The five success secrets of high achievers.
If you ask any high achiever, whatever field they are in, to describe their success and how they are so good at what they do, you will often hear an answer like, “Well, it just happens.” For some, achieving success in their specialist field has been quite natural. Others have learned to accept that success demands hard work, sacrifice, and courage. It might be that they are humble, internally referenced individuals who let their results do the talking. Or, it might be that they have been doing what they do for so long that they have become unconscious in their actions, simply going through the motions on autopilot.
Let us be clear, nothing just happens.
Whether you are operating in a conscious state or not, achieving success in any facet of your life takes a pattern of thinking, feeling, and acting that delivers a desired outcome. And the great news is that, once you become conscious and deliberate about developing, practising, and applying your own individual formula for success, you can replicate it using five success secrets.
Replication minimises the alternative option of trial and error, and means that you can create consistent, predictable, repeatable results every time. Think about it. Why would you do something that delivers the precise outcome you were looking for only to do something completely different next time? That has to be the definition of insanity! Yet people fall into this trap every day.
Mastering these five secrets will accelerate your focus, confidence, and self-belief, empowering and enabling you with the knowledge, skills, and framework to create your own individual formula for success.
This story is from the May 2019 edition of Indian Management.
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