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How To Be Successful In Life? 13 Tips From The Most Successful People
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“The greater danger for most of us lies not in setting our aim too high and falling short; but in setting our aim too low, and achieving our mark.”
Michelangelo
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Find What You Love to Do and Do It
Focus on doing something you love.
When you’ve found what you’re passionate about, you get the motivation to keep you moving.
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Learn How to Balance Life
If people think their job will lead to success, they might spend too much time on it and neglect other areas of their life.
Keep a balance between work, rest, health and life.
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Do Not Be Afraid of Failure
See each “failure” as a lesson. For Thomas Edison, each failed attempt, each rejection, were key steps on his path to success.
AS Henry Ford stated: “Failure is simply the opportunity to begin again, this time more intelligently.”
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Resolve to Succeed
It’s the easiest thing in the world to let failure keep you down.
The only way to push on is if you will not be moved or dissuaded from your goals.
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Be a Person of Action
Michelangelo, Leonardo Da Vinci, Bill Gates, Steve Jobs, and others shaped the world. They did not sit "back and let things happen to them. They went out and happened to things."
Don’t be afraid of going outside the norm. If you can think of a better way to do something, do it that way. If you fail, try again.
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Cultivate Positive Relationships
The best leaders and some of the most influential people were friendly to those around them. People liked them. They wanted them to do well. This is key to good leadership.
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Introducing New Ideas
To truly do things differently (and all successful people did things differently), you need to think differently. If you have a new idea, celebrate it.
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Believe in Your Capacity to Succeed
Success has to be something you can imagine yourself achieving.
Believe in yourself. Keep dreaming.
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Maintain a Positive Mental Attitude
Trust in your ability to succeed.
Replace negative thoughts with positive ones. Approach problems as tasks that need to be completed. If you stay positive, setbacks won't affect you so much.
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Don’t Let Discouragement Stop You
When surrounded by doubts, giving up can actually seem like a good idea. Don't let those thoughts discourage you.
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Follow Your Intuition
If you strongly believe and desire something, you might already have an idea of how to get there. Learn to trust your own instincts.
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Be realistic
Dreaming is great, but if you want to accomplish some improvements, you need to make your dream more realistic.
Break your dream down into milestones: if you want to work from home, what steps do you need to take? Break those steps down further into actionable steps and start working towards making your dream a reality.
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Act as If You Are In Total Control
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Ignore What You Can’t Influence
Mental strength isn’t an unlimited resource, don’t waste it on things you can’t control.
Do what you can. Be your own change--but don't try to make everyone else change.
See The Past as Training
Learn from your mistakes, and those from others too, but let them go. The past is just training; it doesn't define you.
When something bad happens, see it as an opportunity to learn something you didn't know. When another person makes a mistake, learn from it and see it as an opportunity to be kind, forgiving, and understanding.
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Fear of criticism
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Fear of poverty
Many people are stuck in “survival mode.” Too many people settle for mediocrity because they think they must “survive” instead of “thrive.”
Never let the fear of poverty hold you back from your dreams.
Fear of old age (and death)
Benjamin Franklin once said, "Most people die at 25 and are buried at 75." This metaphorical death comes when people figure they can't make it happen, so they end up quitting in advance.
Fear of old age can also be harmful when a person has to go through a major career transition. In the end, age is far less important than your belief in yourself.