Achieving success depends on the aim or the goal you want to achieve in everything you do. How do you do that? This article summarizes the ways to achieving success in five steps.
The word ”Success” is wide, and so is achieving success. A quick search showed the definition of success as the accomplishment of an aim or a purpose. In other words, success is accomplishing anything. Here are the ways to achieving success in five steps.
1. Change your mindset
Changing your mindset might not be the easiest thing to do but I can assure you that it is possible, if you decide. Success has to begin with your desire to have the urge to succeed, believing that you will succeed and taking actions towards success. We can all have the urge, but believing that we will succeed and starting to take actions need a change in mindset.
A positive mindset brings determination and perseverance to overcome failures when they occur. You will not loose heart because you know you have to reach somewhere, where your goal is. When your mindset has changed to positive, failure will not beat you down because you will react differently, you will a different reaction and meaning to failure. You can read more on Mind sets and how you can change you mindset in this website
2. Define what success means to you
First thing first, how does success look like for you? Leave other peoples thoughts and definitions on success, what is your definition of success? Let me share a quick example, success to one student may be passing the exams with flying colors. To a businessman success could be making more profits and expansion to international markets.To a child, success mean ability to walk unsupported.
What’s your definition? It is important to identify what success means to you so you know when you have become successful or have fallen short. It is a way to measure and evaluate whether you are moving towards success or you need more effort to achieve success. While you align and define your success, bear in mind that success is not an event. It does not occur as a surprise and is definitely not luck.
3. Set goals
Achieving success depends on the aim or the goal you want to achieve in everything you do. What goals do you have? Write them down. Writing down what you want to accomplish makes the brain actively involved. It automatically holds the goal as an important task and prepares ways to tackle the task. Research shows that people who write down their goals achieve more than those who do not have written goals.
While we want you to have big dreams, make sure that your goals are broken down into activities that you can achieve daily and gradually. Imagine when you are able to complete one activity that brings you closer to your goal. You are likely to motivated when your goals are broken down and you see success or lack of it as you go.
By now, I am sure you are understand why success doe not come as a surprise as you will be working on the activities to accomplish the identified goal to become successful. Setting goals is critical in achieving success.
4.Action
So you have a positive mindset, you have identified what success means to you, you have the goals and activities in check. What’s next? Take action! Pablo Picasso once said, “Action is the foundational key to all success”. No amount of reading can help if you do not action what you have learnt. If you do not take action, your goals will remain to be written wishes. Action is the mother of achievement. Other doors open up as you carry on with your goals.
5. Learn from reflective thinking
In his book, how successful people think, John C. Maxwell identifies the importance of reflective thinking. He mentioned that when you reflect, you learn from your successes and mistakes, you discover new ways and things to try for you to improve. In order to achieve success you need to beat our current environment tendency that does not encourage thinking. When you think action, make sure you create time to do reflective thinking. Go back and look at the actions you took, the process you used, you might find some interesting tips that could help you achieve success.
Article by Rodrick. F. Nabe & Noelah Bomani-Ntukamazina.
