Do you know how good you are at what you do? When was the last time you
did an objective evaluation of your
skills, abilities and aptitudes -
that determine how ''successful'' you are in whatever it is that you do?
Most people, especially those in the professional, entrepreneurial or
academic fields, have systematic ways available to them to gauge how
good they are at what they do - only that they don''t use those
measurement systems properly to their advantage.
Do you have a simple and understandable method to
measure your level of
success in what you do? For example, if you''re in business for
yourself, how do you measure your success? By the amount of sales
generated in a given time? By how much in total assets your business
owns? By how much free time you have while your business runs on
autopilot, generating profits for you with minimal maintenance?
How does a student measure her success, then? By how much her grades
have improved as compared to the number of hours she had spent
studying? Everyone has a way to quantitatively and qualitatively
measure their success. What is yours?
Observations and measurements compose only one part of the success
formula, but what is more important is how you feel about yourself,
specifically, how competent or ''
able'' you feel to achieve the targets
in your sights. Success in any endeavour depends on how well and how
fast you are able to learn the necessary skills that bring about
desired
results.
Success is an acquirable state - it can be
learned. It''s not written on
a stone tablet somewhere in the nether regions of the sky whether or
not you will be successful in life. In brief, like any other subject in
school, you can learn to be successful, just as you had been able to
learn the letters of the alphabet or stand on your own two feet. The
previous statement probably sounded simplistic but it is true.
What is probably distancing you from achieving your target is simply
your inability or ineptitude in performing the required actions that
bring about your desired results. What causes that inability? Perhaps
you had missed out on an important element that was missing in what you
did and crucial to bringing about the exact results that you wanted.
Why? Did you purposely leave that out? Or had you just forgotten? Or
perhaps you had not realised it until now.
The more you know, and the more you know about what you don''t know (and
then go on to do whatever it takes to know what you need to know), the
better your chances are at succeeding in attaining whatever targets you
had set for yourself.
The first step in effectively learning and acquiring the skills you
need to
succeed in your current endeavours is an inner step - a mental
one. If you begin with this, you have better odds of succeeding.
Otherwise, your success rate might be lower or worse, you will somehow
and inadvertently cause yourself to fail.
What is this first step? Your success begins with your being able to
feel that you are able to succeed. Do you think you can? Do you believe
you can? Are you sure you can? If so, then you most definitely can do
it! Simplistic as it might have sounded, it goes way beyond feelings of
being able to succeed. It has to be a sincere one, something that
resonates with you as something truthful.
You can''t fake feelings. Fake it till you make it won''t cut it here.
Quit the guru''s who tell you to fake it till you make it. The only way
you can create an authentic feeling of competence, the only way you can
generate a genuine belief in yourself and your ability to succeed is to
consciously go about doing the work that is required to give you the
ability to succeed - how?
By learning! Seriously, there is no limit to how much you can learn or
what you can learn. Your brain is not wired in such a way that you can
only learn arithmetic, numerical skills and alphabets but you can''t
learn physical skills, swimming or driving
(unless, of course, one is genuinely physically impaired - but even
then, exceptions to this have sprung up countless times).
When you first learned how to walk, or how to read, or how to feed
yourself with a fork and spoon, did you have to chant affirmations, set
goals, think positive or even visualize positive cosmic energy flowing
to you? No! You acquired all these skills because of necessity and the
fact that countless other human beings have learned to do the same when
they were young and your parents were there to slowly but surely ensure
your success.
People tend to overcomplicate things and forget that simplicity is the
essence of action. Reclaim that simplicity into your life to get what
you want.
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