Successful Choice

16/06/2021

Use your failures to guide your success
Everybody has failure.

How you respond to that failure is what determines your success.

Thomas Edison failed 10,000 times when he was inventing the lightbulb.

Even if that number is an exaggeration and he only failed 100 times, that's still a lot of failure to endure.

When asked about failure he replied that he hadn't failed.

He'd found hundreds of ways that it doesn't work.

Learning what doesn't work can be just as valuable as learning what doesn't.

When you fail do you give up and stop trying?

Or do you learn what you can from the failure and reiterate?

The road to success isn't linear, but more of a zig zag or a squiggle.

It's easy to give up when things don’t go your way.

It's painful to lose. That's why so few people can tolerate it.

On the other side of your failure is a gateway to success.

But you have to endure the failure long enough to reach that gateway

16/06/2021

Balance what's important
No doubt you need focus and attention to be successful.

It takes time and energy to become great at what you do.

Execute aggressively on your objectives.

While your one burning desire is your priority, you still have other areas of your life you need to attend to.

You have your health and your relationships.

Occasionally you need to relax and take some time to reset yourself.

This is a hard thing for an over achiever to accomplish.

They're so focused on the task everything else is excluded from awareness.

Having balance in your life keeps you grounded.

16/06/2021

Do what you gives you meaning
Successful people know the value of time.

You only have so much time.

It's a crazy thought that you would spend that limited amount of time doing what you don't enjoy.

If you’re doing something you don’t like and it doesn't give you pleasure its time to change.

It doesn't mean to say that every day working on your purpose is a bed of roses.

Challenge and setbacks are par for the course.

But your overarching goals and objectives must be meaningful to you.

16/06/2021

Don't share your goals and aspirations with people who can't appreciate them.

Keep them to yourself and use your energy to execute and take action.

You're always capable of more than you think.

Avoid the defeatist mentality. Defeatists assume everyone else are as incapable as they are.

Don't let anybody tell you what you can and can't do.

Set big goals. Go after them and don't listen to haters.

16/06/2021

Set big goals and don't listen to haters
Some of the most successful people on the planet started from humble beginnings.

They weren’t born successful.

To see them now you'd think they were always that way.

The truth is that most of them endured years of pain, setbacks and perseverance to get where they now are.

Success is a personal journey.

People are too willing to give their opinion about how you should live your life.

16/06/2021

While the definition of success varies depending on the person, there are certain principles and rules they all share.

Whatever your definition of success is, to get it you'll have to work.

05/06/2021