How You Can Develop Success in Your Life 

The Oxford dictionary describes success as ‘the accomplishment of an aim or purpose.’ Sounds simple, right? But what aim and what purpose? What success means for one person may be something totally different to you! 

So, what does success mean to you? And how do you develop yourself to be ‘successful’? This blog will look at the top five traits in the super successful and how you can develop these traits to. 

Wildly successful people all share certain traits. However, they’re not super-human traits. You too can identify and develop these traits if you truly want to succeed. Yes, with hard work and determination, you can become one of the super successful! 

In your journey to achieve your goals, you’ll invariably have to deal with challenges, and even setbacks, from time to time. Every successful person faces some hardship along the way. From personal experience, I have had more setbacks and challenges thrown at me along the way. What makes me successful in what I do is the drive to finish what I start and to be resilient to what life throws my way. It is important to remember that those with the drive to succeed will generally stop at nothing until they achieve their success in their own right.   

Here are the top five super success traits, along with tips to help you acquire success traits: 

1. Having a strong belief in yourself and what you’re doing. Put your whole heart into your endeavours and truly believe that you can succeed in what you set out to accomplish. If you run into a snag in the road, find something positive you can learn from the situation and use that to keep moving forward. If necessary, develop a new plan to overcome the challenge.  

• Think positively about yourself in all aspects of your life. In order to avoid being too critical, keep in mind that no one is perfect and accept that you’ll make mistakes just like any other human. As valuable learning experiences, mistakes can actually benefit you. 

2. Being organised and having clear plans. Successful people are organised. They know what they want and how they’re going to get there. They develop clear goals with specific action steps to achieve them. Plus, they know where they are on that road to success at all times. This is where a mentor or coach can help you. 

• You can develop this skill by starting with your general organisational skills. Start small by organising your desk space. Then organise your notes. Move onto planning out your success by setting clear and achievable goals. 

• What do you want? How are you going to get there? Make a detailed plan of achievable action steps that will take you all the way through accomplishing your goal. Then follow your plan. It’s your map to success. Remember SMART goals – Specific, Measurable, Achievable, Realistic and Timely. There is no point setting yourself up for failure by not clearly defining what you want to do and how you’re going to get it.  

3. Perseverance. Sometimes the difference between success and failure is pure perseverance. There will be times when you’re faced with difficult challenges. You may even feel like giving up. However, it’s important to find the strength within you to pull yourself through, even in these tough times. Sometimes a set back is just another obstacle for you to learn by. 

• In order to develop perseverance, reflect on how you normally handle conflicts in life. Do you give up easily when faced with a challenge? Think of those times you gave up. What could you have done differently to encourage yourself to keep going? 

• After reflecting on your normal mode of operation, start changing your mindset about challenges. Instead of bemoaning the challenge, seek a way to overcome it so you can complete your task. Do this each day, with even small challenges, and soon you’ll find yourself persevering through larger challenges with ease. 

4. The drive to keep learning and achieving. Super successful people realise that they’re always students. They may be a master of a certain subject, but there’s always something new they can develop or learn. Once they achieve one goal, then they use their current knowledge to help them learn something else that brings them even more success. You can never learn too much! 

• It’s okay to take a break to enjoy your success once you’ve achieved a goal, but always ask yourself what’s next. There’s always a way that you can expand your success. Don’t just stop once you’ve achieved your goal. Sometimes the process is even more important than the goal itself. 

5. No fear of failure.  For me FAIL stands for First Attempt In Learning.  And FEAR? False Evidence Appearing Real.  What makes you fear the task or obstacle in your way? Is it the way you view the situation (FEAR) or is it the prospect of failing the first time? The super successful don’t waste their time worrying about failure. They know that everyone must take certain risks if they’re going to achieve success and that some ideas might not work out. You only fail if you give up or decide not to try at all. If you’re still trying, then you haven’t failed! 

• Just as with the other traits, overcoming a fear of failure can be accomplished by starting small. Start out by taking some minor risks. See how most of them work out fine when you expect the best and seek solutions to the challenges? The more ideas you try, the more successes you’ll have, and you’ll feel confident about forging ahead without fear.  

To attain the life of the super successful, the most important thing to remember is to always give your all. Adopt these success traits as your own, and soon you’ll find that nothing can stop you from achieving your goals!