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"Self Help At It's Best" An All-Consuming Desire To Succeed - Starred Review
An All-Consuming Desire to Succeed is a landmark achievement that provides readers with a step-by-step guide, a true roadmap to success! 

I am convinced that John Paul Carinci is this generation’s Dale Carnegie.
His latest book," An All-Consuming Desire to Succeed" is a tour de force in his books to help Everyman succeed and excel.
His works of inspiring the individual to reach higher, farther, to look at your life’s goals and see how to succeed in them are well known. -- Ellen George

Acclaimed author John Paul Carinci’s latest release, An All-Consuming Desire to Succeed is a landmark achievement that provides readers with a step-by-step guide, a true roadmap to success!
While inspirational it is also grounded in reality. The book emphasizes the importance of perseverance in any endeavor to achieve success. --Starred Review

Book Description

We each search for a better life, more inspiration, and a way to be more productive and fulfilled. We are in constant competition in personal life and business. You can stand out from the crowd.
With: "An All-Consuming Desire to Succeed", you will learn: How to maintain a competitive edge through Positive Affirmations. How to control negative influences. The secrets that the highly successful possess. How to plan out and achieve newfound goals. Learning to motivate yourself to become and stay different than all others.
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Persistence Is Key

Nothing in the world can take the

place of persistence. Talent will not;

nothing is more common than unsuccessful

men with talent. Genius will not;

unrewarded genius is almost a proverb.

Education will not; the world is full of

educated derelicts. Persistence and

determination alone are omnipotent.

--Calvin Coolidge

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(1923-1929)th President of the United States

Importance Of Drive

Ben Cohen and Jerry Greenfield were childhood friends. After high

school, Ben dropped out of several colleges and then took a job teaching

pottery. Jerry attended and graduated from Oberlin College but was

turned down for admission to medical school.

 

The two friends, unsuccessful up to that point, decided to open

an ice cream store in Vermont. The first store was opened out of a

run-down gas station. The friends began creating exciting and unique

chunky ice cream flavors that quickly became favorites among their

customers. By 1988, “Ben & Jerry’s” stores were in eighteen states and

thriving. By 2000, the Ben & Jerry’s enterprise was sold to a company

called Unilever for $326 million!

         "We measured our success not just by how much money

          we made, but by how much we contributed to the community.

          It was a two-part bottom line."

—Jerry Greenfield

Destiny

A man must know his destiny. If he does not recognize it, then he is lost.

By this I mean, once twice, or at the very most, three times, fate will reach

out and tap a man on the shoulder. If he has the imagination, he will turn

around. And fate will point out to him what fork in the road he should take,

[and] if he has the guts, he will take it.

—General George S. Patton

American general during World War II(1885-1945)

“The Pros and Cons of It All”

“The Pros and Cons of It All”

“At times our own light goes out and is rekindled by a spark from another

person. Each of us has cause to think with deep gratitude of those who have

lighted the flame within us.”

—Albert Schweitzer

“I had the pleasure of taking in a Mets and Nationals baseball game

one Saturday in September. It was a thrill because I attended the game

in the new Citi Field ballpark. I marveled at its brilliance in new brick,

stone, and steel girders, the largest I had ever seen. The girders in

the shape of a “Y” soared up a few stories, and, no doubt, supported

most of the structure. I was fascinated by the great technology and

workmanship that went into this great ballpark. So I looked up some

statistics and learned that it includes 1.2 million bricks, 11,000 light

fixtures, 2,200 doors, 850 televisions, 12,540 tons of structural steel

and 48,000 cubic yards of asphalt. An amazing feat of construction,

the stadium holds approximately 45,000 fans. I don’t have statistics on

how many people worked on it, but I can imagine fifty years from now

some grandfather telling his grandchild all about how he helped build

it half a century back.

I rarely go to baseball games, but when I do go, I get a real thrill

out of watching the players on the field. I visualize what it was like for

someone watching a game live in the 1920s or ’30s. The players would

have been stationed in basically the same spots as those who played

this game. The uniforms would have been different, but the game was

basically the same. The fans would clap and yell and stand and cheer.

The players’ dedication was basically the same—play hard and play your

best because if you didn’t, there would be someone sitting on the bench

just waiting for that one opportunity to show the manager that he could

play better than you and that he deserved to play full-time.

“Professional.” The word itself has a nice ring to it. The Merriam-

Webster Dictionary defines professional this way: “participating for

gain or livelihood in an activity or field of endeavor often engaged in

by amateurs.”

Think of what it takes to be a professional baseball player and to

play in Major League Baseball. The amazing thing is, a young boy with

a baseball, a bat, and a glove can become the greatest baseball success

ever. He needs an intense, burning desire that never fades. He needs

so much more, but the fact remains that if the burning desire is not

present throughout, he will never be propelled to greatness in the sport

of baseball.”

“Every day is a new opportunity. You can build on yesterday’s success or

put its failures behind and start over again. That’s the way life is with a new

game every day, and that’s the way baseball is.”

—Bob Feller

“When I think of the greatest baseball players of all time, I think

of Lou Gehrig, Joe DiMaggio, Mickey Mantle, Hank Aaron, Babe

Ruth, Cy Young, and many others. But the list is really not that long,

considering that professional Major League Baseball has been played

for more than one hundred thirty years—since 1876—by thousands of

players over all those years.

To actually break into the Major Leagues is a very big accomplishment,

considering that most of the people who put on a baseball uniform from

childhood through adulthood will never actually make it that far. So,

what is the difference between the players who make it and those who

never make the cut?

Maybe it is only a 10 percent difference. Maybe one player is 10

percent faster than the others who never get called up. Ten percent? If a

player has a batting average of 250, 10 percent better is 275. Or say one

pitcher throws at eighty miles per hour and another pitcher throws at

eighty-eight miles per hour. You see the small difference? That minute

amount can mean a difference in pay of millions of dollars more once

someone makes it to the majors.

So, I looked out onto the field while at the game, and I studied

each player carefully as he manned his position. I watched the players

in almost military precision as they guarded their ground, the area they

were each responsible for, making sure there weren’t any small mounds

of dirt that would make a baseball take a bad hop if hit to them. I even

studied the umpire as he bent down at the knees to look at every pitch.

I looked closely as he studied each pitch of the ball so carefully. Then I

realized that every pitch counts equally in value. One pitch could mean

the ballgame for one team or the other. Some, if not most, pitches would

be recorded in the record books. So it was no wonder how professional

the umpire was. This particular umpire on this day was even crouching

down behind the catcher when the pitcher was taking warm-up throws

that didn’t count for the game. I estimated that the umpire squatted

down, bent at the knees, at least three hundred times for that game.

Professional? You bet. Some umpires make it to the Major Leagues, too.

Many, however, don’t.

Professionalism is found in all walks of life. Think again about what

it means to be “pro,” and also consider those who merely go through

the motions. I call some people “cons” because they are only conning

themselves, making believe that they are giving it their best effort, while

secretly, down deep, they are only trying to get to closing time.”

C-2012 J. Carinci from the book An All-Consuming Desire To Succeed

Some Reasons For Failure

Let’s look at the opposite of success - total failure. Total

failure can be described as an unwillingness or inability to

produce successful results.

Why do some people lose the gumption to push, lose

the fire, or the drive to pursue the objective?

One reason people may fail is that they lose their

motivation. They can’t understand why they have to work

so hard at each objective. Maybe they had something go

wrong in life, such as a failed love relationship or the

death of a loved one. In sales, I’ve seen very competent

salespeople fail by burning out, caused by mental and

emotional exhaustion. They lose the spark, the magic, and

the excitement of their work.

Discover what will give you your drive and burning

desire to accomplish something, until failure is not a word

acceptable to your mind. Become the rare person who has

consuming goals which motivate you every day and you

will not stop until your goals have been achieved.

There are some professional boxers with this all consuming

drive. They are “all heart.” They can fight a

brutal fight for 15 rounds. They can take punishing blows to

the head and body, and still refuse to give up. And although

they’re dead tired, they stay on their feet, just as the hero

did in the movie Rocky.

They may have been outclassed by a better fighter and

may even be losing the fight on points, but their mind tells

them to keep on fighting right to the end. Muhammad Ali

was such a fighter: He was all heart.

The New York City Marathon always amazes me when

I see some 25,000 runners eager to run 26 miles, something

most of the runners never do every day. It’s marvelous to see

all the different people who run, some of whom are in their

eighties. In addition to the professional runners, some are

disabled and use wheelchairs. One such wheelchair runner

had only his top torso and arms, but he finished. He had the

motivation, that burning desire to reach a goal, even though

he did not win a prize or money. The motivation of some

people pushes us on to achieve bigger and better goals. We

all admire courage. We all like heroes and winners.

All the participants in the marathon are driven by a

tremendous desire to finish the race and accomplish the

phenomenal feat of running twenty-six miles. So intense

is the desire to finish the marathon that blisters, sprains,

and exhaustion don’t cause the runners to give up.

Approximately 90% of all the runners cross the finish line,

even if they walk across it. It’s a personal victory for each

finisher of the race.

In the 1994 New York City Marathon, three people had

heart attacks, two of whom died. Why did two men die

of heart attacks after crossing the finish line and minutes

after running nonstop for hours? I believe those runners

had reached the point of a “burning desire” to finish at all

costs. While suggesting that you need to find new burning

desires in your life, I am not suggesting that you push

yourself to the point of exhaustion or push yourself right

into a heart attack. You have to learn to pace yourself as

you work towards your success, but a burning desire will

help you complete one goal after another, similar to how

a runner takes one step after another in order to cross the

finish line.

I believe that, if your mind is not pushed and challenged,

it could slowly close down parts of your body, leading to

health problems. The mind can control the body. We are each

actually feeding our minds thousands of thought impulses

per hour. Watch those thoughts because they circulate from

your subconscious out to your conscious mind.

W. Clement Stone said, “Do what you’re afraid to do.

When you run away because you are afraid to do something

big, you pass opportunity by.”

C-2012 J. Carinci fron the book The Power Of Being Different

Inner Drive

“The Drive that Pushes You On”

Decide what it is that you want to achieve. Write it out in full

detail. Tape Post-Its with the name of the goal all over your home and

workplace. Tell everyone what it is that you intend to accomplish. Be

proud of your goal. But most of all, concentrate each morning, noon,

and night on the achievement of the goal or task. Always focus on

the finish line. As you work through all the obstacles and pitfalls you

encounter, see the finish line, the completion, the award ceremony you

will have in your mind when you reach the finish line.

Any marathon runner or bike racer or Olympic athlete must focus

on the finish line. They must keep the cobwebs out, go through their

routine endless times. They visualize their technique and what to avoid

along the way. In other words, they psych themselves up or motivate

themselves. The true sign of a winner is that they expect to win. Many

winners never once think of failure or that they might not succeed.

Inventors are the most driven individuals because they must do the

seemingly impossible. They invent something or improve something in

a manner that hasn’t been done before. All along the way the inventor

experiences failed attempts. Sometimes those failed attempts number in

the thousands, but that doesn’t deter the inventor. He welcomes failure,

realizing that each new failure brings him closer to his breakthrough, the

successful completion of the invention.

Salespeople work the same way. Each “no” they receive brings them

that much closer to their “yes,” their sale. They are not discouraged by

someone’s refusal to buy because they know that they must maintain

that all-powerful positive attitude; otherwise, the sales will never come.

So, it is important to maintain that winning attitude no matter how

rough the road to the goal. It is important to use positive affirmations

to remind the mind, to psych up the mind, so no negative impulses will

jeopardize or get in the way of that finish line, that award ceremony you

will have at the time of your achievement.

Whether the goal or task is small or large, the concept and method

are the same. In fact, I recommend right this minute that you come

up with three very small tasks. Write them down, but do only one at a

time. Celebrate each small victory in your mind. Once you achieve the

third goal, it will be time to choose bigger, longer-term tasks, dreams,

goals. But you will be confident that the system works and that you are

capable of reaching each finish line.

Og Mandino, in his book The Greatest Salesman in the World, uses

positive affirmations such as this:

        “I will persist until I succeed. The prizes of life are at the end of each

journey, not near the beginning; and it is not given to me to know how many

steps are necessary in order to reach my goal. Failure I may still encounter

at the thousandth step, yet success hides behind the next bend in the road.

Never will I know how close it lies unless I turn the corner. Always will I

take another step. If that is of no avail, I will take another, and yet another.

In truth, one step at a time is not too difficult. I will persist until I succeed.”

What we need to understand is this: The monumentally great

people of our lifetime, the tremendously successful achievers, have a

better way of implementing the intense, burning desire about bigger

dreams and goals than other people. That is the only difference. So, you

can do whatever it is that consumes you, obsesses you, day and night.

The saying comes to mind, “What the mind of man can conceive and

believe, it can achieve with a positive mental attitude.”

C-2012 J. Carinci from the book An All-Consuming Desire To Succeed

Maintaining That Desire

Every day, in every way, we are each improving on formerly proven and

workable ideas, methods, words, and science. And each future generation

will continue to improve on our proven and monumental ideas.

I can’t help but think of the first cavemen, and how they surely

failed and succeeded so many times in their then-short life spans. We

truly do live in the best time in the world’s history.

Today a former president can have his life saved and extended merely

by having fairly routine by-pass surgery performed on his heart. And

if need be, his heart can then be re-energized years later by the use of

stents to prop open failed arteries. Years ago many of these heart patients

simply died for lack of the technology that is readily available today.

A few weeks ago I got the inspiration to try to invent a new way to

lift fingerprints off tape—specifically, duct tape. Duct tape is that gray

to repair aluminum heating air ducts, thus the name duct tape. It also

is the tape of choice of many killers. To my knowledge, fingerprints are

not easily lifted from the underside of duct tape. But I figured I could

find a new way to lift fingerprints. What was my motivation? I was just

frustrated with seeing many killers not being brought to justice because

the technology of the day lagged in this specific area of forensics.

Now, I didn’t really have the time to invest, the knowledge, or the

tools needed to invent some new-fangled way of lifting prints, but I

had the desire. Of course, I have not succeeded, as of this writing. But

I gave it a valiant effort and even surprised myself in my elaborate and

extensive experiments in my inventive pursuit. I did not give up, but I

have suspended my duct tape experiments for the time being.

My point in this example is this: The inspiration was there. But that

intense, never-ending drive was not, at least not at that time. Otherwise,

I would never have suspended the experiments, no matter how much

failure I encountered.

colored, very heavy, and strong-holding tape that was originally invented

   "We learn wisdom from failure much more than from success; we often

discover what will do, by finding out what will not do; and probably he who

never made a mistake never made a discovery."

—Samuel Smiles

Writing books is much like inventing. A writer undertakes a

tremendous endeavor when he plans to write a new book. In the books

I have written, I would estimate that it took four to six years per book

from the thinking, planning stage until the first printing of the final

version. Talk about the need for perseverance and fortitude! There are

many times during the writing of a book when doubt sets in. Doubt

that I will be able to write enough words, or that it will make sense.

Doubt that the readers will like it at all. And doubt that the subject

matter is good enough. A seasoned writer can fight through all these

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what you hope will be the best material you have ever written.

But think about maintaining that intense drive for four or six years.

And it is an intense drive that motivates a writer to keep picking up that

pen, keep writing word after word, even when the words stop flowing.

There are times when I sit staring at a blank page, unable to write anything

worthwhile. A writer fights through this feeling, this black and negative

impulse. In my case, if I can push out even twenty words, I feel better, at

least for that moment, knowing that, with time, the flow of words will

resume. You see, with an intense desire to finish a book so deeply etched

into my subconscious mind, I know the positive impulse to continue

writing is ever-present. I will be motivated to continue writing, and also

to continue the thinking process that will work through any obstacles I

may be facing at that time.

So, a writer who completes a full book has that intense desire to

succeed. It is far easier to put the project on hold or just quit when faced

with an obstacle that seems insurmountable. And those obstacles are

usually many over a four-year period.

negative impulses, realizing that this is normal in the process of writing

     "For a true writer each book should be a new beginning where he tries

again for something that is beyond attainment. He should always try for

something that has never been done or that others have tried and failed.

Then sometimes, with great luck, he will succeed."

—Ernest Hemingway

Never Ever Give Up

Chester Carlson, the inventor of the Xerox machine in 1940, received a rejection letter that read as follows: “Who the hell wants to copy a document on plain paper???” Twenty other companies rejected the idea as “useless.” Today, Xerox has revenues each year of about $1 billion.

In 1853, Chef George Crum was cooking at a restaurant in a resort in Saratoga Springs, New York, when a patron returned an order of French fries. The patron complained that the potatoes were too thick. So, to rile up the patron, Crum sliced the potatoes paper-thin and sent the dish back out to the patron.

It was a hit—the invention of the potato chip! Everyone soon began ordering them. Crum started his own restaurant shortly thereafter, and the potato chip went down in history as one of the best-loved snacks ever.

In 1928, Walter Diemer was an accountant at the Fleer Chewing Gum Company in Pennsylvania. He was playing around with new recipes for gum when he invented a new type. The first year “bubble gum” was introduced, over $1.5 million worth sold in the U.S. alone.

Spencer Silver invented a low-tack adhesive while working at 3M in 1968. The company rejected it for use in products. But the real man with perseverance was a co-worker who found a use for the low-tack adhesive. Art Fry, also a 3M employee, needed to keep music sheets from falling off the music stand when he sang at his church on Sundays.

So he put some of Silver’s adhesive on the back of his song sheets. He soon realized the usefulness of this special product and created the 3M Post-It. At first, 3M rejected the idea as impractical, but they realized, after trials, that it was perfect for all offices. The rest is history.

Authors are almost always rejected when presenting a new book to a publisher. The book Chicken Soup for the Soul, by Jack Canfield, was rejected one hundred forty times. It finally was accepted and has sold over eighty million copies.

Stephen King’s Carrie was rejected thirty times.

John Grisham’s first book was rejected by sixteen agents and twelve publishers.

It has been noted that Henry Ford failed and went broke five times before succeeding beyond all expectations.”

    “Have patience with all things, but chiefly have patience with yourself.

Do not lose courage in considering your own imperfections, but instantly set

about remedying them—every day begin the task anew.”

—Saint Francis DeSales

C-2012  J. Carinci from the book: An All-Consuming Desire To Succeed

LONGEVITY

Longevity

I am always inspired by centenarians—those special people who,

against all odds, live to or even past the age of one hundred. I am in awe

of them when I see or hear them interviewed and find they still possess

a sharp memory, though their body may be broken down.

After all, I believe that we all are minds that carry along a body for

life, but in reality, it is our mind that carries us to the end. Some such

people whom I have encountered have such vivid memories that go all

the way back to their early childhood!

One day I clipped an obituary of a gentleman who passed after

reaching the age of 112. The man, an African-American, had lived

through both World Wars, the landing of man on the moon, and the

election of the first black president, whom he himself had been able to

vote for.

As I studied the obituary, I saw that the man was born in 1896

during times of discrimination and was refused entry into the U.S.

Army when he tried to apply. I marveled at how this man far surpassed

so many others born in the same year, when the average life expectancy

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of the times was about 42. Amid all the sickness in those days, this man

seemed to sidestep it, as if tiptoeing through a minefield. To live to the

age of 112 years and 98 days, a person would have lived over 41,000

days. I bet there are many factors involved in longevity, including luck,

heredity, faith, lifestyle, and, most important, attitude. Without the

right attitude and zest for life, one would be hard-pressed to outlive so

many others.

Never give up! That is the inner attitude of the body and mind of

anyone who can live for 41,000 days.

C- 2012 John Paul Carinci from the book: An All-Consuming Desire To Succeed

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