A lot of different mantras are rooted around the edge of varied perceptions about Success. Everything we desire at the age of 10, changes as we grow up and start understanding more about life.
We live in a materialistic culture and have firsthand experience with the kind of “happiness” which comes with obtaining a specific title or object. You might even feel happy now about purchasing a new phone or a car. Certainly, we crave for different things at different point in life, but these little materialistic things don’t define our success.
Success is defined by the values we hold, how we treat people in our daily life and how beautifully one can manage their life. For a kid, who is going to school, success for them is getting good scores or someone who is working in a company, success can be personal growth or becoming a CEO of any start up company. Everyone has their own stories, own definition to the path of success and where they see themselves in future.
To live the life you want, you must set your own goals and define success based on what you want, not what television or your parents want. It’s all about you, your life, and your definition of success.
1) What is success? Ask yourself this question again and again
If I had to define success, I would start small. But how do you define it without underestimating yourself? Being able to write something every day, no matter what day it is, gives me a sense of accomplishment as a writer. I can write 1000 words of terrible nonsense and still feel satisfied that I did my job. Beating myself up because I didn’t write a brilliant post is a false sense of success based on unrealistic expectations. When someone says that they connected with the words I wrote, that seems like a little success at a time. You need to take one step at a time.
2) How do we achieve what we want?
If it makes you happy and requires you to use your skills and effort, chances are you should do it every day. The new phone or car is only temporary rewards; they will not last.
When you define what success means to you, the only way to achieve it is to take steps toward achieving your goals or objectives. Only when you stop trying to please others and meet their expectations, you will be able to find joy in the things you are already doing — or will begin doing so far.
Sit down — even write it down if necessary — and define what success means to you. You can set both short-term and long-term objectives. My short-term goals include writing every day, completing my tasks, and being of service to others.
Work towards daily success, not only the success that comes at the end of the journey. Do this every day, and your actions will bring you closer to your ultimate goals.
3) If you waiting for the right time, it’s now! DO IT.
To be liberated from the constraints of what others perceive as success is a fantastic opportunity to define life on your own terms. You learn to stop chasing things that don’t matter — but that you once thought did — and instead begin to focus on the things that help you distinguish between progress and procrastination.
The futile emotions of anger, jealousy, and resentment should play no role in the accomplishment of your goals and ability to succeed; they are merely distractions.
The more you strive to be better than you were yesterday, the more success you will feel because progress can be felt at times. When you are progressing and working hard to complete a project, you can feel it in your body. You can see it when you look back on when you first started and the steps you took to get to where you are now.
4) Do something you love with love
Consider how successful you could be in your current job. Eventually, you’ll find yourself working extremely hard, which will consume a significant amount of your time.
If you hate your job, succeeding at it may simply mean filling your days with something you despise or hate. What’s the point of this if you don’t love your work?
Instead, why not do something you enjoy? When you find something, you’re passionate about, it gives you the motivation to keep going. Your dreams will be realized if you succeed in this.
You need to know what motivates you to give your 100% and if it feels like 95% then you should do something that provides you with a sense of achievement. When you do something you love, it makes you happy and tends to result into something better.
“THE GREATER DANGER FOR MOST OF US LIES NOT IN SETTING OUR AIM TOO HIGH AND FAILING SHORT; BUT IN SETTING OUR AIM TOO LOW AND ACHIEVING OUR MARK.” – MICHELANGELO
Even if you’re not successful, you’ve spent your time doing something you enjoy. Many successful musicians spent years of their lives performing for free; the only reason they continued to play was because the sense of achievement is always good when they play their heart out.
5) Failure is not hard to accept when you know it will lead you to success!
There is a story; it’s unconfirmed whether it actually happened, yet the message within is none the less true:
Thomas Edison inventing the lightbulb was the result of several hundred failed attempts. In an interview, he was asked “How do you feel after all of your failed attempts?”
His response was great, “I didn’t fail, I learned hundreds of ways not to invent the lightbulb”
He saw each “failure” as a learning experience. That lesson taught him what won’t work and what might work instead.
Each failed attempt, each rejection, was a critical step on his path to success. After a failure, it’s easy to feel like you should give up. But perhaps there is a lesson in that failure.
Pay attention to your failures and learn from them. Maybe then you’ll figure out how to succeed.
“FAILURE IS SIMPLY THE OPPORTUNITY TO BEGIN AGAIN, THIS TIME MORE INTELLIGENTLY.” -HENRY FORD
6) Be open to new ideas, it embraces your creativity
It is an unfortunate reality that those with the most audacious ideas are frequently overlooked.
Most of us are taught from a young age to think and act in the same way as everyone else. This can be a fantastic way to fill an existing role. But, in order to truly do things differently (and all successful people did), you must first think differently.
If you have a new idea, don’t dismiss it because it’s novel or unusual; instead, celebrate it. Your strange new idea could be the one that propels you to success.
“A PERSON WITH A NEW IDEA IS A CRANK UNTIL THE IDEA SUCCEEDS.” -MARK TWAIN
7) Believe in YOURSELF
You must be able to see yourself achieving success.
It’s possible that you’ll run into people who refuse to believe you and your ability to succeed. You must not become one of these people because the moment you stop believing and dreaming, your dreams will vanish.
You become what you dream, keep dreaming!
“IF YOU CAN DREAM IT, YOU CAN DO IT.” -WALTER DISNEY
You may have noticed that many of the aforementioned lessons are similar — the majority is about developing the right mindset. This clearly suggests that the key to achieving success, in whatever you wish, comes down to the way you approach it mentally.
Furthermore, no matter where you are in life, you can still make a difference and achieve success.
Stay positive and find your own definition of Success.
