12 Laws to Access the Power in you to Achieve Happiness and Success: Do You! by Russell Simmons

Hello Everyone,

After reading the Rich Dad, Poor Dad book by Robert Kayosaki, I got hooked into reading many of his other books. In fact, I am still reading 3 books simultaneously :) One of the days I shall make notes on those books and post them here.

Today is for a very interesting book called 'Do You!' by Russell Simmons.

The NY Times calls Russell Simmons one of "the most innovative and influential figures in modern American Business and culture."

The book is full of inspiring stories, wit and wisdom on everything from mind power, growing spiritually, dreaming big and doing your best. Brian Johnson of Philospoher's notes has done a great summary on this book and I am thankful to him and his team for exposing this book to me. Thank you Brian!

So here goes my take on the book. Of course you know now, my comments are in [Karuna Comments].

Create Vision

“In my experience, there’s only one thing that will always steer you toward success: That’s to

have a vision and to stick with it… Once I have a vision for a new venture, I’m going to ride that
vision until the wheels come off.”

[This is such a powerful tool, creating a vision for yourself, how can you reach a destination if you have not  planned for it? Don't let the daily tasks of living boggle you down. Find your vision, put it on a piece of paper, see it, visualize it, and the way to reach you will come to you through your experiences. That's the power of your subconscious mind , yeah! I am a hypnotherapist and so a complete believer in power of your mind to manifest your vision]

So What is YOUR VISION?

Focus on Your Vision

“Focus on your vision and keep going until you hit the finish line. Don’t be one of the people

who believe in their vision at first but then give up. See it through, no matter how long it takes.
Understand that obstacles are just part of the game. Whatever you imagine, you can achieve.
Once you realize this truth, no one is going to be able to stop you.”

[Creating a vision is the first step. After all how can you go to the 2nd step before the 1st step. Am I being funny :-) Once you have a vision, then align your beliefs to your vision. After all if you don't believe in your vision how do you expect others to ? Find those self limiting beliefs that are obstacles to your reaching your vision and figure out how you can replace those beliefs. BTW, hypnotherapy is a wonderful wonderful therapy for removing self limiting beliefs. Once you have aligned your beliefs to your vision, then there will be expectancy and that is a critical step to achieving your vision. Once you have visions, beliefs and expectancy aligned, no one can stop you from reaching your vision]

Don’t Stall


“The pain that’s created by avoiding hard work is actually much worse than any pain created from the actual work itself. Because if you don’t begin to work on those ideas that God has blessed you with, they will become stagnant inside of you and eventually begin to eat away at you. You might seem OK on the outside, but inside you will be ill from not getting those ideas out of your heart and into the world. Stalling leads to sickness. But taking steps, even baby steps, always leads to success.”
 
[The most wonderful plans in the world are useless unless we learn to act on them. So you have your vision, you aligned it with your beliefs and expectancy. Now GET TO THE NEXT STEP....TAKE ACTION. My pet statement and I have quite a few of these pet statements :-), Tomorrow will only bring more of what you have today. So don't wait for tomorrow to start moving towards your vision. Start NOW! Take baby steps, remember my earlier blogs talking about Kaizen? Google it. Baby steps are the way to go.  In a research they did on older people. they found that people with goals and mission live longer, live healthier. Makes sense does that not? When you are walking towards your purpose in life, things coincidently just align on the way. But first you have to start WALKING on the path.]
 
AGE & #’S


“Age ain’t nothing but a number.”
 
[Stop using Age as an excuse! Get past this belief, move forward. Remember the 66 year young Colonel who started Kentucky Fried Chicken? Did age stop him from starting KFC? So why are you different?]
 
OBSTACLES


“Whatever obstacles appear in your path, put your head down and get past them. Those obstacles aren’t real. They’re just God’s way of testing you. He’s asking you, ‘Do you want to make it or not?’”
 
[HA! I really like this. Cool! So do you want to make it or not??? Sit back and think.]
 
EYE ON THE PATH


“I know some people say ‘Keep your eyes on the prize,’ but I disagree. When your eyes are stuck on the prize, you’re going to keep stumbling and crashing into things. If you really want to get ahead, you’ve got to keep your eyes focused on the path.”
 
[So true, so true. I see that in athletes especially, some of them are so focussed on winning or loosing that they lose their mental game and can't perform. You have to let go of the reward and just persists on the path]
 
ALWAYS DO YOU


“When I talk about Doing You, I’m really just asking you to listen to that voice of God inside of you again.”
 
[Russell talks a lot on spirituality in his book which I have not mentioned here. He talks about listening to your inner voice, your intuition, your guts and following it. Learning to tune within you and paying attention to your inner self. Do you do that? Do you? The answers to our problems lie within us, if we just learn to quiet down and tune in to our inner frequency. Meditation, Self Hypnosis are great great methods to reach our inner self, to tune within].
 
Keep having fun. Together we can make this planet a better place for you and me.
 
Karuna.