What does it take to be successful?
By Scott
@scottcoleson (579)
Pilot Mountain, North Carolina
December 11, 2009 5:51pm CST
Everyone wants to experience success in their lives. I know that, personally, I want to be successful in many things. I want to be a successful husband, father, preacher, businessman, photographer and writer. We know that everyone wants to be successful, but many of us would say that we haven't been successful thus far because we don't understand fully what it takes to be successful. I know that for in order for me to be a successful photographer, I will have to continually work with my craft, perfecting my skill and keeping up with technology. But what are some things that you believe are essential for someone to be successful in life? Are there certain traits that you would say are necessary?
3 responses
@wildlittlefan (4680)
• Hong Kong
12 Dec 09
I think the following points are essential for any success.1. A clear vision.Ror without it ,we wouldn't know waht we arev trying to accomplich 2.A strong commitment and desire to reach our goal ,no matter what the cost will be.3. It is better to have a coach or a mentor who will commit to help you success by sharing his experience of success and failure to you.That would make us have more assistance to success.4.Finally and the most important one,be sure you are doing God's will in life and do anything with His presence.That's my opinon on success.I ihopr that you will a successful person in God's view but not how the world see it.God bless you.
@scottcoleson (579)
• Pilot Mountain, North Carolina
14 Dec 09
Thanks for your response. You are absolutely right on all points. I would agree with you wholeheartedly that you need to have a clear vision. I have seen a lot of people who say they want to be successful in life but they really have no clue how they want to be successful. They don't know what they want to do with their lives. I am not saying that we should all know exactly what we are going to do with our lives, but I believe that we should all have a clear vision for something that we want to do with our lives. Without setting out to reach a goal, we can be sure that we will not reach a goal.
@taheraa (1545)
• Giza, Egypt
12 Dec 09
To be success in your life, to be success in many things or to be success in everi things. you should be success with your God, and understand well your relition how to deal with your god, the people oroun and how to deal with your self. Also, as a part of your success in any work is to like this work. But if you can not like your work. Go, ank work the things you like and prefer.
@scottcoleson (579)
• Pilot Mountain, North Carolina
14 Dec 09
You bring up a great point in saying that first, you should have a relationship with God. There are so many people all around that have huge plans for their lives and they are striving to be successful in their lives. However, they are forgetting the first essential to success in any person's life. In order to truly experience success in life, you should have an intimate relationship with God. If we don't start with that one aspect, everything else in our lives will be off.
@beatrizguiselle (1118)
• Spain
11 Dec 09
Yes! I´d say that perseverance is the key to have any success.
It cant be any simpler than that!
What do you think?
It cant be any simpler than that! What do you think?@scottcoleson (579)
• Pilot Mountain, North Carolina
14 Dec 09
I would agree with you that perseverance is essential to success in any aspect of life. Our goals and the things we want to do with our lives sometimes take longer to reach than expected. It would often be very easy to just give up reaching our goals in life, but in order to be successful, a person must be willing to work and fight through those times when they feel like giving up. Being successful is not something that happens overnight and it doesn't come naturally; it takes a lot of hard work.
