No matter what the personal definition of the concept of "success" is, in order to realize it in practice, a process that includes several steps must be carried out. This short article will review those steps.
The first step is to know what your goals are and in simple language:
"What you want?" You must know what you want before you can get it. Focused and written goals are the infrastructure for guaranteed achievement of what you want to achieve.
The next step is:
Once you know what you want to achieve, you need to determine how you can get there.
A written plan is the road map to success; The written plan will sharpen your thinking and keep you from falling or going astray. An organized plan will even help you anticipate and overcome obstacles that may prevent you from achieving your goal.
Knowing why you want this goal is the third essential step.
Without the question "why", there is neither the motivation nor the desire to achieve what you have set for yourself as a goal. Motivation provides the energy to continue overcoming obstacles and not giving in to them (on: how to develop self-motivation - in a separate article).
Henry Ford said:
"If you believe you will succeed, and if you believe you won't - you are right in both cases."
Hence the fourth step is: believe in your success! Faith creates the expectation of success. We work with a huge variety of people. Everyone has their own uniqueness and everyone has diverse abilities. Sometimes it is necessary to go back and build a plan for the development of self-belief. This is an excellent investment, with a high "return on investment".
The fifth step to success is to never give up. A goal, a plan and confidence are not enough to achieve the goal.