21 identified secrets
how to be successful in anything you do in life.
This set of 21 points is given as the success formula to derive at sure-success by anyone.
Succeed in all phases of life; thinking, doing, speaking, listening, planning, managing, leading, working, parenting, loving, serving and much more.
1. Concentrate single-minded on one thing and one thing only at a time- Determine what the 1st priority is at any time and work on that alone
- It is easy to do the easy things first and not do the highest pay off task.
- The answer to this question determines the priority at any time:
- “What is the valuable use of your time right now?”
- Doing lots of little things and not doing the main thing does not achieve anything.
- This may be a bit difficult to follow at first but if you practice, you will be sure to succeed
- Integrity is very essential for success
- If you lose integrity or trust, then you have lost all and you have to start all over again
- Be honest always.
3. Dream – Big Dreams
17. Dedicate yourself in serving other people
- Creative visualization
- “For your dream to come true, you need to have a dream”
- Have a clear, mental picture of what you want to be, no matter what/where you are now.
- Towards getting excellence in that field
- Be the Best in at least one field
- You are unique in this world having unique strengths. Develop those strengths
- Develop your areas of expertise
- You don’t work for others. You are always working for yourself
- You determine what you want to be and how you want to be
- If it has to be, it is up to you.
- Take that word out of your dictionary
- Successful people never face failures. Only
- Temporary setbacks
- Glitches
- Useful learning experiences
- Failure is present only when YOU accept it that you have failed
- “You are never defeated unless you accept failure as the reality”
- Keep on going.
- Ability to set your goals precisely
- Know what you want. Then only, you can get it.
- “In life, Goals = Success; Success = Goals”.
- Have a clear sense of direction
- Have a defined plan to achieve those goals
- All successful people work long hours (60 hours a week or 12 hours a day) even after achieving the success
- “If you don’t succeed at first, TRY HARDER”
- “You reap what you sow”
- Always you have to give something in order to get something and usually for success, it is the hard work.
- Be around the right minded people with clear goals – for the purpose of motivation and success
- Associate with winners. Don’t go with the losers.
- “Fly with eagles” “If you want to fly like an eagle, don’t fly with the chicken”.
- Be open-minded to learn new things
- Continuous improvement
- Always learn something new
- You can’t say that you know it all on any subject at any time. There is always something new to be learnt.
- “All turning points in our lives happens on a new information/situation”. True in all the cases.
- Always try to go from one mountain top to another mountain top – via valley
- There are many ups and downs in life but your aim should always be to the top.
- Develop the ability to come back – and come back higher – despite low points
- It is not how fare down you go. All matters is how far you come back up.
- Develop your imagination
- Improve the answers to creativity by clearly focussed questions
- Be innovative
- Find faster, better, cheaper but superior ways and means
- All you need to do is to improve 10% from the existing ones. That will do.
- Most of the successes have come in the common life products/services.
- The most successful business in USA in all these years is …. ‘dry cleaning’
- “If you think you can or you cannot, you are right”.
- There is a ocean of possibilities for improvement
- Use the world wide web, library, friends, day-to-day experiences, audio tapes, books, etc. to learn more
- If you read 1 hour a day in learning a new thing, you will be an expert in that field in 5 years or earlier.
- Your mind has enormous potential of grasping. Use it.
- “A person who does not read is same as the person who cannot read”
- Have a positive mind ALWAYS
- When you expect strongly, it happens
- Mind has the unique power of making things happen if you believe in it
- It is not what you want, but what you expect, that happens.
- Stay away from the negative people, negative news, negative books, etc.
17. Dedicate yourself in serving other people
- People who give to others are the happiest people
- All excellent companies have proven track record of customer service excellence and commitment to make things happen.
- Rewards in your life will always be equal to your service to others. Example, your pay cheque reflects your rewards for your service to the company.
- This is one of the main key factors for success
- You will always be wanted and you will grow towards success
- “Don’t major in minor things”
- Only 2% of the people have the sense of urgency. If you do, you will be successful.
- Take decisions in a timely manner
- Work systematically to make proper decisions
- The way to take a decision is to take a decision. If it is wrong, take another decision and proceed
- “Indecision is the hallmark of the fear of failure”. That is, people hesitate to take a decision merely for the fear of failing by taking that decision. The successful people have the ability to take timely decisions – no matter what the outcome actually is.
- The more decisions you make, the better you would be in life.
- Just do it
- No matter what, just continue
- Persistence becomes a habit surely leading to success.
- To develop a capacity to do what you need to do whether you like it or not
This is the master key for your success
“Successful people do the things what unsuccessful people do not want to do. At the same time, the successful people do the things what successful people do not want to do. But, they know that that is the price for success and so, they do it – even if they do not want to do it.”
“We are engineered for success but programmed for failure”. That is, we CAN do many wonderful things, but we always take the easy way out in not putting a lot of effort in doing the difficult things leading to unsuccessful things in life. We need to make a determination to be self-disciplined to practice and do what we need to do towards achieving success.
- LET US FOLLOW THESE PRINCIPLES AND SUCCEED IN LIFE IN A BIG WAY!