Your personal success would depend on what you know about, and how you handle, yourself and the circumstances in your life. Handle whatever you could control in a manner that would foster beneficent outcomes. Here are five keys you could use to achieve personal success.
Having a vivid purpose that is overarching across all aspects of your life is a critical secret of success. Such a purpose should not come from temporary fads or the spur of the moment. It should come from a deep understanding that there are many aspects to one's life and success would come by setting an overarching purpose based on core values that are relevant to various aspects of one's life. Any limiting value or a focus on a purpose that is hindering broader aspects of life would be self-defeating. You would think of constructing an overarching purpose based on how you answer the following key questions: How do you see your life? What do you want to become in life? How woud you like to be remembered at the end of your life?
The better you know yourself and the more you discover about your talents and strengths, the more prepared you would be to direct and script your life to success,—particularly regarding making the most of your talents and abilities as opportunities present themselves or as you are able to create such opportunities. Is there any fascinating insight about yourself that you could use or develop for great personal success? Get to know yourself better.
Without change, there is no progress. More importantly, without committing to making the neccessary change in aspects of personal growth, you would not make much progress to achieve your life purpose. What could those changes be? Your comfort zones may have to be challenged, but, to make progress, find where you need to make changes and resolve to making the necessary changes.
The better you know yourself and the more you discover about your talents and strengths, the more prepared you would be to direct and script your life to success...
Are you ready and willing to seek help when you need it? First, recognize that you may be limited in many cases and that you would need help. You would go far in life if you know how to build goodwill and win with people. Be alert to areas where you need help. Seek and use all the help you need when you need them.
Do what needs to be done in the arena of self-growth and personal development to become better able to achieve the important things in your life. Keep monitoring and assessing how you are progressing based on specific milestones in aspects of personal development—as well as indicators of goal attainment linked with your overarching purpose.
Comments are moderated to maintain the integrity of our content and BetterPoise.Com
A consumate practising psychologist and coach, first-class organizational development specialist and state governance consultant, is based in Lagos, Nigeria. He holds Ph.D. of the University of London. He leads Psychology Associates and coordinates BetterPoise.Com.
He also coordinates ODSynergy.Com, which offers insights and soliutions on total organization development for sustained organizational leadership, high-performance, and transformation.