The Power of Diligence: Master Key Strategies for Effective Living and Sustained Success

By Selena P. Teems

If your track record for success has been sporadic and short-lied, it is not because you lack motivation or potential. The missing link is diligence, which fuels your motivation and turns potential into great accomplishments for the enrichment of your life and the lives you touch. Explore this priceless character trait and learn how The Power of Diligence can super-charge your abilities, opening your access to a highly effective life with continual, more potent success. Through The Power of Diligence you will learn master key strategies to: Overcome procrastination; Recognize the path of least resistance and resist it; Bypass obvious answers and discover Genius Solutions; Creatively persevere through obstacles; Super-charge your success with habits of super-achievers; Accomplish ever-progressing success in any area of life; Master effective partnering; and Catapult the scope and impact of goal achievement.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Selena P. Teems
• Release date: Jan 30, 2013
• ISBN: 9780988626713

Selena P. Teems

Selena Teems is a student of diligence and has personally experienced the phenomenal impact of diligence. Successful YOU! LLC, master mind group coaching, and this book are evidence of the Power of Diligence. A devoted student of the Book of Proverbs, Selena is applying herself to become a wellspring of wisdom and example of humility. “Successful YOU! Seminars,” are designed to help participants acquire a more diligent and effective lifestyle with goal achievement and success being the norm rather than the exception. If you would like to learn more about the Power of Diligence or attend a seminar, please visit www.sypublishnow.com.

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THE Power

Of

DILIGENCE

Master Key Strategies for Effective Living and Sustained Success

Selena P. Williams

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Table of Contents

Author’s Note

PART 1: WHY DILIGENCE IS THE MASTER KEY TO SUCCESS

Chapter One: Understanding Diligence

Chapter Two: Diligence Rewards and Penalties

PART 2: BRING DILIGENCE INTO YOUR LIFE

Chapter Three: Recognize and Conquer Self-Sabotage

Chapter Four: Pack Well & Pack Light!

Chapter Five: Neutralize Opinions and Criticisms of Others

PART 3: FIVE-STAR STRATEGIES FOR DILIGENCE

Chapter Six: The Path of Least Resistance

Chapter Seven: Look Past the Obvious for Genius Solutions

Chapter Eight: Creative Perseverance

Chapter Nine: Pure Effort and Smart Performance

PART 4: EFFECTIVE PARTNERING

Chapter Ten: Effective Partnering

Chapter Eleven: High Impact Living and Potent Success

Chapter Twelve: Secrets to Supercharge Your Success

Afterword

About the Author

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Dedicated to:

To Corey,

Love and support makes the pursuit of greatness possible and joyful. I love you!

Jonathan & Quinton,

You are the very best parts of me, and what I am most proud of accomplishing.

Regina & Waymon Byrd, Sr.

I love you so much for unwavering and unconditional love and support you shower on the Williams’ clan. Thanks for believing in me.

In dedication to my mother and sister, Juanita and Debra, who always hoped for great things.

Author’s Note

To harness the power of diligence, you will need to fully understand its compensation, consequences, common pitfalls, and develop a personal strategy to ensure success. Within these pages, you will find an indispensable empowerment tool to build your personal capacity to achieve innovative life changing goals that have eluded you in the past. You will develop skills needed to shake off regret and doubt due to past failures and pursue your goals with an expectation of success and the highest possible outcomes. If it is your ambition to reach such heights, this book will enable you to get there; however, the cost is a persistent effort on your part to apply the principles and strategies you will learn for a transformation of your effectiveness and achievement.

As you experience the rewards of diligence, invest in others who pursue effective living. It will make your life rich beyond description and build a legacy of empowerment and success that will outlast your lifetime.

Special Thanks

My God and Creator, you blessed me with the gift of encouragement and a deep thirst for wisdom. Successful YOU! and The Power of Diligence are my gifts to you.

To you the reader, thank you for packing the Power of Diligence for the journey to your successful life. Be assured that the great future you want is possible by learning the strategies to overcome obstacles and habits to increase your effectiveness.

My subject matter expert, your potent successes are a model of diligence. Thanks for sharing your experiences. Family, friends and my #1 POD Focus Group, you supported and cheered me on in this effort, thank you. Thomas Harrell your technical expertise helped all along the way. LaWanda my passion coach, with Passion Ignited Coaching, you brought out the very best in me. This achievement is your success as well. Jasmine Hamlin, Jacqueline Teems, Juanita Teems, Constance Jones & Ruth Ellis Myers—Love You Girls!

Chase Your Dreams!

PART 1: WHY DILIGENCE IS THE MASTER KEY TO SUCCESS

My capacity to achieve is limitless and every dream can be realized through creative perseverance, pure effort and smart performance. The rewards of diligence continue to fuel my motivation and turn potential into great accomplishments for the enrichment of my life and the lives I touch.

I am a student of diligence

Selena P. Williams

Diligent (adj.) def. 1. Constant in effort to accomplish something; attentive and persistent in doing anything; 2. Done or pursued with persevering attention; painstaking. Source: Dictionary.com, 2011.

Motivation ≠ Success. Potential ≠ Success.

Motivation and potential are powerful elements in the success formula, but without diligence the results are haphazard and well short of the magnitude of success that is possible to achieve. Diligence is the master key to success. It fuels motivation while transforming potential into accomplishment. You may wonder how is it you can be successful in some things, but come up short in the goals you really want to achieve. Although you recognize your potential and have periods of high motivation, your dreams still go unrealized. You have a unique ability to translate ideas into reality. Thoughts can be translated into actions, and actions into products and services. These products and services can bring you wealth and an improved quality of life. Once you recognize this creative ability, you then can effectively partner with others to exponentially increase your success. This is how the world has progressed thus far. Individuals applied creative perseverance to a problem, unmet need, or desire and then used pure effort and smart performance to resolve the problem. The end result is the incredibly advanced world we live in today with products and services to meet infinite needs and desires.

A master key to success is to realize that there is unlimited room for your achievements. There is space in the universe waiting to be filled with your accomplishments. Accomplishment is guaranteed once you make diligence your servant. Anyone can harness the power of diligence because incredible potential lies latent within each individual and motivation is fueled by accomplishments. Your creative ability is limitless and only requires that you learn to engage it and act upon solutions as they are revealed.

Chapter One: Understanding Diligence

While conducting research for this guide on transforming your potential into potent success, I came across Proverbs 20:9 (MSG). For who among us can be trusted to be always diligent and honest? Rich with wisdom, this question cautions against underestimating the effort required to master diligence. Diligence is a personal journey of self-induced commitment and discipline to creatively persevere through obstacles to achieve goals and dreams that bring peace, fulfillment and prosperity to your life. While the rewards are very attractive, the process of learning diligence is neither fun nor sexy and not a group activity. Sacrifice is necessary, constant and difficult to choose at first. However, once you begin to cash in on the rewards of diligence such as an insuperable advantage over