"Do you want to be successful?" Ask this question to anybody and you always get the same reply. "Who doesn't?" But ever wondered that the answer is wrong? Come to think about it, you were asked a specific question about YOUR success and you have just generalized the answer. The answer that you are giving is not an answer to whether you want to be successful or not.
Yes, everyone wants to be successful. Right from the average daily wager to the most successful entrepreneur. But for both of them the definition of success differs. The definition of success to a daily wager may just be to be able to save a few extra bucks everyday. For a multi-millionaire, it may be to acquire a new business in a new country. For a budding cricketer, it may be to get selected in the national team while for a cricketer already playing for his country, it may be to be counted amongst the likes of Don Bradman, Brian Lara and Sachin Tendulkar.
But to get to where you want to go, the first step is not to get up and start walking, but to DECIDE where you want to go. Set an achievable and realistic goal for yourself and decide on the destination. Give yourself a time frame and set out an action plan to get there. Then is the time to start taking action. All said and done, it's not as simple as these three lines. We will learn about it in detail. But for now, let it be an achievable goal which you can believe on. Define what success means for you. And while you are at it, keep your definition of success short and simple so that you do not make life tough for yourself. Reach that goal and then decide on a new one.
People always say that you should set big goals for yourself. I too believe in that but at the same time I think that if you set too big a goal you may never start working on it (if you don't believe in it). For example, lets take the case of a person who wants to lose weight. Setting a goal of shedding 60 pounds may sound unachievable and unbelievable to him. So unbelievable that he may not start working towards it. But shedding 5 pounds in a month is achievable (and believable). And if he keeps working on it, in an year's time he may have lost that "unbelievable" 60 pounds too.
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Enjoy the journey to success.
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