How to become successful in life
How to become successful in life ?
This is a question that is lingering in the minds of all ambitious people and even some of those who lack ambition.
Suppose that you wanted to have big muscles, should you ask your skinniest friend for help? Or should you ask someone who has already got big muscles?
There are thousands of Blogs that talk about success but the advice you should really follow are those that are written by people who are already successful!!
I am 27 years old, I am more than half way to becoming a self made millionaire, i make a five digit income each month from bed, I appear on television every week and my website got 8,000,000 Visits. If this is successful enough for you then read my own thoughts about how to become successful in life.
Successful by force
The road to success is like the marathon race, hundreds start at the beginning but only few reach anywhere near the end of it.
The one real secret to becoming successful in life is to have a strong desire for success that empowers you to overcome the rejection, pain, criticism and the difficulties you will face on your way.
If you want to become successful in life then you must understand that the only way to become successful in this life is to force your way even if the circumstances are not favorable. Successful people aren’t the ones who were born in favorable conditions but they are the ones who managed to keep going despite the setbacks they were facing.
A true success story
The previous picture shows one of the biggest setbacks i faced while trying to make 2knowmsyelf popular. The circle in red marks a period of time where one of Wikipedia’s editors removed all the links pointing to 2knowmyself from the site!!
This hasn’t only resulted in a big drop in traffic but it has also reduced my monthly income greatly.
At this point I had to either accept what happened or give up but I didn’t. I started to learn aggressively about internet marketing, internet research findings and E-commerce till I managed to increase the site’s traffic beyond the highest mark I have ever achieved when Wikipedia used to link to me.
Today 2knowmyself stands out as of the top 100k websites on the web according to Alexa and makes me between 28,000 and 33,000 thousands a month. (See my book How i did it)
Success Is all about learning to say no to whatever stands in your way, jumping over the obstacles you face and forcing your way through locked doors or even concrete walls.
If you want to become successful in life then here is a quick list of the skills you must have:
- Believe in yourself: What else can motivate you to continue moving from a failure to a failure other than knowing that in the end you are going to make it? If you don’t believe in yourself then you will never become successful (see believing in yourself)
- Understand how the road to success looks like: rejection, failure , criticism and pain should be your close friends. Get used to them instead of hating them because they will accompany you at many phases of your journey to success.
- Persistence: Sticking to your goals even if everything was going in the wrong direction is the type of persistence that can help you become successful. In the Solid Self confidence program i explained how the main difference between those who succeed and those who don't is that the first group keeps trying till the end while the second group gives up so early
In short, no one has became successful by coincidence, they all forced their way through rejections and failures until they did it.
