this hardship is self-induced and not necessarily one that will prompt a response from the well of natural success he holds. In this situation, the man has made a subconscious decision to fail, to be at the mercy of others for his existence. He does not actively try to change his life by altering his course of decisions, but rather wallows deeper into a dependency upon a social system of support than is necessary.

Perhaps this man's job is not satisfying. Maybe he makes little money at his job and feels uncompensated for the time and effort he puts forth. His family may not have the same opportunities as others in his way of looking at things. Yet he chooses a life of being a victim, of having little recourse in the outcome of any given situation.

What eventually happens with those who make a life of being a victim is ostracism. Friends and extended family fade away, unable and unwilling to be drawn into the same bottomless pit. As isolation further aids and justifies his moans of how unfair his hand in life is, the man relies even more heavily upon the charity of others. This sets his position within his perceived reality, and he begins covering up his Natural Success Principles to ensure success at failure. His goal, although made upon the planes of subconsciousness, becomes failure. He strives only to receive rejection and finds his success at making it happen. He is very successful at failure. Do you know people like this? Are you very successful at ensuring failure in things you do?

Another example of how your unaltered natural success can be used to achieve goals is to see how important perception is. Everyone perceives success differently, and the use of these principles will reflect that perception in the execution of the principles once awareness has been reached. It is important to note this fact in order to truly understand that we are in charge of our own destinies from the beginning.

A young man has just lost his job. He has a wife and a young daughter. There is another baby on the way. This man doesn't see the event in his life as a stop sign. He goes out every day and applies for all the jobs he can find, even those that pay less than his previous job. Nothing is out of the question: scrubbing toilets, cleaning kennels, working in an office, washing dishes. At each job, he acts enthusiastic to have the chance to work for the establishment.

At home, his wife begins to see what she can do to save money on expenses. She cuts back on electricity usage. She saves leftovers and learns to make casseroles. Instead of spending money on toys, she begins to make toys for her daughter.

The young man soon reaps the benefits of his job search. He is hired at the local shelter to clean up after the animals. His pay is considerably lower than it had once been in his previous position, yet he doesn't apply for state benefits or stop trying. In fact, he works hard and changes the way he lives to meet his new income level.

The young man has tapped into his Natural Success Principles. Instead of choosing to be a victim of his circumstances as we saw in the first example, this young man has become an active participant. He has taken control of the outcome by adjusting to the change without resentment. By choosing to be a part of the solution rather than a part of the difficulty, he has harnessed his idea of success and is using his store of these principles to ensure that success is sustained. His perception of success is one in which providing for his family through honest hard work is his priority, and he has utilized natural success to achieve it.

As you can see, the perception of hardship depended upon the one experiencing the hardship. This perception, and that of the definition of success, determined the outcome in the situations. These are both situations that are faced daily by a multitude of people. Some choose to overcome, and some choose to fail. To see either as not using natural success principles is incorrect as natural success is dependent upon an individual's idea of what success is. For Jonna, success was to live. For my grandfather, success was to pass into the next life. However, the decisions were made subconsciously while the actions taken to ensure the desired end were delivered consciously.

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Table of Contents

Introduction – Why Did I Write This?,
1. Not Just Surviving, but Thriving (True Success),
2. Your Choice – Keep Growing or Die,
3. Change Your Point of View, Perceive Success Every Time,
4. Kill "Can't," Destroy "Don't." Get Ignorant!,
5. Ever Looked At Yourself in a Shiny Doorknob?,
6. Living Near a Volcano Can Get You Burned,
7. 9 ... 10 .. Ready or Not Here I Come!,
8. "It" Constantly Is, so Seeking "It" Is Futile,
9. It Takes an Oar on Each Side of the Boat,
10. Are You Eyeballing Me, Boy? (Visualization),
11. More than Tough: Chewy, Even,
12. Algorithms, Architecture, Theoretical Physics and other difficult stuff,
13. To Make the Balloon Lighterdo this,
14. Many Rains and Moons, but You Witness Only Few,
15. Runoff Is Not Always Sewage,
16. Remember Cubby Holes in School?,
17. Max Out the RPM Sometimes; Clear the Gunk,
18. Ignorance Is Possibly Humanity's Downfall,
19. Without This, the Rest Means Nothing,
20. Pools Use Filters To Make the Water Clear,
21. Imagine Your Incredible Start From Just Two Cells,
22. "The Price of Greatness Is Responsibility" –Winston Churchill,
23. "Life Grants Nothing to Mortals Without Hard Work" -Horace,
24. Bulldog It (Tenacity),
25. Fear Cannot Live in Preparedness,
26. Mirror, Mirror on the Wall, Why Ask You?,
27. Your Mind Has Learned Failure,
28. Have A Parade! Pronounce Yourself To New Heights,
29. Failure Leads to Success — Yeah, I Said It,
30. "Knowledge Speaks, but Wisdom Listens" –Jimi Hendrix,
31. Learn How to Suck,
32. Four Feet Crushes More Grapes,
33. Playing Chicken In The Pool Makes A Difference,
34. Hey, Get Tnis — You Really Have to Get Off the Couch!,
35. Only You Can Prevent Your Failure,
36. Read this Chapter In the Bookstore Now if You Want To Get All the Knowledge You Need without Buying the Book. Seriously. Do It. Read This Chapter. If You Don't Have Time While in the Bookstore, I Will Send this Chapter to You. Go to www.NaturalSuccessPrinciples.com/cheapskate,
37. The American Chapter,
Afterword,
About The Author,
Your Special Invitation,