Success is a Journey

 

In life, everything is possible. But to succeed you’ve got to have a dream, you’ve got to have a plan, and you can’t take no for an answer. The ultimate goal in life isn’t just to succeed; it’s to continue to succeed. To continue to improve, to continue to be the best that you can be. The best in your business, profession or chosen career. Success Depends upon Your Expectations.

Life isn’t lived in a vacuum, and whether or not any of us is successful in any endeavor is determined by our expectations before we started. We’ve got to know the criteria on which we’re going to judge ourselves or be judged by others. So how do you look at success? You have two criteria:

1. You have to look at success within certain time frames: moment-to-moment, day-to-day, month-to-month, year-to-year or over an entire lifetime.
2. You have to consider what your expectations were before you started.

Faith is the starting point to be successful. Faith removes limitations. Faith is listening to that still small voice that speaks from deep within that tells you who you are and what you want to be. Success is a Journey.

Faith and hard work bring success.

1. Desire success with a state of mind that becomes an obsession. You must want it so badly that nothing can stop you.
2. Create a step-by-step plan that lays out in minute details of the things you must do to become successful.
3. Execute your plan with patience, persistence, and perseverance. Achieving success takes time. You’ve got to stick to your plan. You can’t allow yourself to be distracted or change directions.
4. Don’t accept failure!
5. Successful people make their own luck. You may think successful people became successful because they were lucky. But if you think that, you’re dead wrong! Luck plays no part in being successful!
6. Successful people aren’t afraid of failures. Successful people know that nothing ever goes exactly as planned. And no matter how hard you work, sooner or later you must face the reality, that you failed. You tried to do something and weren’t successful. You didn’t get the result you wanted!
7. Successful people don’t quit! So far we’ve discussed dreams, desire, faith, and luck. Now I want to address the subject of quitting. Yes, we all have bad days. Yes, things don’t always go your way. Yes, you may feel that the whole world is ganging up on you as everything appears to be going down the tubes.
   

   “There is only one answer to defeat, and that is victory.” – Winston Churchill

   

8. Successful people don’t take NO for an answer: successful people are persistent. They don’t quit. When they begin working on a task or project, they stick with it until it’s achieved.

These are the five things you’ll find that every successful person has in common:
1. Dream.
2. Plan.
3. Specific knowledge or training.
4. Willing to work hard.
5. Don’t take No for an answer.

 

Success begins with a state of mind. You must believe you’ll be successful in order to become a success.