Most people define success by how rich or famous you are. But, is a mother who spends her life raising wonderful children or the baker who makes the perfect pie any less successful? Success can be measured many ways and in many different fashions. You must decide on what YOU need to do to consider yourself successful and take the steps necessary to achieve that success.
You must consider yourself successful before anyone else can. How can someone else take you seriously if you can't do it yourself? Let us take a look at what it takes to be successful in life. If you can learn to be successful personally, and continue those habits into all the other facets of your life, there is nothing you can't accomplish. Small changes in your life, done repeatedly over time, will result in large changes to your future. Taking one flight of stairs to work everyday, instead of the elevator, doesn't seem like a big deal. Take that flight of stairs everyday and you start to notice your pants are a little looser, and you can chase your kids around the yard a little longer than you used to. Now, you grab a piece of fruit off the counter instead of buying a bagel and coffee on your way to work. Do that everyday. All of a sudden, you feel like you have a little more energy throughout the day and an extra fifty dollars a week because you stopped paying ten bucks a day for a bagel and coffee. Speed ahead a year, and you are in better shape because you walk everyday. You have lost weight because you exercise and eat a little better, and you have a little more money in the bank because you save fifty dollars a week. Making these little changes over a long period of time will change your entire future dramatically.
What does it take to achieve these goals? First, a conscious decision. You must decide to change something small in your life. Second, you take action. You must put forth the effort to make that change. If you decide what to change in your life but never actually get around to changing it, you really haven't done anything. Third, and most importantly, you must have the persistence to continue your action until you achieve your goal.
The true difference between failure and success is persistence. If you try something once and give up, you will never succeed at anything. If you give it a try and quit because you are tired or you don't like all the work involved, you will fail. The only way to be successful in your personal, business, love, or anything other aspect of your life is to push on past the hurt, pain, and discomfort until you reach the goals you have set for yourself, and then set new goals to work toward. People will tell you your dreams are foolish, or you are not smart enough to accomplish what you want, or you should quit before you get hurt. That is because they are afraid to change or follow their own dreams. They are unwilling to put forth the effort it takes to achieve their goals. They have become comfortable with settling for less and are very uncomfortable because you haven't. They are afraid to fail, and therefore never take the chances that it takes to become successful
I heard once from a speaker, I don't remember which one, that true success can only be achieved after great failure. Fear of failure is enough to stop most people from trying new adventures and following their dreams, but without those failures you never learn from your mistakes and make better choices in your future endeavors. It takes a wise person to become successful. It takes experience to become wise, and it takes numerous failures to get the experience that will make you wise enough to succeed. Therefore, if you are unwilling to fail, you will never put yourself in the place you need to be to succeed.
You must consider yourself successful before anyone else can. How can someone else take you seriously if you can't do it yourself? Let us take a look at what it takes to be successful in life. If you can learn to be successful personally, and continue those habits into all the other facets of your life, there is nothing you can't accomplish. Small changes in your life, done repeatedly over time, will result in large changes to your future. Taking one flight of stairs to work everyday, instead of the elevator, doesn't seem like a big deal. Take that flight of stairs everyday and you start to notice your pants are a little looser, and you can chase your kids around the yard a little longer than you used to. Now, you grab a piece of fruit off the counter instead of buying a bagel and coffee on your way to work. Do that everyday. All of a sudden, you feel like you have a little more energy throughout the day and an extra fifty dollars a week because you stopped paying ten bucks a day for a bagel and coffee. Speed ahead a year, and you are in better shape because you walk everyday. You have lost weight because you exercise and eat a little better, and you have a little more money in the bank because you save fifty dollars a week. Making these little changes over a long period of time will change your entire future dramatically.
What does it take to achieve these goals? First, a conscious decision. You must decide to change something small in your life. Second, you take action. You must put forth the effort to make that change. If you decide what to change in your life but never actually get around to changing it, you really haven't done anything. Third, and most importantly, you must have the persistence to continue your action until you achieve your goal.
The true difference between failure and success is persistence. If you try something once and give up, you will never succeed at anything. If you give it a try and quit because you are tired or you don't like all the work involved, you will fail. The only way to be successful in your personal, business, love, or anything other aspect of your life is to push on past the hurt, pain, and discomfort until you reach the goals you have set for yourself, and then set new goals to work toward. People will tell you your dreams are foolish, or you are not smart enough to accomplish what you want, or you should quit before you get hurt. That is because they are afraid to change or follow their own dreams. They are unwilling to put forth the effort it takes to achieve their goals. They have become comfortable with settling for less and are very uncomfortable because you haven't. They are afraid to fail, and therefore never take the chances that it takes to become successful
I heard once from a speaker, I don't remember which one, that true success can only be achieved after great failure. Fear of failure is enough to stop most people from trying new adventures and following their dreams, but without those failures you never learn from your mistakes and make better choices in your future endeavors. It takes a wise person to become successful. It takes experience to become wise, and it takes numerous failures to get the experience that will make you wise enough to succeed. Therefore, if you are unwilling to fail, you will never put yourself in the place you need to be to succeed.
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