Before we go ahead and look at how to be successful in what you do, let’s first look at what is success so that we can get a gauge by which to measure our success or else we might be looking for a needle in a haystack.

How To Be Successful: What Is Success?

Success is simply the accomplishment of a set goal(s) and it can mean different things to different people e.g. for one success might be equated to financial freedom whereas to another success might be equated to having a healthy and happy family.

Now that we’ve seen what success is, we can comfortably proceed to look at the 7 steps on how to be successful in what you do.

How To Be Successful In What You Do #1: Find What Makes You Tick

The best way to become successful is to discover the number one thing that makes you tick and which you really enjoying doing. It’s important to go after what you love doing since you won’t be as productive doing something else just for the sake or for the money.

“Don’t aim for success if you want it; just do what you love and believe in, and it will come naturally”-David Frost.

How To Be Successful In What You Do #2: Make up your mind to master what

you love doing

The next step towards being successful is to make an effort to be the best in whatever you love doing. Keep in mind that there’s a high probability someone else loves doing what you also love doing so you need to outdo them or else you’ll just end up as a statistic e.g. there are quite a number of musicians in the world but we only know just a handful a.k.a the so called “stars” who are great at what they do, the rest are just statistics.

“The difference between a successful person and others is not a lack of strength or a lack of knowledge but rather a lack of will”-Vince Lombardi.

How To Be Successful In What You Do #3: Learn From Your Mistakes

One of the most important keys to success is the ability to learn from your mistakes and move forward. The main reason why many people find it hard to be successful is because they let failure bring them down instead of letting it open their eyes to see what they did wrong.

“Failure is success if we learn from it”-Malcolm Forbes.

How To Be Successful In What You Do #4: Look at what other successful people in your niche are doing

Keeping an eye on what other successful people in your niche are doing is a great way to see what they’re doing right that you’re doing wrong. However, take care not to just copy them but to be better at it or else you’ll only go as far as they have.   

“When you’ve got 10,000 people trying to do the same thing, why would you want to be number 10,001?”-Mark Cuban 

How To Be Successful In What You Do #5: Be part of a winning team                      

Remember that it is better at times to be part of a winning team than to go solo and this is because not only are more fresh ideas generated but more work gets done within a short period of time thanks to delegation of duties. Keep in mind that the true meaning of a TEAM is Together Everyone Achieves More.

“Coming together is a beginning, keeping together is progress, working together is success”-Henry Ford.

How To Be Successful In What You Do #6: Rinse and repeat

The next step towards being successful in what you do and which also happens to be a secret to success is to find a formula for success that works for you and to follow it. Once you discover what gives you great results, just keep on repeating what you did so that you continue reaping the great results.

“Success is a science; if you have the conditions, you get the result”-Oscar Wilde.

How To Be Successful In What You Do #7: Teach others how to be successful

Once you’ve figured out how to be successful at what you do, make an effort to change the lives of others who have shown an interest by also showing them how to be successful in their chosen niches or fields of expertise. Deciding to keep quiet and not sharing with others (who have shown an interest) the secret to success and how to be successful is like trying to contain an ocean in a cup; it just doesn’t work.

A truly successful man is one who shows others that they too can become a success.

Conclusion On How To Be Successful At Anything You Do

Although many “gurus” preach that you need to have a renegade attitude when learning how to be successful by never saying die or calling it quits, let me say that contentment also plays an important role when looking at how to be successful.

I say this because some categories of success e.g. financial success, are like addictions in that some people can’t control themselves. It makes them worse by craving for more and more rather than better by helping them realize they aren’t where they were yesterday.

Being addicted to financial success may lead one into an endless cycle that leaves them with plenty on the outside but empty in the inside-This isn’t how to be successful. 

Let me finish up by quoting Zig Ziglar and say:

 “I believe that being successful means having a balance of success stories across the many areas of your life. You can’t truly be considered successful in your business life if your home life is in shambles”.

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