Achieving Success
By
Joleen Smith
Excerpt
from New Straits Times (
Success is something that all of us dream
of. We love to hear and read stories of successful people and we wish we can emulate
them. We even attend seminars and workshops with the hope that it will impart
on us some success habits. Success may
seem a little difficult but it is nevertheless something that everyone is
capable of achieving, if they seriously want to. To be successful, there are
some things that we need to have as fundamentals.
In hearing or reading about successful
people, we will see that it's only those who have the confidence in their goals
or dreams that take the first step in working on achieving their success. Many
people lack confidence as they believe they're not capable of being successful.
They believe its the others who can make it and not
them as they're just too plain ordinary. Well, almost all successful people
were plain ordinary people before they had the confidence to have a dream and
work on the dream. Bill Gates, for
example, was not a world-renowned figure when he first started Microsoft Corp.
There’s a saying that goes only those who
dare will dream. Many people lack the courage, in the first place, to even
dream of achieving anything. They are just too afraid that they would fail.
Many successful people too never struck it rich the first time. Thomas Edison
and Alexander Graham Bell, for example, never got their inventions right on the
first attempt. Without courage, they would have given up hope after one or two
tries.
Once you've determined what your goal is and
start working on it, be committed to seeing it
through. Write out a step-by-step plan. That will definitely help in seeing to
that you achieve your goal. It's commitment that makes people keep on trying
especially when they face many obstacles. Take the Wright brothers as a good
example. If they had given up hope and
were not committed in seeing their aircraft fly, we would've never experienced
air travel.
In trying to achieve our goals and dreams,
we are bound to face many challenges. Success, everyone would agree, doesn't
come easy. Some successful people have gone through hardships that would make
many of us cringe just thinking about. Should we give up when we face
hardships, then we will lose our battle in becoming successful. But it's perseverance that keeps people going
when they really want to succeed. If you fail, try and try again. Never give
up. Success will be yours when you work at it.