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Mumin Sekman is a author who has become an expert on achieving success.

He has focused on the intellectual dimensions of success and he is known as "The Success Guru".

While still a law student, Sekman realized that he was more interested in the natural laws of success than in the Law and began his research.

After finishing university he chose the study of successful people as his field of expertise and performed an analysis of how they had achieved success. He then presented this information as a model for success.

He has written a number of books reflecting his findings. To date, over a million copies of his books have been sold in various countries and languages.

He is particularly interested in a synthesis of Eastern wisdom and Western techniques. The observation of behavioral models for success in different cultures has become his "hobby."

The author has adopted an increase in the number of successful people across the globe as his personal mission.

"Success can be learned," declares Sekman, who maintains that success can be learned like a science and implemented like an art.

According to Mumin Sekman:

" I am convinced that success can be learned.

You are neither the first to have tried your hand at achieving success in this world, nor will you be the last. Billions before you attempted to be successful. Some succeeded, while others did not. Of those who did succeed, some accomplished major feats, while others achieved medium-sized or even tiny little successes.

Many of those people who attempted to be successful have shared their methods by either writing or talking about them. They have related, to the best of their knowledge, what worked and what did not. All this has contributed to the creation of a knowledge bank of success. Each one of us should make use of this source.

The advancement of humanity begins with the success of the individual. A successful person blazes a trail for others to follow. What the world needs most is greater numbers of successful people."

UNLIMIT YOURSELF

Passion,limits and success!

by Mumin Sekman

The anatomy of flying with your own wings.

A step beyond your achievements, what awaits you?

How are the limits of human success defined?

How can a person determine what is and what isn't achievable?

To what extent should we push our limits?

In search of an answer to that question, this book draws on a wealth of sources, from the ancient Greek philosophers to American business gurus, from traditional Indian fables to Chinese sages.

The author employs Eastern wisdom and Western techniques to help the reader discover the boundless limits of human success.

If you'd like to soar on the wings of your own mind, this book will help you discover endless opportunities for success by teaching you to push your limits.

• Great success comes from the heart, develops in the brain and is brought to life by the hands.

• While you're alive, you'll be judged by your latest achievement; when you're dead, you'll be remembered for your greatest achievement.

MUMIN SEKMAN QUOTES

· "Great success comes from the heart, develops in the brain and is brought to life by the hands." Mumin Sekman

· "While you're alive, you'll be judged by your latest achievement; when you're dead, you'll be remembered for your greatest achievement." Mumin Sekman

· "The flush of success comes with an expiry date. That's why you should be the first person to forget your old achievement and to move on to your next one!" Mumin Sekman

· "Success is when you astonish yourself with your own achievements.If the most recent display on the scoreboard doesn't astonish anyone, it means you're just coasting through your career." Mumin Sekman

· "Success classifies people in one of three ways: Those who are truly successful, those who pretend to be successful and those who live on the back of the successful other!" Mumin Sekman

Remind yourself about the good things you can do.

Another answer

Do some volunteer work like; bring in an older persons trash cans, ask a neighbor if they need something when you go shopping, bake cookies and take them to a neighbor, friend or family member. This will make you feel good about yourself, honestly.

Guerrilla Achiever

The Unconventional way to become a top achiever!

Foreward by Jay Conrad Levinson

By Douglas Vermeeren

Some of the things you'll learn include :The Achievement process, the importance of Be vs. do,Take responsibility to lead yourself, Vision, Belief and Faith, growing from average vs. Extraordinary, Getting clarity, making a Decision that sticks, determining what are you willing to pay? Expectations and failure,Finding Focus is a key, Fear versus Failure, Creating an atmosphere of growth,Making a plan that works,Regular commitment, Involving others, Perseverance, getting to New Heights, Give more than you take, developing a Continual learning plan,Goal journals.

The book includes lots of great bonuses and free online tools. It also includes a $100 gift certificate for any Douglas Vermeeren event live.

Excerpts from the Success Interviews

included in Guerrilla Achiever

Trent Carlini - World's #1 Elvis Tribute Artist

Anthony Daniels - The Actor who portrayed the famous protocol droid C3PO in Star Wars

John Demarinti - Philosopher featured in The Secret

Bob Doyle - Wealth Beyond reason - featured in The Secret

Stacey Chomyn - Karate World champion-WKA champ under 12

Morris "The Miracle Man" Goodman - Plane crash survivor, featured teacher in The Secret

Kelly Hrudey - Former NHL Goalie host of Hockey night in Canada

Michael Israel - Performance artist

Richard Kiel - James Bond's #1 villain Jaws

Lu An Mitchell - Canada's #1 Female Entrepreneur

Ken Pattenden - President of Taco Time Canada

Howard Putnam - former CEO southwest Airlines

Marci Shimoff - Best-selling Author and featured teacher in The Secret

Jim Tunney - NFL hall of fame referee

All human beings have amazing potential to accomplish incredible things. Think about it. Marvelous things achieved in nearly every endeavor of human experience.

We have discovered medical cures and procedures that prolong life and cure disease. We have journeyed and discovered distant lands and now have even begun to explore planets other than our own.

Our accomplishments are grand and what we are attempting seems to be coming towards us faster and with more convenience, intensity and comfort than ever before.

Human athletes have set records only to be broken shortly thereafter by others who would follow running faster, climbing higher, jumping further and pushing themselves harder than was thought possible.

Financial prosperity among us has also grown. One scholar observed that in the year 1900 there were only five thousand millionaires in America. One hundred years later in the year 2000 it was found that we now had more than five million millionaires. (And it is incredible to notice that most of them were self made inside of a short time span of only ten years.) Experts are now predicting that the number of millionaires will continue to increase by another ten to twenty times that the current number in the next twenty years.

Isn't it incredible to see such amazing results? The message to us is that these incredible opportunities are available to everyone. Anything you seek after can be attained if you follow the right path to get there.

Is it that easy?

Perhaps you have been frustrated like me to find that it is not that easy. Many motivational teachers are very quick to boost your confidence and tell you "YES! You can do it! You can do anything!" But when you get home you discover it's not as easy as it sounded in the seminar.

Let's be honest. Just hearing about how others are successful does not mean you can do it too.

It reminds me of a t-shirt I bought. It has a dirt bike rider flying through the air doing an amazing stunt with his dirt bike. The caption under it reads, "I saw it on TV. I am pretty sure I can do it." I have seen lots of stuff on TV and quite frankly much of it I know I could never do.

In this volume I want to give you a more valuable message. I want to share with you HOW you can achieve. Really achieve a lasting feeling of success in your life.

Each one of us has the seeds of great accomplishment, possibility and lasting success with us. But that doesn't mean we can all do it. There are specific things that top achievers do. And while it isn't that mysterious, it's just not being talked about.

The purpose of this book is to give you the tools on how to grow those seeds once you have identified them.

That's what 'Guerrilla Achiever' is all about. As it states in the title much of what I am going to share will be unconventional.

Over the last decade I have had the chance to study carefully the lives and success patterns that more than 400 of the world's top achievers have used to create incredible achievements. These methods are unconventional.

It is not a quick easy instant change.

The two most significant things I found in creating lasting success are:

1. It takes time and practice
2. It takes a correct pattern

If you get started right you and have correct expectations. The expectation that it will take time, practice and a correct understand you will have power to do some pretty impressive things.

All growth starts with truth.

Time, Practice and a correct pattern

Too many people overlook the element of time and practice. They want everything right now and they don't expect they have to gain any skills or qualifications to get there.

If by chance they recognize they need a pattern to follow they often don't have a clue what it is. Part of establishing the correct pattern also means understanding our true starting point.

The pattern or formula is crucially important. You've probably heard the often expressed analogy that if you want to see a sunrise you may run west as fast as you can, but you'll never see it. You are going the wrong way. The same is true of creating success, the pattern or formula to accomplish a specific achievement must be specifically correct.

Anything significant you will ever attain in your life will not come by accident. Getting to lasting success is not like turning and on/off switch on a light. Instead, it is more like a dimmer switch where things will appear brighter and brighter gradually as you put in the effort and work to get there.

Lasting success will be established over time as you apply and practice these principles.

Can you imagine if success was granted in any other way? Let's say for example my goal was to be a heart surgeon and you were my patient. How would you feel if I told you I was an instant success and just started yesterday? When was there ever an expert that just started yesterday? It does not happen that way.

Life requires us to pay a price to qualify for success. Expert success can only come through quality and quantity practice. Time and practice are requirements! Having said that, there are some valid shortcuts and things that you can do to increase the probability of success in a shorter time frame and we'll share some of those strategies shortly. But there is no substitute for hard work and practice.

Top Achievers at odds with popular gurus?

As I began my studies top achievers, I also began to buy every success book I could get my hands on. I visited used bookstores in cities across the United States and Canada. I ordered rare out of print books. I attended seminars. I bought CD sets and DVDs. My home collection has more than 3000 books on the subjects of achievement and success and I've read them all. It didn't take me long to identify a consistent pathway that was being taught to find success by these people.

I thought I was armed with all the right information.

But then something really surprising happened.

The real life achievers I studied didn't follow the instructions in any of the success books. They didn't prescribe to the traditional patterns of simply writing things down, making an action plans, setting dates, not one of them kept a traditional vision board, not one of them woke up and started chanting motivational mantras and affirmations to start their days. At first this surprised me. What? You mean all of those authors got it wrong?

So how did they get to success and achievement? This question has occupied my thoughts, studies and life for the last decade. It became my obsession. I needed to find the correct answers as to what did work and where we got these less than correct materials that so many others are currently selling as "The Way."

Important discoveries

I began to dig specifically into many of the older publications about achievement. The older texts began to share a story that made sense. The majority of what is being taught today was more or less pirated from these early sources. At the real roots you will find that this current system of goal setting (ie. Write it down, work backwards from the goal, build a plan, assign a date to various actions etc.) was actually developed for manufacturing on an assembly line.

It was never original developed with people in mind. Later "experts" shifted the model to humans.

A few significant problems immediately appear with applying this 'assembly line' style system to people. People are not assembly lines. While this formula takes into account what one must do, it does not consider what one must become. No success can be sustainable without the character attributes to support it. If the element of "being" is left out of the formula no success is sustainable in the long term no matter what you are able to do.

No success can be sustainable

without the character attributes to support it.

The other important element of the assembly line model that is difficult to apply to a single human, (and we will address this later) is that an assembly line has a series of experts who get very good a specific jobs. When applying this formula to personal goal setting you are the assembly line work who is left to do every job. Failure and frustration follow in many cases because we cannot become an expert in all things.

I don't know about you, but there are certain tasks that I am just not interested in becoming good at. When I was in school I was pretty good at creative writing but I was far from an expert at calculus. Maybe you remember a similar experience?

Times have changed

Great philosophers like Napoleon Hill did a fantastic job of analyzing the achievers of his day. He explored firsthand how pioneers and innovators like Henry Ford, Thomas Edison, John Rockefeller Charles Schwab and others of that early era created success. His lessons are still applicable today and are gems never to be discarded. Hill's work revealed a valuable series of repeatable patterns and lessons in powerful thinking to create lasting success in his day. But since that time there has been much careful research that was not possible in Hill's day.

I have been very privileged to be part of this research. These expanded studies have gone on to include athletes, celebrities, musicians, entrepreneurs and business leaders who have created billion-dollar brands in the technology age.

Remarkably, many of these people began in similar circumstances to everyone else. Some of them even began with very difficult circumstances. Successful achievement is not an accident. It is a formula, recipe or pattern. They all followed a similar course and so can you.

Successful achievement is not a single event but a series of developed or refined habits, utilizing opportunities to work together towards a single destination. Creating great accomplishments is a matter of putting the smaller things together in the right way.

Successful achievement is not a single event but a series of developed or refined habits, utilizing opportunities to work together towards a single destination.

You'll also notice as you read this book that many of the principles do not stand alone. They often overlap each other and must be used as a set of skills rather than individually to produce results.

The way these principles work together could be compared to the spokes on a bicycle wheel. You can't really determine which should be the first and most important spoke. Each is important and each must work together to make the wheel balanced and effective. If you only choose to apply one or two, you won't be riding your bicycle very long.

Successful achievement is gained by practicing and growing our capacity to implement principles or greatness.

With the speed of business and just about everything else today I have designed this book to be easy to read and apply. Do your best to complete each exercise to grow each skill and make it active in your life. Ultimately it will be your ability to do so will make the biggest difference for you personally. It is not enough to simply read and say, this was a nice book. Change happens when you get involved.

To follow the analogy of what we started above, let's continue talking about bicycle spokes. When the spokes of attributes, habits and characteristics are in place the bicycle must then be placed on the road. A bicycle with complete spokes looks nice - but you won't get anywhere by just looking nice. You need to get on the road and start peddling in the direction you chose to steer. That part will be up to you. You will get to decide where you will take the bicycle. You will choose the goals and destination you will travel to.

The road will have some familiar checkpoints

There will be familiar check points on the road to success and achievement, even though your destination may be different from anyone else. These points are the journey that everyone follows on the route to accomplishment. Here is what the course to lasting success looks like:

The course to lasting success - The 4 P's of achievement

It not a checklist of things to be accomplished and marked off. It is a process. Remember as we said earlier it is like a dimmer switch that will grow brighter gradually as you become more proficient on the course. I call it the 4 P's and it's actually quite simple.

Here they are:

1. Potential - Any endeavor of significance must begin with us recognizing our potential and tapping into that potential to begin. This includes beginning with an honest view of where we are beginning. It is strengthened by a solid belief that we can arrive at the final destination. It includes the understanding that we are worthy of that final destination. Often times people can feel inadequate at this stage and that stops the entire process. Through this volume we will share some things that you can do to fortify the belief in your potential such as preparation, acting with confidence, belief, faith and vision and more.

Once you understand and believe in your potential you will begin to see;

1. Possibilities. Possibilities are best described as recognizing the opportunities that are around us. Often times if our mind is not prepared to see something we will recognize the possibilities. What we cannot see, we cannot do. Therefore without possibility nothing can change. You've maybe heard the saying that, "You can't get on a train if you don't know where the station is." Possibility is truly about recognizing opportunities to board the trains you would like to take. When we prepare ourselves and put ourselves in the best locations opportunities become more obvious. Often times we begin to see possibilities by just looking at things in a different way.

Once you have a target in mind of what is possible, you can create;

1. Probabilities. Aristotle once said that, "What is most probable is what usually happens." Makes sense to me. The bulk of the effort of goal achievement really comes together in this stage. Successful achievement is a matter of effective problem solving. You are at point A and you want to get to point B. If you can solve the problem of transportation between the two point you are successful. The same is true of any achievement. You must solve the problems or increase the probability of getting from where you are to where you want to go. Goal achievement is really about creating more and more probability that the goal will occur until you actually arrive. What can you do to make it more likely you will get to your goal? It's almost like throwing darts at a dart board. The closer you get to the bulls eye the more likely you are to get a bulls eye. So what can you do to take continuous steps forward toward that bulls eye? And the good news about probability is that you can increase it as fast as you like.

Probability is not enough. Once you have the information and start to gain the experience that will lead you to your goal, what will you do with it?

Ultimately nothing changes unless you have;

1. Performance. Performance is different than action. I chose that word intentionally. When the Maestro in a concert hall gives a performance he wastes no effort. He utilizes every instrument in the most productive way to create the symphony. I also like to use the word "harmony." You must do the same. Lasting success is about creating a harmony, balance or equilibrium. If you have increased your probability correctly you will already be a master at this to some degree. You will have experience to know what is harmony and what isn't. You will know what is giving you the most productive results.

There are a lot of people out there taking action. They look very busy. But many of them just aren't getting anywhere. The action they are taking isn't producing the results that they are seeking and in some ways they are just spinning their wheels. True success is not given to anyone just because they are busy, it is given to those that are most effective.

In order for action to yield results, it must be effective action.

Through this book I will share some suggestions on how you can maximize your results and achieve more.

(In addition to this volume I also invite you also go to my website www.DouglasVermeeren.com for additional help on how you can maximize your results today. There are lots of free tools there too that I am confident will be useful for you.)