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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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It’s a word we use constantly. Authors of self-help books use it in their titles all the time. If you are a human being with any kind of goal or project, you want it. But what does it actually mean? How do we define success?

We may all want success, but we don’t all see it in the same way. One person’s success may be another’s failure. Some people would be very happy to get a B in exam. For some people, anything less than an A is a failure.

What does a successful person look like? Do you imagine someone with an expensive, fast car with a Rolex watch? Do you think about a sportsperson winning a gold medal? A great contributor to humanity, such as Ghandi? Or do you imagine a person who is merely happy?

If we have achieved our goals, but are not happy, are we truly successful? Perhaps this just means that we have not clearly defined our own terms of success. If achieving our goals does not bring fulfilment, perhaps it was someone else’s goal we were aiming for. Our parents, peers and teachers may be very good at imposing their own views of what success means, but the danger is that it may not ultimately be ours, and it can take a long time to find this out.

There are many different definitions of success. Before we travel the road on the journey to our goals, we need to be sure that we understand our own vision of success.

For example, let us say that you own your own online home business. Of course, you want it to be successful. But what does this success look like for you? Is it extra income so that you can go on an extra holiday every year? Do you want it to bring you a full time income so you can leave your current job? Or do you want to be another Matt Morris of Success University and make millions? Which of these definitions means the most to you?

The other danger, other than not defining our own terms, is that we set our terms too high. I’m not saying we should not have big goals – we can all benefit from thinking big – but if our only goal in life is to be a millionaire, it might just take a little time to feel successful! Why not be successful every day? There are many ways in which we can set ourselves little goals or tasks for every day, or every week so we can feel we are making progress and be a successful person.

Here’s an example. One of my biggest goals is to become a bestselling author. However, I don’t think that I am not successful because I have not yet achieved that. For me, I am successful if I write every day and am continually working towards my main goal. I have other writing successes, such as completing four novels and having articles published in glossy magazines. Yet, while these are all successful achievements, they are also stepping stones towards more confidence, more goals and greater achievement.

While we are aiming for the stars, we also need to look around us and see where we are successful every day.

To find your own success definitions, ask yourself the following: What is important to you? Write a list of your important values such as integrity, humour, family or freedom and make sure your goals fit in with these. When did you last feel happy and proud of yourself? What were you doing, or what had you achieved?

If you want success in life there are many resources, such as life coaching, or online websites such as Success University. But first you need to define success on your own terms. Once you have done that, you take action to achieve it, and achieve it daily.



By: Rosamunde Bott

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