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- Know where you’re going Knowing where you’re going is part of the
success story. Although your vision will encounter setbacks (we’re told
envisioned futures usually have less than a 70 percent chance of being
achieved), visions help to transform possibilities into realities. As
the saying goes, “If you don’t know where you’re going, you’ll finish
up somewhere else.”
- Believe in yourself Successful people believe in themselves, confident
in the knowledge that they can achieve. Their actions broadcast that
belief and provide freedom and power. They let nothing limit their potential.
Positive affirmations can be effective means of reinforcing that belief.
- Be open to opportunities Your openness to opportunities will ensure
a continuing flow of them. Guard against negative thoughts and inaction
limiting your potential to achieve. Some success stories indicate such
an abundance of opportunities that choosing which ones to pursue is made
most difficult. Spreading yourself and your resources too thinly must
be avoided.
- Set goals that challenge Successful people know that what they focus
on grows, and goals help to provide the necessary focus and direction.
Challenging goals bring out the best in people.
- Accept responsibility Successful people don’t blame others when
things don’t go as planned. The responsibility for the fulfillment of
your dreams lies with you. The power to succeed - or to fail - is yours.
And no one
can take that away.
- Build desire You have to want something badly enough to let nothing
stand in your way of achieving it. But that does not suggest any recourse
to aggression; many success stories depict quiet achievers. Desire helps
to overcome seemingly insurmountable goals. Successful people, we’re
told, help to make things happen.
- Demonstrate courage Courage is a special personal quality that
helps you to distinguish between what ought to be feared and what need
not
be feared. Though history’s successful people have never backed away
from any encounter that threatened their progress, they made certain
they were around to ‘fight another day’.
- Learn from failure The law of failure is one of the most powerful
of all the success laws because you only really fail when you stop trying
- that’s why successful people never fail. Setbacks simply provide them
with essential feedback to help them chart their course.
- Make honesty the best policy Cheats may prosper - but not for
long. You will be called on daily to choose between honesty and dishonesty,
and those choices contribute to your reputation. With honesty, there
is no middle-ground; you can’t be ‘a little honest’ or ‘slightly dishonest’.
You’re either honest or dishonest.
- Strive for excellence Achieving excellence is the pinnacle, and
it’s
attained by few. Make sure you go beyond the call of duty, doing more
than others expect. Excellence comes from striving, maintaining the highest
standards, looking after the smallest detail, and going that extra mile.
Successful people never compromise their standards.
- Be persistent - and be flexible The power to hold on in the face
of adversity and the power to endure these are the qualities of a winner.
Persistence is the ability to face setbacks without losing sight of your
destination. Persistence is the skill of doing everything necessary to
reach your goals including making adjustments based on the feedback received.
- Take action Action combines all of your insights, experiences
and talents into physical performance. If you’ve set your vision, selected
opportunities, rallied your determination and desire, it’s time to act.
Outlaw procrastination. Without action nothing happens.
- Love what you do Love is the most important ingredient of success.
Successful people rarely make distinctions between work and many of their
other activities: they do what they do because they love it. Sharing
that passion with a select few makes all the effort worthwhile.
Source: Management
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