10 Principles Of Success
There are 10 principles of success that when applied effectively, will help you achieve your goals.Keep these principles in mind as you take your first baby steps to success.
1. Maintain A Positive Attitude
Joe Love is a former ad agency executive and marketing consultant.Based on his 25 years of experience helping both individuals and companies achieve success, he believes:
“...The most
important single factor
that guarantees our success in every aspect of our lives is having a
positive attitude.”
“...Without a positive attitude success is not possible.”
“...Without a positive attitude success is not possible.”
These comments summarize the wisdom of countless motivational and self-help authorities.
No one can deny either the accuracy or the importance of these statements.
As one of the most critical of the 10 principles of success, a more positive attitude is something that virtually every healthy individual can and should bring about.
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2. Desire Success As Much As Air To Breath
Apart from windfall results like inheritances and lottery winnings, success seldom happen by chance.Regardless of specific outcome, the most successful people achieved their results as a result of a burning desire deep within them.
How strong must this desire be?
This ancient story illustrates the requisite strength of your desire:
A Greek philosopher,
whose student
approached to teach him how to acquire wisdom fast was said to have
taken the student to a river.
The teacher then held the student’s head and pushed it down into the water until he, student, almost choked to death.
When the philosopher let go, he explained to the baffled student that the desire for wisdom must be as strong as the desire for air.
The teacher then held the student’s head and pushed it down into the water until he, student, almost choked to death.
When the philosopher let go, he explained to the baffled student that the desire for wisdom must be as strong as the desire for air.
How strong is your desire to succeed?
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3. Commit to Taking Action
The ultimate competitive advantage is consistently doing what you say you are going to do, when you say you are going to do it.This will help distinguish you from other people whose client-commitments disappear as soon as a new crisis or opportunity arises.
Keeping your promises will also make it easier for you to attract prospects and generate referrals from satisfied clients.
By definition, the term means being bound to a course of action to bring about desired results.
In other words being committed--to some one or something--is all about taking actions to achieve results.
It's your actions that give life and add meaning to these commitments.
Without taking action, the 10 principles of success are little more than wishful thinking.
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4. Focus On Actions, Not Results
The ability to focus is one of the most difficult of the 10 principles of success.The key to maintaining your focus is to not allow yourself to be distracted by events and factors that lead away from achieving desired outcomes.
The most successful people focus on the process of achieving their results, instead of the outcomes that they would like to bring about.
In other words, they focus on the actions that must be taken...not the results which are, after all, the outcome of their actions.
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5. Plan To Succeed
As noted in principle 2, success does not happen by chance. Nor does it happen by accident.Most, if not all successful people achieved their results as a result of a planned process.
This process involves setting and achieving goals that reflect the outcome that you would to bring about...your desired results.
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6. Implement Your Plan Consistently
Even the best of plans are not self-implementing.As suggested in principle 4, in order to succeed it is important to focus on the actions you need to take...not the results that you would like to achieve.
And as suggested in principle 3 without taking action to implement your plan, the 10 principles of success are little more than wishful thinking.
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7. Continue To Learn
Today's world changes so fast that we are constantly bombarded by breath-taking new applications and ideas which offer new ways of performing familiar old tasks.While there is nothing basically wrong with sticking to tried and true methods of doing things, it is important maintain your willingness to learn as new and potentially better ways of doing things are introduced.
Experience is one of the best sources of learning new things.
You can learn from your own experience.
And you can also learn from the experience of others.
The source of your continuous learning is not nearly as important as is actually continuing to learn what you need to know to succeed.
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8. Apply What You Have Learned
In many cases, learning new things can be satisfying and enriching. There is absolutely nothing wrong with that.If, however, you are learning new things in order to get better at what you do, you must be able to apply what have learned.
By all means devote time and energy to learning whatever you want to know.
But don't assume that just because you have learned something new, you will be more successful.
Unless you can apply whatever new things you have learned, your continuous learning will do little more than help you feel good about what you know.
But what you know is less important to success than what you do.
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9. Follow-up, Follow-up, Follow-up
Not only is effective and efficient follow-up a key element of all 10 principles of success, it is the one factor that will most help distinguish you from other people who also do what you do.Usually simple, easily completed tasks, effective follow-up can also be one of the most powerful of all 10 principles of success.
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10. Remain Flexible
According to most reports, on even the most meticulously planned space missions, most of the time and effort is spent on making mid-course corrections.Realistically, both life and personal journeys to success seldom unfold exactly as planned.
Because circumstances and people change, whatever we are doing to achieve success must also be subject to change.
With enough flexibility, we can respond effectively to new opportunities as they present themselves...and take appropriate actions to avoid, or otherwise minimize any threats that may arise.
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Attitudes & Actions
It is worth noting that of these 10 principles of success, two relate to attitudes or mindsets. These are factors that you...and you alone control.On the other hand eight of these 10 principles are primarily related to actions.
Actions are factors with which third parties can be of assistance.
Many people benefit from the assistance of a coach, who can help improve the overall effectiveness of actions taken to succeed.
If you would like some help improving the effectiveness of your actions, I would be happy to help by coaching you through the process.
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