Success

In the 1850's, Levi Strauss went to California with the dream of becoming rich in the gold rush.

Unfortunately, Levi did not find gold and could easily have abandoned his dreams of wealth.

Levi, however, changed his strategy and tried a different approach. He saw that all of the miners needed comfortable and durable clothing and started work on creating jeans.

Levi created these by initially sewing canvas together. This grew more and more popular and Levi Strauss expanded very quickly.

Suresh Joachim, a Sri Lanka native now living in Toronto, has one goal - to break the world record for the most world records.

Suresh currently holds world records in the world's longest karaoke marathon (25 hours and 40 minutes), longest ironing session (55 hours and 5 minutes) and longest time standing on one foot (76 hours and 40 minutes).

In total, he has broken 53 Guiness World Records.

Suresh began his journey in 1991, when his uncle gave him a copy of the Guiness Book of Records as a gift.

Years ago, Tony Robbins was faced with a difficult decision.

He was failing in many areas of his life and, even though he had studied numerous success systems, he just did not believe that he could achieve anything in his life.

At this point, an old friend came round to see him and was shocked to see how Tony was living. He realized that Tony had great potential and was disappointed that Tony was not fulfilling it.

This meeting changed Tony's life because it was then that Tony decided that he would take control of his life.

This year marks the 150th anniversary of Gray's Anatomy, a text book that has been used by millions of medical students and has also been referred to in research to find cures for countless diseases.

Gray's Anatomy is a book which has detailed illustrations and descriptions of all parts of the human body. Henry Gray and his assistants spent 18 months dissecting the human body in order to create the most detailed drawings and descriptions of the human body so far.

In fact, it was these drawings that were the main reason for the success of Gray's Anatomy.

Greg Billingham, a builder from the UK, decided to give the London Marathon a different take this year.

Greg decided to run the marathon in slow motion, with each step taking between five and six seconds.

On Sunday, Greg completed the marathon, which meant that the race took him over one week to complete. The winning runner, Martin Lel, completed the race in two hours, seven minutes and 41 seconds.

During her life time, Mother Teresa manifested many amazing things. The reason why she did this is that she lived by the eight guidelines that are listed below.

More importantly, however, she had a belief that said that whatever she did was not about how it would affect her relationship with other people and the opinions they would form, but in stead was about her relationship with God and what he would want her to do. By living according to this belief and by following her eight guidelines below for the next week, try a different approach to everything you do and, more importantly, see how easy it makes doing these things.

Whenever we do something, we do not succeed or fail. We simply produce results.

What this means is that our actions produce results and then we decide whether or not these results are what we wanted. If they are, then we have succeeded. If they are not, then we have failed.

By understanding the fact that you decide whether a result has been a success or a failure can be enlightening.

One of the biggest reasons why people fail is because they measure their own goals and results in comparison to others.

If they have run 20 minutes, they will feel discouraged that their friend has run for 45 minutes. If they have made $500 profit, they will feel disappointed that they have not made as much as their competitor who has made $700.

We have learnt to do this in school. If someone gets 9 A's and we only get 5, we often do not measure how successful we have been in achieving 5 A's. In stead, we compare our achievement to that of the person who achieved 10 A's.

The reason why most people fail to achieve their goals is because they try and set goals that are too big.

They set goals such as losing a stone in weight, finding a new job or buying a new car.

By just looking at the size of the goal, most people get frightened.

The most successful people in the world achieve their goals because they break them up into small and manageable pieces. They set their main goals up into 20, 30 or even 40 mini-goals and see the completion of a mini-goal as a percentage of the completion of the main goal.