Long time ago, there was a 1987 film starred by Michael J Fox. It was called "The secret of my success." A lot of people might have not seen this film. That is OK. The major point I am raising here is the title of the film. Also there are some interesting plots in the theme of the movie. Before we go to that, let's see the synopsis of the movie.
"Well educated, Kansas born and raised, Brantley Foster sets out to make his fortune in New York. Unfortunately, when he arrives, the job he is promised fails to materialise, so he reluctantly looks up a distant relative, Howard Prescot, who runs a multimillion dollar corporation. Starting at the bottom, doesn't appeal to Brantley so he pretends to be an executive, whilst keeping this a secret from "uncle" Howard and Brantley's dream girl Christy Synopsis written by Rob Hartill (www.imdb.com)"
I watched this movie twenty years ago only once. Until nowadays, I still remember some of the plots of the movie. I think I will never forget the title of the movie in my entire life. The funny thing is I was not interested much on the definition of success and how to get it in those day. Almost two decades later, I started to be obsessed on success and its process. I now can relate the movie with my real life. Especially I am now discovering the same thing as shown in the title of the film.
Is there a real secret of success? You know that there is. If you are still reading this article, I bet you are looking for ways to be more successful in life. We all know that success is not an accident. Also success can not be inherited although money can be inherited. The members of a rich family may enjoy more chances of success. They however have to learn from others, family or non family members, before they can get closer to their own success. This is the way life has been designed.
The secret to my success is simple. I think that every body needs to know what to focus on. We need to know what contributes more to achieving our goals. We need to sacrifice activities that have little or no influence onto our goals achievement. To have the right focus will win you half of the success already. When you focus on something, you will not think about other thing until you get what you want. You will find a way. You will review your method and change it if necessary.
When you have the right focus, you also need to concentrate on what you want. Visualization can come into the way to help attracting what you want according to the law of attraction. The process is simple. You visualize what you want as if it is happening in front of you. You make visualization regularly and often. Your visualization will communicate with your subconscious mind and attract all circumstances and attributes favorable to your goals achievement. You may want to add background audio into your visualization to help accelerate your attraction. Attraction Accelerator can be one of your choices.
When you have a right focus on what you want. And you have concentrate on how to make your goals happen. You will not be far away from making your dream materialize like in the movie. Although, the film was made in a comedy mode, there are some impressive lines in the movie that worth remembering. If you have a chance, you may want to watch it in one of your free evening to entertain your brain.
Everybody wants to know the secret of a celebrity's success. They know that there must be some secret and there are curious about it. Little do they know that they can find the secret of success within themselves. If they search well enough, they will find it.
There is some secret in every success story. This article talks about the secret of success that can be practiced and can make success yours.
People would usually measure success in a lot of ways. Success is sometimes measured on economic gains. The higher the salary, the more successful a person is tagged as some would say. Being appointed as CEO of a billion dollar company is usually regarded as successful. There are many ways of being identified as successful. Being a proud father or mother of newly born baby is sometimes regarded as successful.
Whether it be by material gain or by the simple non-material gains in life that a person has, it can always be regarded as being successful. How to become successful in anybody's perspective is another different question.
Success with regards to financial independence can be interpreted as being successful too. But what is financial independence? Others may define as financial independence as being able to have enough monetary possessions to be able to enjoy the best things in life.
In whatever plans a person may have in order for them to tell themselves that they are successful, getting towards success will require these important factors. It is planning ahead, perseverance, focus and keeping a positive outlook in life. One may notice that these factors are not secrets to everyone as anybody can have these traits.
Planning ahead means that finding it out what a person's measurements of success and how to get to it. One may measure success as becoming an established entrepreneur. This is the long-term goal. It will be necessary to plan what is the business idea that an entrepreneur will consider as his concept in making the business work. He may have to identify also how get funding for his business. It can start from his personal savings first then as the business starts to take off, additional funding can be obtained from bank loans or from external investors who may be interested in the long-term plans of the business.
Perseverance is important in the sense that it helps keep a person in the originally meantime long-term goal. If one has aspired to be great songwriter, writing songs that will make it big in the hit charts will not happen by writing just 1 or 2 songs overnight. Continuous practice in writing songs and listening or observing in what is the current trend today on what specific songs are bound for the global audience are equally important in order to be able to write a song that even though it follows the trend of song genre being listened by people around the world, it will still have its uniqueness that will make it special compared to other songs played in the radio or sold in record stores.
Focus means not accommodating other ideas that will make a person do a 180 degree change of priorities. If a young golfer for example has been determined in the past to be able to wear that much coveted green jacket from the Master's tournament and he's been playing golf for the last decade and suddenly gets an idea to pursue a different sport instead like tennis, that would mean that his priorities has changed and what would be left out of his ten years spent in developing his skills as a golf player? Developing that tennis backhand stroke on your 11th year in sports after playing 10 years of polishing that golf drive would mean that the years spent in playing golf may not have been the priority goal after all.
Keeping a positive attitude in life is the last in the list but its not necessary the least in importance. A positive attitude in life will allow any person to accomplish whatever he has originally planned for himself and it will also feed the drive for him to reach his goals. A positive attitude doesn't leave room for procrastination to come in. It also doesn't leave any room for hesitations. No matter how negative an environment a person may be in right now as long as he maintains that positive outlook in life, he can always assert himself positively and be able to see the bigger picture and still be able to move forward in achieving his goal towards the success road he has planned to take.
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