2 parts, 3 truths and 2 habits of success.
The Two sides of success.
Uncover the truth about Success.
Habits of success.
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After going through Wharton's Achieving Personal and Professional Success Specialization course, I was able to explore the strategies and approaches we need to define what success means to each and one of us. The material is a summary of the two weeks’ lecture. I am excited to be able to share it with you and look forward to seeing your comments and feedback below in comments.
Without thinking when someone asks you what do you think success means to you?
I bet the first response will be - well, I don't know, some would say success is happiness, -if you're happy, you're successful. But if you ask somebody what's your goal for your children, many of us would say, we just want them to be happy.
We’ve got this societal point of success view of the outer life where all that we celebrate is achievements and career and position and status and on the other hand, we have this inner life. Because we always observe successful people have one or the other
So what is success?
suc·cess
/səkˈses/ noun: 1. The accomplishment of an aim or purpose.
2. A person or thing that achieves desired aims or attains prosperity.
3. The attainment of popularity or profit.
THERE TWO aspects of success
the outer life of career, status, and achievement
and
the inner life of happiness and fulfillment
The outer life has to do with achievements, career, recognition, respect from others, the roles we play, and social occupations, and the outer life is what most people think of when they just hear the word success. Some people think, someone's successful means that they are, the CEO of a bank or they graduated from the top 5 colleges in the country, or they have some sort of invention or created an enterprise and recognized globally. So the outer life is what the media covers, the outer life is what magazines celebrate, and the outer life is what people get awards for. And for that reason, people often think that that's all it is.
The other part which is what most people really care about is the “inner” success of fulfillment, inner harmony, satisfaction, and happiness. It is almost a Zen-like, spiritual dimension, devotion to the satisfaction of a craft, and a family. People who lean toward inner success usually measure it by creating work, completing defined tasks to the best of their ability, and strong devotion to their families.
It’s hard to choose inner life over outer life. Sometimes because it looks so unimportant at first, but of course, at the end of your life most people think gee, I wish I could have another day so I could work some more, so they could be with the people they love.
That is why success is such a contradiction between these two sides. Because trying to resolve in life and balancing the outer life and the inner life - is hard. It is hard because we have to make choices in our lives choices that favor outer life, and then we have regrets and second-guessing because we've come up short on the inner life.
To resolve this inner conflict we have to uncover the Truth about Success.
#1
Many people, because they've read books or seen movies about success, have the impression that there is some single secret to success, a secret sauce or a receipt or course or download worksheet they figure out and everyone should try as a result you wake up successful. The truth about success is much more complicated. It's not a secret, it's complicated because the answer to these questions lies within you, not outside here. success is something that you carry with you. So no secrets, this is all going to be stuff that you find on your own, in yourself that I think will give you a higher sense of confidence in what it is that you're striving toward.
#2
The second truth is that this is not a quest to find it as much as it is a quest to recognize it. To recognize the patterns you already have within you, to recognize the values that you're striving to accomplish. These values may come from your family, they may come from your culture, they may come from religion.
#3
And then the third truth is that are no single foolproof techniques that work every time to achieve success. In the “how-to succeed” market, if you go to any book store, go online and Google the word success. You're going to find just boatloads of books on how to succeed and almost all of them are going to provide this one true path. The one true path may be goal setting, the one true path may be social skills, and the one true path may be mind power and visualization, and the power of your imagination to bring things into reality.
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We figure out parts of success we know what is not true or real about it how could you cultivate and practice success daily?
Let’s talk about Habits of success or successful people- people who have somehow integrated these two parts, the outer life of career, achievement, and whatever is going on in the social world, and the inner life of personal fulfillment and happiness and satisfaction.
Successful people have somehow managed to put the two together.
One habit of successful people is that they are spontaneously excited about what it is that they are doing. Enthusiasm and tend to learn from the mistakes they make. Because they're getting the energy from the inner life to apply it to the outer life, when they meet an obstacle, the energy tends to power them through the barrier, the mistake, the failure. They can get up and brush themselves off and keep going because they are pursuing a source of satisfaction that motivates them. So successful people have this inner energy that's helping power their outer achievements. And it means that they can be resilient and that they are in learning mode.
Habit number two is the Willingness to be Dissatisfied.
We all know the psychology behind that it's the power of positive thinking to think positively and to be happy and then that's the secret to success. Mmm not quite! In most experience, it's when we've been the most dissatisfied, the most unhappy with the result or situation outcome - that we have discovered the necessity, the urgency of making a change and moving in a better direction. It's just as important to recognize and acknowledge dissatisfaction when it occurs, you're not happy with the boss you have. You're not happy with the neighborhood you live in. You're not happy with the opportunities that are available with the education that you have. You're not happy with the way the political system's working. And it's out of those dissatisfied moments and the emotions that you feel that new actions then begin boggling our mind. And you begin to think how can I fix it, how can I move in a new direction, how can I power myself into a change that promises to be better for me?
And those 2 habits are things that people who claim to be successfully combined this inner and outer success in couple ways. The first is their excitement and their ability to get up when they fall down. And the other is they listen to their dissatisfaction, they respect their own dissatisfaction as a source of motivation. And then they begin looking to see who's done it better than they'd have
How to be done differently, so they seek those people out and start getting new ideas about how they can make their own lives better.
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