Hall of Fame
Growing up as a child, I used to hear the following from my father.
If you want to be successful compete against yourself, not with others.
When you here the word “success”, what does it mean to you? There is no correct answer for that. Because, what success means to you, is not what success means to the people around you. For some, it could be being wealthy, having successful marriage, being famous, having a happy family, living a healthy life and the list goes on.
I personally believe that there are three factors which plays a major role, if you want to be successful.
#1 Find your Vision. You should be able to define who you are and what you want to become. Therefore, you could identify who you are in the present and what you want to become in the future. This will helps you to lay out a plan to reach your goal. It will allow you to identify the milestones which are required to achieve your goal. You might think its easier said than done. All you have to use is a simple analysis tool and perform a self evaluation. This tool is quite simple to use and vastly popular among business school students. Its known as SWOT analysis, where you get to assess your strengths and weaknesses and opportunities and threats lie around you. While you are at it, don’t be afraid to dream big and make sure you won’t do anything that will jeopardize yourself.
Shoot for the stars!
#2 Never doubt yourself. When you have your eyes set on your goal, make sure you refuse all the doubts you have in your mind. Work your backside off to overcome doubts and take necessary actions to accomplish those dreams (A.K.A. Do what ever it takes).
More importantly don’t listen to people who portrait negativity about your dreams and goals. Therefore, ignore the naysayers, Surround yourself with people full of positive attitude, they will help you and uplift you to reach your targets. Talk to people with more experience and listen how they have accomplished various quests in their lives. Because these are valuable lessons that cannot be learnt by reading books, in order to succeed in your journey.
Fortune favors the bold
#3 Do what makes you great! Society will tell you to do what makes you happy. However, doing what makes yourself happy means, you are comfortable with what you have and it won’t allow you to improve yourself. Therefore, when it matters don’t hesitate to take risks. This is gonna be scary and uncomfortable, because you can’t succeed without the risk of failure. If you fail, pick yourself up and try again. Eventually it will help you to find greatness in your own unique way.
