Steps to success for a greater and brighter future

Knowing the steps to success would be great in achieving our life goals. Everybody has dreams of what they want to achieve in life. Therefore, everybody tries to go to that extent where they could achieve it; either using a bad path or a good path. However, if an unacceptable or a path that is atrocious on both you and others is used to gain success then it would be a short term success. Also, it will never lead you to the maximum success you hope to go to even for a smaller period of time. While an adequate method would make you an unforgettable, happy successful human in the long term run.

Life starts changing for you the day you start working towards your goal. You seek out for the directions to accomplish your set goals. It’s not that we only feel a sense of accomplishment when we succeed, but your confidence levels would boost up and you would want to set and reach higher goals afterward for more success.

Success comes to you depending on the way you work towards it. In fact, different people have different methods. The way one has succeeded in life would not work for another. It’s you yourself who has to identify your weaknesses and strengths and work accordingly to balance all of them so that you can reach the top of the mountain known as success.

People often think success is working great at the office or getting a promotion with a higher salary. But, there are many other areas in life that are significantly important. Relationships, athletics, academics, and family are a few of them in which people put an effort to succeed.

In reality, success is not a destination or a goal. It is one of those extreme mindsets for the achievement of success. It is something that you can’t just drop once you achieve your goals. You adapt and build the steps to success so you can take it on during your entire lifetime. Honestly, success isn’t a thing that could be given on a golden platter. You should work hard for it following step by step. It is not an easy feat to accomplish.

Here are 8 basic steps to success:

1. Set your goals

There are many goals in our life that we feel we should accomplish. Hence, decide the goals you need to achieve. Recognize which of them would impact your life either negatively or positively. Then, write them down in a clean sheet in number format because if a goal is only a thought it is merely useless, as it would have no strength behind it.

Prioritizing goals is a bit hard task but this is one of the next main things that is needed to be done so that it is easier to achieve and reach your goals faster. Meanwhile, look at your surroundings to identify and understand all the areas such as health, finances, career, leisure activities & family. Afterward, organize all information into plans accordingly.

Further, consider the possible obstacles and distractions that could occur throughout the process of achieving your every goal. Plan beforehand on what precautions and solutions you would take. Have back up plans if you fail. Finally, start taking actions instead of keeping on thinking and continuously planning.

Use the S.M.A.R.T method to decide on achievable and realistic goals.

• Specific
• Measurable
• Achievable
• Realistic
• Time-limited

2. Be committed

Concentrate on the work deeply in which you do for the fulfillment of a goal. Focus on the goal always so that you would be able to succeed. Always think of the outcome you would gain when completing a goal because it is always satisfying and joyful to succeed. You would realize it the day you become successful and have achieved at least a simple target in your life. Also, visualize the consequences that will follow you when you succeed.

Have passion constantly and do hard work to become succeeded in whatever you do. Accomplishing important targets in life is very difficult but at the same time very rewarding. The desired results can be gained by your own self-discipline, enthusiasm, perseverance, and commitment. Try your best to get your dream turned into reality.

Take responsibility for what you do and stay committed throughout. Do not jump out of the track; focus thoroughly. Even when situations of fear and defeat arise hold onto your position and fight for yourself and your success. Moreover, reassure yourself saying that you are capable of doing reaching your aims and objectives.

3. Work daily

It is a continuous reminder for us when we work on our goals daily. Also, it leads us on the steps to success and achieves what we desire in life.

Work every day targeting the most prioritized goal at the moment, so that you’d be able to move towards the destination of your goal each day. Develop your thoughts and work ethics so that you are of self-control. Hence, it will help you to work faster in the direction of completion of your aims. It is absolutely astonishing to see how much you can gain within a few days after practicing this formula.

Putting no effort into action all the hope and goal setting does no good. You must prepare for action every day. This gives you an energy that would thrust you up the hill of success. Even on rough days, you should force yourself to function at least for the sake of all the work you’ve done all this time. Don’t let all your previous efforts be washed away in the water. It is known that always action takers rule the world.

4. Be positive

Expand the way you think and enlarge positivity in your mind so that you can follow with new ideas and methods and adjust accordingly. Adapting to a positive way of thinking help you stay committed throughout the process. At all times expect to successfully walk up the steps to success, (how ironic is it? *haha* ) and have faith in it.

Roll on with a growth mindset, not a fixed mindset since people with fixed mindsets believe somebody has gained something just because he/she is born lucky with inborn talents. Also, they think that intelligence is a thing that cannot be changed. They have no idea that success comes due to the results of hard work. They lack confidence and are unable to face challenges in life. Hence, success is a very rare factor in the lives of people with fixed mindsets.

On the other hand, people with growth mindsets know that they can grow, learn and change by working on it. They are more likely to reach success very soon.  At tough times they try to look for other ways to progress and constantly keep working towards success.

5. Develop high potential

There are 5 key traits that can be involved in the steps to success. However, these traits should be balanced frequently for a greater productivity level. Too much of it or too little of it can get between the way to your success. See what you can do to nurture these qualities so that being successful in life would become easier for you. Following are the 5 traits:

Capable of adjustment

Success mostly counts on the fact whether you are able to adapt to adjustments quickly. Try looking at difficulties in a much more lighter way. Don’t stress out yourself or make it bother you constantly. Adjust to the changes occurred and you’d find a solution to break the barriers. Don’t put efforts in suppressing change, be open for it. Meanwhile, just lookout for ways to cope up with it. After all, make plans for these extra & out of plan changes as well.

Conscientiousness

People with this trait tend to consider what and how others and themselves would react and feel by their actions. You can develop this quality by looking from other people’s perspectives and judging the consequences of the actions you are going to perform.

Competitiveness

Take the competitiveness as a motivation in life. Do not expect to be the best at something just pay attention to your improvement. Also, be happy for others’ success because they too would support you then. Inspire yourself from it instead of developing jealousy. Be genuinely glad in life.

Curiosity

Curiosity is another characteristic that successful people tend to build. They are continually in sort of new knowledge and skills while being keen on learning them. Link your duties and chores into your interests so that it would be more efficient when working on them. In general, try discovering new methods to complete your jobs so that you’ll feel refreshed and refined

Courageous

Being courageous can lead you on the steps to success. Look at successful people and identify their qualities. In fact, surely you would be able to find that courage is a common trait they all possess. A person willing to take risks is more likely to succeed. Positive thinking would help you overcome fear and avoid as much. Being cautious would take you onto the safer arena balancing out the rest, but being too tolerant of risks also can take you onto the dangerous arena and make you sink in it.

6. Learn from the past

The first thing you have to learn during a failure is not to fall and not to lose hope. Understand that it is a turning point in your life and that it is a very good teacher. Failure helps you learn a lot of things, either the way you think, the way you work, the way you put effort into work, etc. Simply don’t encourage your present and future to keep on nagging about the past, despite it being success or failure.

People mostly overthink their past successes and get a boost of self-confidence which is too much to be healthy for your success in the future. They forget the important qualities they have to follow to reach that success. Instead, they just do whatever they want and end up failing themselves.

Similarly, after failures, people mostly discourage themselves. They have a constant fear of losing again. It is a very damaging thing. Never hang up on the past and judge your present and future from them. If you do so you’ll definitely fail since it is what you always think about. Your mindset absolutely plays a large role in your success. So expect to succeed always and work for it always.

7. Be unique

Understand that every human being is unique although at the same time everybody being common. It is a very complicated thing to understand but it is a very interesting thing in life. It is the uniqueness of people which makes the world beautiful. Have pride in what you do and who you are. Make sure that you’ve differentiated yourself from others.

Try becoming the best version of yourself without a doubt waiting for the best to return for you as well. Balance your life methods with the rest of the world but don’t try to imitate somebody else. You could lookup for a role model, nonetheless be yourself. Do what your mind and heart agree with, not what somebody else has preached earlier.

Remember that you are trying to accomplish success in your own life. You need acceptance from the world to become a successful man or woman in the world. So for people to accept you, you should contain uniqueness. If you are the same as somebody else who is already successful, people would not want you because they already have one with the same qualities before you. So you are rejected by the whole society and you become a failure.

8. Coordinate

To be successful in life you need to communicate, collaborate and coordinate with the people in your surroundings. Success is not a thing which would fall on you from the sky, it is due to hard work and the coordination of life. Present yourself to people with great values in you. Talk to people from knowledge and heart.

Make sure that people all over understand you and your point of view of a successful life. Don’t only try to become successful yourself alone. Drag your colleagues with you on the steps to success. Taking help and giving help to become successful would be a great way to identify that success doesn’t come working alone. Working with others would increase your capacities, capabilities and experiences. It is a very effective way to become successful.

Finally…success

Success has no single way for it and has no explicit answer for what success is. Build your own steps to success. Following on your own plans and path would definitely and ultimately lead you to success. It is not a destination where you can stop at a certain point in life. It keeps on expanding. It is just one of those goals we have in life is needed to be achieved successfully. When it is done you’d start trying to accomplish another.

If you stop aiming for your life targets and stop achieving success then there would be no more life for you. You would be physically living in the society but mentally and emotionally you’d be dead. Even a beggar has a daily life target which is to find some money to spend on his hunger. Therefore, build new habits, traits and strategies day to day which you can implement in your lifestyle. Develop yourself for a better future and a better yourself with no harm to all other beings in the world.