The 5 Critical Steps to Success

‎”If any young man expects, without faith, without thought, without study, without patient persevering labor, in the midst of and in spite of discouragement, to attain anything in this world that is worth attaining, he will simply wake up, by-and-by, and find that he has been playing the part of a fool.” ~M.J. Savage

It’s important that we remember the price of success! 

Success does not belong to a select group of individuals; success belongs to those who are willing to go after it.  Success belongs to those who are willing to look fear in the face, eyeball to eyeball, and then do what they have to do. 

Success belongs to those who realize that there is something more important than their fear.

The 5 Critical Steps to Success:

1. Desire

“Desire is the key to motivation….” ~Mario Andretti

Desire is the longing to achieve a vision; without desire you have nothing.

If you’ve lost your vision, or if your desire is not strong, work to clarify your vision, use pictures, write the vision down. Habakkuk said, “Write the vision, and make it plain, that he may run that readeth it.” Before you can run with desire, your vision must be plain, it must be clear, it must be exciting.

2. Show Up

“Seventy percent of success in life is showing up.” ~Woody Allen

You can’t have a best seller, if you’ve never written a book. You can’t get your dream job, if you’re scared to turn in an application. You won’t get the sale, if you don’t try. Showing up doesn’t guarantee success, but rest assured if you don’t show up, you won’t succeed. When it comes to your dreams, and the things you desire to achieve in this life, you have to show up.

3. Fail

“Unless you’re willing to have a go, fail miserably, and have another go, success won’t happen.” ~Phillip Adams

To have success you have to do things the right way, but often the only way to do something right, is to first fail at it. Thomas J. Watson said, “Would you like me to give you a formula for success? It’s quite simple, really. Double your rate of failure. You are thinking of failure as the enemy of success. But it isn’t at all. You can be discouraged by failure or you can learn from it, so go ahead and make mistakes. Make all you can. Because remember that’s where you will find success.” Never fear failure, it is failure that will bring you success. Embrace failure, become a student of failure, learn from failure, and soon you will succeed.

4. Work Harder

“Success: willing to do what the average person is not willing to do.” ~Anonymous

Everyone runs, but everyone is not willing to run for an hour everyday. Success is not about doing what the average person can’t do, it’s about doing what the average person is unwilling to do. And on a deeper level, it’s about creating habits that the average person is unwilling to create. It’s the habit of doing things with excellence that cause success. Charles Kendall Adams said, “No one ever attains very eminent success by simply doing what is required of him; it is the amount and excellence of what is over and above the required that determines the greatness of ultimate distinction.”

5. Enjoy the Journey

“Success is a journey, not a destination.” ~Ben Sweetland

Success is not a certain car or a certain house or a certain spouse or certain kids. Success is the enjoyment of the journey. You have to enjoy the journey!

In Closing

Someone once said, “Unless you change how you are, you will always have what you’ve got.” You have to change…you will change, you will succeed.

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