Stanley F. Bronstein – Personal Development BlogPersonal Development Blog of the Founder of the Achievement IQ Movement and Creator of the Laws of Positioning

People seldom become famous for what they say until after they are famous for what they’ve done.

– Cullen Hightower

People – Human being, as distinguished from animals or other beings. The persons of any particular group, company or number.

Seldom – Rarely, infrequently.

Famous – Having a widespread reputation, usually one of a favorable nature (but not always).

Say – To speak. To express in words.

Done – Completed, finished.

Translation: The persons of any particular group, company or number rarely obtain a widespread reputation (usually favorable, but not always) for their words until after they obtain a widespread reputation (again hopefully favorable) for the things they have completed and finished.

What does this mean?

In a nutshell, it means that, in an ideal world, it is unlikely that anyone will want to listen to your words until they first see what it is that you’ve accomplished. In other words, you have to show people that you are a person of action (hopefully good actions), before they will want to listen to you.

Do you remember the saying, actions speak louder than words? That’s what we’re talking about here.

If actions speak louder than words, what should your actions be?

Well, it all depends on what type of fame you want. There are plenty celebrities who are famous, but not all of them are famous for good reasons. Think of any one of the growing number of celebrities who are on the news for bad reasons. While I don’t want to mention any of them by name, all you have to do is read the entertainment section of any online newspaper and within 5 minutes you will be filled with any number of negative stories about “famous” people.

This is an example of the negative side of fame. These are people who became famous because of their negative actions.

Our society is fascinated by negativity.

I’m not totally sure why it is, but our world has a tendency to be more interested in negative stories than positive ones. Just watch the evening news tonight. They almost always start off with the negative stories and any positive stories are relegated to the last 5 or 10 minutes of the newscast.

One of the reasons I founded the Achievement IQ movement and created the Laws of Positioning is that I am on a personal mission to help the world learn to focus more on the positive aspects of this world, rather than on the negative ones. If we focus on positive aspects, we will learn to take positive actions and any fame we achieve will be for positive reasons, rather than for negative ones.

Today’s video

One person who knows this all too well is Jim Stovall of Tulsa, Oklahoma. Although he is blind, Jim has written several bestselling books, the most recent of which are The Ultimate Gift and its sequel, The Ultimate Life. These books are full of positive messages about how we can live positive lives and make this world a better place for us all and our children. Jim is also a highly regarded professional motivational speaker and founder of his own company called the Narrative Television Network, which provides television programming catering to visually impaired persons.

Jim Stovall is one of the persons who will be featured in my upcoming book:

If you want to view that portion of the interview, click on the image below.

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