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5 Lies/Habits of highly successful

A very good article from Robin Sharma so I felt that I should share it with you. It goes like this... So easy to dismiss the success of The Great Ones in business, sports, science or the arts as "lucky". But success doesn't just show up. It's always earned. High achievement isn't the result of "destiny" but desire - and acute determination. From Branson to Bono and from Mandela to Michael Dell, dive deep into the stories of the best of the best and you'll see they're are all thinking the same thoughts and doing strikingly similar things (all of which I write about in my new book "The Leader Who Had No Title" which comes out in March from Simon and Schuster). Don't buy into the following 5 Lies of Lucky: 1. Successful people don't work hard - they just happen to be at the right place at the right time . Sure, timing makes a difference (just ask Jobs or Brin). But business superstars not only outthink their competition - they out...