7 Psychological Steps To Success

When you take the right steps to success, you’ll find the right answers. While each journey is unique, based on your nature, the nature of your quest, and the nature of your challenge, 7 elementary steps to success always apply.

Like ingredients in a recipe, these 7 factors are ingredients in a quest for success.

Success requires understanding the real meaning of applied faith, resolute persistence, enduring success, learning cycles, hard work, overcoming failure, and burning passion.

While these qualities don’t necessarily show up in any particular order in real life, for the sake of exposition, let’s talk about them as if they were sequential steps. In addition, of course, there are many other steps to success, like goal setting, planning, mentorship, and so on, but here we’re going to cover the core psychological makeup of a successful person.

The Psychology Of Applied Faith

Faith is the belief in the evidence of things not seen.

It’s an essential tool in the envisioning process.

Before you envision a better life for yourself, you must believe that what you desire, no matter how impossible it may seem to be, is possible for you. You may not know how, but if you have faith, you’ll be willing to make the impossible possible.

Faith is a leap into the unknown.

It’s an emotional commitment to an idea whose time has not yet come.

While many people claim to have faith; observation will show you how quickly it disappears when put to the test.

Anyone can talk a good game--and most people do-- but it’s only the person with faith, the one who believes when there is not a single good reason to believe, who will actually achieve enough personal power to fulfill their goal.

Faith is a precursor to persistence, to a slow, steady, and sure motion forward, to feeling passion.

Patience teaches you what you need to learn. Faith takes you into the unknown where you can move deeper into the lessons you must learn on your journey to success.

The Psychology Of Resolute Persistence

Resolute persistence is uncompromising persistence. While it is possible to show persistence for a short time, resolute persistence is unwavering commitment to the goal. To paraphrase Rocky Balboa as played by Sylvester Stallone, “I gotta…no matter what.”

The #1 reason people fail is because they don’t show:

1. Persistence in being patient.2. Persistence in practicing faith.

3. And persistence in achieving their goals.

A successful person doesn’t show up for success for a brief period then quits when things get a little too challenging. They aren’t persistent for a few days, a few weeks, or even a few months. They are persistent all the time.

The Psychology Of Enduring Success

Once you’ve succeeded, you can analyze your experiences to find out what you did right and how you could have done even better. You must then project those lessons into your future ventures.

Above all, you have to stay hungry. Most people who succeed tend to party, and they lose all the momentum that they have built up. You have to work as hard when you’ve succeeded as when you were working on becoming successful.

Enduring success means keeping your success going after you have succeeded, reaching ever higher goals, more intense victories, and finer accomplishments.

The Psychology Of Learning Cycles

This is how life works: you try something new, you make mistakes, you fail, you learn from these mistakes. When you try again, you make new mistakes and you fail again, learning new things to avoid. This cycle repeats itself…until you get surprisingly good at something.

When you become highly skilled at something, people laud you as a genius, a wizard, a natural. They think of you as the gifted one.

But what actually happened? You patiently tried, failed, and observed. You acted with faith to try again. You persisted being patient and faithful. Then, almost unexpectedly, you succeeded. By the time, you get to this point, your success far exceeds the price of failure you paid.

Success is a slow, steady, sure progression, a gradual movement upward from one victory to another.

The Psychology Of Hard Work

No doubt about it…most people will not succeed in most things. They don’t find the steady, persistent path appealing, and they think working long and hard is some kind of mental aberration.

Hard work is not popular because modern society has trained us to be idle, expecting instant gratification as consumers, instant amusement with television, and instant information through computers. Nature favors the strong, the bold, the enduring. Natural laws of success are based on thinking, feeling, and action working in perfect alignment. Skipping or going light on the action part throws the law of attraction out of whack. As Tony Robbins is fond of saying in his hoarse voice, “You have to take MASSIVE action.”

Advertisers don’t sell personal development courses with words like “requires hard-work, a great attitude, and steady and persistent effort. Expect to fail often before slowly discovering better ways to do things. ” No, instead you get the impression that you can change a lifetime of bad habits in a few days. They sell the seminars, the books, the DVDs that will change your life as soon as you’ve been exposed to their dynamic content! Motivational courses merely touch the surface of what you need to do to change your life. Avoid “quick and easy”. You know by now it’s a lie.

Sometimes, of course, there are faster and more efficient ways to do something…but you’ll only get there by using slow and steady ways to learn a process first.

The Psychology Of Overcoming Failure

The sixth of the steps to success is understanding the role of temporary failure.

Families, schools and corporations teach us to fear mistakes. Most people live in a state of paralysis trying to follow a rule of society that contradicts the rule of life.

Mistakes have to be made before success is possible.

Everybody fails all the time. Yet we only notice the ones who keep failing fast until they know what not to do. It’s these people who understand success arises because of failure. They know that you have to fail your way to success.

Strive. Learn. Persist. Mistakes are not really mistakes until you see them as sign posts to stop. You will make mistakes of all magnitudes. It doesn’t matter…what does matter is your willingness to learn from them. By dissecting failure, you learn what not to do: you then succeed. Fix your errors. Move forward.

Forrest Gump lived a charmed life despite being surrounded by people who were smarter and more able. How did he do it? He never dwelled on his mistakes but moved past them to success.

True motivation and commitment, being hard-working, sticking with your opportunity, never losing confidence with your setbacks…these are the traits of winners.

In essence, defeat is the way to victory. Your victory is built on the back of your defeats. Failure is easier to understand than success. Failure is a past event that can be dissected. Success is a future event that has to be realized. You only lose when you stop playing. Otherwise, keep moving forward, steadily, surely, persistently. PERSISTENCE wins!

The Psychology Of Passion

The seventh of the steps to success is burning passion.

When you love to do what you do, then you’ll find your passion. Use the fire of this emotion not to burn yourself out, but to ignite the enduring qualities of patience, faith, and persistence. Passion teaches you how to develop patience, faith, and persistence.

Stay in motion. Follow your dream. You will SUCCEED.

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