Every individual on the
planet wants to be successful but only a small percentage of the world gets to
be successful consistently and for a long period. A lot of people who want to
be successful don’t know what to do to get there or who to go to, but Namma
Chennai was really fortunate to have got the opportunity to learn and live the
success principles from none other than, ‘The Baap Of Inspiration’ as called
fondly by admirers, Jack Canfield.
Jack Canfield’s book
‘The Success Principles’ has been a best seller, having sold millions of copies
across the world, it talks about 64 principles used by successful men and women
and Jack shared some of those principles to inspire and empower the Chennai admirers.
Through the living the success principles session Jack did a wonderful job of
helping people to get from where they are to where they want to be.
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Jack in action during the session at The Leela Palace, Chennai |
Jack aptly quoted Jim
Rohn early in the session to help people realize they have to work hard and
take 100% responsibility of their life, “You can’t hire other people to do your
pushups for you”, that captures the essence of the first success principle.
Jack followed that up with a wonderful formulae that summarizes everything that
happens to us in our life, E+R=O (Event + Response = Outcome) and therefore our
response plays a very important role in every outcome in our life and the response
is governed by 3 things that we have control over, Behavior, Thoughts and
Imagery.
He was very realistic
when he said ‘you have to give up all the blaming and complaining’, as most of
us when we don’t achieve success we comfortably choose to either blame someone
or complain about the circumstances or people instead of focusing on how they
could have still done better to succeed. To communicate the same he made a very
powerful statement ‘I will act as if I create, promote or allow everything that
happens to me’. He also dealt with goal setting and demonstrated through the
muscle testing demo, why when setting a goal we should focus on how our goal
would help to serve others.
It was an eye opener to
realize that when someone says ‘try’ they don’t really expect you to be able to
do it, therefore never ask anyone to try; it weakens their will to be able to
do it. We must get rid of doubt and negative feelings to become successful, he
described the same impressively with the example of Cliff young, an Australian
who completed a 875km race in five and a half days at the age of 61 not having
run any race earlier in life. He emphasized that one has to breakout of his/her
comfort zone to be to able to taste success.
The session was filled
with inspiring stories and exercises to help people realize their ‘Life’s
Purpose’ and set goals for all aspects of life (breakthrough, financial, business/job/career,
health and fitness and personal). His assertion, that one must take 2 types of
actions to achieve their goals, ‘Obvious Actions & Inspiring Actions’, was
enlightening.
The energy of being in
the same room as Jack itself makes one inspired and empowered, as, it is his
life’s purpose to inspire and empower people and he did exactly the same. I am
sure the 650+ Chennai crowd are an empowered lot, who now have the recipe for
success from the authority on success and inspiration.
With the mesmerizing
session by the worlds No.1 Success Coach, Namma Chennai seems to be the new
inspiration capital of India as, the who’s who of Chennai were present
including the likes of Mr. Chitti Babu, Chairman & CEO, Akshaya Homes, Padmashree Vivekh, South Indian Actor, Mr. Adul Ghani,
Social Activist, Mr. Hari Balaji, UNICEF Consultant (Disaster Mgmt), Ms. Anusha
Ravi, CEO, Park Group of Institutions, Mr. Sarathbabu Elumalai,
CEO, Food King. The event was also one of its kind as the carbon foot prints of
the event was calculated by partnering with Savegreen Foundation (www.sgf.co.in) & was neutralized making it the first
Green International Seminar of Chennai.
Thanks to Puja Gupta
(Life by Design) & Success Gyan, Chennai has been witness to some of the
best speakers & authors from around the world and mind you this is just the
beginning. They have lined up a whole lot of Super Inspiring people from around
the world in the months to come. Stay Inspired & Empowered!