Success

“Success”, the dictionary defines this word as ‘the achievement of one’s aim or goal’. We can all agree to it, right?
Even though the definition of success is same for all but our goals or aims are quite different. And this is why success means a different thing for different people. For a musician, success may be to compose a beautiful melody. For an artist, success may be to create a masterpiece. For you, success may be to get rich or to find a dream job etc. But there is one or another goal that we all wish to achieve and we all want to be successful at something.
Of course there are many ways that would help a person achieve success but I follow a Five-Step Success Mantra to achieve success. Read on to know what those simple five steps are.
1. The Ambition: You can’t reach success when you don’t have an ambition or a goal. Be clear with what you really want. Ask yourself ”what do I really want”? Remember, there must always be an ambition to do something otherwise success is just a word without meaning.
2. The Hard Work: Everyone says work hard, work hard. You might think that this is not a new thing you heard but without hard work there is no way you can reach your goal. You must be willing to put all your efforts and do everything you can in order to fulfil your ambition. You have to give your 100%. Unless you are willing to do anything for your ambition, you don’t want it enough. Ask yourself “Am I willing to do whatever it takes for my ambition”?
3. The Determination: You must be determined that you will do it, doesn’t matter how difficult it is. Set your mind to your goal and focus on that only. Once you set your mind to something that you are really going to do it, no one can stop you from doing it. Ask yourself “Am I ready to stick to my goal no matter how hard it may be”?
4. The Persistence: You have to develop the attitude of never giving up. Certainly, there will obstacles on your way to success but you must not give up. You have to remain persistent. Ask yourself “Am I ready to not give up and keep working towards my ambition”?
5. The Patience: While you are doing all the hard work and working persistently towards your ambition, don’t get aggravated because the results are not coming very fast. You have to understand that it will take some time. Without patience, even if you follow all the other four steps, you will still not reach your goals. You should know that some magic wouldn’t suddenly happen. You will have to remain patient and wait for the results to show up but this doesn’t mean you just sit back and watch, you have to keep working. Ask yourself “Am I ready to remain patient even if it’s taking time”?

If you follow these steps sensibly and diligently, you’re sure to achieve success in anything that you want. Remember, all those questions that I asked you to ask yourself after every step, their answer should be yes. Unless the answer to each of those questions is yes, you cannot reach your goals. Now, you will have to face many obstacles while you are working towards your goal. People will criticize you and try to bring you down by demotivating you but it depends on you whether to get discouraged by them or to use their criticisms as a motivation to work even harder.
Remember, anything is possible. So, reaching your goals might look impossible but actually it’s possible if, you follow the Five-Step Success Mantra.
“If you can dream it, you can achieve it”