One word for great success

When you hear the phrase “secret to success”, what comes to mind? 

In this video, I’ll explain:

• One word that explains my long-term success
• How adjusting your mindset can make a huge difference
• What I mean — and don’t mean — when I use this word (it might surprise you!)

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How to be Successful

When some people hear “secret to success,” they think you have to have big-name connections. Others think it’s years and years of experience or high-level training. Still others assume it’s just dumb luck and lots of startup capital. 

If you know my story, you know I didn’t have any of these things when I was getting started. I was working from home and struggling big-time. So what made the difference?

I can tell you in one word what the secret to my success is.
And it might not be what you think.

In this video, I want to talk about the one thing that has made all the difference for me and continues to be the key to my long-term thriving.  

It’s not a fancy business “hack” … and it definitely doesn’t involve any kind of cutthroat zero-sum competition. In fact, it’s quite the opposite!

The best part? It doesn’t require anything other than a switch in mindset to start experiencing the benefits right away.

I love sharing this information, because I know it can really help people make a significant turnaround in how they see themselves, their work, and their path to success. I hope it will give you a new perspective on what can be possible in your business, one conversation at a time. 

As always, I’d love to hear from you. If you have follow-up questions or want to share your own experience, leave your comment below and let me know what you think! 

They say that every person should have at least one motto for success. This article will help you find many to inspire you to climb the success ladder.

Each and every person has different ways to define success. For some, success is to earn a lot of money, some think that to be successful is to be powerful, for others success is nothing but contentment and happiness! No matter how different success is for us, the bottom line is, that we all crave for it. The word “crave” itself shows how badly one wants success. And once you are traveling on the road to success, things don’t go easy, there are a lot of stones on the way to make you stumble and go weak, but, focus, determination, and perseverance are the basic ingredients that make some of the most ideal mottos for success in ones life. There are many success quotes that we come across while reading or interacting with others, and they somehow, end up becoming an inspiration to us when traveling the road to success. These mottos actually help us stay on the track, they remind us that all the trials and tribulations are actually an assurance that you are surely to achieve success, if you just hang on!

Mottos That Inspire You Towards Success

The Bible quotes in Proverbs 15:4; “Gentle words bring life and health; a deceitful tongue crushes the spirit.” Nothing can motivate us more than some inspiring and motivational words. It’s amazing if we have the support of our loved ones on the challenging journey to success. But sadly, this can’t be possible all the time. Many a time, you need to take up the journey and the challenge all by yourself. This can be difficult, but as I mentioned earlier, if you are focused, determined, and have perseverance, nothing is impossible. Having said that, it’s important to incorporate some mottos to live by so that you have a constant phrase echoing within your heart and mind, reminding you of what you have decided to be. Below are some inspiring yet effectively motivational mottos for you to remember that “success is yours to achieve“…

“What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.” ~ Oliver Wendell Holmes

“Most successful men have not achieved their distinction by having some new talent or opportunity presented to them. They have developed the opportunity that was at hand.” ~ Bruce Barton

“Would you like me to give you a formula for success? It’s quite simple, really. Double your rate of failure. You are thinking of failure as the enemy of success. But it isn’t at all. You can be discouraged by failure or you can learn from it, So go ahead and make mistakes. Make all you can. Because remember that’s where you will find success.” ~ Thomas J. Watson

“Health, happiness and success depend upon the fighting spirit of each person. The big thing is not what happens to us in life – but what we do about what happens to us.” ~ George Allen

“The successful person has the habit of doing the things failures don’t like to do. They don’t like doing them either necessarily. But their disliking is subordinated to the strength of their purpose.” ~ E.M. Gray

“Personal development is your springboard to personal excellence. Ongoing, continuous, non-stop personal development literally assures you that there is no limit to what you can accomplish.” ~ Brian Tracy

“You don’t become enormously successful without encountering and overcoming a number of extremely challenging problems.” ~ Mark Victor Hansen

“Achievement seems to be connected with action. Successful men and women keep moving. They make mistakes, but they don’t quit.” ~ Conrad Hilton

“The first requisite of success is the ability to apply your physical and mental energies to one problem without growing weary.” ~ Thomas Edison

“You can do anything you wish to do, have anything you wish to have, be anything you wish to be.” ~ Robert Collier

“Laughter is a unique medicine that places your problems in perspective, relaxes your tense muscles, reassures those around you, and helps you to enjoy life even when you don’t have everything you want. A successful man is one who can lay a firm foundation with the bricks others have thrown at him.” ~ David Brinkley

“I’ve failed over and over and over again in my life and that is why I succeed.” ~ Michael Jordan

“A great pleasure in life is doing what people say you cannot do.” ~ Walter Gagehot

“Whenever you find the whole world against you just turn around and lead the world.” ~ Anonymous

“When they call something ‘worthless’, I think it’s not the person or the situation that is worthless. I think it means that worth is there, it’s just that the efforts are less.” ~ Shalu Bhatti

“In order to succeed, your desire for success should be greater than your fear of failure.” ~ Bill Cosby

“The measure of success is not whether you have a tough problem to deal with, but whether it is the same problem you had last year.” ~ John Foster Dulles

“What is success? I think it is a mixture of having a flair for the thing that you are doing; knowing that it is not enough, that you have got to have hard work and a certain sense of purpose.” ~ Margaret Thatcher

“Keep these concepts in mind: You’ve failed many times, although you don’t remember. You fell down the first time you tried to walk. You almost drowned the first time you tried to swim. . . . Don’t worry about failure. My suggestion to each of you: Worry about the chances you miss when you don’t even try.” ~ Sherman Finesilver

“History has demonstrated that the most notable winners usually encountered heart-breaking obstacles before they triumphed. They won because they refused to become discouraged by their defeats.” ~ B.C Forbes

“Success seems to be largely a matter of hanging on after others have let go.” ~ William Feather

“Success is blocked by concentrating on it and planning for it… Success is shy – it won’t come out while you’re watching.” ~ Tennessee Williams

“Success has a simple formula: do your best, and people may like it.” ~ Sam Ewing

“A man is a success if he gets up in the morning and gets to bed at night, and in between he does what he wants to do.” ~ Bob Dylan

“Somehow I can’t believe there are many heights that can’t be scaled by a man who knows the secret of making dreams come true. This special secret can be summarized in four C’s. They are: curiosity, confidence, courage, and constancy, and the greatest of these is confidence.” ~ Walt Disney

“I believe that the true road to preeminent success in any line is to make yourself master of that line.” ~ Andrew Carnegie

“Success is a state of mind. If you want success, start thinking of yourself as a success.” ~ Dr. Joyce Brothers

If you develop an attitude to perceive things in a manner that helps you move on in the journey of success, the negative attitude will diminish giving room for you to see the positive in every failure you come across. It is this attitude that makes people say that “life is funny” and hence they tend to develop and follow some funny mottos about life. To want to be successful is an inevitable desire that will emerge within us sooner or later. Therefore, it is best to follow the mottos for success as soon as possible. As I have already mentioned earlier, the definition of success varies from person to person. It’s not only the important thing to you in your life that matters, but the journey to success will become more easy if you have a strong and never-give-up attitude. So make yourself so strong from within, that success follows you on its own. Now that I Sign off, I would like to quote this short and simple motto by Doug Ivester, “Never let your memories be greater than your dreams.“… and nothing can stop you from achieving your success by all means. All the best. 🙂

Successful people don’t become that way overnight. What most people see at a glance—happiness, wealth, a great career, purpose—is the result of hard work and hustle over time.

Related: 5 Characteristics of Highly Successful People 

To be successful, you have to use each day as an opportunity to improve, to be better, to get a little bit closer to your goals. It might sound like a lot of work—and with a busy schedule, next to impossible. But the best part is, the more you accomplish, the more you’ll want to do, the higher you’ll want to reach. So as long as you have the hunger for success, you will always have the power within you to achieve it.

Use your ambition, drive and desire—along with these 17 motivational quotes—to make it happen.

1. Believe in yourself.

Your limitation—it’s only your imagination.

2. Work hard.

Push yourself, because no one else is going to do it for you.

3. Don’t wait.

Sometimes later becomes never. Do it now.

4. Step outside your comfort zone.

Great things never come from comfort zones.

5. Be a dreamer and a doer.

Dream it. Wish it. Do it.

6. Take action.

Success doesn’t just find you. You have to go out and get it.

7. Don’t give up.

The harder you work for something, the greater you’ll feel when you achieve it.

8. Set big goals.

Dream bigger. Do bigger.

9. Follow through.

Don’t stop when you’re tired. Stop when you’re done.

10. Show up every day.

Wake up with determination. Go to bed with satisfaction.

11. Make things happen for yourself.

Do something today that your future self will thank you for.

12. Celebrate the small things.

Little things make big days.

13. Take one step at a time.

It’s going to be hard, but hard does not mean impossible.

14. Open doors for yourself.

Don’t wait for opportunity. Create it.

15. Push through and understand yourself.

Sometimes we’re tested not to show our weaknesses, but to discover our strengths.

16. Stick to the plan.

The key to success is to focus on goals, not obstacles.

17. Say yes to your dreams.

Dream it. Believe it. Build it.

Related: 17 Motivational Quotes to Help You Achieve Your Dreams

Editor’s note: This post was originally published in November 2016 and has been updated.
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