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In addition to our good news, our program includes videos and weekly sessions with Paul Starner, the nationally-known trainer and success coach behind Hooked on Success. Find out more! |
The Secret to Paul Starner's Success
When asked the secret to his success, without hesitation, Paul Starner replies: “It has been my mentality of Performance, my spirit of co-operation, not competition. Each day set an objective and work towards that daily goal doing your absolute best. Do not care about what someone else is doing. Do your best, at what it is you want for you and those you love, and success will be yours.”
Paul has learned and lived success the hard way, from the bottom up. Success, he says, is a state of mind, not money. “Think positive, walk and talk positive, let your actions be positive, and you can become a positive person.” As a child growing up in a lower middle class industrial neighborhood in the Midwest, he learned to work hard for success, building a newspaper route to the largest in the city. He worked hard and achieved academic excellence to earn scholarships to allow him to attend Albion College, where he graduated with degrees in Business and Finance.
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Paul has faced adversity and has been successful in overcoming major challenges in his life. In 1970, while working in a factory to earn money for college, an accident destroyed his lower left arm. After multiple reconstructive surgeries over 17 months, a decision was made to “GET A HOOK”. So, Christmas 1971 brought him a present that he decided was best, and the amputation was complete by Christmas Day. He never looks back. Paul advises everyone, “You Gotta Have A Hook.”
In 1980, after building a dream life for himself and wife, Linda, through construction of a Resort and Real Estate business, Paul’s life was again shattered when a semi-truck drove over his car on the highway. Gravely injured, and being told he would never walk again, HE PROMPTLY FIRED THE DOCTOR. That began a tough journey of dozens of leg surgeries, therapy, pain, trauma, and love. In 1984, Paul got out of the wheelchair and took a 10,000 mile boat adventure with his wife Linda, and their beautiful daughters Stephanie and Erin.
Upon returning to shoreside lifestyle in 1985, Paul re-built a very successful Real Estate business. But 1990 took its toll again in the form of a snowmobile accident, causing the loss of more body parts. More surgeries, more therapy, more recovery. But there is magic in threes as Paul says, and he came back even more positive than ever, and began his career as a speaker, trainer, and motivator. He has changed the lives of thousands of people since 1992.
On this new journey, Paul’s goal is to help others walk, talk and live success, as he has many years and many times over.
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