Success is defined primarily as the accomplishment of an aim or purpose. Success is achieving our goals, but what really leads to success in life? We must also consider success in the context of the complete picture of all areas of our life, like health, relationships, peace of mind, passion, purpose, and also finances.
A successful life that is sustainable ensures all areas work together to support your goals.
- We need to maintain our health for the energy to reach our goals, This requires proper nutrition and exercise.
- Our journey to success is lonely without friends, family, and a life partner.
- The ability to manage our thoughts and emotions help reduce stress and keeps us on track.
- If we do what we are passionate about for a living it will feel more like a game than work.
- A lot of happiness in life comes from knowing our purpose.
- Money alone may not be able to buy happiness but being broke can make you unhappy.
What should I do to become successful?
The first step to becoming successful is to write down your goals in all areas of your life. It’s important to get them down on paper or somewhere on your phone or computer. The act of clarifying and quantifying what you want does two things, first it makes your desires conscious so you can knowingly make decisions that move you toward what you want. Secondly, it tells your subconscious mind what you want so it can help in your journey even when you don’t know it. Your subconscious works all the time to make your beliefs and desires come true, give it a target.
While writing down your goals doesn’t guarantee your success, having no goals will lead you to be the victim of your circumstances. If you have specific goals and move a little toward them every day only time separates you from achieving them.
What are the 5 keys to success?
1. Faith in your process.
Create a system for accomplishing your goals. Systems create routines that you do daily that move you toward your goals to some degree. Your system is your framework for achieving the steps on the way to your goals. Systems must be flexible and change based on feedback for what is working and what is not.
2. Finding your edge in life.
Everyone has something they are good at and can beat most people at. If you want to be successful focus on your own strengths. Become one of the best in the world at what you are already good at. Double down on your strengths and just manage your weaknesses but don’t let them define you. Find where you have an unfair advantage in skill, talent, or time spent mastering something and focus on it.
3. Faith in yourself.
If you don’t believe in yourself then don’t expect anyone else to. Confidence is a core skill of people that are successful. Confidence is the required mental model for success it creates energy and focus.
4. Perseverance in the long term.
The ability to do the work over the long-term toward success will allow you to beat the majority of your competitors. The majority of people are starters, few are finishers. You must finish what you start to be successful.
5. Resilience after setbacks.
The big thing that separates unsuccessful people from successful ones is how they react to short-term failures and setbacks. The grit to take a loss and get back in the game is a trait of successful people not that they win every time.
What are 10 ways to be successful?
1. Positive mindset.
A positive mindset creates mental energy and also allows you to believe in yourself and your process. Negativity is de-energizing, creates doubts, and second guessing. A positive mindset is constructive and looks for solutions. A negative mindset becomes a barrier to your own success with the critical narrative it creates with your own thoughts. Focus on pragmatic thoughts that are helpful.
2. Growth mindset.
A growth mindset believes that where you are now is not where you will be forever. A growth mindset believes you can learn, change, and that your identity is not a fixed state. A growth mindset believes in a state of constant upward change in self, business, and in achieving goals. A fixed mindset believes things never change and your destiny is fixed. A growth mindset has a much better risk/reward ratio than a fixed mindset.
3. Impulse control.
The ability to control impulses is crucial for success. If you want to lose wait you must manage your eating. If you want to build wealth you must manage your laziness and spending. A lack of impulse control happens when you spontaneously do things that take you farther from your goals due to a lack of self-discipline. You must keep your mind in control and resist temptation in the area you want success.
4. Never give up.
The longer you keep trying to accomplish a goal with the right process over and over again, the greater your odds of success. If your attempts are valid then your odds of success increase each time you try. You can try to do something so many times over a long enough time period that your odds of success become near 100%. Of course you must possess the skills to make valid attempts.
5. Work hard.
Success isn’t easy and you must do the work and put in the required time and effort for winning. Each type of success has its own price tag and you must be willing to pay the price.
6. Work smart.
You must not only work hard but you must work smart doing the right things along the right effort to achieve success. Research along with quantitative and qualitative analysis are crucial with knowing how to achieve what you want. You must know the right questions to ask.
7. People Skills.
Successful people have large networks of friends and business associates that help them succeed. They both give and receive value from others. You don’t need to know all the right answers you just need to know who to call to get them.
8. Become an expert in your niche.
You must establish your status in your area of desired success. Become known as the best in your business through quality and consistency.
Also for personal success focus on knowledge and then execution.
If you’re broke, read 5 personal finance books.
If you’re overweight, read 5 nutrition and exercise books.
If you’re unhappy, read 5 books on the art of happiness.
If you’re stressed out, read 5 books on mindfulness & stress management.
If you want to be rich, read 5 books on building wealth.
Educate yourself to get on the right path to success in any area.
9. Commit to achieving your goals.
Decide that you will achieve your goals, set smaller stepping stone goals and time frames. Document your progress in a journal or spreadsheet. You can improve and adjust what you track after you commit to achieving something.
10. Sacrifice your present wants for your future desires.
Our decisions either sacrifice our future desires for our present impulses or we sacrifice our present wants for future goals. The ability to make small sacrifices today can lead to huge rewards in the future. The power of compounding and growth work on both money and habits. Our life results are the sum total of all our habits and behaviors that happened in response to our circumstances. We must choose our daily actions carefully as they determine where we end up in life.
