This document contains a summary of the book "Create Your Own Future" which discusses 12 principles of success. It summarizes chapters 12-14 which discuss the importance of character, courage in achieving goals, and overcoming fear of failure. The final chapter notes that the secrets of success have been discovered repeatedly, including having clarity of purpose, developing expertise in your field, cultivating positive relationships and a habit of saving money. The document was submitted as part of a class assignment on the discussed book and principles.

1. Aslam o Alikum
Presentation on: Create your own future
Submitted to : Prof Hina
Submitted by : Ali Zain
Class : BSCS(E)
Roll no: 191

2. Content
 Chapter Twelve Success Factor #11- Character Counts
 Chapter Thirteen Success Factor #12- Fortune Favors The
Brave
 Chapter Fourteen Make Your Life A Masterpiece

3. Description
Create Your Own Future is a powerful self-empowerment book
full of ideas that readers can apply immediately to take complete
control of their personal and work lives. The book is geared
towards professionals who want to make more money and get
more satisfaction from their career. Based on the authors tested
model of controlled luck, each of the 12 chapters describes a
principle of success with an action plan on how to reach their
goals.

4. Chapter Twelve
PRINCIPLE #11 - CHARACTER COUNTS
In about 340 B.C., the Greek philosopher Aristotle laid out a series of principles
that became the foundation for much of western thought for the next 2000 years.
His original ideas and insights still affect much of modern thinking today. An
understanding of his basic ideas enables you to think and act with greater clarity
and effectiveness than others who do not know them. Perhaps Aristotle’s most
important contribution to philosophy was contained in his principle of causality.
He taught that we live in an orderly universe and that therefore, everything
happens for a reason. There exists a cause-effect relationship among all events.
Even if you do not know the reason for a particular effect, this does not mean
that a reason does not exist.

5. Gaining the Respect of Others
When you think of success in your own life, you will find that it is
closely tied up with the respect that you get from the people
that you respect. Almost everything you do is done or not done
with a view toward how other people will think about you. Your
consideration of the opinions of the important people in your
world has a major effect on your behavior.

6. Quotes
 The way we treat people we think can’t help or hurt us — like
housekeepers, waiters, and secretaries — tells more about our
character than how we treat people we think are important. How
we behave when we think no one is looking or when we don’t think
we will get caught more accurately portrays our character than
what we say or do in service of our reputations. – Michael
Josephson

7. Chapter Thirteen
PRINCIPLE # 12 – FORTUNE FAVORS THE BRAVE
Perhaps the most important of all luck factors is the
quality of courage. The development of self-confidence,
courage, boldness and the willingness to move forward
toward your goals, with no guarantees of success, is the
essential requirement for high achievement. With
courage, you can do virtually anything in life. And without
it, none of the other qualities will help
you.

8. The Fear of Failure
As a child, whenever you tried to touch, taste, smell, feel or get
into something, there was always someone there telling you to
stop doing it. “It’s too dangerous.” “ You are too small.” “Get
away from there.” As a result, at an early age, and at an
unconscious level, you developed the belief that you were too
small and too weak to do anything new or different. You started
to
believe that, “I’m not good enough.”

9. When you became an adult, you took personal control of
the negative reinforcement process begun by your
parents. Whenever something new or
challenging came up, you began saying to yourself, “I
can’t do that.” “I’m not smart enough.” “I’m not creative
enough.” “I’m not educated enough.” “I’m
not good enough.” “I can’t.”

10. Quotes
 “Formal education will make you a living; self-education will
make you a fortune.” Jim Rohn

11. Chapter Fourteen -The Summing Up
Make Your Life A Masterpiece
The great secret of success is that there are no secrets of success.From the
beginning of recorded history, the principles of success have been
discovered and rediscovered over and over again. Here they are, once more
Success Factor #1 – Your Potential Is Unlimited - Take complete
control over your mind, and learn to unlock your special powers to attract
whatever you want into your life.
Success Factor #2 – Clarity Is Critical - You must be absolutely clear
. about the things you want to achieve and the person you want to become.

12. Success Factor #3 – Knowledge Is Power – Learn everything you need
to know to be an expert in your field. Read continually, listen to audio
programs and take every course you can to stay ahead of your
competitors.
Success Factor #4 – Mastery Is Magical - Resolve today to become
absolutely excellent at what you do. Develop your skills to a high level, and
resolve to be among the top 10% in your field. This will help you more than
anything else

13. Success Factor #5 – Attitude Is Everything - Become a totally
positive
person, so that people like you and want to be around you and
help you.
Think and talk only about the things you want, and refuse to
think or talk
about the things you don’t want.
Success Factor #6 – Relationships Are Essential - Develop a
strategy
for expanding your network of contacts and improving your key
relationships in every part of your life. The more people who
know you and
like you, the more doors they will open for you.

14. Success Factor #7 – Money Matters - Make a habit of saving
your
money. Start with 1% of your income, and then gradually build
up to 10%,
20% and 30%. A person with money in the bank attracts more
opportunities
and good fortune than a person who is broke most of the time.
Success Factor #8 – You Are A Potential Genius - Unlock your
inborn
creativity by constantly looking for ways to get results faster,
better and
cheaper. . There is no problem that you cannot solve, and no
goal that you
cannot achieve by applying the incredible power of your mind.

15. Quotes
 “Make your life a masterpiece; imagine no limitations on what
you can be, have or do.”

― Brian Tracy