If you really
want to bring success into your life, you should cultivate yourself just as
you'd cultivate a garden for the best yield. If you think the way the most
successful people think and adopt the same habits they have, you also can
be successful. These attributes don’t happen by luck or accident, rather
originate in habits, built a day at a time.
1.
Ambitious
Successful people see themselves capable
of being the best. I learnt this great thing in my college where I saw most of
the students getting better grades than me. I naturally assumed they were
better than me and I was worse than them.
See, that’s the big problem of our
society – the “feeling of inferiority”, which often gets translated into
feelings of “undeservedness”.
Rhonda Byrne in her best-selling
self-help book, “The Secret” beautifully claimed that positive-thinking can
create life-changing results.
Remove any sort of inferiority or
negativity from your life and become ambitious. See yourself capable of being
the best.
2.
Determination
Short-cuts don’t work in real life. All great
success in life is preceded by long, sustained periods of focused effort on a single
goal, the most important goal, with the determination to stay with it
until it is complete. All through history, we find that every man or woman who
achieved anything lasting and worthwhile, had engaged in long, often unappreciated
hours, weeks, months and even years of concentrated, disciplined work, in a
particular direction.
3.
Preset your tasks/goals
Imagine yourself setting off across an
unknown country without a roadmap. You
may get somewhere eventually, but it will take you much longer, and it is far
more likely that you will get lost or may not reach the place you wanted to go,
and waste an enormous amount of time, than if you planned your trip carefully,
with a roadmap, and full information about the future terrain, before you
started out.
That’s the simple “funda” of life.
Discipline of goals. This means that you sit down with a pad of paper, a pen (or
a To-Do app on any smartphone – in today’s tech-savvy world) and “ample time”.
You think through and then make a list of all the things you want to accomplish
in the next five years. You organize the list into the various areas of your
life; your career, your money, your family, your health and the other parts
that are important to you and then think of all the things you can do right now
to move you toward the attainment of your goal(s).
4.
Atychiphobia
Fear of failure. Have you ever been so
afraid of failing at something that you decided not to try it at all? Or has a
fear of failure meant that, subconsciously, you undermined your own efforts to
avoid the possibility of a larger failure? I shall be highly shocked and happy
if your answer to these two questions is a ‘No’. Take failure positively. Learn
that you can’t reach success without failing. Never be afraid to “try”. Failure
is the best teacher. So, fail more but fail better.
Always remember these two
great quotes -
“The master has failed way more times
than the beginner has ever tried.” — Stephen McCranie
“I have not failed. I've just found
10,000 ways that won't work.” ― Thomas A. Edison
5.
Masters of “time”
A day has 24 hours and that can’t be
changed unless you know the secret of “time-travel” perfectly. Now, it’s on you
how you utilize your day. Just for an example. I see lot of my friends completely
indulged in Facebook, Instagram, WhatsApp and what not almost the entire day. I
offer no offense against social media or people using social media but anything
used upto a limit is good. I agree these apps act as a means of entertainment
and helps in mood-relaxation but learn to restrict your usage.
Time is by far the most powerful tool
you have at your disposal. Successful people hate distractions. They are the
masters of time.
The following meme sums a lot
The following meme sums a lot
