How To Achieve Success In Everything
26 Comments January 12, 2009 / Posted in Personal Development
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Achieve Success In Everything You Want
What if I tell you that you can achieve success in everything you want? Do you think that it is possible? There is a very powerful strategy that anyone can use and apply it into his/her life to see fantastic results in their life and i am going to share it with you.
It is a 4 steps procedure and it is called the Ultimate Success Formula.
Step 1: Have a Goal
The first step to getting what you want is to know what is it that you want. This is a simple theory but there are still people who did not set goals to get what they want.
Most people do not know what they want specifically and they have nothing tangible that they can direct their energy into and this result in failure to achieve their goals. In order for us to achieve, we must set goals that are specific and we can visualize it with clarity. Once we have this clarity, we can then create the strategies that we need to get what we want.
Step 2: Have A Strategy
Once we have a specific goal in mind, we will need to brain storm for strategies to make our goals happen. For example, there was a time when I felt that I was gaining some pounds and I wanted to lose some weight. In order to make it happen, I created a 16 weeks exercise challenge which I must exercise for 6 days a week and also a 30 days challenge for myself which consist of me removing process starch from my diet and morning juice feasting.
As a result, I lost 13.2 lbs and gained a healthier body. This is only possible due to my goal setting and finding the right strategy to achieve it.
Step3: Action
Once you completed your brain storming for strategies, you must be able to take action. Only by taking action then you can move closer to your goal, but there are lots of people who are stuck at this stage. They can’t take action!
We can always brain storm and have the greatest ideas in the world but without taking action, nothing will happen. There may be procrastination, fear,need of perfection or analysis paralysis that stop us from taking action, but always remember that for one to be successful, you need to take the action to see results.
Forgo the need of perfection and accept the fact that we will be fearful of anything that is new for us or out of our comfort zone. Once you accept fear and imperfection, you will more likely to take action.
Step 4: Feedback
There are 2 possible scenarios that can happen after you took action. Either it will be success or failure. If success happen to you, give yourself a pat on the back and you had did a great job. If you had met failure instead, fret not and always remember that all of us had our fair share of failure and the important thing is how we deal with it.
There are 3 ways which people normally respond to failure. The first way is they give up immediately when they had failed. These are the people who will believe that they had tried and it does not work. The 2nd way is even though they had failed, they kept trying the same thing over and over again. Always remember that by repeating what had not work again will only give you the same result – failure.
The 3rd way is they gather feedback, change their strategy and take action again. This is the ideal way that we should follow whenever we had our share of failure. By changing our strategy and implementing it, we can always be assure of a different result. If the result is not what you desire, just keep tweaking your strategy and try again until you achieve your desired result. Always remember to take the failure as a feedback and do not let it discourage you from taking any more action.
As long as you don’t give up, you will ultimately reach your goals by using the Ultimate Success Formula.
Cheers
Vincent
Personal Development Blogger
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My success formula looks something like this:
1) system
2) leverage
3) resource
4) strategy
how about u?
You make it sound easy! Wait…. is it really that simple? Hmmm.
ari
It’s a very nice article, though I would want to question the necessity of being successful in evrything one does… it crys out to re-define sccess all together!:-)
@Hi Relax,
Thanks for sharing your success formula with us. Leveraging is definitely a trait that we need to utilize in order to get better results.
@Hi Ari,
It is definitely that simple but it is not easy
We need to have the self discipline to work through the steps and deal with our own emotions whenever we face failures.
Cheers
Vincent
Personal Development Blogger
Hi vincent
leveraging is not so simple, it also can magnify our losses.
and it’s just optional, a toy for the skillful ones
your friend relax~
Hi Vincent, great post.
I like the third point : Action. I think this is the most important thing.
I also like the fourth point. Many people don’t dare to fail.
@Hi Arswino,
Most people have a fear of failure that cause them to move away from opportunities. Only by embracing mistakes and failure, we can then take the steps needed to move forward.
@Hi Anastasia,
We do not necessary need to be successful in everything but it will be great if we can be successful in things that we want to be successful in
Cheers
Vincent
Personal Development Blogger
Thanks for sharing your success formula. I would add a another ingredient. Be consistent/stick to your plan.
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Great point added. Being consistent is an important step too. Thanks for the point.
Cheers
Vincent
Personal Development Blogger
Hey baby,
gr8 article here.
Always set your goals first and never lose focus of your goals. Take action and never fear failure. All experiences in life are things that makes us grow to be a better person.
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Hi Vincent,
The last point you made makes a lot of sense and it’s one that’s easy to forget. Feed back in the most part at most jobs IS important. But I think too much constructive criticism and too many people telling us what to do can cause us to abandon our individuality. But yeah I understand, anything can be taken to an extreme.
Keep up the great work on the blog.
Regards
Clinton Skakun
@Hi ICE,
Everything that happen to us in life is definitely a great learning experience which will help us grow.
@Hi Clinton,
The key is to have moderation. That is the key to avoid doing something to the extreme.
Cheers
Vincent
Personal Development Blogger
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