15 Achievable Ways to be Successful

There is only one success - to be able to spend your life in your own way. ~Christopher Morley

Success is achievable, the secret is to take action and do it now. You know what to do; this article is just a reminder.

1. Creative: Success is not about following and imitating others. It is about doing it your way. It is refreshing and exhilarating. It is the only way to get noticed.

To think creatively, we must be able to look afresh at what we normally take for granted. ~George Kneller

2. Focused: To focus is to bring your attention and concentration to one single objective. When you focus, you are getting into the flow of things and you produce extraordinary work.

The key to success is to focus our conscious mind on things we desire not things we fear. ~Brian Tracy

3. Goals: You are eager to wake up early every morning to look forward to a new day because you have goals. Goals avoid drifting about aimlessness. Goals are the direction of your life.

Goals are dreams with deadlines. ~Diana Scharf Hunt

4. Positive: Positive thinking is a powerful force. Fear and worry are replaced by confidence. A glass is half full instead of half empty. You see brightness instead of darkness. You are hopeful instead of despair.

The soul does not absorb negativity by accident, always by choice. ~Dodinsky

5. Time conscious: You are the master of time when you can take action and do it now. Time is the essence of your success. Delay will take you more time to reach your goals. Don’t wait for the right time, now is the time to do what is right.

If you don't have time to do it right, when will you have time to do it over? ~John Wooden


6. Organized: To be organized is to avoid confusion, doing the wrong thing at the right time and waste your effort and energy. To be organized is to be productive.


Organizing is what you do before you do something so that when you do it, it is not all mixed up. ~A. A. Milne

7. Efficiency: Efficiency is doing things right. It saves effort and time

The most efficient way to live reasonably is every morning to make a plan of one's day and every night to examine the results obtained. ~Alexis Carrel

8. Plan ahead: To plan ahead is to get organized and be efficient. Forward planning is about living an orderly life.

Do not be in a hurry to succeed. What would you have to live for afterwards? Better make the horizon your goal; it will always be ahead of you. ~ William Makepeace Thackeray


9. Balanced: There is a balance in nature, there are day and night. There should be a balance in your life between work and play. Going to the extreme in one area will create havoc in your life.

The best and safest thing is to keep a balance in your life, acknowledge the great powers around us and in us. If you can do that, and live that way, you are really a wise man. ~Euripides


10. Competent: Be good at what you do, it is your brand. People remember you for what you do.

A competent and self-confident person is incapable of jealousy in anything. Jealousy is invariably a symptom of neurotic insecurity. ~Robert A. Heinlein

11. Motivated: You are motivated by the end results, you are optimistic that it is achievable. You carry on working on it enthusiastically.


Motivation is what gets you started. Habit is what keeps you going.
~Jim Ryun

12. Persevered: Quitting is not your option. It does not matter how long it will take you. You will continue and go through thick and thin to get what you want.

If we are facing in the right direction, all we have to do is keep on walking. ~Buddhist Saying

13. Passion: Passion is the fire in you to do what you intend to do wholeheartedly and single-mindedly.

Follow your passion, and success will follow you. ~Terri Guillemets

14. Confidence: Confidence is self-assurance. It is a positive mental attitude to get things done successfully.


What a man thinks of himself, that it is which determines, or rather indicates his fate. ~Henry David Thoreau

15. Facing challenges: The only way to face challenges is to take the bull by the horns and face them squarely. Your confidence is enhanced when you are able to deal with challenges successfully.

I think life is full of challenges and problems. I don't believe that anyone is perfect. We all make mistakes. It's not a bed of roses, and you have to work real hard at it. ~Nigel Mansell


Have you achieved the success you want in life?