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Key Elements For
Success
When we think of success many thoughts may pass through our minds as to
just what defines success. Is it simply having lots of financial
stability, a long list of wealthy friends and associates, a high paying
occupation, or a high level of social respect. I suppose that depending
on just who you may be speaking to at any give time a strong argument
could be given for any one of these items. However one may not always
find happiness and joy go hand in hand with these items unless you have
traveled along a road of personal choice and self gratification. The
point at hand is one can be born into a lifestyle that includes all of
these without any effort to earn them, one could be of higher learning
and acquire a high paying occupation that they dislike, one could win a
lottery, or one could reach these levels from many other means. However
if by what ever means that they did acquire these socially accepted
signs of success they never enjoyed the journey are they really
successful?
That last question suggests that “true” success
must come from within ones heart and soul. Should you travel your
entire life journey without wealth, though you have more inner peace
and joy about your trip than most, are you not still successful? If you
have all the peace and joy in your heart and soul then you have truly
accomplished your life plan. Is accomplishment not also looked upon as
being successful? So then, we now have another outlook on success.
Whether your personal meaning of success includes all the finer things
of life, plus the inner peace and joy that most seek or just one or the
other all paths to success will have some key elements to get to the
end result that defines you.
Just what can some of those key elements be? We would definitely need
to include the following. Desire, discipline, strategy, focus,
patience, and perseverance. Considering these as just the main key
elements to get one to success let’s look at them a bit.
Desire, could also be looked at in the light of one’s dreams
and hopes. Without having any dreams or hopes, what ever level they may
be, one has no direction to follow and just goes through life
aimlessly. Therefore here it is import for one to set those dreams and
hopes in the form of a life plan. Write them down no matter how large
or small you may think them to be. Now they become your goals in life,
which in turn gives your life purpose.
In order to reach the goals that you have laid out in your life plan
you will need to become very disciplined and diligently plan your
strategy on just how you will attain those very goals. From the very
beginning of the planning stages of the path to follow to success to
the actual accomplishment you will need to have personal motivators in
order to maintain your focus. Find your motivators whether of real
substance or imaginary and always keep them fresh to avoid straying
from your strategy. Maintaining your self discipline, your focus, and
your personal motivation will keep you within your laid out strategy.
Without any doubt you will have some small setbacks and maybe even a
few large ones. Be very patient and learn from those setbacks so as not
to make them again. No path, regardless of how well you plan will
always go smoothly, Patience is truly a very import key element in your
quest for success. I have always been told that patience is the virtue
of life. Not sure who it was that started that quote but it does ring
very loud and true.
Another loud and true element that is a must in your arsenal of weapons
to gain success would be perseverance. Should you not find what you
seek around every corner of your journey then keep trying until you do.
Ralph Waldo Emerson is quoted as saying, “What lies behind us
and what lies before are small matters compared to what lies within
us.” This is how he thought of perseverance. Once again we
come to that inner peace in our souls. When we accomplish total
satisfaction of our inner peace, then we have found true success
regardless of how many of life’s riches we have acquired.
Never be afraid to dream, nothing is really out of reach, for we set
our own boundaries within ourselves. Success then is truly within
one’s own mind, everyone sees their own joy and peace.
Therefore find your own inner peace and joy and you will
“feel” your success.
Copyright © 2006 and Beyond Roy J. Keller (All Rights Reserved)
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