1. Take 100% Responsibility for Your Life – Don't blame everything or your parents or government, etc. for your failures. Remember, its always you who's responsible for what you are today. If you regret something and wish to hold someone responsible for what's happening today, just analyse your past, you come to know that it was always your decision and your call to make. When you stop blaming others for your failures, you'll get motivated and encouraged to go ahead and learn from your mistake. Otherwise you'll stop forever!
2. Live Your Life On Purpose - Do you have a Definite Chief Aim? No? Better have it as early in your life as you can. Millions of people fail and die without setting a definite purpose in life. You can never be successful unless you exactly know where you want to go, what you want to become and most important of all, how rich you want to become.
3. Be Willing to Pay the Price - Real and eternal success requires some price to be paid. You want to get a big house, a luxurious car or a great lifestyle? Then you should be willing to pay the price. Nothing is free in this world. Your dreams work. But you can't just have dreams and wait for the hidden hand to fulfil your dreams while you are sleeping.
4. Stay Focused – When you have a definite purpose in your life, stay focused. Always keep it in your mind while you are going to sleep and the first thing when you wake up! Visualise your dreams while you are awaken. When you are focused on your aim, barriers and hurdles are nothing. Because you are not focusing them but your purpose. You always pay attention worry about the things that you focus.
6. Write Out a Plan for Achieving Your Goals - PLANNING PLANNING PLANNING. I've been hearing or coming across the importance of this phrase many times everyday and as a matter of fact I still am unable to understand the importance of this word. Without planning is just like your are going from Karachi to Lahore without a road map. You could end up anywhere in between. Once you have a definite chief aim, make a plan to achieve and you opportunities will be visible to you only then!
7. Never Give Up -
“Pain is temporary. It may last a minute, or an hour, or a day, or a year, but eventually it will subside and something else will take its place. If I quit, however, it lasts forever.” ~ Lance Armstrong
Never never never give up! If you've failed, it's not the end, but for smart people, who want to achieve something really great, its a great opportunity to learn from mistakes.
8. Don’t Delay - Successful people don't rely on tomorrow. Whatever you want to do, try to do it today.
I had a great teacher who used to say, “Today is a check – cash it! Yesterday is an I.O.U. – forget it! Tomorrow is a promissory note, don’t bank on it!” I think that’s a pretty good summation of life, so go out there and cash in on that “today” check.
