Top 5 Tips for Achieving Success
Much has been written about success. You will find many differing opinions on not only how to achieve success, but even on what success is. For some people success is financial bliss. For others, it is freedom. Yet others find success in health, family and friends.
Some say that success is just luck. “Luck? Nonsense. The harder I work, the luckier I get” said multi-millionaire Ralph Engelstad. Hard work? Forget about that! Success is about laziness, says The Lazy Way to Success. So who is right?
Can we distill all the success literature into 5 simple pieces of advice that all the “success experts” can agree upon? I think you will find the Top 5 list below in all but the most radical personal development and success thinking out there:
1. Do What You Love
It is hard to argue with this one. Have you ever found anyone that is successful doing something they hate? I guess you can take the definition of success to any extreme, but I have a hard time accepting that anyone living in misery doing something they hate can be called successful. Naturally, doing what you love gets you the motivation and the excitement required to achieve success. In fact, for many, doing what you love is success in and of itself.
2. Perfect Your Game
If your definition of success is being great at something, then studies have shown that the secret to success is to practice to perfect your game. These studies even argue that natural talent is irrelevant, and that it is all about the practice. Regarless of which side of the nature versus nurture argument you simpathyse with, most people will agree that in order to be successful you have to perfect your game.
3. Be Unique
It is hard to imagine a clone being a symbol of success. Success is about bringing your own unique ways to the world, adding diversity and value. Most experts will agree that if you want to be successful you have to find you niche, you have to find ways to leverage your own unique gifts. Success, even in its very definition, is about your own unique perspective in our vast universe.
4. Believe in Yourself
I am yet to find a successful person that does not believe in himself. If you don’t believe in yourself, who will? Studies have shown that success is influenced by your mindset. Successful people believe that they can get better through their own efforts. If you want to be successful, start believing in yourself.
5. Never Give Up
Last but not least, every success guru will tell you that you must never give up. To be successful you must persist through failures, criticisms, rejections, and all the other negative things in life. You must have heard the old cliché that success is a journey, not a destination. In the success journey, the only time you can say for sure that you are not a success is when you give up on the journey.
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Comment by Ali on 2007-05-08:
Good tips, I practice all of them and it has helped me become better at what I do, especially in the internet arena.
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Comment by Turtle King on 2007-05-08:
I’m set with 2,3, and 4. Unfortunatley though I like what I’m doing but I am surrounded by idiots, which has led me to give up. I can be one top of my game, unique and confident, but if there is poor management above me and around me eventually it wears. If you put a good kid in a room of bad kids, the good kid is coming out bad. Influence of surroundings impacts a lot of who you are and what you do.
Turtle King
http://turtlesatwork.blogspot.com
Comment by Kim Roach on 2007-05-08:
Thanks for this great list. I like number one the best. I think doing what you love is the number one key to success. As said by Dale Carnegie, “People rarely succeed unless they have fun in what they
are doing.”
Comment by Karlo Licudine on 2007-05-08:
gee. thanks for the tips!
Success is one of the things that many people aspire to. It is also the most hardest to achieve.
Do what you love – this is a simple yet a very great tip! Many people tend to look for success in the wrong places. Little do they know that they can find it in the things that they love!
A worthwhile read!
Thanks for your post.
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http://mobileko.blogspot.com/2007/05/snatch-top-5-tips-on-how-to-be.html
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Comment by Laughing at Self Help on 2007-05-08:
In one sentence:
“Always stay in the present moment.”
Great post on such a vast topic. Thanks for the reminder.
Comment by Janette Toral on 2007-05-09:
Thanks for this one. It takes quite sometime to achieve success, depending on how each one of us define it.
Comment by Chee Kui on 2007-05-09:
Great tips. Yeah, I couldnt help but agree. Everyone have a different way of defining success.
Comment by Dan Chase on 2007-05-14:
Classic Top 5 for success. Thanks for the reminder of the basics.
Comment by aurora on 2008-12-26:
qur bien aunq quisiera algo con mas detalle pero me sirvio mucho
Comment by Osawu Tunde on 2009-06-12:
To achieve success you have to persevere.Have a bulldog tenacity and dont give up until you get to your destination.