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Success: What Do You Have To Sacrifice In Order To Get It?

Recently I came across the Dalai Lama's "18 Rules of Living," which he shared with the world at the beginning of the new millennium. Here, 18 years later, it seemed relevant to revisit them.

In particular, I was struck by his rule: "Judge your success by what you had to give up in order to get it." At first, I thought, "What?" As women, for example, many of us had been told umpteen times that we couldn't have both a thriving family life and a successful career. Fortunately, that has been changing (although I still wonder why men were exempt from that contradiction!). Surely the Dalai Lama, that fount of compassion and love, didn't mean that we should judge our professional/job success by the family life we short-changed? Or vice-versa. Or that we should judge our success in either domain by the abuse, negativity or other unpleasantness that we stoically put up with in order to make it all happen?

That just didn't square with what I know of the Dalai Lama's philosophy. So, I meditated on his rule, let it float around in my consciousness, until it hit me. I know exactly what I had to give up in order to succeed! My belief in impossibility, my doubting of my own talents, my fear of failing.

I remember vividly the first time an attorney asked me some 30-odd years ago, in my capacity as a trial consultant, if I could conduct a focus group for him. I'd only been a trial consultant for a couple of years, my experience was primarily with preparing witnesses for trial, and I'd never even heard of a focus group. But I needed to put bread on the table and keep a roof over my head, so I vaulted right past my insecurity and fear and said, "Sure!" I promptly scurried around gathering as much information about this mysterious thing called a "focus group" as possible, which was a very different challenge back then given the non-existence of the Internet. It worked. Conducting focus groups became one of the cornerstones of my trial consulting career.

And then of course, there's when I went back to ballet at 65. I looked with longing and envy at the younger students practicing their splits on the floor thinking, "I could never do that." I had to give up my "It's impossible" and "Never gonna happen" to even get down on the floor and try. Now, I can finally do the splits with my right leg forward, almost there with the left. Give me a little more time and I'll have both down!

What do you have to give up in order to succeed? What fear, insecurity, impossibility ruins your chances of the dream you so desire? Not enough time, not enough money, not enough talent, not enough resources, not enough support, not enough whatever! It's those beliefs in limitation that we must give up in order to succeed.

There are endless examples online of people who've had to give up those beliefs to achieve their dreams. To take just one, Jake Olson, a blind football player, with two years of high school football and two years of college football behind him. He snapped the ball last fall for the final extra point that gave the USC Trojans their 49-31 home victory over Western Michigan. Imagine the limiting beliefs Jake must have "sacrificed" in order to snap that ball. A blind football player? Come on! And as his coach said, his wasn't a "charity case," but that Jake was the player best suited to make that play.

Time for you to make your play. Give up whatever limiting beliefs you find that stand in your way, and enjoy your new-found success.

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Reaching Your Goals Begins Here

Most people perform better when they are heading toward a goal. But it is important to understand that the goals must motivate. If your goals leave you feeling inadequate, stressed out, or over-worked, then you will lack the motivation to complete them.

Goals that motivate have specific characteristics:

* Clarity. Clear goals are specific, measurable, actionable, realistic, and time-bound (SMART). When a goal is clear and specific, people know what needs to be done and what is expected.

* Challenge. We are often motivated by achievement, so we'll judge a goal by how difficult we perceive it to be. If it is too easy, we won't give it as much attention and energy. However, if it demands us to stretch ourselves in order to achieve the recognition of a job well done, we are more likely to be motivated to excel.

* Commitment. For goal setting to be effective, the goals need to be agreed upon and understood. While this doesn't mean you negotiate every goal with every employee, there is value in engaging the people working towards the goal in crafting it. When we help to create the stretch goal, we are more connected to the challenge and more willing to commit. The harder the goal, the more commitment is needed.

* Task Complexity. For goals that are highly complex, we have to not only give people sufficient time to meet the goal, but actually provide the time to practice or learn skills that are necessary for success. The purpose of goal setting is successful achievement, so you have to be careful that the conditions around the goal support that success rather than stifle it.

* Feedback. Incorporating feedback into the goal setting process allows for expectations to be clarified, difficulty to be adjusted, and recognition given. In particular, when a goal is long-term in nature, it's important to set benchmarks that help people gauge their success and see their achievement.

Once the goals are defined, each goal should be "drilled down" with specific objectives and measures. Objects can be thought of as the yardstick; measures can be thought of as the exact location on the yardstick of each goal area; and both short-term and long-term objectives and measures should be defined.

When determining your objectives and measures it can be helpful to ask, "How will we know when this goal is achieved?" "What, exactly, will be different around here when the goal is attained?"

I appreciate this simple statement from Sir Edmund Hillary:

"You don't have to be a fantastic hero to do certain things - to compete. You can be just an ordinary chap, sufficiently motivated to reach challenging goals."

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The 3 P`s for Success

"Patience, persistence and perspiration make an unbeatable combination for success" –Napoleon Hill.

While a Marketing student about a decade ago, we were taught the 4 P’s in our first year and later taught the 7 P’s. This categorization made it much easier to remember the variables of what in Marketing parlance is termed the Marketing mix. Akin to the 4 P’s of the marketing mix is what the world renowned Best-selling motivational author, Napoleon Hill considers "an unbeatable combination for success" and which I prefer to term "the 3 P’s for success." These include patience, persistence and perspiration as itemized by Napoleon Hill in the quote above. It is my candid opinion that the 3 P’s for success are non-negotiable and are an absolute necessity on the route to success. In as much as these traits are certainly not the only requirements for success, they are irreplaceable.
Success may mean different things to different people. However, for the purpose of clarity and in the context of this write-up, I wish to define success as completing an objective or reaching a goal. A young person who aims at becoming a millionaire at age forty and who eventually achieves it within the specified period of time may be considered to have succeeded. Another who dreams of graduating from the university with a degree in Law and who in time graduates with a degree in Law has in essence succeeded in reaching his or her goal. Success simply has to do with accomplishing one’s dreams, goals and aspirations.

Patience

It was Jean-Jacques Rousseau, the Genevan philosopher, writer and composer who once rightly noted: "Patience is bitter, but its fruits are sweet." This is exemplified in vivid terms in the occupation of farming. Farmers plant their crops with expectation of a harvest but also with the understanding that they will have to wait for weeks, months or even years, depending on the kind of crops planted. They thus plant their crops and provide the necessary care while they wait patiently for harvest time. It will be mission aborted and certainly a misnomer should a cultivator of Chinese bamboo trees destroy what he or she has planted (while still below the earth surface) with the pretext that the trees he or she planted are not growing or that they are taking too long to grow. It is common knowledge that the Chinese bamboo takes a couple of years to as much as shot out of the ground, let alone grow into maturity. The point of this illustration is to drum home the fact that in life, any accomplishment of significance takes time; sometimes longer than one may expect. This makes patience a necessity, less great dreams are aborted. Thomas Alva Edison once noted: "Many of life’s failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up." If only they had been a little more patient. Arnold H. Glasow made an insightful and brilliant observation when he stated: "The key to everything is patience. You get the chicken by hatching the egg, not by smashing it."

Persistence

The value of persistence on the route to success cannot be overemphasized. It simply is a must have if one is to go far in life. Thomas Alva Edison, the prolific inventor and entrepreneur once stated: "Our greatest weakness lies in giving up. The most certain way to succeed is always to try just one more time." Similarly, Elbert Hubbard, American writer, publisher, artist and philosopher stated thus: "A little more persistence, a little more effort, and what seemed hopeless failure may turn to glorious success. "Samuel Johnson, English poet, essayist, editor and lexicographer caps it up when he observed thus: "Great works are performed not by strength but by perseverance."
The struggles of Abraham Lincoln, the famed and revered former United States president epitomizes the virtue of persistence in the pursuit of one’s dreams and aspirations. In 1831, Abraham Lincoln failed in business. In 1832, he was defeated for State legislator. In 1833, Abraham Lincoln tried a new business, and failed. In 1835, his fiancée died. In 1836, Abraham Lincoln had a nervous breakdown. In 1843, Abraham Lincoln ran for Congress and was defeated. In 1848, Lincoln ran again, and was defeated. In 1855, Lincoln run for the Senate, and lost. In 1856, he ran for vice president and lost. In 1859, Lincoln ran again for the Senate. He was defeated. In spite of such a long streak of humiliating failures, he incessantly chose the path of persistence. It eventually paid off when in 1860; Abraham Lincoln was elected president of the United States. A perceptive mind wisely noted: "What matters most is not how many times you fail, but that you never stop trying."

Perspiration

Perspiration essentially connotes hard work as against slothfulness. It was Thomas Alva Edison who retorted thus: "Genius is one percent inspiration and ninety-nine percent perspiration." He further noted: "There is no substitute for hard work." This observation ought not be taken lightly especially when it comes from one credited with numerous inventions, the first industrial research laboratory, and one who held over 1,093 patents in his name across the United States, United Kingdom, France and Germany. His phenomenal accomplishments are well documented and speak for themselves. Hard work obviously pays. If you doubt this, ask the ant. Even when people speak of working smart, it still boils down to hard work; thinking is hard work and thinking is a necessary route to working smart.
One of my all-time favourite inspirational quotes comes from the pen of the renowned poet, scholar and novelist, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow. He creatively underscored the value of hard work when he once stated: "The heights that great men reached were not by sudden flight, but they, while their companions slept, were toiling upward in the night." A similar train of thought can be inferred from a statement attributed to Ray Bradbury, an American novelist, essayist, playwright, screen writer and poet when he sought to give some encouragement to persons who aspired to be writers. He noted: "Any man who keeps working is not a failure. He may not be a great writer but if he applies the old-fashioned virtue of hard, constant labour, he’ll eventually make some kind of a career for himself."
For as many as desire to succeed in one area or the other, the ball is in your court. Go ahead, play it and play it well fully armed with the 3 P’s of success and you have it made. Patience, persistence and perspiration most certainly make an indefatigable and indomitable mishmash for success.

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