THE SECRETS OF SUCCESS

Success has many definitions. There are pretty much of yardsticks used to measure success. What one person considers to be success may appear to be nothing in comparison to what another person considers to be success.

Some people equate success with money.

Sometimes, we assumed to know what success is. Some define success based on other people’s perceptions of what success is but success is pretty much a relative term.

Many believed that you only have to work hard to be successful. Although, it may be true but it is half-truth. Working hard is not the sole secret behind every successful person, if working is the only secret behind successful people. Then, I think every hardworking person should be successful. 

I am not in any way disputing working hard as prerequisite to success. Coupled with working hard are other few success’ secrets which will be discussed.

Come to think about it, there are people who work round the clock, that is, they work for long hours. They wake early in the morning to go work and come back late every day, yet, the jobs are not paying well and most of the people ended up being unsuccessful.

This article will walk you through some secrets of success other than working hard.

These secrets are burning desire, preparation for success, developing right mindset, taking risks, thinking out the box, taking responsibility, leaving comfort zone and learning from failure. 

The aforementioned secrets of success will be elucidated below.

➣ BURNING DESIRE

Socrates, one of the greatest ancient Greek philosophers, said that the secret of success is: “… when you want success as badly as you want air….”

There is difference between a desire and burning desire. When you have burning desire for success you will pant for success like someone who has been denied water for years.

It is never a wish or hope for success. A burning desire for success is when you desire success by burning all the bridges behind you and being left with no other option than to succeed.

You must develop an insatiable hunger and thirst for success. A burning desire for success is an insatiable hunger and thirst for success that cannot be quenches by failure, fear and criticism.

➢ PREPARATION FOR SUCCESS

“It is better to be prepared for an opportunity and not have one, than to have an opportunity and not be prepared.”_ Glen A. McQuirk

Success is not accidental. Success that is gotten overnight does leave over the night because it is never prepared for.

Preparation precedes success. Real success does not happen by chance, it is by proper preparation. 

Some people have been grinning for years and when these people are given opportunities to express themselves, if they express themselves well and come into the limelight, many we say that they are lucky without investigating or seeing the efforts they have put into preparing for the opportunity.

Steve Martin said that he did stand-up comedy for eighteen years. He spent ten years out of those eighteen years learning, that is, he prepared himself for wild success.

Success is only achieved when preparation meets with opportunity.

➢ DEVELOPING RIGHT MINDSET

There is no limit to what you can achieve in life when you have the right mindset.

The mindset plays an important role in a man’s life. Mastering one mindset is an important thing to do.

You need the right mindset in place to take your rightly place in life.

Finally, let compare the mind with land. It is what you sow into the land that you will reap. You cannot sow maize and reap cassava. In the same vein, it is what you feed your mind with that will determine how successful you will be.

Choose to develop positive and success mindset always.

➢ TAKING RISK

Taking risk is one the secrets of success. Life is full of risks and it is risky not take a risk. Successful people are risk taker. They take both calculated and uncalculated risks. 

Many people are living in regret today because they did not take necessary steps as a result of fear of taking risks. Many life’s ventures are not hundred percent guaranteed.

➢ THINKING OUTSIDE THE BOX

"The significant problems we face cannot be solved by the same level of thinking that created them."_ Albert Einstein

We tend to become what we think about. When you think about nothing, then, you become nothing. We are sum total of our thought.   

There is a level success that is for only those that can think outside the box. To be successful, you don’t have to think like every other person. 

Think outside the box by changing every limiting thought. Think outside the box, never confined your thinking to norms of the society.

➢ TAKING RESPONSIBILITY

"You must take personal responsibility. You cannot change the circumstances, the seasons, or the wind, but you can change yourself."_ Jim Rohn

Taking full responsibility implies giving up excuses. There are thousands of excuses that can prevent you from taking responsibility for your success. Excuse making often result into failure because it prevent you from taking total responsibility believing that others responsible for success.

To achieve success, you must take or assume full responsibility. The only person that is solely responsible for your success is you.

We tend to blame our parents, relatives, friends, the economy and a host of others.

Blaming others or outside circumstances is easy to do but it is not always the best thing to do.

You create everything that happened to when take full responsibility.

Take full responsibility for your failures and successes, never blame anyone.

Take full responsibility for your past and future.

You need to face the real facts squarely that you responsible for whatsoever your life turn out to be.

Be true to yourself, you know yourself more than anyone else.

Your current status is as a result of your past actions.

You are not ready for success if you are not taking responsibility. It is a cogent secret of success. 

The universe rewards action. There are always required actions for desired success. Actions must be taking for success to take place. Never blame anyone, take full responsibility. Take hundred percent of responsibility for your life

➢ LEAVING COMFORT ZONE

"Everything you want is just outside your comfort zone." _ Robert Allen

Comfort zone is a self- created prison.

There is no success in comfort zones. True success comes outside comfort zones.

 Leaving your comfort zone does not imply leaving your home but leaving complacency and challenging yourself for success.

➢ LEARNING FROM FAILURE

“Every failure brings with it the seed of an equivalent success.” __Napoleon Hill

In the short run, failure often looks like an impediment but in the long run, it is a way that leads to success.

Thomas A. Edison, an American inventor and businessman, failed multiple times in his attempt to invent the electric bulb, but he never gave up and, after many attempts, he finally succeeded. Those failed attempts aided in the development of the light bulb.

Failure is never a reason to stop trying harder. Failure presents us with another opportunity and approach to success.

Failure is a cross-over bridge connectible with all realms of success.

Failure is never an enemy of success but a friend.

You need not to be afraid of failure. Let failure point you to success.

There are always lessons we can learn from failure. Failure opens us to another approach of solving life problem. 

Learning from failure helps to succeed. Let failure be your compass to success.