Welcome to the Fight for Success Series on How to Achieve any Goal Big or Small: A Complete Guide to Getting What You Want Out of Life Through Setting and Achieving Your Goals. Congratulations! You have picked up a book that has the potential to change everything in your life. By putting forth the effort to open up this book, you ve demonstrated that you re a doer, not just a talker. You don t want to settle for average. You want to be not only the best but the best of the best. And I m here to tell you that you re absolutely capable of that. IQ isn t relevant when it comes to being successful. Neither is family history. What matters is what you want. The difference between you and other people is in your mind and in your heart. It s the burning desire that you have to be successful. Life is tough. I won t try to tell you that it s not. You can get beat up by twenty gang members, and that s going to feel like a cotton ball landing on your foot compared to what life can do to 9 - I N T R O D U C T I O N - you. My goal through this series of books is to make you tougher, to help you understand what it really takes to succeed, and to teach you how to have a positive outlook even when something devastating happens. Life is also very, very short. Relatively speaking, you re just a blip on the radar screen of existence. You re born, and then you die. The good news is, everything in between is completely up to you. You need to realize that whatever happens in your life happens because of you - because of what you did or did not do. Most people waste a lot of their days doing very little, and plotting and planning to do even less. These books were written to get you off your butt and out into the real world, where you can start tackling and overcoming obstacles so you can accomplish everything you ever wanted out of life, and more. I ll show you how to not only run with the pack, but to run ahead of them. How to charge up the mountain, while other people are at the bottom looking up at you. I can make such bold claims because I ve been there. I ve done it. And I ve watched other people do it. This series of books has been developed based on practical experience in real-life situations. The research and study that went into them is extensive. This isn t something that somebody had a warm, fuzzy feeling about and just wrote down and sold to you. The philosophies, tactics and techniques presented here have been tested, they have been proven, and they have worked in the real world - because that s where they were conceived. Looking back at my life - every success I ve had, every obstacle I ve overcome, every goal I ve ever achieved - the road to victory was always paved with the principles of Black Belt that I learned as a professional martial artist. Throughout my life I ve maintained the integrity of that training. From it I ve developed a system that anyone can follow.
