7 Unknown Success Secrets Revealed

Hari Qumar
September 10, 2007

Who would not like to be successful in life in whatever one does? Every person would like to reach the heights of success. But, as it is rightly said “Success does not come overnight to anyone.” One has to work hard for it, have lot of patience to reap the fruits of hard labor. There are few guidelines which will help you pave a wonderful path to your ultimate success.

Let us know about them in detail.

1. Do what you are good at: Do the work that you love doing the most, even if it is web designing or just painting in order to gain success. You should not take up the job in which you are not good at or something that you are forced to take just because you need to satisfy your superiors. Don’t try to become a ‘Jack of all trades’ by learning all the latest technologies and ‘Master of none’. It is rightly said, “Make your passion your profession, money will follow you.” This means, do the job that you are passionate about, that you feel good doing it, where you get immense satisfaction doing it. Then this particular profession does not remain monotonous any longer, but it is now fun for you and you feel nice and satisfied in doing the job.

2. Be prepared to learn and to be positive: By becoming a ‘Jack of all trades’ and ‘Master of none’, I sincerely do not mean to offend you or stop you from learning new technologies. Because, the more you learn, the more you gain. The more you gain it is good for you as a whole. Infact there is no specific age limit for learning. Learning is an infinite process. A person learns at every stage of his life for achieving success. The moment, you feel you have learnt enough or you stop learning, you tend to indirectly limit your growth as a person.

Also, one needs to remain positive always. You must always keep a positive outlook towards whatever you do in life. As it is rightly said, “There is light at the end of the tunnel”. So, never think negative towards anything in life as a negative thought always kills you from within which is not good for your health in order to be successful.

3. Always be an innovative individual: You should always try to be an innovative person. Try to learn something new as this will increase your knowledge about the subject. Don’t be a ‘Run-in-the-Mill”. By this I mean, do not be repetitive. As this will only create fatigue within you and hamper your path to success. It is said that we should not break the rules. But in order to be innovative, one has to go beyond the rules laid. Rules only bind the person within the limits. But in order to be innovative, you have to go berserk.



4. Learn to invest not just money but your time, effort and resources, too:

Suppose you think of buying some business. And you put in your money into it. Once you are successful in purchasing the business you may think of sitting quiet, thinking that now my business will be run by the people working in it. This means, you are neglecting your people, your business. But, this should not be the case. You have to put in your time and effort for running your business and also talk to your people who are working for you. You need to know, what is going on in the organization. You need to take an active interest in the day-to-day activities of the organization. This is how you will come to know about your business, your people and learn to gain success in life.

5. Learn to set your goals and targets. Be persistent: One should be a target oriented person in life. You should learn to set your goals and targets in the work that you are doing. As life without goals, targets and ambition is a waste. It is like “Shooting an arrow in the dark”. When you set up your goals, you tend to work towards it in order to be successful. Be persistent in whatever work you do. Do not give up if you are not able to achieve your goal the first time and you fail. If you are able to achieve your goal, the very first time, then you do not come to know the true value of success. As rightly said, “Try and try again, until you succeed”. And, “When the going gets tough, the tough gets going”. So, one should never give up in order to be successful in life. Remember “Perseverance always pays”.


6. Learn to manage your time effectively: You should learn to manage your time effectively. As “A second lost is lost forever”. You should be able to complete all the given work within the stipulated time. Time management is the key to one’s success. One, who can manage his time well, has learnt the key to achieve success in his life.

7. Learn to give back to society what you amass, as you grow: Being rich and wealthy though look like they mean the same, (that is to accumulate more riches, money) but they are totally different. Being rich means where you accumulate more riches, money with yourself, but being wealthy means to distribute the wealth that you have accumulated back to the society. As you are living in the society and it is this same society that has helped you to become rich. So, it is one’s duty and responsibility to give back to the society what you have amassed in order to gain the real success. One should learn to be wealthy in order to be successful in life and not a rich person alone.

So, what are you waiting for? Go on! Apply these 7 principles of success in life to be really successful in whatever work you do.

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