11 Principles Of Success

There are no guarantees in life. None. There are however, things you can do that can greatly increase your chances of attaining your goals and living the life you want and deserve. If you want to become successful, here are 11 success principles that if you follow and work hard can guide you on your journey.

11 Principles of a successful life.

1 - Get prepared

The first thing you need to do is get ready, and prepare. It's the foundation you'll build your house of success upon. When preparation meets opportunity, that's when you'll have an opening to realize your goals. Without preparation, if your opportunity comes, you very well may squander it away.

2 - Do what you love

No matter what you do, you'll have to do it well to be successful. Your professional life will end up dominating a huge chunk of time in your life. If you're not passionate about what you're doing, you'll not only be miserable, but you'll run a higher risk of failure.

3 - Start

Every end has a start. If you're going to visualize and plan something, you can only do it for so long. Starting is half the battle, so don't procrastinate. Small steps every day lead to big things down the road.

4 - Move forward

Like I said in the last step, small steps every day lead to big things in the future. It doesn't matter if you progress fast or slow, so long as you're heading in the right direction. Action builds on action, so if you're constantly moving towards your goals, good things will happen.

5 - Use your imagination and think big

What you dream and visualize today will become your future. You just have to work on turning your vision into reality. While you're visualizing, you might as well visualize great success and big things. If you set your bar high and fall short, you'll still be ahead of where you would be if you set your goals too low and achieve them. There are no limits and there is no impossible. There's only things that haven't been done YET!

6 - Focus on growth

Baby steps every day. There will be challenges, there will be obstacles, but keep moving forward. Use failures and obstacles as opportunities to grow smarter, better, more equipped to handle the success that is sure to be coming your way.

7 - Set goals along your journey

A final goal should always be in mind, but you need intermediate goals that set the path along the way. These goals should be specific, measurable, realistic, and attainable. These intermediate goals define the steps that you need to take to get to the final one.

8 - Work out plans of action for your work

For each individual goal, have plans to reach them. Your plan describes how you can reach each step from where you are, or where you'll be. The future is never certain, and things rarely work out exactly how you plan. Therefore, see these plans as showing one or more possible routes so you have more than one option to reach your final destination.

Still, knowing the plan means you can avoid issues that might compromise your chances of reaching a goal on time... or at all.

9 - Commit yourself fully

Once you start going, keep going. Never, never, never give up. If you find an obstacle in your way, go below, under, over, through it, or go around it. The only way to really fail is to give up. If you keep going you'll no doubt succeed. If you hit the limits of what's possible, regroup and find another way.

10 - Get your mind right

Have affirmations and stay positive. Even repeating things like "I'm getting more and more successful." The idea is that they reinforce and see the positive in your actions. With affirmations, you are defining your own reality. By transmitting a positive world view to your mind, you end up adopting this view. As this happens, it helps shape the world around you to fit it, which means it helps make the world around you one that reflects a reality of you getting more successful every day.

Avoid harmful influences around you that might shake you from your goal. Keep people and ideas around you that support your success and your belief in yourself. Just remember, you become the average of the 5 people you spend the most time with. Have no time to negative people.

11 - Be grateful and appreciate what you have

The final success principle is to appreciate what you have already. It's really easy in this day in age to get caught up in things that don't really matter, and easy to get jealous of people who've already achieved what you're going for. Being truly happy with life isn't having what you want, but wanting what you have. Appreciate what you've achieved up to this point, and see that what you want, where you're going, is not what you need or what you must do. Rather, these are things and actions that will make your situation even better.