Ways To Become Successful In Business

Living your life to the maximum of your potential is the key to success

It comes from loads of hard work and determination, since the human body is made to drive in one particular direction with complete passion and focus.

Running for making money should not be the ultimate goal

This will lead to losing what you already have, and you may actually underutilize your their own skills. Every success is directly proportional to the goals and success statement you made. My success statement is: “Focus and hard work in a proper direction always pay you out”

Be on the right door at the right time is a matter of luck

Some people achieve it quickly, and some spend their whole life to find it, but strength and focus towards your goal always helps you to move one step forward. Money shouldn’t be the utmost priority, but it does not mean that it's not required, money helps you out to a certain level, if your pockets are empty, then your focus might deviate from the goal.

1. Don’t chase methods to make money

It sounds difficult, but there is a very important lesson hidden in this statement. Success is not in finding ways and shortcuts to make more money but to make money run after you, this can be achieved only through excellence. Remember, you have to remain focused, and at times dreams of making money stray you away from your path and thus increases the urge of just gathering money, not creating a long-term and ever-lasting effect.

“Too many people spend money they earned, to buy things they don’t want, to impress people that they don’t like” –Will Rogers

2. Helping others is helping yourself

If we look back, we get numerous examples of successful people who worked for others, or I would say that the center of their attention was to serve people, through their product or service. Your product should be based on value-based analysis, and not just profit-based analysis. The success of others is augmenting your success, helping others in achieving their dreams is benefiting yourself with ultimate fame, motivation and satisfaction, which are most necessary factors to become a successful person.

3. Serve masses

Many companies focus on varying business models; the best models are those which are made for the masses, because masses help you to promote your product or convey your message to the public. Try to convert your customers into brand advocates, instead of just up selling them or leaving them dissatisfied. Serving a million will undoubtedly draws billions in your account with your fame multiplied by infinity.

4. Invest in your resources and add more

People have different kinds of mindsets, some look for money, some look for benefits, and then there are those who look for adding more and more to what they are already providing, being their core competency.

“Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work” –Thomas Edison

4. Invest in your resources and add more (Cont…)

Opportunities usually comes in a disguised packaging, one common mistake is people look at opportunity as a way to make money, which is not necessarily useful, because once you start measuring opportunities with money, you will limit yourself to keep your effort till the time it pays you out, if it does not pay, you will quit it and quitting from problems leads to failures.

4. Invest in your resources and add more (Cont…)

Then there are some people who work for benefits, which could be anything, either benefiting yourself through perks on the job or benefiting yourself through status-quo and respect. Both peoples are equally making one common mistake, which is making you dependant on something that changes with the time.

“Money was never a big motivation for me, except as a way to keep score. The real excitement is playing the game.” Donald Trump

5. Make core competencies better

In order to be a successful person, you consistently need to evaluate yourself, and keep a check on your strengths and weaknesses, to get an idea what you are good at, since your core competencies create differentiation amongst others. Self-criticizing in a positive manner is the best technique to embark yourself continuously on the road to achievement.

“I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work.” Thomas Edison

6. Benchmark yourself

Select a pool of successful people and analyse their journey, you will come to know how to use your skills to reach higher than you are. Learning is what makes them different from others, it is what makes people believe in their successfulness, and it is the criteria through which the world recognizes them as successful. It will make you realize the behaviours and attitude of people towards success and thus giving you the motivation and a direction to follow.

7. Measure the progress

Measuring your progress gives you a reality check of your distance from your actual goal. Weekly or monthly progress keeps you curious and motivated towards your goal. The process is simple; you need to create a vision, then break in into number of achievable goals, and then carefully set deadlines, followed by passionately meeting them and measuring your progress.

8. Scheduling

Establish a routine for yourself and religiously follow it to ensure your progress, once you start measuring it, you will have an urge to achieve it and for that sense of achievement, you have to make a routine, which will eventually become a habit. Scheduling your tasks, defining your priorities, allocating time for your personal / mental health, and the daily activities should be listed down in an order to be productive.

8. Scheduling (Cont…)

When you need to achieve something bigger, it is always recommended that you should break the project into minor tasks that are manageable on daily basis. The idea is to keep on working consistently towards achieving your goal. We have a great example from nature: if you sow a plant and keep on watering it daily, it will gradually grow and become more strong, whereas if this activity is performed once a week, the growth of the plant will be slower and there are chances it might die as well.

In the end, I would like to conclude it by saying that what you are today should be better than what you were yesterday; make your future as much impressive as you can.

“It is hard to fail, but it is worse never to have tried to succeed.” Theodore Roosevelt