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2: Success Fundamentals  YouTube

  

    Whatever we want to achieve, greater success may be realized when we apply the basics. While achieving objective goals is well known and documented for many objective goals, successful living as an original means navigating uncharted waters. We are required to create and maintain a personal playbook as we weren’t born with one, although there is evidence that some, maybe much of it, is encrypted in our DNA. While every person’s success essentials with be unique, they may include some or all of the following:

   ü   Desire: Wanting to achieve a particular goal.

   ü   Motivation: The reason(s) for pursuing it.

   ü   Commitment: Investing the necessary time, focused.

   ü   Competence: Achieving excellence, then maintaining it.

   ü   Persistence: Staying the course, no… matter… what…

    My significant accomplishments can be characterized in this sentence: “I have been successful when I identified a specific objective, had compelling reasons to do so, committed the time, focus and resources to attain the desired result… no matter what.”

    As have so many, my most fulfilling successes have followed what seemed failures at the time, a seemingly common feature among so many of the successful I have known. For instance, in high school I wanted to become a math and science teacher. It didn’t happen. I failed at college then joined the Air Force where, trained as a radar technician I did so well in tech school I was assigned as an instructor. Returning to college I completed a degree in electrical engineering launching a professional journey which became a forty year serendipitous excursion in computer and network technology through sales, product management leading to technical seminar development and delivery until I retired in 2001 ready to participate in what I had set aside before.

   

Suggestion: Considering past achievements, identify your success essentials then complete this sentence stem to identify your personal nature, “I am successful when I …”

  

#1: Premises | #3: Triad | #4: Questions | #5: Stages of Living | #6: The Process

  

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