7 Key Point to be Successful

Muhammad Ahmed Ihsan
ILLUMINATION
Published in
5 min readJun 12, 2020

Successful!! What is success? Why we all go after being successful? How to succeed in life?

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There are so many questions that need to be answered in every part of the life, whenever the person starts work, he put himself into a table of evaluation, am I being successful, do I reach to my goal and in most of the cases, the success is wealth.

Success ∝ Wealth/power/Impact

These are the two most important answers to the success obtained and evaluated. The beauty of the success is that all possible answer that a person thinks is perfectly valid and its character of success varies from person to person.

For you success is whatever you define and whatever you have reached for. Maybe for me, it is to achieve financial freedom and then I consider myself a successful person, for you to get a good career job is a success, for a student is to achieve admission or scholarship in the high ranked university is a success so it varies to all. Though it varies to all human beings but one thing for sure, it won’t come easily.

Success is the ability of a person to reach a level or goal in life though whatever the goal you might have which you want to surpass. And to be successful, there is no secret single door, you have work on many different doors to be successful and what worked for you might not be worked for others, so it’s a maze and each time answer of the maze changes according to personal criteria and achievement goal of success. But there are a few basic steps and tips that can improve your chances and laid done the foundation for your success. Some essential tips which might benefit you Here they are:

Always Expand Your knowledge, don’t look for Results:

Knowledge is power and if you focus on exploring new things, improving your skills, discovery, and enhancing your knowledge through books, articles your motivation gets pumped up. Don’t always focus on results, But If you do, your motivation and goal will be like the weather which dies in a minute by the tornado. This reading, learning new experiences while going through the journey of success will increase your knowledge and give you a new perspective, so focus on the journey, not on the destination.

Develop Mental Strength:

Mental strength and toughness represent resilience to continue and the ability to face the obstacles and carry on by yourself through it. Many people have this mental strength to see the challenges as an opportunity. It felt them as they control over themselves and their destiny, fulfill their goals, confidence in whatever they do and so tough that once they started, they finish the work. What to do to improve this

· Believe in yourself

· Push yourself hard toward the goal

· Find support

· Set some goals

· Observe carefully

Work what you love to do:

If you do work and you hate it, no matter how much you work hard for it, you won’t be successful and you will find it almost impossible to continue working. Even if you become successful at your job which you hate, it means filling your heart with straws, not feelings or love.

So, Focus and explore yourself and find out what you love about and once you found work that you love, this itself will give you motivation and passion to move forward. And success will felt like a dream which gets fulfilled.

Afraid not but learn from failure:

Many successful and great people always believe and suggested that they don’t felt sorry about failure, nor lose hope but consider this failure an opportunity and spend time and then start again wisely. Always pay attention to your failure and find a cause that made your journey a failure and study them, and then start again. Always consider your failure one more opportunity to learn.

Always introduce new ideas:

Ideas matter and when it got succeed the value of idea increase 100 folds. In the journey of becoming successful, always put forward new ideas, new thoughts and these are the factors that make you unique and different than others.

If you had an idea which you think you can put in a positive way, don’t throw it maybe because it is unbelievable or unique but instead celebrate that you had an idea which you can work on and it might lead to your success.

Focus on your action and work Hard:

Whatever plan you had for yourself, don’t tell anyone at the early stages and focus on your actions. Always see what you are doing, what’s the positive impact it can have, and if negative, to what extent. Shape yourself and time in which you are in and you only can do it if you work on action hard. Don’t wait and sat back for anything to happen well you go out and strike to the thing that’s why you can have success. True success always comes from doing work that you love and doing hard.

Don’t doubt yourself:

It’s human nature that in a journey at some point, he doubts himself, even Google doubt its potential and tried to sell them to Yahoo and now see they are on the top of Tech companies. If you doubt yourself after working so much, this will make things worse but if others combine to your doubt, this will completely destroy yourself.

Don’t doubt yourself and don’t pay any time to these doubts and people’s comments, just ignore it and head your thoughts on one point which you love.

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