How to Prepare for Success?

Every creation of God including Human beings are known by their habits, both the good and bad ones. While the good habits are based upon a person’s strengths, the bad ones reflect his weaknesses. It is the strengths that lead a person to new opportunities. The weaknesses always pose threats or loss or failure.

To succeed in everyday life, a person must having the skills and abilities that contribute to his strengths. These skills and abilities are the steppingstones to a lifetime of success.?At the same time we need to be aware of our weaknesses. It may not be possible to get over all of them, but one must make a positive effort to do so. To move towards successful living assess your strengths and weaknesses. In making a personal assessment of yourself, be realistic, not idealistic. Generally, rather than admit and accept our weaknesses, we like to rationalize and justify them. This is because the person finds it difficult to get out of the situation. It is easier to justify rather than make the efforts to get out of it.

It is easy to cheat others by disguising one’s weaknesses, but would you like to cheat yourself when you know that it could eventually be a threat to your own success? When you assess your weaknesses, the exercise is for you, not for others. In evaluating your strengths, do not overestimate yourself. It might look and feel good and also boost your self-confidence. However this could also lead to over confidence, pride, vanity and even arrogance. In this way the strengths could eventually become weaknesses.

In making self-evaluation, look back at your education, family influence and also the environment you have grown up in. How would you evaluate your health and its influence on your life??Do you have any areas of emotional conflict? Very few people are happy with their childhood experiences. The majority feels that they deserved a better upbringing. Why do they feel this way? The simple answer is that they think it is that way.

Do not think too much of the past. Use your past experience good or bad ones, as steppingstones to succeed today and always. Forget the past the move ahead.

A person’s age has nothing to do with ones ability to succeed. God made everyone to excel in everything. We keep looking for reasons to explain our failures. At every age one has different expectations. The moment these fulfilled, one can be said to be successful. Both the young and old have achieved great things. The success doesn’t come from age but from the attitude. You can do just as well as others.

Write down your strengths on paper. Try to gauge how each of these strengths is linked with your past successes. While attributes like patience, tolerance, self-control, tact, moderation, positive thinking, soft spoken and thoughtful towards others add to your abilities to succeed and attributes like anger, greed, jealousy, envy, arrogance. carelessness, procrastination, negligence led to failure.

To succeed, accept whatever is positive and do away from negative. It cannot be achieved overnight my friends. It requires consistent?effort over a long period. However, when a person prepares oneself this way, successful living becomes an everyday habit.