1- Discard “give up” from your life: Failure is inevitable, but never move away from your plan due to fear of failure, instead try again in a different way, till you succeed.

Here are some of the reason we give up easily:

• Low tolerance of distress – train yourself to be used to of stress
• Failure to assume responsibility
• Low level of motivation
• Low work ethic and self centred
• High expectations for others but do not reciprocate
• Lack of long term vision of future

2- Love what you do: Put your heart in it and everything will follow.

Steps to achieve the success in what you love to do are:

• Assess yourself and know what you want to do
• Set clear goals and determine starting point and the end you want
• Identify a typical time frame, by what time you will be done
• Know the purpose of your life and understand what is your desire, what you want from future
• Collect worthy resources to help you on the way to success e.g learn new things and focus on continuously improving yourself, read books, surround yourself with successful people

3- Don’t let dream killers take toll on your burning desire to do something: Keep on doing what you love to do and want to achieve and ignore the people who are trying to pull you down.

4- Face the risks: Taking risks makes you stronger. Let every risk be stepping stone of what you want to become in life . If you don’t face the risks, don’t be surprised if you are stuck in where you are in life.

If you want to transform you life but risks are holding you back, follow the following steps:

• Recognize your talents and be proud of them. Use your talents to face the risks
• Improve your weaknesses and leverage the talents you have
• Stay focused on your goals and take appropriate action to keep moving towards your goal and discard what takes you away from your goal.
• Have positive thoughts about your hard work will lead you where you want to go.
• Name the person whom you want to dedicate the fruit of winning, who will be happy at your success
• Identify your both good and bad habits to know what is negatively impacting your life
• Join other winners at heart. Winning becomes easy if you surround yourself with winners.
• Never stop improving your skills, being imprison to previous circumstances, will never lead to something great. Always look for opportunities for improvement

5- Do something worthwhile: Have a purpose in life and use it as a guiding light to move in the direction of your goal. It helps you filter what is worthwhile to do and what should discarded. Having a clarity of purpose is necessary as otherwise you will lose the motivation quickly especially when hard time hits. Strong and clear purpose act as a filter, for each step and turn, we take in life.

Besides having clarity of purpose, to do something worthwhile, be positive about what you want to achieve, continue trying without caring about the outcome and give your 100 percent. If you do not succeed at least you know that a different idea is needed. Idea alone can’t bring success, they are needed but they are worth something only when they are acted upon.

Do not be busy and hardworking all the time, instead do purposeful things. Know where are you going and why, at all the time and not get stuck in the momentum. Longer an idea sits in your head without being acted upon, weaker it becomes. So keep your purpose in mind all the time and evaluate everything you do in the light of your purpose, to decide where is it most valuable to spend the time.

Do not speculate too much on past or future. Instead do what ever you can do to go closer to your purpose right now. Start with starting what can be done at present moment.

6- Focus on your signal over noise: To be successful, have an ability to filter what does not matter, that is noise. Ignore it and do not spend money or time on it.

There is power in focus. Focused mindset help making decision about what not to do, along with what to do. Having a not to do list helps removing the noise around us. E.g. Elon Musk, focused on making amazing products instead of marketing as the product promotes itself, if it is exceptional.

7- Look for solving the problems: Perceive gaps in the market and look for solving the problems for the world to have an impact to the world. When we do something for others, it is more satisfying than doing something for yourself.

There is no limitation or boundary of what a person can do or can’t achieve. Perceive the chances and possibilities beyond the present conditions and see the future what you like to part of and work on it.

8- Hard work: Price for success is nothing but hard work. There is no lazy route if you want get to the top, work hard and apply your effort intelligently. Try to be better than your old self, the next day. If you want to put your footprint on sand of time, hard work is price to pay.

In short, back your goals with determination and hard work and never be afraid to take the risks. Never give up and stay away from negative people and negative thoughts. Surround yourself with successful people and use your goal/purpose as a guiding light of decide what not to do and prioritize what needs to be done.

Credits: J.D. Rockfeller