Success Factors: Possess a Burning Desire for Success

A BURNING desire is one of the most important success factors. To have desire is one thing, but to have a burning desire is another thing entirely. All success stories begin with a burning desire. The extent to which you succeed in any endeavour is largely influenced by certain success factors, and in this case - the intensity of your desire. Your desire for what you want to achieve must be so strong that you would find it hard to sleep at night; you literally lose sleep over it. It becomes such an obsession that it dominates your thinking, making it difficult to concentrate on anything else. If you can't get that wound up about something, it's only lukewarm - not really a burning desire. A burning desire is intense and urgent as opposed to something that is nice to have, like desiring...

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Things That Determine Success Or Failure

It's your life. Have you ever heard that? I think we all have at some point. But let's make no mistake about the point being made here. The SUCCESS or FAILURE of your life and your life's experiences, whether in relationships, business, finances, family, etc. will be based on three things. 1 - The people you meet - whether positive or negative, successful or barely getting by, will impact your life one way or the other. Not only the people you meet, but more so the people you associate with will have a direct, sometimes powerful impact on your life. This may include your friends, your business associates, or maybe even a significant other or spouse. But make no mistake here, we tend to emulate the people we associate with. This can be a very good thing in your life or a very bad thing. Did...

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How to Have the Mindset of a Successful Entrepreneur!

The mindset of a successful entrepreneur is distinctly unlike the rest. Successful entrepreneurs think and act differently. They consistently defy conformity, doing things that others WILL NOT do so that they can achieve results that others BELIEVE they cannot. What seems like the right thing to do for most people is actually NOT the norm for the 1% at the top. To be the best, it is imperative to go against the grain of conventional wisdom. To recreate a new reality, reinvent yourself. It's not possible to change your current life with the same thinking that created it. You might be familiar with Einstein's famous quote: "We can not solve our problems with the same level of thinking that created them." Eradicate the mindset that created your present circumstance to open the way for...

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No Success Unless You START!

How often have you noticed someone discussing their desire to be successful, or to achieve some degree of success? However, while it is certainly laudable and desirable to want to be a success, it doesn't just happen! Rarely do these individuals even approach this concept by first defining what it means to them, because each individual determines this for themselves, according to a balance between his principles, goals, attitudes, vision, and the actions he inevitable takes. Too often, the same people who discuss this, often fixate on the discussion, while procrastinating on doing what they need to do. Most importantly, each of us must recognize that nothing impactful or meaningful will ever happen unless you actually START! 1. The process must begin with focusing on, understanding,...

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Reasons Why Failing Is Good And Necessary For Success!

The fear of failure can stop you from taking on new challenges and stepping outside of your comfort zone. We tend to see failure as a bad thing, as though we let ourselves down but, in reality the opposite is true! I mean what is failure really? Perhaps the most generalized answer for this could be - when we fail to get something right. However, it's impossible to get everything right all the time! Therefore, failure is necessary and simply a part of the learning cycle. A necessary stepping stone on the path to success so to speak. Once you make this switch in perspective and see failure as an opportunity for you to learn and grow, you can take on seemingly difficult challenges with renewed confidence. Imagine if you were to look at failing as a positive outcome instead of a negative...

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Success Quotes to Inspire You Every Day

Success would be the ultimate price for working at something nonstop. It's the only thing that gets us up every morning to do what we expect of ourselves. As Thomas Edison said, "Everything comes to him who hustles while he waits." This is mirrored by Frank Lloyd Wright's own words when he said, "I know the price of success: dedication, hard work and a devotion to the things you want to see happen." Therefore, Sir Winston Churchill was right when he declared that "Success is stumbling from failure to failure with no loss of enthusiasm." Nobody wants to be a failure in life. All that we could hope for is that the things we do now can lead us to our goals. Vincent Lombardi was quoted in saying, "The difference between a successful person and others is not a lack of strength, not a lack...

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Open Minded - Definition of Success

One of the most important aspects of life that determines one's level of success is being open minded. Now what is the real definition of success? What is the definition of being open minded? They go hand in hand with each other along with growing off one another. Here is a simple example. Someone who is a closed minded person pursues fewer opportunities that can lead them to be a successful person. Someone who is always open to hear new ideas and opportunities is more likely to stumble upon something that may change their life for the better. The unfortunate aspect of this is that being closed minded seems to be the popular outlook these days. People are afraid to get out of their comfort zone or try something new things because they fear failure. They need to understand that failure...

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Beyond Success to Significance

"Success is the ability to go from one failure to another with no lack of enthusiasm". Winston Churchill I have had my share of successes and failures in my life. In fact, failure seems to be a rite of passage to success. I don't want to give young people the wrong idea - if you can go straight to success and skip the failures by all means... do that. The point is - don't fear the failures, embrace them, because they make the successes all that much sweeter. I took a management seminar early in my career and the speaker referred to a progression we move through in our professional lives from Survival to Stability to Success to Significance. This model of progressive movement through these stages of existence identifies, not only the growth we experience as Humans, but also that success...

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Success Occupies The Space Between Your Ears

Define What Your Success Looks Like Every person's success is a product of their own imagination. What is my definition of success will not and cannot be yours. My definition of success is as individual as my own finger prints. Defining what is your success is a process that takes you sitting down alone and writing out your dreams. If money were no object what would your life look like. Define what is really at the core of your happiness. Don't just think about it from a monetary point of view. Try to conceive in your mind, what your perfect life would look like. Success Is Not an End Product Now that you know what your success and happiness looks like, you have to choose a path that is congruent with your definition. Success and happiness are not end products. Your life is not lived...

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The Journey From Fear to Faith

"Promise me something Katie, you'll take a lot of pictures and only regret the ones that you didn't take." ~ From Safe Haven (2013) Many moments in this dear life, Are shrouded in mystery threatening strife, It's easy to shy away in fear, But then we miss out on what's terribly dear. Each precious moment comes burgeoning in hope, Hope flush and plenteous giving us power to cope, By faith to repel fear there's no regret, By faith our fear has no debt. There are two ways life is to be lived - by fear and by faith. Fear is the stuff of hesitancy, regret, resentment, and anger. Faith has about it properties of patience to succeed despite the fear. Faith is a patient and reserved courage. Life can be either a frightening venture packed with...

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You Get What You Worry About

What do you do when you lose everything? You probably start to worry and ask yourself questions like: "How will I now make a living?", "What if it's all over?", "Why did this happen to me?". Worry becomes the dominant emotion that you experience. When you worry, do things get better? I don't know about you but whenever I worry, things just get worse, it's as if I'm attracting even more of what I don't want. Let me share with you a story that I'm sure you're somewhat familiar with. As a student in school I would always do my homework, study and basically always be prepared for the next lesson. That is why I never had to worry about being called out by the teacher because I knew that I would be able to give the right answer. However, this one time I did not do my homework, did not study...

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The Definition of Happiness

The word happy is continuously used to describe the quality of what we want in our lives. The interesting thing is that when asked to outline our terms of happiness, we struggle to provide actual DETAILS. Why? Because the term happiness is used as a generic ideal, a concept or quality that we believe we can construct out of external circumstances. Happiness is NOT a concept or quality. Happiness IS an emotional state. Certainly external circumstances can elicit the emotional state of happiness, but the idea that our external circumstances will give us a quality of life called "happiness" is counterintuitive. In fact, more often than not we are our own barriers to this very healthy and positive emotion. This could be because our day-to-day emotional baseline may be residing primarily...

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Environment Is Everything

What do you think affects your success, your happiness and your well-being most? What is shaping your actions and your thoughts? Today, I want to tell you what does all that and more... It's our environment. The environment we put ourselves into and the people we surround ourselves with have a much bigger impact than most of us could ever imagine. Our environment is contagious. Have you ever noticed how certain people make you feel? For example, how does being surrounded by people who are constantly moaning and complaining, by people who are full of negative thoughts, by people who radiate anger towards others make you feel? How does it feel to be surrounded by judgement and hate? Personally, it makes me feel drained of all energy and depressed. Worst of all, it encourages me to join...

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The Key to a Peaceful Life

Imagine that you had the power to satisfy all your wishes, to achieve all your dreams. What would this look like? Immeasurable wealth? Power? Beauty? Fantastic journeys? Now, why do you want these things? You want these things because you want happiness, joy, peace. All desires come back to a state of being. You want wealth to get happiness not the other way around. So, it's obvious that the happiness and peace are more important than any material possessions. The quality of your life is dependent not upon what you have, but upon how you are. Consider this hypothetical situation. You're hungry so you eat. Then you feel bloated so you go on a walk. Then you feel hot so you take a shower. Then you're cold so you make some tea. Then you have a headache so you take some aspirin. AND ON AND...

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Finding Your Way Back to Love, Happiness and Passionate Living

Experiencing life's challenges, difficulties and obstacles can and will break our spirit and our love for life. It can send us into a catatonic depression that can prove very difficult to lift ourselves out of. There is no shame if you find your life feeling as if you are at rock bottom. When you are at your lowest, that is actually a good thing, because you only have one way out of your situation and that is - Up! Of course, when you are down it is hard to think of anything good ever happening to you or for you. As hard as it may be, this is where we need to keep the faith. We need to believe that no matter what it is we are going through now - This too will pass. If you do not believe it, think back to a time in your life where you were going through something difficult, look at where...

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Fight Depression With Some Simple Lifestyle Changes

Depression can be a result of various factors, and can take months or years to get rid of. However, there are many coping strategies and techniques, which help you overcome depression. Counseling is one of the techniques to overcome depression, as talking to an expert will open new ways of coping, and give you the strength to face difficulties. Apart from counseling there are many self help techniques that help you to keep upbeat and fight depression. Exercise is known have a positive effect on depression. Some form of daily exercise is known to lower depression. Exercise always need not be rigorous. Do something simple like a walk with a friend or some yoga at home to fight depression. Dietary changes also have a huge effect on depression. Many foods that are heavy in calories can...

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It Is Your Birthright To Live A Beautiful Life!

The beauty about owning our own life and owning our Self is that we can go anywhere that we desire in our life. If we are drawn to something and it fulfills us then we stick with it until it no longer serves a purpose. We have the FREEDOM to chose whatever it is in life that will make us happy and contented. That's the beauty about life, our life. Whatever you want to do in your life as long as you have the means with which to do it then by all means go ahead and start creating and living your passionate life. No one outside of you can block your abundance and your blessings. Living our own life can be difficult because that would mean that we break away from all the things that is or has the potential to hold us back. It takes strength to walk away from something that is not contributing...

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