What Is The Secret To Succeeding?

Restored from the Empower Network archive (2011–2017), lightly edited to meet our current advertising standards. Views are the original author’s.

The Secret To Succeeding Is….Staying On Target

The secret to succeeding at anything in life – is persistence.

You don’t have to be the most skilled at something.

You don’t even have to have a particular talent. It is just the action of – ‘not quitting’.

Anyone that has ever succeeded at anything in this world will tell you that they too had thoughts of just giving up.

Why you may ask, because giving up is easy.

Going down a road that is not known to be traveled by others makes it tough.

It also takes a lot of courage and commitment.

That is why so many people just simply won’t do it because it seems to be scary.

You will have to step out of your comfort zone and start getting acquainted with the uncomfortable.

You will also meet people along the way, even family, that will call you foolish and think that you could be doing something more productive with your time.

All you can do is wish them the best of luck and maybe, just maybe you will be able to show them one day what the secret to succeeding in life is all about.

Some however will take these harsh words and do what a lot of people do and that is…

QUIT.

Others will see the whole picture and a whole new future for themselves and will stay persistent at achieving their success.

Along your untraveled road you will have a moment of self doubt – trust me we all do – you may want to remember that many great success stories were made because someone else said that it was impossible.

This is a list of just a few…

•‘Nobody will watch a show about nothing…’ — This is what Jerry Seinfeld and co-creator Larry David were told when they pitched the idea of Seinfeld.

•‘There’s no market for it. If there were, major airlines would already be offering it…’ -This is what was said to Fred Smith the founder of FedEx.

•‘People will rent videotapes, but they’ll never buy them…’ — Said about Jane Fonda’s exercise tapes which proved the media experts wrong.

•‘A global, twenty-four-hour news network will never work…’ — This is what network executives’ said to Ted Turner’s about his plans for CNN.

•‘It’s a cut-throat business, you will have no chance of success…’ — This is what was said to the accountant that founded the multibillion dollar cosmetics empire Estee Lauder.

•‘You’re foolish to try and sell sparkling water in the land of Coke drinkers…’ – This is the advice given to Gustave Leven by many consulting firms after his interests of launching Perrier in the US.

•‘The feedback is the lowest we’ve ever had, lower than women’s bowling, it just won’t work…’ — This is what was said to Ricky Gervais from the BBC’s after shooting the hit TV show ‘The Office’.

How To Find The Secret To Succeeding

Just remember that the only person truly standing in your way is yourself. Don’t worry about what other people think you should or shouldn’t be doing.  If you see the whole picture, despite the fact that others usually don’t, then just keep doing what you know you need to be doing because the best way to tell someone that they were completely wrong is not with words, but with the actions of your success.

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