We have always wondered what it takes to be successful. All of us know the conventional way. That is good to know, but difficult to start. This time, let's have a look at unconventional recipe for success.
- Don't chase money, power or status
If they come to you, that's fine. But conventional ideas about success go wrong because they focus on outcomes instead of on the processes of living. Outcomes come around from time to time, but life itself - the process of living, acting, thinking and being - happens all the time. - Take whatever time it takes to discover what matters to you the most
Success isn't simply a matter of money, power or prestige. You could gain all of those and still feel that you have fallen short of what you wanted. We struggle for years to get where other people said we should go, only to find it does little or nothing for us. - Don't base your choices on others' approval
We all want to please those we care about, so it's natural to try to do what they approve. But even the most loving parent or friend can't always see what is going to make your heart sing. Listen to others. Value their input and their support. But go your own way. It's better to be committed to doing what you truly love than accept something lesser for the sake of being approved by someone else. - Stay authentic
That means always doing what truly matters to you and is part of who you are. Somewhere inside of you is a part that recalls what truly matters and will never quite let you forget it. Over the years, that inner voice is only going to get louder. - Go for meaning over money over time
It's perfectly possible to do something meaningless to you and earn a great deal of cash while doing so. Doing something that means a great deal to you almost always makes you feel energized and alive. It's your choice. - Be endlessly greedy - for learning
You can never learn too much or overfill your mind with new ideas. Nothing is more useful in life than a well-developed, well-stocked mind, especially one that has been broadened and enlarged in the process. There have been plenty of near geniuses whose education was almost entirely self-produced. - Make a friend of failure
You are certain to fail sometimes and the higher your aspirations, the more frequent and significant that failure will be. People who don't strive for anything glorious rarely fail; they take no risks and never aim beyond what is easily attainable. But if you treat failure as an enemy, it's going to lead only to discouragement and even the abandoning of your hopes and dreams. Failure can be a friend, point out what isn't right yet and showing you the way to do better. The more proficient you become at accepting the lessons of failure, the quicker you will succeed. - Make sure that every time you make a mistake, it's a new one
Making the same mistake several times shows that you haven't learned what it can teach you. Making new mistakes proves that you're trying something different. The best definition of a loser is someone who makes the same mistakes over and over again, never managing to learn anything in the process. Such a person is doomed. - Choose to spend your time with the right people
Whether they're powerful or not, the best people to spend time with are those from whom you can learn most: the ones whose own lives have brought them joy and endless fulfillment. That means people who do what they love and love what they do. Seek them out wherever you can. Listen to them. Never mind if they are no longer living. Read their books and emulate their largeness of spirit. Learn from them all, but don't simply copy what they did in this world.What you need to use as models are their ways of thinking and responding to the challenges of the world; the process of their lives, not what it happened to contain. - Drop whatever is consistent with these principles
That means all activities that don't move you forward towards what you value most; things that get in the way of learning; pursuits that waste time and dull your senses; and people who hold you back. You may sometimes have to be ruthless. Each of us has only one life. If you waste it, you don't get another chance. Besides, if you have chosen your dreams and aspirations wisely, what you must leave behind by dropping what's inconsistent with those dreams and will not be worth worrying about anyway.
If you use this "unconventional" recipe for cooking your success, nobody can stop it from creating a masterpiece.
Just be happy without a reason, keep a smile all the season,
Life is too short to be stressed, so stay happy, stay blessed!!
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