Life's Success

Successful or Unsuccessful 

The truth is, there is no successful or unsuccessful people. Instead, there are people with potential to succeed and know they have potential, or there are people who don't know. In becoming successful, you have to know what you can't be or have. What you have to understand in becoming successful is that there is going to pain, disappointment  and especially stress. The difference between on who is successful and one who is not successful is the quality of being able to get past the disappointment, forget about the stress, and deal with the pain. 

Before beginning to understand what you have to do to become successful, remember what not to do: 

• Lack of Persistence: What is good about having many qualities and skills if you lost hope in succeeding after failing once or twice? The only people who succeed in life are the persistent ones. Those who continue working right to the end until they get what they want even if everything was against them and even if they failed many times. 
• Lack of Flexibility: Flexibility is the ability to adapt to external conditions. It's the ability to try something else or another method when your current method fails. The more flexible you are, the more you will adapt to changes and the higher your chances of success will be. 
• Lack of Planning: If you don’t have goals or plans then you are going to be a part of other people's plans. If you don’t plan to be the team leader at your work then someone else in your team will do so and if you don't plan to get that high paying job then someone else who planned and worked for it will take it from you. If you don’t plan you will get swept away by the people who do. They will fill the positions, make the money and get the fame while you'll just be a spectator. planning is an essential item in the success toolkit. 
• Lack of Self-confidence: If you don't have a high self-confidence then most probably you will be too shy of presenting your ideas and you may give up your dreams as soon as someone tells you that they are not possible. You may fear taking any risks and so ignore many opportunities that could have made you successful. If you want to increase your chances of being a successful person, then you must build your self-confidence.
• Thinking that you lack resources: In my book How I Did It  i explained how i managed to make a website that generates thousands of dollars/month in less than 2 years with an initial investment that is less than 50 dollars!! Don't fool yourself by thinking that you lack resources because if you are serious about success you will do it without having any resources. This website is one of the examples of successful businesses that required no resources at the start up.
• Success related Fears: The types of fears that can affect your ability to succeed are the fear of failure and the fear of success. While they both seem to be complete opposites still they can have the same effect on you which is preventing you from trying and so leading you to failure. 

Authority: M.Farouk Radwan, author of many books to becoming successful

Accuracy: No sources are cited, but the author is a reliable source

Timeliness: Septemer 16, 2007. pretty recent

Do any of these things reflect what you are? How might one get past these qualities.