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The 5 Keys to Success

Determination, Skill, Passion, Discipline And Luck

W hether we like admit it or not at some point we’ve all read an article or two about the mythical “keys” to success.

I’ve noticed recently though that writers and advice-givers of all kinds have been making the mistake of gravely over-reducing their recipes for success.

Reductionism is natural, it’s a tendency ingrained deeply in our psychology. 10 commandments feel better than 12, and the rule of 3 feels better than the rule of, say, 8. The problem, however, is oversimplification — a seemingly benign but actually pernicious effect of hyper-reductionsim.

I’ve read through as many of the best “how to be successful” articles and bits of advice I could find and noticed they, all of them, bare some striking resemblances. The most important of which being that there are 5, not 1, keys to success. They are: Determination, Skill, Passion, Discipline And Luck.

Determination is necessary but, like each of the 5 keys, not sufficient for success. I should clarify that when I say “success” what I’m referring to are the highest possible levels of success. Not middle-management or being a star on the high-school basketball team. Think more like CEO, NBA (and or MVP), Pulitzer Prize, Oscar, Grammy, Nobel, Heavyweight Champion, etc. The specific degree of success matters because determination alone is, perhaps, enough to be m oderately successful. But, unfortunately, it is not enough for true greatness. Nevertheless, I digress.

So, what is determination? Determination is both a firmness of purpose and a willingness to work unceasingly towards that purpose in spite of any obstacles, difficulties or failures along the way.

Accomplishing great things is difficult and, in the end, it’s always more difficult to achieve great things than you guessed it would be at the beginning. You knew it would be hard, but not this hard.

Ambitious goals require a high tolerance for pain, monotony, and boredom as well as a large amount of patience and discipline.

It takes a long time to achieve anything great. And to keep your sites set on something, anything, for a long time, the time it takes to do something great, you need determination. Anyone can be focused for a week or a month. And some can even be focused for a year, but that’s not true determination. True determination lasts multiple years, decades and lifetimes. That’s what it takes to be the best at something. That’s what it takes to achieve greatness. The “overnight success” is a myth, the “born natural” is a myth, and the “prodigy” is a myth.

Mozart is the exemplar of what people (wrongly) call a prodigy. People seem to think that he just sat down at the piano one day and hatched Symphony №41 on his first try. Well, I’m here to tell you that he didn’t. Not even close. A thorough examination of Mozart’s history — along with the history of every other so-called “prodigy” — clearly reveals them to be incredibly hard working people who, yes, had some natural talent but nowhere near the amount that people like to claim or believe.

Declaring someone a prodigy or a natural is the lazy man’s way of rationalizing his own shortcomings.

Skill. Skill goes hand in hand with determination. You can not become really skilled at anything difficult without putting in a lot of time and effort.

In his book Outliers, Malcolm Gladwell describes an apparent phenomena which he calls the “10,000 hour rule.” The rule appears to hold true across a variety of fields ranging from music, to writing, to acting, to sports, and the like. As the name suggests, the 10,000 hour rule states that it takes 10,000 hours to master something — to, in other words, become the master of some particular skill.

10,000 hours! No wonder most people settle for mediocrity, that’s quite a lot of blood, sweat and tears. How can anyone keep their eye on the prize (i.e. be determined) for that long? The answer, is passion.

Passion. No one — not even the determined — can grin and bare it for 10,000 hours without passion. To practice something, unabated, day in and day out for the years or decades necessary to reach 10,000 hours is impossible unless you’re passionate about the thing you’re practicing. The old cliche that if you love what you do, you never have to work is true. Well, sort of.

Discipline. Even when you’re passionate about what you’re doing, there are still going to be times when you simply don’t feel like practicing/training/writing/playing/etc. You won’t always be in the mood. But you can not let that stop you. You must not wait for the lightning of inspiration to strike for, if you do, you’ll waste your life staring up at the sky.

Pick something you love to do, set your sites on it, then create a practice schedule for yourself and stick to it no matter whether you feel like it or not.

Remember, today’s struggle is tomorrow’s strength.

Last but not least, you need luck. It doesn’t matter which super-successful person you talk to, they will all agree, that you must have some degree of luck to reach the greatest heights of success.

The weak use their (real or perceived) lack of luck as a crutch and complain that so-and-so only got to where s/he is because they “are lucky.” This is often times why semi-successful people become bitter and declare themselves “self-made men.” But notice I said semi-successful, because these self-proclaimed self-made men are never among the most successful in their field. The most successful are always smart enough to credit at least some of what they have accomplished to luck.

Luck can come in many forms: genetic, social, timing, taste, all of these things are arbitrary, and anything that’s both arbitrary and beneficial is, by definition, lucky.

Even the capacity for hard work may, to some degree, have a lucky biological or genetic element. But I refuse to believe that hard work, or the capacity for it, is entirely inherent (also, I see no evidence for it).

You must work hard to be great, harder probably than you ever imaged. But you must also not be so naive as to call yourself self-made.

If you’re lucky, be thankful. Then, get to work.

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What Are the Six Important Keys to Success to Follow?

“Before anything else, preparation is the key to success.”
– Alexander Graham Bell

“Successful and unsuccessful people do not vary greatly in their abilities. They vary in their desires to reach their potential.”
– John Maxwell

Everyone wants success. We think about success, we read about other people’s success, and we wish could be successful too.

Success means many things, not just money and possessions. It also means success in relationships, passing examinations and getting good grades, getting a good job, developing useful skills, making progress in any area in life, and much more.

If we could sum up the term success in a few words, we can say that it means achievement, accomplishment, and getting positive results.

What Are the Keys to Success?

In this post, I would like to mention six of the main keys to achieving success and getting positive results.

First Key to Success – A Clear-Cut Goal

You need to know exactly what you want. If you do not know precisely what you want, you will not take the right action, go in the right direction, or make the right decisions.

Improve your life and achieve whatever you want, no matter what your current reality is.

When the goal is clear-cut, you can make plans and you know what steps you need to take.

Second Key to Success – Studying Your Goal

Learn about your goal. This would make it clear whether you really want to achieve it. Sometimes, we want something, but when we learn about it, we discover that we do not really want it.

Learn about your goal, so you know the details about it, what you need to do, what you need learn, and what changes you need to make in your life, so that you can accomplish it.

Third Key to Success – Patience

A tree does not grow and bear fruit overnight. Everything needs time to grow.

It takes time to build a business. It takes time to become a successful CEO. It takes time to learn drive a car, learn to swim, or speak fluently a foreign language.

Success in any area of life requires that you act patiently. Otherwise, if you don’t get immediate results, you might get impatient and quit.

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You might meet obstacles and difficulties. There might be delays and failures. You need therefore, to stay patient and continue with your actions, despite the obstacles, difficulties, delays or failures.

You can develop patient by striving to be patient in all your actions and endeavors, and by developing self-discipline.

Fourth Key to Success – Persistence

Patience and persistence come together. When there is patience, there is persistence, and when there is persistence, there is patience.

Most people do not finish what they start due to lack of persistence. Just think how many things you could have accomplished if you were persistent in whatever you did up to now!

Often, if you were just a little more persistent you would have achieved what you set out to do. It is just like in the well-known story, about the person who was searching for gold. After digging to a certain depth and not finding gold, he quit and went away.

Another person came along and continued to dig at the same spot. After digging just a few more centimeters and found the gold.

It is the same in life. You need to persevere and not quit.

Fifth Key to Success – Motivation

This key is also associated with the previous keys. When there is motivation, there are also patience and persistence. Motivation supplies the ambition and desire to get successful results.

What can strengthen your motivation? Being constantly aware of the importance of your goal, its benefits, and the reasons why you want to achieve it, can keep the motivation level high.

Repeating affirmations, reading about successful people can be helpful too to increase motivation.

Sixth Key to Success – Confidence and Faith in Yourself

How much you believe in yourself has much to do with what you get in life. If you lack self-esteem and self-confidence, you will not take action, do new things or take risks.

For success, you need a certain degree of assertiveness, and the courage to get out of your comfort zone.

Make an experiment. Strive to follow all the keys described in the article and implement them in your life for one week. Then, follow them for another week. Start with small simple goals that do not take too long to accomplish.

After accomplishing a few small and simple goals, you will have more motivation and confidence to go after bigger goals.

Improve your life and achieve whatever you want, no matter what your current reality is.

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Remez Sasson is the author and creator of Success Consciousness website. He is the author of books and articles that motivate and help people to improve their life, achieve success, gain inner strength and inner peace, and become more positive and happy.

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How To Be Successful In Life – 10 Powerful Keys

Do you know what leads one person to achieve success in life over another? After doing a lot of research, we’ve come up with 10 Keys to Success. Success is within reach if you are willing to put in the work. But first, you need to first learn how to be successful, so you do the right work.

Here at Finally Family Homes, it’s our mission to help youth who have the odds stacked against them to beat the odds and succeed in life. So, what is the secret sauce of success? We’ll fill you in below along with some success quotes to inspire and motivate you.

Defining Success In Life

How do you define success in life? Most people consider success as having a great career, wealth, and respect from peers. But, don’t overlook goals that will support a happier life. Prioritizing relationships, physical health, safety, contributing to others, and creative expression have been shown to improve feelings of happiness.

However, don’t confuse the feeling of happiness with success. You could be quite happy eating Cheetos in your parents’ basement while you watch TV. That doesn’t make you a success. As Eleanor Roosevelt said, “Happiness is not a goal…it’s a by-product of a life well-lived.”

Success in life means attaining your vision of a good life. It means achieving specific goals that result in the future you have planned for yourself. Success in life is defined by the individual. Your vision of success looks different than someone else’s.

If you are looking for the key to success in business vs the key to success in a relationship, your strategies and efforts are going to be quite different.

It’s also important to take care that you don’t let someone else dictate what a successful life for you looks like. You only have so much time in life, so make sure you create a holistic picture for yourself.

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The hilariously talented Ken Jeong was raised to pursue medicine, and even though he was a successful physician, it wasn’t what he really wanted. Later, he found his way into acting and comedy, and to the delight of audiences everywhere he is now living into his vision of success.

As Thomas Merton put it, “People may spend their whole lives climbing the ladder of success only to find, once they reach the top, that the ladder is leaning against the wrong wall.” Don’t put your ladder against the wrong wall! If are meant to be a yoga teacher, you won’t feel successful as a “successful” investment banker.

People may spend their whole lives climbing the ladder of success only to find, once they reach the top, that the ladder is leaning against the wrong wall.”

10 Keys To Success

So now that you know what success is, how do you get there? Believe it or not, although success may look different for everyone, there is a common list of strategies or keys to achieving that success. And here’s the really good news, once you learn how to succeed, you can apply these tools to bring about success in multiple areas of your life.

These keys or tools listed below will help you unlock success in your life. They are strategies used by successful athletes, businessmen, and artists. Make sure you have your clear vision of a successful life in front of you as work through them.

The key to success is to focus our conscious mind on things we desire not things we fear.”

1 st Key: Make A Plan

The very first key to success is to make a plan. This means having a clear picture of what a successful life looks like to you and putting together a well-defined set of goals to get you to that life.

Planning well starts with figuring out what you want and writing it down in detail. It’s important to have clarity on your definition of success. This is the foundation for your plan.

To succeed means to accomplish a goal. By this definition, if you don’t set goals, you’ll never succeed.

2 nd Key: Prepare For The Unexpected

Many of the best laid plans have been derailed by a single misstep. Preparing for the unexpected can make the difference between your plans ending in failure or succeeding despite a bump in the road.

So how do you prepare for the unexpected? Start by making a list of things that could go wrong in your plan. Then create workarounds and backups for each potential problem. Even when I’m driving a route I know well, I usually keep my GPS up and running to help me navigate traffic jams, construction, or missed turns.

3 th Key: Prioritize Your Goals

As you create your systems and put your good habits into practice, you’ll probably find there isn’t enough time in each day to work towards every goal. Manage your time wisely, so that the right activities take priority.

If you’re not sure how to prioritize goals, it may help to apply some techniques like a numerical ranking system or the Eisenhower Matrix. Prioritizing your goals also means not letting things that never even made your list get in front of pursuing what did. In other words, don’t let talking to a telemarketer derail your plans to work on your website.

4 rd Key: Develop Good Habits

You can have big dreams, great goals, and still fail. The third key of success requires you to turn your goals into actions. Repeated actions in the right direction become helpful habits. And once you form the right habits, you create momentum.

Creating systems for your life as you are forming good habits can help you to stay on track. You can build systems by grouping good habits together. Having a system in place can keep you from having to make decisions on the fly or keep track of doing all your goal-oriented tasks one-by-one.

You do not rise to the level of your goals. You fall to the level of your systems.

Instead, you follow an intentional daily pattern that moves you towards your goals with less stress. This has the added benefits of reducing stress and freeing your attention to focus on the things that truly require more brainpower.

5 th Key: Learn from Your Mistakes

They say “the road to success is paved with failure.” What they don’t say, is that each piece of failure on that road probably looks different than the other. Success most likely came by way of trying (and failing) many different ways. Yes, you can fail your way to success, but almost never by making the same mistake over and over.

Failure is a part of the process of becoming successful if you make it a teacher. Learning and growing after failure makes it useful.

For example, consider a runner. Every race a runner loses, they may still be improving. If they build up strength and try new running techniques, they will likely see progress. They may move up from 5th place to 3rd place to 2nd. Even though they aren’t first, each race is a part of the process of success, moving them closer to getting first place.

I’ve failed over and over and over again in my life, and that is why I succeed.

6 th Key: Try Different Strategies

The road to success is not straight. There are stops and starts, turns, and detours. Anyone who says they’ve got the exact path to success for you is probably lying. As the (creepy) saying goes, “There’s more than one way to skin a cat.” Heck, there’s more than one way to get the meaning of that saying across. Let’s make up a newer more pet-friendly one: “There’s more than one way to peel a banana.”

Any way you put it, there’s more than one way to do – just about everything. So, if at first, you don’t succeed, try another way. Try a new strategy. Come at your goal from a new angle, at a different time, with a different person. There could in fact be many effective strategies. You just need to find the right one. The only way to find it is to keep changing and keep trying until you find one that works.

7 th Key: Take Smart Risks

As you try out different strategies, you may find that you’re trying something entirely new. It might feel scary. Admittedly, taking risks is intimidating, but taking smart risks can have big payoffs. Taking a smart or calculated risk means researching potential outcomes and determining what your chances of success are and if the payoff is worth risking the harm that could be done.

It takes time to develop good risk-taking skills. You may have a few painful failures as you figure out how to take calculated risks in life. It’s best to start out taking small risks. As you get better at it, you’ll probably become more comfortable. But don’t let your comfort be the only deciding factor. Often, taking a risk is the only way to achieve success.

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8 th Key: Learn from the Experts

Truthfully, there is no one path to success. Nevertheless, a lot can be learned from studying other successful people. Even better is to be mentored or to study directly under someone. Recorded history doesn’t always catch all the details and nuances.

Start with doing some research and study successful people who did something in the same realm of what you are striving to achieve.

Want to innovate?
Study innovators.

Want to be a great painter?
Study Van Gogh, Monet, and Picasso.

Want to own a restaurant?
Learn from a restaurateur.

Watch what they do, take notes, and ask questions.

9 th Key: Master How to Say No

I think our culture undervalues the importance of saying no. It can be uncomfortable. If you listen to interviews with successful people, you’ll probably hear them talk about turning down great opportunities they knew aren’t right for them.

Learning how to say no is an essential key to success in life. Successful people say no all the time. Saying no means knowing yourself, your boundaries, and being able to determine what is worth your time and energy. Saying no to the wrong thing leaves space to say yes to the right thing. It leaves room for the right opportunity.

10 th Key: Invest in Relationships

While the saying, “it’s not what you know it’s who you know” may overstate the importance of relationships to success, it’s certainly not without merit. As a rule, investing in relationships is quite valuable. People are made to be connected to a community. The benefits of being in a safe and encouraging community go beyond success in any one area of life. As James Clear says in Atomic Habits:

One of the most effective things you can do to build better habits is to join a culture where your desired behavior is the normal behavior.”

There are many types of relationships that can boost your chances of success in life. For example, the relationship you need most may be a friend who has no “connections,” but supports you when times are tough.

Maybe the relationship you need is with a competitor, someone to challenge you and keep you sharp. In particular pursue a mentoring relationship, which can lead to networking opportunities and invaluable advice. We know that the lack of these relationships can be the biggest gap between aged out foster youth and success.

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What Makes a Person Successful in Life

The above keys for success are not all or nothing. However, the more of these you have, the better you will do as you try to figure out how to achieve success in life. And all of these keys or tools can be acquired and developed by anyone with enough time and grit.

It also bears mentioning that a successful life is not all about pursuing success. It is not consumed by delusions of grandeur. How can you be happy if you are consumed?

Some of your most powerful and most meaningful moments will happen in the midst of failure and defeat. Some of the best memories can be made in the mundane. These are valuable too. Without a doubt, success in life also means developing the ability to be grateful and to find the nuggets of beauty in less glamorous times.

We believe true success includes making a difference in the world. The most powerful difference you can make is the difference you make in the life of others. Otherwise, all your success dies with you. As Roy T Bennett put it:

Success is not how high you have climbed, but how you make a positive difference to the world.

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Dig into our recommended reading by the authors quoted above. GOALS! is one of Brian Tracy’s top-selling books. In his book, he shares how he took himself from rags to riches.

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Brian Tracy has consulted for more than 1,000 companies and addressed more than 5,000,000 people in 5,000 talks and seminars throughout the US, Canada, and 55 other countries worldwide.

Atomic Habits is a number one New York Times bestseller by James Clear, an author and speaker focused on habits, decision-making, and continuous improvement.

Atomic Habits will give you a proven framework to make good habits & break bad ones.

His work has appeared in the New York Times, Entrepreneur, Time, and on CBS This Morning

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