Jack Canfield, best-selling author, co-creator of the Chicken Soup for the Soul Series, wrote The Success Principles: How to Get from Where You Are to Where You Want to Be with Janet Switzer in 2005. In it, Canfield reveals 64 principles to achieve great levels of success.
About Jack Canfield
Jack Canfield was born in a lower middle class military family in Texas. He was raised in West Virginia suburbia with an alcoholic mother and workaholic stepfather. He developed a lot of compassion and empathy. He is hyper-visual and has a huge sensitivity to pain.
When You’re A Kid
When you’re a kid if you have an impulse to act, you act. When we’re growing up we get conditioned by our caretakers, our parents, siblings, teachers and coaches. Stop second-guessing yourself. Just do. Play on your edge. Explore your potential.
What We Want
If you could have anything you want and there were no real limitations, what would you do? Everyone has an answer. That’s your core essence. If we all just fully do that which we are passionate about, and understand the principles for how to bring that into being…
If you know the combination to a lock, it doesn’t matter who you are; it has to open for you. – Orin Hudson, Chess Champion, Alabama State
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