Recently, I re-read a book written by Jack Canfield called “The Success Principles: How to Get From Where You Are To Where You Want To Be”. This book should be kept close at hand by anyone who seriously wants to improve every aspect of his or her life.

This resource contains 64 proven principles of success and backed by real life examples. Numerous case studies from athletes to writers appear in the book on how they applied each principle and the success they achieved.

The First Chapter contains the principle simply titled “Take 100% Responsibility for your life”. Once you understand you create your results by your choices, whether they’re good or bad, take responsibility for those choices. It puts the power to make better ones into your hands. If something didn’t work out as thought, change the thought. Now act according to the new thought.

“You only have control over three things in your life—the thoughts you think, the images you visualize, and the actions you take (your behavior).” — Page 9

Test the principle and see what happens. If the new choice doesn’t work out, nothing is lost other than a little effort. But, doing something different just might be the catalyst to bring you closer to the success you’ve always wanted.

The information contained in the book is the result of decades of intense study and application yet in a few hours of reading you can make the knowledge your own.

Modestly priced but worth many times the cost, the value will be apparent once you implement even a couple of the time-tested techniques.