The First Step

To achieve Success in life, you must be able to define it. I don’t mean the dictionary.com definition from my previous post J

To achieve ‘success’ you must first tell yourself what the word means to you. Not to your friend or your mom or your teacher… but what it means to you personally. Is success having a good job? Is it being settled in life? Is it touring the world? What is it that you want to do that will define your success?

The first step is to have a goal. How will you get anywhere when you don’t know where you want to go? You need to have a set destination, only then will you strive to reach it and only then will you be called ‘successful’. And it’s not just a direction mind you. A destination!

If you say, “I want to make it big in music”, this will be the direction. It’s like starting from New York by road and saying, “I want to make it far out West”. You could be heading all the way to California or Oregon. Or maybe Montana or Idaho is far enough. Either way, you make it far out west! Which of these destinations will you call a success? And is reaching the destination enough; or do you want to reach it in a particular number of days? How do you want to reach it; in any particular state of mind or with any particular company? Only once you answer all these questions will you have a ready goal to achieve. And when you achieve it, success!

So let’s define success in the above example again. You could say “I want to record 10 music albums and rule the hit singles charts” Now that’s more like a goal. That’s also more likely to be a SUCCESS