What if there is something which all of us have in common. Something impetus behind everything we do in life. We all want to be successful. In this, we are all together. ‘Success’ holds different meanings for all of us. For some, success would mean clearing an examination or having a stable job while others might define success as the ability to buy the stuff they wish to own. How we imagine our success may differ from one another. There is an incredible diversity of definitions of success. Even though our interpretations of success are different, but the big question always is ‘How do we succeed?’ Is hard work the key to success? Or is it smart work?
How to plan your success?
Success is not a one-day play. All great things ever accomplished have involved a systematic series of massive, determined steps. If you wish to succeed, you must plan your journey right from the start. Although you cannot surely decide every step before you take it, however, you can always be definite about your approach to seeking success.
Here is how everybody and anybody can succeed –
- Deciding your passion – Before beginning your journey to success, be sure about what you wish to achieve. You may take enough time deciding what is it that you are passionate about but be clear about your aim.
- Defining time period – Once you are clear about your aim or definition of success, decide a fixed time by which you wish to achieve it or own it. This will help you analyze your performance and efforts.
- Dividing into smaller goals – The next step is to divide the bigger aim into smaller goals that are measurable. Moreover, fix the time duration for the achievement of each goal. This will enable you to measure how well you have implemented your strategy.
- Determining possible obstacles and difficulties – Being successful is not a cake-walk. The journey is always full of difficulties. Thus as part of planning, list all the probable causes of failure and your approach to tackling them.
Also, take care of your weaknesses and difficulties before developing a way to face obstacles.
- Doing it – the most crucial step of achieving success is working for it. The world is full of intelligent unsuccessful men, and if you do not wish to be one, work smart not hard. Think before you work, do not work before you think.
- While you work, do not be distracted. Distraction is the biggest reason why people do not concentrate on their aims and end up quitting. Be committed and stay focused.
Often, while trying to set up businesses, people plan their journey well and overcome all the obstacles in the due process but one thing that brings these businesses down is lack of perseverance. Perseverance is what differentiates a winner from a loser. He who doesn’t quit deserves to win it.
Being successful cannot be taught. Nobody learns that at school. Success is what comes out of one’s deep understanding of life. Success is built slowly on the pillars of experiences that life has gifted you. However, one can always be guided about Dos and Don’t’s success. The 5-D systematic approach helps in bringing you one step closer to this success.
