“Desire is the key to
motivation, but it's determination and commitment to an unrelenting pursuit of
your goal - a commitment to excellence - that will enable you to attain the
success you seek.”
– Mario
Andretti
(1940- ) Race
Car driver
Coaches want
to see their clients with a real passion to succeed. It is really difficult to coach someone who
really does not care if they achieve their dreams or not. That may sound funny, but there are many
people out there that feel that way.
However, those who really desire success must see that desire as only a
starting point. True success takes much
more.
There are four key areas that
all success-minded people must understand and embrace if they are going to
achieve their goals. All of these
require action on their part and can only be done by them. There are no short cuts or skipping one or
two. These four keys are time, price,
work and change.
Time
Success takes time. That is just the way it is. You cannot achieve a dream and think you will
find a short cut or do it in your "spare" time. There must be a commitment to do what it
takes no matter how long it takes. If
your goal requires more education, training, or study, then do it. Remember that five years will pass in five
years, nothing will change that. What
will matter is what you do in that five years.
Price
Everything has a price. Nothing is free or there for the taking. That price may be in money, materials, time,
energy or any number of things, but it is a price. All success-minded people need to understand
and agree to pay the price for their success.
Here is an important key in looking at paying the price. You can say no. If a person honestly looks at the cost of
what it will take for them to achieve their goal and they decide that they
really do not wish to pay it, then they should walk away and find something
else to do. It is always a choice -
their choice.
Work
Here is where so many people
fail and give up on their dreams. To
achieve your dreams in life will take a lot of hard work. We live in a society that teaches us that
hard work is for the looser or the unskilled.
Really successful people do not work hard they work smart. That is all foolish trash. Successful people are those who work hard,
have a skill and build on that skill with all they have. One of my current heroes is Mike Rowe, former
host of the TV show Dirty Jobs. Rowe said, "The Skills Gap is a symptom
of what we value as a society. And right
now we don't value hard work. We don't
value skilled labor. We don't value
alternative education. We didn't just
'wind up here'. We put ourselves
here."
Change
All success requires
change. You must change what you learn,
how you learn, what you do, how you think and how you act. If you want to achieve your dreams and become
a successful person you need to understand who that person is. Don't say, "I am me and I will not be
anything else." You are where you
are because it is who you are. To be
someplace else you need to grow and change to become that person. Abraham Lincoln said, "I do not think
much of a man who is the same today as he was yesterday." Growth, development, success all mean
change. Do not fear change, embrace it
and become the very best you can be.
You matter to the world. You are here to make a difference and that
difference is good. Remember the
qualities of a real success-minded person: Be your best. Love God.
Have good manners. Discover the unknown.
Change the world.
John Patrick Hickey is an author, speaker,
and Life Coach. To read more from John Patrick Hickey or to get his books,
training and book him to speak to your church, business or group, visit our
website at http://www.growthcenter.net or www.johnpatrickhickey.com.
© 2014 John
Patrick Hickey
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