5 Critical Success Factors To Upgrade Your LifeUnderstanding just five critical success factors and five critical failure patterns can give you an excellent blueprint for success. Success is not an esoteric science, but it is treated like one. All sorts of mystifying speculations are made about people who are highly successful. The reason for this myth propagation is because success is rare. Most people do not succeed in most things. Let’s start with a list of what not to do.
Top 5 Critical Failure FactorsUnsuccessful people also have a top 5 list, which they follow unconsciously. 1. Unsuccessful people are unwilling to think about things that are important. Much time is spent on thinking on ideas that are fickle, ephemeral, and worth little. 2. Unsuccessful people are unwilling to know themselves. Little time is spent in understanding personal interests and values. 3. Unsuccessful people are unwilling to learn new things. Stuck in the rut of habitual thoughts, original ideas are not stimulated by exposure to interesting, informative experiences. 4. Unsuccessful people are unwilling to set goals, make plans, and take action. 5. Unsuccessful people are unwilling to use time well. This is a huge issue. It’s more than procrastination and laziness; it’s a lack of initiative in figuring out how to spend time well.
Top 5 Critical Success FactorsSuccessful people also have a top 5 list, but it is completely different, and it is followed in a conscious way, often as habits of thinking. 1. Successful people are willing to work hard. It takes time to learn, test, revise, and produce desired outcomes. The Law of Attraction may bring you opportunities, but it does not preclude action, initiative, and processing what has been manifested. 2. Successful people are willing to love what they do. Unless you really enjoy what you’re doing, you will not stick with it long enough for something good to happen. 3. Successful people are willing to be focused. We only have a finite amount of energy and attention, and unless we direct it in a focused way, we dissipate our life force on low priority tasks. 4. Successful people are willing to persist. Without persistence, success is impossible. Persistent people are not stubborn people. A persistent person continues to try even after one method after another fails. They are in a process of continuous change and adaptability. They persist until they have found a winning permutation. A stubborn person, on the other hand, simply refuses to learn new things; they are resistant to change. 5. Successful people are willing to take risks. Investing any kind of time, energy, and money is a risk. Yet without trying something new, you can’t expect things to change for the better.
How To Cultivate Critical Success FactorsHow do you know if someone uses the five critical success factors? It's not as obvious as it may first seem. You can’t judge by outcomes. If a person is failing, it does not mean that they are failures. It may simply mean that they are still in transition, learning about how to do something. It’s like calling Thomas Edison a failure because he didn’t succeed immediately with his inventions. Failure is a necessary part of the process of becoming successful. It’s a learning phase. Yet people have a fear of failure and don’t even try. This, in my opinion, is the real failure…insufficient courage to follow your dreams. The way you figure out if someone is success-oriented is to look at their level of willingness to commit to new outcomes. Are they willing to work hard, be passionate, stay focused, remain persistent, and take risks? Unfortunately, few people are committed to success. They, ironically, wonder why it is their lot to be constantly broke, lonely, and frustrated by one bad break after another. They don’t get it. They think life is doing something to them. They fail to take in account the repercussions of all their time wasting. They live with unfocused mind and take random actions. They spend a large amount of time grumbling and feeling upset. They keep waiting for somebody or something to show up to change their rotten luck. Success is a choice. It’s not an accident of nature or nurture. It’s a decision to move in the direction of your desires and make your life vibrate with a higher quality. It’s an appetite for the fullness of life. When you cultivate the 5 critical success factors, you will notice your life change, first slowly, then with increasing speed.
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