Many people want to be successful or they want to be rich. But they don’t know how to achieve their dreams or how to start their journey. They do not have the will to take the first step. People who have achieved a certain level of success in life like to get rich and achieve their dreams. Have you ever wondered what the secrets are that separate these people from the less successful ones? I am going to share with you the 5 secrets that I discovered when researching about them. These are the secrets used by people who succeed in the world. These are your secrets to success.
Secret of Success #1 – Have Big Goals
Many of the successful people often have big goals to accomplish in their life. Robert Kiyosaki’s goal is to bring financial education to the world. The bigger the goals, the more you will be motivated to achieve them. If you know what your goals are or the things you really want to do, you will be more motivated to achieve them. Often in the process of finding goals, you will be able to learn more about yourself and find meaning in life. Once you’ve collected enough information, you can decide the things you really want to do. You should write these things as specific as possible. For example, if you want to get rich, simply saying that getting rich is not enough. It should be as specific and clear as possible like being a billionaire who owns a corporation.
Success Secret #2: Never say die when faced with adversity or failure
Many rich people have met many failures before achieving their dreams or attaining enormous wealth. An example is Walt Disney. He has gone bankrupt several times before he finally built his first Disneyland. Robert Kiyosaki has failed several times before his books have achieved phenomenal success. When you face difficulties, you need to use your beliefs and values to motivate yourself to overcome them. Only when you truly believe in your dreams and yourself will you not be discouraged by adversities and overcome short challenges on your way to success. Dr. John Gray, the world’s #1 relationship author, uses a river journey to the sea as an analogy for a person’s journey to success. He said that a river always meets stones and rocks on its way to the sea. When the river meets stones and rocks, it always splashes the water on them and stops. But, it will recede after the splashes and the water will turn around it to continue its journey towards the seas. So, be like the river, when you find failures, don’t cry over them. But learn from mistakes and move towards your goals. You need to “burn your ships” and leave no room for retreat. When you launch into the lair, you will be more hungry to succeed.
Success Secret #3: Have a Group of Mentors and Experts
Napolean Hill said that the group of mentors and masterminds is very important if a person wants to get rich. If he wants to be successful, he must learn from mentors. From birth, there are always mentors in your life to guide you. When you are young, when you fall down, your parents and friends will always encourage you to get up and walk again. On your journey to success, you need to have mentors to guide you to always be inspired, motivated, and strive to achieve your goals. Mentors can teach you and guide you to your goals faster. Mastermind groups are strategic groups made up of people with common goals. When you form think tanks with like-minded people, the synergy of think tanks can help you easily overcome obstacles and motivate you along the journey to success.
Success Secret #4 – Have a Clear Plan and Priorities
Rome is not built in a day; success too. Success requires a clear plan, clear priorities, and commitment. You have to eliminate all the bad habits that you have acquired in your life. You have to stop procrastinating and eliminate excuses and be responsible for the things you do. You eliminate the distractions that prevent you from achieving your goals. By having measurable and specific objectives that are specified with precision, clarity and anticipation. Break your goals down into sub-goals if they are too big, and set milestones and a timeline for reaching them. When you have a clear plan of what and how to achieve your goals, strive to achieve them one by one. Eventually, success will come to you.
Success Secret #5: Leverage People and System
Many successful people can do more by leveraging others and systems. Paul Allen, the fourth richest man in the world, can go fishing and work much less than his business partner Bill Gates. This is because you can take advantage of Bill Gates to make more money for him. Take advantage of the knowledge of the masses to solve your daily problems. In today’s information age, the speed of information processing is more important than the amount of information. It is not the amount of information you know but how quickly you learn it that determines whether we will be successful. Only when you know how and when to take advantage of others can you move faster and see opportunities faster. Now there are more millionaires in this century than in the last because these people can take advantage of others and systems to make more money. In such systems it is the Internet. Google and yahoo can become multi-million dollar companies because they can help people process and filter information easily and quickly. So if there are some sound systems or processes that can get your job done faster, use them. They will be able to help you achieve your goal faster and easier.
After you have learned the secrets of success, I hope you are motivated on your journey to success. Find some time to do some soul searching to find the big goals you want to accomplish in life. Only when you are highly motivated and passionate about the goals you want to achieve can you achieve them. Success is not just an achievement, but rather a journey that has many lessons along the way!
Copyright 2006 Jason Chew
