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Do you know what determines your success? Why there are people who are so successful in their life, while there are also people who live a mediocre life? What are the differences that separate these two groups of people? So, if you want to achieve great success in your life, are you serious about it? Do you just talk about it and do nothing or you are willing to put in 100 percent commitment to make it come true?

Critical Success Factor 1 – Be Serious In Everything You Do

Therefore, the first critical success factor is this; you have to be serious in achieving success in your life. If you are not serious with it, you are never going to achieve it. Success is not something that will come by within a short period of time; you will never be rich or successful in just 24 hours. As the saying goes, “Rome was not built in a day”. So you will have to put in a lot of effort and time into it before you can see the result that you desire.

Now, if you are not serious in achieving success in your life, do you think that you can keep on taking action all the time without giving up? No, simply because when you are not serious, you will face a lot of obstacles in your journey. And if you cannot get rid of the obstacles, you will give up real soon. This is why you have to be serious in everything you do, especially in pursuing great success in your life. Learn this critical success factor now; be serious in everything you do. Even if you enjoy, enjoy it seriously.

Critical Success Factor 2 – Stay Away From Your Comfort Zone

I know a lot of people like to feel comfortable in their life. The thing is, when you are too comfortable, you will never achieve the success you desire. This is because success require hard work and you will have to take action to make it come true. Many people caught up in their comfort zone. They tell their friends that they want to be a millionaire; they want to be successful in their life. However, after a few minutes, they tend to forget about what they have said and they watch television instead of taking action to make their dreams come true.

Always remember this, if you are feeling comfortable with your life now, you will never be successful. You need to get out of your comfort zone in order to take the necessary action. The feeling of staying in your comfort zone is good, but it will never bring you anything you want in your life. If you want to stay the same old way and live the same old life, you can keep on staying in your comfort zone. But if you desire great success and want to make changes to your life, you will have to stay away from your comfort zone. You have to pay for what you want in your life. So stay away from your comfort zone, this is the second critical success factor, let’s continue to the third.

Critical Success Factor 3 – You Must Set Your Goals

Nothing is going to happen automatically in your life. Everything happens for a reason. Just like if you are reading this article right now, it is because you are looking for success related articles, and that is why you stumbled across this article. The same thing goes for success, it will not come automatically. You will not wake up the next day and found that you have $1 million in your bank; you will not wake up the next day and found that you have a BMW in your garage.

Things happen because of some reasons. So, you must set your goals in order to achieve great success in your life. If you are not designing your own road map, you will never reach your destination. This is why goal setting is so important in our life. When you don’t have a clear goal in your life, you will feel boring and you will feel that life has no purpose. All of these are because you don’t have a clear goal. The moment you know what you want in your life, you will tell yourself that you need to go on because there are things you need to get it done. Goals will give you focus and keep you in track. After all, every successful people set their goals, and if you want to be one of them, you have to follow their footsteps.

By following through these 3 critical success factors above, I believe that you can achieve anything you want in your life. Often, success is all about your mindset and habit. You were born the same like Albert Einstein, Michael Jordan, Bill Gates, Warren Buffet, etc. What you are lacking, is the mindset and the habits of successful people.

Always remember these 3 critical success factor, they are the ones that will determine your future. So start taking action and make your dreams come true today.



By: Shawn Lim

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Everyone wants to be successful.  Unfortunately, only a small portion of them actually achieve the things that they really want in their life. Successful people held different belief and mindset in achieving success in their life, which is why they are successful. Therefore, if you want to be successful today, you have to model the belief and the mindset of the successful people, and you will be able to create the similar amazing results just like them.

1. Make success a ‘must’ achieve in your life instead of just dream. Every successful people know that if they want to be successful, they will have to put in 100% commitment and make success a ‘must’ for them. When you make something a ‘must’ achieve, you will do whatever it takes to achieve it. So ask yourself, are you willing to do whatever it takes to achieve success? Is achieving success in your life something a ‘must’ or just a dream?

2. Get out of your comfort zone if you want to be successful. Success will never come automatically, you will have to put in real effort to make it come true. Hence, you need to get out of your comfort zone. As long as you stay in your comfort zone, you will never improve and you will never take the necessary action. There is no free lunch in this world; you will have to sacrifice your time and energy to achieve the things that you want in your life.

3. Never give up no matter what happened. This is one of the most crucial factors that are going to determine your success. If you give up, you will never achieve the things that you want. Therefore, do not give up even if you fail to achieve success. Instead, change your strategies and treat failure as feedback. You fail because you are using the wrong strategies. Keep on trying with different strategies until you achieve what you want. This is the main recipe to success.

If you notice, the above tips are not ‘secrets’. Yes, success requires no secrets but hard work and smart work. You will need to put in a lot of effort in achieving the things you want in your life. Do exactly just like what successful people do, and you will be just like them.



By: Shawn Lim

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Nearly everyone wants to be successful in his or her life, I say nearly everyone because you can find people who actually have no desires to succeed in anything other than to just make it day to day. Sad really.

So if this is the case, if people truly desire success and everything that comes with it such as: financial freedom, time freedom, house and car of their dreams, exotic vacations around the world, stay at the finest hotels, etc, why do people have a fear of success?



For each person there will be a different reason or reasons, you can not lump everyone into one category and say this is why people fear success, or can you?

I have read many articles on this subject and they are usually dealing with one aspect of why people fear success or many different reasons why people have the fear of success.

However there is one common denominator to each of the reasons given and that it all boils down to one thing: Fear of Change.

It doesn’t matter what reason that is given for having this fear of success cause the things that are necessary for you to be successful are going to be different from what you have been doing in the past.

Let’s look at some of the reasons I have seen or read about for people having the fear of success.

1. Comfort Zone. There is a reason why it’s called the comfort zone. People are comfortable being there. Everything is familiar to them there, there is nothing that is hardly unknown and when there is familiarity there is nothing scary to have to deal with. Nothing to be on edge or excited about.

Well in order to become successful you are going to have to change. You are going to have to leave your comfort zone and do it on a repeated basis. That is the only way you can grow and learn as a person and your business. Having to do this just once for a lot of people is scary enough but the very thought of having to keep on doing it on a regular basis is just too much to handle for many people.

Fear of change - having to leave your comfort zone.

2. Responsibility. You have to be responsible for yourself and the decisions you make along the way in growing your business. You are in charge, in the lead, and it’s up to you. Again there is change here. If you were already a leader by nature chances are you do not have a fear of success other wise you would not be a natural leader. So change must take place. You must do things that do not come naturally to you. You are leaving that comfort zone again. You must become a leader even if it’s just you who you are leading. No one else is going to make decisions for you.

Fear of change, having to take responsibility.

3. Attention factor. Are you a private person? Again change is going to have to take place. Now I am not saying you are going to lose all your rights to privacy just because you wish to have success. What I am saying is that you can no longer just blend into the crowd and not be noticed. If you wish success you are going to have to stand out, get noticed and you will. With success comes attention, no matter what field you are in, more people will know who you are.

Fear of change, having the attention now on you.

4. Higher Standards. When you are a success or climbing that ladder of success more will be demanded of you and you are going to be expected to perform at a higher level. And you should. You are going to have to go that extra mile. Just getting by, doing just enough and not meeting demands will not work. You will be expected to perform well and come through, meeting deadlines and being on time and do this on a regular basis. So again it is change we are talking about. Let’s face it, if you were already doing these things chances are you would already be a success at whatever you wish to do.

Fear of change, having to raise your standards and what is expected of you.

5. Friends / Enemies. This will happen. Get ready. When you become successful people start viewing you differently. They may gain respect or have more respect for you because of what you have accomplished or they will become envious of your newfound success and no longer wish to speak to you or just talk behind your back. People who you thought were your friends or not really true friends and co-workers whom you may not even had any sort of previous contact with just despise you just because of your success.

“Few men have the natural strength to honour a friend’s success without envy.” Aeschylus

Many people’s fear of success stem from this one reason, they do not wish to take a chance in losing friends or co-workers. These people are in their comfort zone. The thought of making new friends is just too much.

This was one of my past fears. However what I found out once I was able to get through this block was that making new friends with like minded individuals was much more rewarding. I would rather have friends that celebrate me than tolerate me.

Fear of change, may have to make new friends, be talked about by envious co-workers, accepting the idea that people who you thought they were are not who they really are.

6. Self Image. To me this is one of the major setbacks for the fear of success with people. They can not see themselves as being successful. They don’t feel they are worthy of any success that comes their way. Here again people do not wish to leave that comfort zone they have built around themselves. Before any success will come your way the very first thing that must change is you. You must change how you think, see and feel about yourself.

You must think positive and believe you are a winner. You must visualize yourself as successful. You have got to see yourself being a success before you can become a success. Also you must feel it within and know it to be true.

Fear of change, having to accept the idea you are worthy of success.

“Success will not lower its standard to us. We must raise our standard to success.” Rev. Randall R. McBride, Jr.

No matter what category you fall under as your reason or reasons for your fear of success it all comes down to change. You must change in order to see change in your life. Nothing changes until you do.

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