Some of us spend their every waking moment chasing after it, to the detriment of everything else. On the other end of the spectrum are individuals who feel that success is hard to reach. They conclude that it is destined for a selected few only, while the rest of us in between are contented with whatever we have. We may desire greater success, but we believe somehow we are not 'fated' or 'destined' to achieve it.
However, these assumptions couldn't be further from the truth. When one strive for success with the wrong assumptions, one will never reach it. It's similar to one trying to reach a destination with the wrong map.
Success can't be hurried, be caught or found it by chance. It can't be inherited, gate-crashed, or taken it from someone else. Success is something you must work hard and long to earn, for yourself. It has a price, sometimes a very high one. And most people aren't really and truly ready to pay that price, to do what success demands and requires.
To achieve success, first you must know that success is a process empowered with a right attitude and positive mindset. It requires time and patience. There are no short cuts while anything else is just a temporary illusion. Success that will remain with you and bring you joy rather than sorrow, requires a learning process, a time to grow out of grow habits and into new ones, a time to learn what works and unlearn what doesn't. So don't rush or be in a hurry.
In order to attain success, traits and skills must be acquired to attract it. What is your defination of success? What kind of traits or skill sets will you need to achieve your goal? Come out with plans to acquire the needed traits and skill sets. Learn to do what you need to do, to get where you want to go. Develop your own success principles. Find two or three people who have what you want. Jot down the habits and their success principles that have made them successful and resolve to digest it into your own context.
Once you've made up your mind to achieve success, you must be ready to travel the road to success oftentimes alone. Author Les Brown once said, "At some point in time, the pursuit of your goals becomes secondary and what you have become in the process is what is most important" When infants reach for the toy that their parents have placed some distance away, it's not the toy that's the prize; it's simply the motivation for the child to learn something more important, something more lasting, and that is to learn to crawl and of course, to finally walk and run!!. It's to strengthen their muscles so that they can reach for other goals in life.
Anyone can succeed, but not every one will. Success will differs for each individual. It's your definition, decision and attitude that determines what success is to you!!
