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No Shortcuts Towards Your Journey To Success

My definition of success that I got from Tom Hopkins many years ago is that success is a journey towards the achievement of predetermined worthwhile goals.

When you take a deeper look at this statement, it is expressing that success is different for everyone. Each of us is on our own journey towards our own success and so we must focus on our own journey and not someone else's success or someone else's journey.

If we're looking at someone else's success, we are taking the eye off the ball. We're taking our eyes off of our journey and that could quickly lead us to get off the tracks.

Have you ever looked at a co-worker or another entrepreneur and think, "How did they become so successful so quickly?" It's easy to focus on what we see, that being successful seems to be little time or requires very little effort. The problem is that we're just seeing the results and not the effort that it took for them to get there. When we do this, we are losing focus of our own path and this will cause us to create big bottlenecks in our personal success journey. As the saying goes, the grass is always greener on the other side, right? This just breeds envy that leads to no peace of mind. And because we're chasing the wrong path, we're too busy counting someone else's blessings instead of counting our own.

In the book Ethics of Our Fathers a Great Sage once asked, "Who is rich?" He said, "one who is happy with what they have."

Often times we drive ourselves to the point of depression because we want to be where someone else is instead of simply being happy with the journey that we are on. We have to remember that we're exactly where we’re supposed to be. Like I said, we only see the results and not the journey.

What we don't see is that this journey didn't happen overnight. It took many years and many months of learning and doing to get where they are today. We don't see those extra hours that they put in, the sleep that they forfeited, or even the family events that they missed. The point is there is no such thing as an overnight success. Again, there is no such thing as an overnight success. Success is built on disciplined focus.

At ActionCOACH, we actually have a formula of success that we teach our clients. It's a simple powerful formula. DREAMS x GOALS x LEARN x PLAN x ACTION = SUCCESS. This is the formula that we share with our clients and it has helped them achieve dreams that they never even thought were possible.

If you want to achieve success, you're going to be disappointed by chasing someone else's path. Your success is not the success you see other people achieve. Focus on your dreams and your own goals. What you need to learn is to create your plan or journey and then take action to see your true success come true. When this happens, it will look like it happened out of nowhere. You will look like that overnight success but you know better -- the time it took to develop your dreams and your goals, the learnings that you had that turns you into the person who can achieve those goals, your plan, and your journey to reach those predetermine worthwhile goals. Most importantly it is you who took the action on your path to make this journey and success possible.

If you want to learn more about that formula of success and how to create your own success journey, I invite you to schedule a free strategy session with me.