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At times the challenges will displace us or some of the things that are important to us. If we strengthen our belief system from within – those challenges must inevitably begin to float away and not take root or force us to sink.
— Archibald Marwizi, Making Success Deliberate
Make a deliberate effort to feed your conscious and subconscious mind to achieve a well programmed mind frame, ready to succeed. Read the right material, watch the right material and listen to the right material. Practice and expose yourself to the right material so that you can form positive attitudes, positive feelings and positive habits. For each person, the right material is defined from their unique vision, mission, beliefs and values.
— Archibald Marwizi, Making Success Deliberate
You feed the requisite substance through personal development efforts and position yourself strategically to allow the forces around you to create the path for your relevance and significance. You are not lifted by air, but by the substance inside you hitting the springboard of opportunity.
— Archibald Marwizi, Making Success Deliberate
Making success deliberate means that you must make success a habit; and habits are a product of the subconscious mind. We call them habits because we can actually do them without being conscious of what we are doing. Things we end up doing without sitting down to think because we have done them so many times, thought about them so many times they are now imprinted onto our subconscious mind. If we could think about success so much, practice it so much more, then we imprint thoughts and seeds of success onto our subconscious that it becomes a habit.
— Archibald Marwizi, Making Success Deliberate
Even if you bury me underground and put a concrete slab over the hole – one day you will wake up to find a crack in the concrete with a tiny green sprout shooting through. When you see that shoot – that will be me!
— Archibald Marwizi, Making Success Deliberate
Skills and special abilities will only grow if you practice more. You become a star-performer by doing. Let performance and production of desired results become a consistent habit associated with your personal brand.
— Archibald Marwizi, Making Success Deliberate
After you acquire knowledge and skill, aim to be a practitioner. Time for practice on the job or in life will still test your authenticity. Knowledge is one of the greatest sources of confidence, and you will need that confidence to do your work and demonstrate you know what you have been trained for.
— Archibald Marwizi, Making Success Deliberate
You cannot bury someone with the Shereketa spirit for long. Even if they are thrown into problems, they will rise back up.
— Archibald Marwizi, Making Success Deliberate
You are only as authentic as the substance you have inside you. Having others take your examinations or doing your assignments and projects is to reduce the level of authenticity of your qualification as well as your personal brand. Master your chosen area of study to the highest level and demonstrate that you have full knowledge as a specialist. Let the depth of your knowledge make you sought after and respected. Define yourself and be authentic.
— Archibald Marwizi, Making Success Deliberate
Your life as an effective person must always have productivity surrounding all your efforts, there must be a sustained forward and upward trajectory in every area of your life. This is where the Shona Shereketa meets the Japanese Kaizen - you are moving and shaking past mediocrity on the basis of small but continuous improvements that will ultimately result in positive quality changes to your life.
— Archibald Marwizi, Making Success Deliberate
Make sure your reading, studying or research are always adding value to the defined vision, mission, beliefs and values that form your unique personal brand.
— Archibald Marwizi, Making Success Deliberate
Your growth and involvement must begin to show lasting footprints as you exude maximum effectiveness and significance. Your leadership influence must translate into a source of inspiration for your peers and those who look at you as a leader.
— Archibald Marwizi, Making Success Deliberate
The question is what kind of stuff do you immerse your mind in? What kind of food does your brain feed on? What kind of exercise does it get and for what purpose? What do you spend time listening to? What thoughts do you entertain? All these are the processes that form the conveyor belt into your subconscious mind.
— Archibald Marwizi, Making Success Deliberate
To succeed and create change, you must be willing to take the risk, with an understanding of a number of key elements. Please begin to understand that an entrepreneurial spirit is not only essential in business enterprise. We all have a business to run in our different areas of specialty. Your life is your business and your family is your business – you have multiple businesses.
— Archibald Marwizi, Making Success Deliberate
An entrepreneurial spirit makes you someone who organizes, manages, and assumes the risks of a business enterprise, talent or calling to become an agent of change.
— Archibald Marwizi, Making Success Deliberate
Entrepreneurship is the process of discovering new ways of combining resources to create change – in whatever area of life.
— Archibald Marwizi, Making Success Deliberate
Money might be a reward (by-product) but should not always be the only goal of your efforts and enterprise.
— Archibald Marwizi, Making Success Deliberate
Dreams are difficult to measure if they remain wishes – crystallise them into measurable goals with specific targets and action plans. Goals/objectives are easier to measure when broken down into tasks with clear targets and deadlines.
— Archibald Marwizi, Making Success Deliberate
Choices and decisions must be supported by your passion, resolve and a productive work ethic. If these meet opportunity - your success has finally come!
— Archibald Marwizi, Making Success Deliberate
Learn from mistakes and set-backs (yours and other people’s), pick yourself up, make necessary changes and try again. I once came across a saying that went something like, “The wise learn from the mistakes made by fools!” So at some point we all have been fools, I suppose, since we all make mistakes.
— Archibald Marwizi, Making Success Deliberate
Take your mission and yourself very seriously. Stick to your schedule and keep time. Cut expenditure of time and money from non-core activities and redirect to those that give more value to the pursuit of your purpose. Never embark on your work or a project without a plan, even if it’s just a mental plan. Use the old carpenter’s rule – “Measure twice and cut once.” Do not leave room for substandard results.
— Archibald Marwizi, Making Success Deliberate
The best way to predict your success is to work for it.
— Matshona Dhliwayo
Seek to develop your skill and talent to a level of relevance. Create a platform to shine and make sure you are bringing a difference to the areas that require your expertise. A pastor who does not teach or pray for people, a football player always playing pool, a body builder who doesn’t eat but sleeps all day, a student who studies only towards examinations, a politician without a cause and a business without a customer service culture all have one thing in common – sooner or later they will all become irrelevant. Never miss the chance to practice the call of your mission, even if you are not getting paid for it.
— Archibald Marwizi, Making Success Deliberate
Every effective person must be able to sell and teach, whether in private or to a group in public. This applies equally to skills and talents as it does to products and services.
— Archibald Marwizi, Making Success Deliberate
Always remember that every word you say contains power and you must ask yourself a few questions about your words; Are these words true and kind? Are these words relevant and necessary? Are these words effective for intentions? Reflect on what your words carry, they are a life-changing container!
— Archibald Marwizi, Making Success Deliberate
Be stimulated to become significant. This might be your back-slap moment. New-born babies born with weak signs of life are given a slap on the back to “stimulate” them. It is a knock to wake them up to the reality that they must now take charge. In this world, they have to do their own breathing and their own eating otherwise they will not survive. It’s the same in your adulthood and your quest for success, you must take charge because no one will wake up every day to do things for you and make a success out of a life of excuses and laziness.
— Archibald Marwizi, Making Success Deliberate
Positioning yourself and effective branding should not be left to sports and movie stars. Your need a personal coach, manager or mentor otherwise your expertise, skills or talent will not go far. You might have what it takes but sometimes you lack strategy and some finer elements.
— Archibald Marwizi, Making Success Deliberate
Your personal development is your personal responsibility. No one can study or acquire knowledge for you. There are things only you can do, to bring the change or the results you require to make progress in life.
— Archibald Marwizi, Making Success Deliberate
If you want to excel in any endeavour you must pay attention to detail, know exactly what you want, have the detail on how you want it done and how you will get it done. You must realize the importance of definitions and love defining things in your life and about your life – Define your mission, define your problem, define your future, define your path and the finer details of your vision. Use your sense of imagination and creativity.
— Archibald Marwizi, Making Success Deliberate
Your attitude should not settle for the average when you have what it takes to become the best. You excel by choice and you must be focused like a laser beam. Even the sun, powerful as it is, will not be able to burn a hole into a piece of paper until a magnifying glass is used to channel the power of its rays onto one spot. Focus your intellect and your knowledge to get excellent results.
— Archibald Marwizi, Making Success Deliberate
No matter how much I care for you I cannot grow for you, you have to do your own growing – it’s your personal responsibility. Make a plan on how you will get the skills and experience required to become a practitioner of note in your area of choice.
— Archibald Marwizi, Making Success Deliberate
Do not lose focus because of small wins or temporary set-backs. You can only score if you keep your eyes on the ball and be certain of where you want to place it even if you are not in physical sight of the goal. Visualise the dream but never take your eyes off the dynamic plan of action.
— Archibald Marwizi, Making Success Deliberate
You must be willing to be disciplined as well as make personal sacrifices. It takes discipline to go through rigorous training and study programs. You need a coach or coaches and sometimes mates to help you stick to your planned program in execution of your responsibilities. To be excellent and effective, the non-essentials must give up time and space in your life – some sacrifices have to be made. Work hard and work smart.
— Archibald Marwizi, Making Success Deliberate
To succeed even once you have to try at least once.
— Matshona Dhliwayo
Even if you are counted amongst the best, you will slip into mediocrity by remaining comfortable being the worst of the best. You might be relevant, but because your level of effectiveness is in the bottom tier and your impact minimal – you will soon become obscure as your relevance begins to wear off.
— Archibald Marwizi, Making Success Deliberate
Measure your success by the number of people who envy you.
— Matshona Dhliwayo
Shift from mediocrity to excellence. Mediocrity and Excellence are like jealous suitors fighting for a partner and competing to please him/her, to the extent they do all they can to reproduce in sets of twins. Mediocrity gives birth to Irrelevance and Obscurity, whilst Excellence breeds Relevance and Significance. These sets of twins cannot inhabit the same life, only one compatible pair can co-exist.
— Archibald Marwizi, Making Success Deliberate
Review and question what you already know or have. In most ball sports and games, you confirm whether you have scored by checking whether the ball has gone into the goal or hit its target. So evaluation of results means that you must look at your goal to see if the ball has hit its target. Look at your educational aspirations or dreams and say “am I on track to meet my 2020 PhD target?
— Archibald Marwizi, Making Success Deliberate
Make adjustments and improvements to enhance the effectiveness of meetings or surpassing of your target. Learn to define, quantify and be specific about what, how and when you want to succeed in each area of your life.
— Archibald Marwizi, Making Success Deliberate
Shereketa” is a Shona word ordinarily meaning to fidget, to be restless, and to show discomfort. Whilst this word has largely been used negatively, the Shereketa principle channels it into a different dimension to be used positively for success. Shereketa re–defined refers to deliberate movements, actions and adjustments inspired by the calling to excellence & success, driven by a conviction against and a growing discomfort with mediocrity. The movements and actions take place in two realms - the inner spirit/convictions of your heart and the outer execution platforms of your physical and material world (Shereketa within and Shereketa without).
— Archibald Marwizi, Making Success Deliberate
Deliberately and purposefully schedule meetings with yourself. These are the most important meetings in the life of one who intends to make their success deliberate. During these meeting you do much of the quality and honest communication with yourself. This is besides the conversations you are always carrying on with yourself in your own head or audibly. That doesn’t mean you are crazy, we all do it and we just need to improve the quality and positivity of those conversations.
— Archibald Marwizi, Making Success Deliberate
Be disciplined enough to choose your network and be willing to sacrifice the circles that reduce your effectiveness and make you unproductive.
— Archibald Marwizi, Making Success Deliberate
You are in obscurity when you are still needed but no one cares a lot what you say or think, or even where you are working from. You have no voice or presence that makes you relevant. Grow your voice.
— Archibald Marwizi, Making Success Deliberate
The biblical preacher talks about the poor man’s wisdom that saved a city but he was immediately forgotten. A poverty of ideas, contributions, uniqueness or influence, will overshadow the visibility of good potential. Keep those ideas flowing and you will not be forgotten.
— Archibald Marwizi, Making Success Deliberate
Some people are known, they have the platform and presence, but still remain irrelevant. They know you and what you do, but they don’t need you or your offering. I see too many people with a platform but without substance, again this is not sustainable. Lack of substance can only relegate your talent or skill towards the league of the mediocre, if at all you become much by superficial branding then you will become the best of the worst. You don't have what it takes but you depend on your ability to sell substandard offerings to the market. It will not last for long, but quickly become irrelevant.
— Archibald Marwizi, Making Success Deliberate
Understand that every ‘voice’ has the spirit to influence. Watch your tone, accent, volume and speed. Be careful that you don’t sound angry or argumentative whenever driving an important point. Equally important, is not sounding serious or sounding playful when the message being conveyed needs to be taken seriously.
— Archibald Marwizi, Making Success Deliberate
The obvious signs of a brand gone wrong are the levels of negative headlines it consistently attracts. People talking about you for all the negative and wrong reasons. You begin to shoot yourself in the foot and you have become your own enemy. The gospel about you should be good enough to create relevance and significance - or rather to confirm that.
— Archibald Marwizi, Making Success Deliberate
You must learn to accept that humans make mistakes, but when the same issue is repeated over and over without corrective strategies to plug the holes, then you must expect negative impact on your definition of success. It is normal to make a mistake, but learn, face the consequences, get back up and march on. If you want to be different or stand out as a brand, then your actions, habits, behaviours and decisions must reflect that 'you care about what people think or say about you.
— Archibald Marwizi, Making Success Deliberate
Failure is constructive feedback that tells you to try a different approach to accomplish what you want.
— Idowu Koyenikan, Wealth for All: Living a Life of Success at the Edge of Your Ability
To be successful, one has to be one of three bees - the queen bee, the hardest working bee, or the bee that does not fit in. One success is inherited, and the the next one is earned. While the last one is self-sought, self-served, and happens on its own terms.
— Suzy Kassem, Rise Up and Salute the Sun: The Writings of Suzy Kassem
Doubt, fear and regret are the three villains of success. However, if you close the door on the first two, you will never have to worry about meeting the third.
— Suzy Kassem, Rise Up and Salute the Sun: The Writings of Suzy Kassem
You will work long days, early mornings & late nights . you will have many associates, but few or no friends. You will experience doubt, pain, confusion & failure. You will be single unless he or she understands your passion. You will be given props for your hard work. people will want you to do good, but never better than them. For that you will do many things alone.
— Marie Blanchard
Wake up and live your life on your own terms, you are a king in your own kingdom, a god in your own universe
— Bangambiki Habyarimana
Depending on someone to make for you money is quite like depending on them to make for you a baby: they will own the money just as they will own the baby
— Agona Apell, The Success Genome Unravelled: Turning Men from Rot to Rock
Public Utility Commission (PUC), Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) and Federal Communications Commission (FCC) complaints are rarely upheld. It is estimated that less than 5% of complaints are successful and that the actual number may be below 1% in some cases.
— Steven Magee
Asking someone to make for you money is like asking them to make for you a baby: they will own the money just as they will own the baby
— Agona Apell, The Success Genome Unravelled: Turning Men from Rot to Rock
Never allow temporary defeat to keep you from lasting victory.
— Matshona Dhliwayo
Do not fixate on the odds against you but on victory ahead of you.
— Matshona Dhliwayo
Use the pebbles of failure to build yourself a bridge to success.
— Matshona Dhliwayo
We mustn’t just simply pray, but rather ask God about His desires and plans. This is the prayer of enquiry
— Pastor Adelaja Sunday
See what no one else can see.Be what no one else can be.Do what no one else can do.
— Matshona Dhliwayo
Success is not to be pursued
—  it is to be attracted by the person you become.
Everybody say it's impossible, but I'll try to make it possible
— Bangambiki Habyarimana
You can only greet success when you are ready to say goodbye to failure.
— Matshona Dhliwayo
Gatekeepers will always try to stop you getting in. But as a true hero, you have to snatch victory from death's jaws.
— Bangambiki Habyarimana
You have to sacrifice life to get life
— Bangambiki Habyarimana
A faint hearted man will always be poor
— Bangambiki Habyarimana
Success is yours if you are willing to pursue it to the ends of the earth.
— Matshona Dhliwayo
Success is always looking for the next best man because she knows how valuable she is.
— Matshona Dhliwayo
Success gives in to those who truly desire her.
— Matshona Dhliwayo
Life rarely follows a straight line. Success is a process of trying, reacting, and changing.
— Ron Lizzi, Go Outside and Come Back Better: Benefits from Nature That Everyone Should Know
Think of success. Dream of Success. Live for success.
— Matshona Dhliwayo
The distance between success and your dreams is hard work.
— Matshona Dhliwayo
Say no to failure
—  say yes to success.
Talent is the seed,hard work is the stem,perseverance is the branch,and success is the fruit.
— Matshona Dhliwayo
The money you make is a symbol of the value you create.
— Idowu Koyenikan, Wealth for All: Living a Life of Success at the Edge of Your Ability
There is no progress or accomplishment without sacrifice.
— Idowu Koyenikan, Wealth for All: Living a Life of Success at the Edge of Your Ability
It is an inherent nature of life: Whenever success is in your reach, it tosses either an unexpected obstacle or an alluring offer, straight on your path. That unexpected manifestation, obstacle or offer, would either prompt you to press the panic button or distract your focus from your target. As you become busy dealing with the fresh situation, time, with its own flair, flies miles away from your reach, with the reward in offer. Those who endure, without getting disturbed by the obstacle or decoyed by the illusive offer, will reap the fruit. Others will flop, falling as victims to life’s conspiracy.
— Hari Parameshwar, Chase of Choices
To lead is a privilege, not an entitlement. It doesn't make you better than anyone; it helps you bring out the best in everyone. Accolades don't inspire a leader's vision; they've set their sights on the success of others. Leaders bypass shortsightedness and focus on the big picture. Leaders who always stand righteously never stand alone.
— Carlos Wallace, Life Is Not Complicated-You Are: Turning Your Biggest Disappointments Into Your Greatest Blessings
Be punctual
—  it shows your respect for other people.
Everything needed for success has been placed into us from the beginning
— Sunday Adelaja
Rewards are not simply given, they are earned. Each of your trials and tribulations increases your reward. You are destined for success and greatness beyond measure. So smile to increase your endurance and laugh in the face of adversity.
— Carlos Wallace
The skeleton of success is self-discipline
— Sunday Adelaja
Unless a person understands God’s laws, he will not have long-lasting success
— Sunday Adelaja
The results you are churning out are a direct or indirect reflection of what you allowed into your life. Unlearning what you already know and practice is no easy task, but sometimes it’s necessary for the programming or re-programming that must take place for success to be made deliberate.
— Archibald Marwizi, Making Success Deliberate
Study to acquire knowledge - not just to get a certificate or promotion. Acquisition of knowledge is key to the programming or reprogramming of your mind and expanding your frame of reference. Choose the areas of study in line with your vision and mission as well as your strengths and interests. Make sure you seek opportunities to practice and implement the new information and knowledge you gain from your study.
— Archibald Marwizi, Making Success Deliberate
Believing in negative thoughts is one of the greatest obstructions to success.
— Charles F. Glassman, Brain Drain   The Breakthrough That Will Change Your Life
Our Success or Stagnation depends on the level of Agreement that we have with the people around us.
— Paul Gitwaza
In order to achieve stable success, you must be focused on God and not on success itself.
— Sunday Adelaja
It is imperative that you grow, because your personal growth and development is one of the most important things to you. Your growth is good for you – it must be deliberate.
— Archibald Marwizi, Making Success Deliberate
We are not the ones who will achieve success and put this world to shame, but God will do thisthrough us.
— Sunday Adelaja
The reason for the absence of success is not because of lack of money but because of theabsence of the understanding of the principles of success
— Sunday Adelaja
Success does not come by itself
—  you need to fight for it.
It is impossible to be successful and prosperous if you cannot organize people to achieve maximum results.
— Sunday Adelaja
Never look back on yesterday’s success
— Sunday Adelaja
No matter how much I care for you, you have to do your own growing – it’s your personal responsibility. Muscles do not grow by reading but by lifting weights. Exam grades do not improve by wishing but by studying.
— Archibald Marwizi, Making Success Deliberate
Success need not always be measured in economic terms. It has to be measured in quality of life.
— Sadghuru
Connect by listening well and speaking relevantly without being prejudiced or sarcastic. Learn to listen with your eyes as much as you listen with your ears. Generate interest in the person and subject, that way people will become more interested in you.
— Archibald Marwizi, Making Success Deliberate
Don’t do things or act out your posture and gestures to impress people, just be yourself and portray the confident ‘you’ with that high self-esteem. So relax because you are ‘you’. Be sincere, be authentic. That will be impressive enough.
— Archibald Marwizi, Making Success Deliberate
Appearance matters, we see your presentation before we get a chance to sample the substance within. You might miss a chance for the latter.
— Archibald Marwizi, Making Success Deliberate
Don’t be intimidated and at the same time don’t intimidate.
— Archibald Marwizi, Making Success Deliberate
Bathing is not negotiable! So is brushing your teeth and washing your underwear, so that you always have a fresh inviting scent around you. People should want to be around you, not avoid you because of unfriendly odours coming out of your mouth, shoes or armpits. Do the best with what you have; even the old can be made clean and hygienic to improve your image.
— Archibald Marwizi, Making Success Deliberate
The trusted quality and power of the believed sponsor of your words will have a big impact on the power released in and through your words. You should have sufficient sponsorship to counter the kind of words you do not want to influence your life, thoughts and mission. Contrary words and convincing voices will encounter you on the route to your destiny and they need to be countered with strong conviction and authority.
— Archibald Marwizi, Making Success Deliberate
Never underestimate the power of thought. It takes days and nights of pre-meditating ideas, thoughts, pictures and visions of what you would call success. Allow your mind to be pregnant with the thought of success and how you want to achieve it. This will enable you not to be shocked by your own success when you finally achieve it, because you would have lived it countless times before.
— Archibald Marwizi, Making Success Deliberate
When your own success shocks you, you fail to sustain it and it becomes a curse instead of a blessing. Think through issues and make considerations before you encounter the real situation. Companies invest billions in research and development, including models and simulations to increase chances of success – all in an attempt to make success deliberate for a particular project.
— Archibald Marwizi, Making Success Deliberate
Whilst your memory is as sharp as the most reliable computer, it is always wiser to write things down. Pre-meditation helps the refining process, taking out the undesirable elements from a dream or vision, even mounting the courage to face and overcome challenges before they appear in reality.
— Archibald Marwizi, Making Success Deliberate
Deliberately feed your subconscious mind by acquiring quality input through the conscious and sensory mind. You need to be aware of your need to be successful in life or any of its endeavours. You need to be aware of your potential and possess the strong desire to succeed. Success is possible and you deserve to succeed.
— Archibald Marwizi, Making Success Deliberate
You must succeed! Not by accident, but deliberately! You are able to succeed – now you must be willing to succeed and this must reflect in the way you spend your life.
— Archibald Marwizi, Making Success Deliberate
The accumulation of beliefs, knowledge and experiences contribute to our level of success and progress in life, however they also introduce the reality that we are all prejudiced. If not well managed, our personal prejudices can become the mental prison we lock ourselves inside or we use to shut others out. You need to deal with this likely impediment to a success-driven lifestyle.
— Archibald Marwizi, Making Success Deliberate
First accept the reality that we are all prejudiced because we have things and issues we have biases towards or against, based on our beliefs, thoughts and experiences. Accept that it is possible to differ on opinions, beliefs and philosophies without necessarily becoming inhumane or acrimonious towards each other.
— Archibald Marwizi, Making Success Deliberate
Doubt is a result of more than one internal voice giving differing and contradicting instructions and suggestions concerning a situation or a phase of your success journey. The triggering suggestions may be internal or external factors igniting internal conflict and uncertainty in the face of adversity. Yet inside of you must rise up a voice of authority which silences the disempowering shouts of unbelief. You need to have a deliberate plan to develop that internal voice of authority.
— Archibald Marwizi, Making Success Deliberate
Leave no room for fear and excuses. Be strong in spirit and possess unwavering convictions. Choose to be an optimist and commit to succeed.
— Archibald Marwizi, Making Success Deliberate
Train your emotions to listen to your fundamental empowering beliefs. Be principle-centred and values-driven.
— Archibald Marwizi, Making Success Deliberate
Never stop asking questions. Always take time to reflect and find answers. Stop, Think and Use Your Brain!
— Archibald Marwizi, Making Success Deliberate
Your words are powerful containers, carrying blessings or curses depending on what is inside of you. If you harbour bitterness in you, you will speak spitefully and create hurt and hatred in those you speak with. If there is love inside of you, you will release pleasant and caring words that create appreciation, gratitude and warmth in those around you.
— Archibald Marwizi, Making Success Deliberate
There should always be a deliberate crafting and packaging of the words you speak so that they produce the kind of results you desire. Enough research has been done in every religion and belief system to support the truth that words have power to create or destroy. This is the reason why all major religions say their prayers. However, your words can only be as powerful and as effective as their sponsor. The words must possess the right substance.
— Archibald Marwizi, Making Success Deliberate
Let your resolution and confession be, 'I will change these things because I want to succeed, and I want to succeed because it will bring me the happiness I seek and desire.
— Archibald Marwizi, Making Success Deliberate
Do not be cursed by documented findings and so-called facts
—  invention itself is not yet an antique for the museum. Not every voice has the right to sponsor your beliefs and words.
Slipping into bad attitudes and habits is like a beautiful queen growing older and uglier compared to the defined mission and personal standards. Time and again everyone who is serious about making their success more deliberate needs to stop by the mirror in their own mind and ask, “Mirror, mirror in my mind, am I still on course to succeed in life?
— Archibald Marwizi, Making Success Deliberate
You should be able to criticize and evaluate yourself before others do it. Check for congruity between your defined mission, vision, values and your practiced attitude, behaviour and habits.
— Archibald Marwizi, Making Success Deliberate
The best way for reflection and self-assessment is to hold meetings with yourself. I will pardon you for missing some other meetings, but you must never have an excuse for missing the board meetings you need to hold with yourself – I call these “board meetings between me, myself and I”. The three of us in one place, in a no-holds-barred meeting, where life-changing resolutions are reached to craft my journey to success. As board members we give each other honest feedback.
— Archibald Marwizi, Making Success Deliberate
Once you make the requisite personal commitment to make your success deliberate, that commitment must translate into a definition of higher personal standards meant to depict the true impression of what you have become or are becoming within.
— Archibald Marwizi, Making Success Deliberate
You first compete with yourself before competing against others; if you cannot beat your last best result, do not be surprised if it seems difficult to compete against external competitors.
— Archibald Marwizi, Making Success Deliberate
Generate great impressions. This is a direct result of setting higher standards for yourself in your speech, dress, living environment, grooming, etiquette, study, research and commitment.
— Archibald Marwizi, Making Success Deliberate
You must first become – before you are appointed, conferred or pronounced. Unfortunate challenges and failures are likely to be manifested whenever conferment precedes becoming what you aim to be. Be ready to maturely handle success.
— Archibald Marwizi, Making Success Deliberate
It is amazing, the number of business executives and senior leaders who get to be appointed and elevated to positions of authority on the basis of technical competences whilst lacking essential grooming on basic good manners and customs of conduct that must come from the home training process.
— Archibald Marwizi, Making Success Deliberate
Are you conscious of the scent or odour emanating from your mouth, arm pits, stockings or elsewhere? Are you friendly to your environment? Is your dressing, hair style and make up in line with your defined mission and values? How can you start managing your image and brand for a consistently good impression all the time? Does your image reflect your aspirations?
— Archibald Marwizi, Making Success Deliberate
If you just want to do something because it is a customary new year resolution, then soon enough the year will get a bit older, and the strength of your decision will also begin to wear off.
— Archibald Marwizi, Making Success Deliberate
Build relationships and friendships by finding common experiences or interests instead of getting discouraged by noticeable differences.
— Archibald Marwizi, Making Success Deliberate
If you are not sure or you don’t know something, politely ask. Asking is not a sign of being daft, but of confidence.
— Archibald Marwizi, Making Success Deliberate
Allow others to talk about themselves instead of being obsessed about telling them or bragging about yourself and your possessions and achievements. Show a genuine interest in others and allow them to tell their story so you can share the conversation.
— Archibald Marwizi, Making Success Deliberate
Rise above storms.Sail against tides.Succeed against the odds.
— Matshona Dhliwayo
Emotions or feelings stem from your attitude and they become the basis on which you decide or act. All decisions, choices and actions have some kind of underlying emotional influence. To change the way you feel about someone or something you must first change the way you think about them.
— Archibald Marwizi, Making Success Deliberate
It will take faith, to know success can still be attained regardless of unfairness or disadvantages availed by any system you operate within.
— Archibald Marwizi, Making Success Deliberate
If you Want to Be 1st Just Find The Reason For The Last And Try To Avoid That Way...
— Yaganesh Derasari
In life, all things are not constant or equal, the inequalities are so loud; change and uncertainty are the order of the day. It is these changes, inequalities and uncertainties that make it more imperative that you deliberately plan your way to success.
— Archibald Marwizi, Making Success Deliberate
You can use and see the power of words contributing towards your success, and this comes from having an empowering belief system. Living and functioning from an empowering belief system is the spring board for making your success more deliberate.
— Archibald Marwizi, Making Success Deliberate
Without faith, it is impossible to succeed. It takes faith to grow, change or move out of your comfort zone. All external interventions become futile without the personal and internalized buy-in from the spirit-man who needs to change towards a given success destination.
— Archibald Marwizi, Making Success Deliberate
When you face challenges, threats and prospects for failure, when you are out of money or job, when health is deteriorating and death seems to beckon – any hope for success against all those odds takes a solid empowering belief system that will believe – hope is still there. You must choose to adopt positive and empowering beliefs.
— Archibald Marwizi, Making Success Deliberate
At a higher level you are influenced by deity and the spiritual. Even atheism is based on the belief that there is no God or gods, without deity-acknowledging religion it has no foundation or basis. What is your divine influence, doctrine and reservoir of inspiration to tackle or create the tangible out of the realm of the unseen and the spiritual?
— Archibald Marwizi, Making Success Deliberate
You need to realize there will always be beliefs that seek to limit and others that seek to stretch you to your highest potential. Just because you cannot see or do something, does not mean it is not there or cannot be done.
— Archibald Marwizi, Making Success Deliberate
Programming means your mindset, thought processes and frame of reference must be correctly wired and mapped to enable the incubation of thoughts and ideas that lead to success. Your subconscious mind is key in this process and will always look for ways and means, night and day, to fulfil and implement the thoughts that are always fed into it. It is your faithful servant. I call it the connection between God and man. It is an essential part of the human spirit.
— Archibald Marwizi, Making Success Deliberate
Positive empowering beliefs will enable you to solidify a vision and mission that can bring you to a life of relevance and significant impact. Remember whatever you believe is true - to you. These beliefs must be programmed into your mind – by you (though you will still get input outside your own initiative).
— Archibald Marwizi, Making Success Deliberate
Your values, as guiding principles, will influence your attitude towards yourself, life, other people, work and even challenges or success itself. Your values are a product of your beliefs.
— Archibald Marwizi, Making Success Deliberate
Attitude is the mind-set, the kind of thoughts you process and meditate on, to generate the kind of feelings you have towards life, people and issues. This is what makes you do what you do in the way you do it.
— Archibald Marwizi, Making Success Deliberate
No one can change your attitude or another person’s attitude – only you can decide to change your own attitude by influencing the whole value chain from programs running in your subconscious mind to beliefs and values you strongly hold.
— Archibald Marwizi, Making Success Deliberate
We don’t have the same backgrounds, we do not possess the same skills or talents, we are not from the same generation, and neither do we have access to the same platform to shine. Things are not equal and life is not constant – there will never be the so-called level playing field.
— Archibald Marwizi, Making Success Deliberate
Behaviours and habits are therefore the end result of the entire value chain and cannot be changed in a sustainable manner by scratching the surface - you have to dig deeper. This is why jail time, threats and sanctions without appropriate rehabilitation programs will not change a person unless they embark on a personal journey/program to initiate the process of change from the inner core – how the programs in their brain are wired to influence their beliefs.
— Archibald Marwizi, Making Success Deliberate
Identify and replace any limiting deep-rooted beliefs that are like a solid mental prison, including thoughts like, 'I’m not worthy,' 'I can’t do this,' 'I’m too old to start,' 'I don’t have the qualification or skills to become a better person,' 'I’m always the unlucky one,' 'I have nothing to give/say or contribute
— Archibald Marwizi, Making Success Deliberate
Because it took you years to become so negative, doubting and dis-empowered – it must now become your daily journey to a life-time of positivity and empowering thoughts, words, actions and beliefs.
— Archibald Marwizi, Making Success Deliberate
Deliberately plan to be exciting and to be excited.
— Archibald Marwizi, Making Success Deliberate
Be deliberate about what you choose to read, watch or listen to – these are source codes to your internal programming.
— Archibald Marwizi, Making Success Deliberate
The deep desire for success must cause a dream to rise to the surface and inspire you to action. The dream must be supported in the physical and natural realm to help you believe more and more in the possibility of its realization.
— Archibald Marwizi, Making Success Deliberate
You must first move from mediocrity to relevance in the realm of your dream, before it can translate into a driving passion that fuels your success. There are no impossibilities in a dream, there are no figures that are too big or obstacles that are unscalable, no distances too far or expertise considered too small – there is unlimited possibility in a dream. Your dream must be bigger than you and inspiring enough to outlive you.
— Archibald Marwizi, Making Success Deliberate
Call your personal board now and discuss the important questions. You cannot invent, re-invent or show creative brilliance without asking pertinent questions. You must demand answers from your life, from your present circumstances or from any challenge you may face. Why can’t you change? What does it take to get different results? What else can you do or try?
— Archibald Marwizi, Making Success Deliberate
There must be a clear distinction between wishing and believing. A wish is a hazy thread of desires that leaves room for the winds of doubt to toss it about, meaning it might happen by chance or not. A belief has no equivocation; it is clear, stubborn and deliberate in taking hold of what remains yet unseen by the physical eye. If there is no visible way, a belief will draft the way, create the way, walk the path and reach the desired destination.
— Archibald Marwizi, Making Success Deliberate
Positive belief leaves no room for excuses; it questions why the feats and quests cannot be attained. When your beliefs are strong enough, you will not define yourself on the basis of past and present limitations or life events. Your success can only be as big as the size of your beliefs, for it is the size of your beliefs that will either limit your dream or allow it to explode.
— Archibald Marwizi, Making Success Deliberate
Make the difficult choices and adopt the discipline regime required of a person who has set their mind to succeed, kiss mediocrity goodbye and translate an ordinary life to the extraordinary. It takes personal commitment of time and resources, and a sacrifice of non-essential pleasures to move towards success.
— Archibald Marwizi, Making Success Deliberate
The challenge therefore, as you strive for success, is to make it a habit to live your life on purpose. You must learn to make deliberate plans and then practice the art and science of doing things on purpose.
— Archibald Marwizi, Making Success Deliberate
The aim is to produce specific results by your actions, so you begin to do things on purpose. If I leave things to chance, I am losing the plot to make success deliberate, meaning I am increasing my chances of failing in any given task.
— Archibald Marwizi, Making Success Deliberate
He is a trouble causer who acts without intent. In other words, living on purpose means you must act with known intent. Develop an objective sense that asks the why questions as you pull out action thoughts. Why do I want to do this? Why do I want to do it now? Why do I want to stop this? Why do I want to enter into this agreement? Why do I want to change? You will discover that when you have a known intent, you have enough motivation to sustain the success of your decision.
— Archibald Marwizi, Making Success Deliberate
You need to use you imagined view of the future you dream of, then paint the statement in words, to state that clear dream of your desired future.
— Archibald Marwizi, Making Success Deliberate
Your vision must state the end result and must be stated in the positive so that it will be a constant source of inspiration. Begin by, “I will…
— Archibald Marwizi, Making Success Deliberate
You need to change the questions you ask yourself and of your situations, in order to change the trajectory of your life. These are questions that will help you define and refine your purpose.
— Archibald Marwizi, Making Success Deliberate
We can only continue to promote invention, creativity and success by asking of ourselves, our situations and problems some key questions. What questions are you asking today?
— Archibald Marwizi, Making Success Deliberate
Values are the guiding principles through which you make choices and decisions. They are influenced by your beliefs, and will help you uphold a higher standard of personal character.
— Archibald Marwizi, Making Success Deliberate
Aligning your values and beliefs to your behaviour, increases your chances of being effective at living a fulfilling life without the stress of guilt-consciousness, internal strife or internal conflict
— Archibald Marwizi, Making Success Deliberate
Your personal brand must exude who you are, what you stand for, specifies your target market, what value you intend to add to them and the unique offering through which you will do that.
— Archibald Marwizi, Making Success Deliberate
Understand you are neither inferior nor superior
—  you are just the best of who you are supposed to be. You have set standards for yourself and are ready to meet them.
Whilst you can be a stepping stone to help others succeed, you are not a dirty mat to be abused by others.
— Archibald Marwizi, Making Success Deliberate
There should be a healthy ‘stubbornness’, assertiveness and confidence that comes from knowledge of your clear vision, mission, values and personal brand.
— Archibald Marwizi, Making Success Deliberate
You can and should stand up for who you are and what you represent, without fear or prejudice. You take the promises you have made to yourself and to others very seriously.
— Archibald Marwizi, Making Success Deliberate
The major purpose of defining and understanding yourself is to be able to come up with an objective strategy to map your success.
— Archibald Marwizi, Making Success Deliberate
Leveraging your personal strengths means you will also need to become clearer about those strengths. It is easier to build on what you are already good at than start from your weaker areas. Take time to list down your strengths and reflect on them.
— Archibald Marwizi, Making Success Deliberate
Personal growth by tackling the ‘big-picture” through focusing on the things you have power to influence is more effective and less stressful.
— Archibald Marwizi, Making Success Deliberate
Remain aware of your weak points; not knowing or choosing to ignore them, means creating dangerous ‘blind-spots’ in the path to your success.
— Archibald Marwizi, Making Success Deliberate
The ostrich-approach of burying your head in the sand, when confronting your areas of weakness, becomes a self-set trigger for failure.
— Archibald Marwizi, Making Success Deliberate
What are the obvious temptations and inclinations that consistently call me or entice me to go against my personal beliefs, values and standards? You don’t need a prophet for this!
— Archibald Marwizi, Making Success Deliberate
If you check your personal blind spots, you can be able to guard against focusing on what you cannot do, but reduce the areas of weakness by taking their space with more of your strengths.
— Archibald Marwizi, Making Success Deliberate