By Sarah Sandra
The definition of success differs from person to person.
For some people success is achieving straight A’s in their examination. For
some people success is having met the right person to spend the rest of their
life with. For some people success is owning a multi-national brand.
For some
people success is being a source of welfare for others. For some people success
is losing 10 pounds within a week. For some people success is having met their
life long celebrity crush. While for others, success is measured by the number
of good selfies.
Everybody sees it differently! However, there is one thing
that is found to be common amongst all of us; i.e. we are all humans living in
the same world, with the same norms and standards. Therefor we face the same kind
of challenges on our “Road to Success”.
Challenges on the Road to Success
YOU are your biggest hurdle
Yes my friend, you heard that right! You are your biggest
hurdle in the road to success. Nobody can stop you from being successful,
nobody but you. The only person who can convince YOU to work harder is YOURSELF
but that usually does not happen. We tend to get lazy and feed ourselves with
thoughts like; “I can chill today and work hard tomorrow”. Unfortunately, success
is not something that will be delivered to you wrapped in chocolate chips and
served on a plate. It is the outcome of relentless hard work and determination.
Your mind and body would want to get lazy, do not let it do that because when
you let laziness get in your way, your success goes one-step farther ahead of
you. Keep your motivation levels high, REALLY HIGH.
Do not shy away
from Failures
Do not shy away from FAILURES; they are your best
teachers. They guide you towards success. They tell you whether you are working
in the right direction or not. They teach you lessons that no teacher can. They
make you a stronger and a more determined person. The only drawback of failures
is that they cause stress and most of us do not know how to get rid of stress.
Do not let failures demotivate you and set you back. Instead, grab their hand
to get back up. LEARN TO USE YOUR
FAILURES. We usually tend to think of failures as our enemy, it is not. It
is actually a friend in disguise, which is there to teach us how to rise when
we fall. We need it but we do not want to encounter it again, so think of it as
a frenemy.
Hard Work and
Persistence is the Key to Success
Prepare your mind and heart to believe that hard work
will ultimately result in success. Success will not come easy and that is why
it is so important to us. Success that comes easy is not valued. Human psyche
finds it boring and not worth it. Strive hard and harder to achieve success
that can be valued later.
In addition, a day or two of hard work is not what
harvests success, you will have to keep going until you are satisfied with the
results. This will not be achieved in a few days or weeks, you might have to
work hard for months. Sometimes you might have to keep going for years and
years without really seeing any results but that does not mean you should stop
working hard. Do not confuse success with results. Measure your success with
respect to where you were yesterday and compare it to where you are today. Even
if you are a step closer to your destination, compared to yesterday, consider
yourself successful. If you are a more motivated person than yesterday, then
consider yourself successful.
Learn to Love Yourself
You are the main role of your
story, if you learn to love yourself, life will become a whole lot easier. It
is difficult to be successful when you do not value your own self. When you
learn to love yourself and value yourself, you will be able to celebrate your
success better.
Set Objectives for Yourself
Make things-to-do list for
yourself. This list will work as objectives for you. As you accomplish those
tasks or objectives, double-check them. This will benefit you in two ways;
1. Those
objectives will act as guidelines for you and keep you reminded with what is
expected of yourself.
2. The
feeling after accomplishing those tasks and looking at those double-check marks
(is the best feeling); it boosts your motivation levels.
Work Out Every Day
Working out is our body’s
necessity to keep healthy and happy. It does not just maintain our health but
it also keeps our happy hormones rolling. It kicks out laziness and boosts your
motivation levels. To increase your heartbeat via work out is beneficial for
our body and a healthy body promotes a healthy mind. Without a healthy mind,
there is no way we can be successful.
A Good Night’s
Sleep
With a good night’s sleep, you are on your way towards
success. A good night’s sleep steers clear of all the negativity from the past
and keeps you highly motivated for a better future. With a good night’s sleep,
comes new hope that “today will be better than yesterday”.
Sarah Sandra: Senior Writer for OLWOMEN.com, an avid reader, fashion and make up
enthusiast who simply lives to write and talk about all kinds of stuff.
Focusing on How to get rid of Acne & researching the best ways
regarding how
to get rid of love handles
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