Speeding up your journey to success
Everyone knows that success takes time. You can achieve success in a few years or work your whole life before you achieve it. You’ve heard of overnight success stories but they may not have truly been overnight. Many people work for several years on various endeavors but then when one hits and grows quickly, it appears that it was their first shot and grew in an instant.
We would all probably like to have success as quickly as possible, whether it’s because we want to get out of our current circumstances or we’re just eager to get going on life. But we need patience, persistence, and some ideas to speed up the process.
Create Opportunities For Yourself
You may be waiting for opportunity to come knocking on your door but you should be bursting through that door and creating opportunities for yourself. The more you get out there the more doors you can open.
Be Observant
I think this is one of the most essential factors to success and entrepreneurship. You have to be aware of your surroundings. By being observant you can find new trends in culture, find niches in markets, find an emerging product or business, and help create opportunities for yourself. This awareness can help you launch a new venture, find a new career, bring your company into a new direction, and bring more money to you. If you’re not observant, you could walk right past the path that will bring you straight to success.
Stay Away From Negativity
Staying away from negative people and situations is one of the quickest ways to achieving success. Too many people get trapped in the worst part of life for much too long. When you’re a drug addict or alcoholic, you’re going no where fast, you’re stuck. It certainly not going to do anything for you. Even if you do drugs once and awhile or just like to party, what is that doing for you? I haven’t heard of any stories where people find a new career while being drunk.
Staying away from negative people is another crucial part of success. Even if you’re a positive person, their negativity will rub off on you. It will starve your creativity and achievements.
Always Work Towards Your Goal
If you aren’t doing something that’ll help with your goals, you won’t get anywhere. Always do something. Even if you’re sick or on vacation, take at least five minutes each day to do something that will benefit you and your goal. It could be reading a book or magazine related to your endeavors or it could be a relaxing walk to get you’re mind and creativity flowing.
Reevaluate
Reevaluate yourself and/or your endeavor often, maybe every few weeks or months. See where you are and where you’re going. If it’s not in the best direction, correct it early. It’s never good to quit, but some things may never work. Finding that out can help you move onto something bigger and better.
The only place…
“The only place where success comes before work is in the dictionary.”
Vidal Sassoon
Human potential…
“Human potential, though not always apparent, is there waiting to be discovered and invited forth.”
William W. Purkey
What dogs can teach you about life
Dogs are man’s best friend, but are they much more than that? Are they man’s best teacher? There are many subtle things that dog’s can teach us about life. You have to dig deep but there are some lessons to be learned from them.
You should always be happy – No matter what life throws at you, you should always be happy. You can be down while a bad event is happening, but a few hours later or the next day you should bounce back. Dogs can be in the worst circumstances, such as horrible living conditions, but they always seem to make themselves happy.
It’s great to meet new people – You should try to meet new people as much as you can. You never know where it can lead. You could find your true love, create some new business contacts or maybe even save a life. Dogs always want to meet every other dog that comes in their path.
You should enjoy getting out – Get excited about getting outside, taking a walk, and seeing what’s going on in the neighborhood. Dogs love to see, smell, and hear the environment around them. They can walk down the same path everyday, but they’ll be just as excited as the first time they went.
Try to have some fun - No matter where you are or what situation you are in try to laugh and have some fun! It’ll make things much easier on yourself and those around you. Dogs can have fun anywhere, give them
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Update
It has been a week since Lyved launched on December 31st. But in that week many exciting things have happened.
First, I was a guest blogger on John Chow Dot Com. The post was entitled The Greatest Things About Life, which can be viewed here.
After that, the 20 Ways to Change the World article was submitted to Digg and was promoted to the homepage. It received many diggs and can be viewed here.
At this same time, 20 Ways to Change the World was stumbled on Stumble Upon, which you can see by clicking here.
Then, most recently I was informed that Lyved won second prize in a contest I participated in. The contest was held by the JollyJo second comings blog. The announcement can be read here and if you would like to read some of the great posts on JollyJo, please visit here.
I just want to thank all of you for reading Lyved and I hope you continue to enjoy it!
- Andrew
