Continuing Success: There Are 5 Secrets

Develop these 5 attributes of a successful person, and you will find yourself moving quickly toward your goals in life!

* Thick Skin: you cannot be easily offended or hurt if you want to be successful. There will always be people who are jealous or envious or out to bring someone else down-you must develop a way to see past that and let it roll off your back, like “water off a duck’s back.”

Duck feathers are tightly grouped. They actually repel any moisture that they come into contact with. If you wish to be successful, you’ll hear a certain amount of negative criticism from others–Treat it like water on the duck’s back–let it roll off. This way you’ll be better prepared for the jealous people.

* Follow the leader: Learn to obey someone who knows how to lead. If you want to be a good leader, then learn to be a good follower first. Being loyal to a good leader is one of the steps to being successful.

Once you have learned how to obey and to follow directions, you can lead others and understand what commands and orders do for an organization and an individual. Consider this: 175 of the CEOs of Fortune 500 companies are former US Marines, and 27 US Presidents served in the military.

* Courage: bravery is not courage, but you cannot have courage without being brave. Courage is the moral fortitude to stand up for your character (touched on in the last article) and to do the right thing-even in the face of adversity.

Courageous people have strong convictions. They aren’t afraid to follow through with a tough decision–it’s that action they take that will make you get the most out of life. No one is ever sorry for having a strong conviction to do the right thing.

* Intolerance: not exactly what you might expect to find in an article about success, but each of us must be intolerant of any number of things: intolerant of abuse, of injustice, of the things that you know are immoral, unethical, or illegal. If there’s anything in this world you should be intolerant of, those are some of them. I hope you are an intolerant person-in the right way.

* Have a good sense of Humour: Sometimes we have to laugh at ourselves. There are a lot of setbacks on the road we walk down. If you run into one of them and get knocked down–you should just try to laugh it off and get right back up. If you dwell on it too long, you’ll just become bitter and never move on. When you laugh at yourself–it could turn out that you’re laughing all the way to the bank.

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