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Wednesday, March 13, 2013
Today's Writing Prompt: Secret of Success
Why do you think some people are successful in life and others are not?
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Malcolm Gladwelll put his finer on it: application, working on something until you are very good at it. Whether it's playing the violin or being a leader in your field be it computers or politics or anything else. You've got to work at it and then the "luck" begins to happen. In other words you care and do what's important to you.
Not really sure. Some are placed in the right place at the right time and some are just determined and have an unbelievable drive. Some are just born with a knack or sense for what they do and just go with it effortlessly.
I think doing continuously what you love and also concentrating on how your work might benefit fellow humans.
Cherry on the cake would be: working without expectations.
If i love to write and repeatedly do the same and i meet my guides who will help me and i will work relentlessly without any sense of ego then i think success might touch me or probably any one who works to make a difference and not to make money.
Attitude and Effort
Luck, hard work and a bit more luck. Luck to find something you enjoy and to have the time and resources to be able to become really good at it. Hard work - the dedication and determination to stick with the thing until you are really good at it. More luck to be in the right place, with the right connections, to allow you to show the fruits of your hard work to the world.
It's all about wanting it more. Successful people eat and breath dream success. Those that are not successful seem to want to sleep on the thought of it and hit it hard the next day. I, unfortunately, have been known to sleep on it more often than I would like to admit. I am trying to change my ways though.
If the definition of success is achievement of one's goals, then whether or not one is successful is subjective - a matter of opinion.
So I ask, how do you know I'm not successful if you have not inquired about my goals? And suppose I am not successful in explaining my goals but have achieved them nevertheless?
Ah, success, is it an illusion?
My thoughts... http://ariadnearanea.wordpress.com/2013/03/13/success-and-the-void/
I know this one!!! After working in education I have seen the difference between the successful student and the student who does not meet goals. Not brains, not luck but drive. A willingness to work hard with energy and positive attitude.
Success is based on our subjective perceptions. It is not up to anyone else to define it for us; it is highly individualized. Everything is that way, just because some loud mouth spouts rhetoric doesn't mean anything. A housewife plus or minus college degree and corporate job might see herself as a successful wife and mother and care less about the corporate world. A corporate person who is lonely, divorced, and/or carries a four star resume might see themselves as only successful professionally- and their personal lives sacrificed.
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