Many of your beliefs about success may be wrong. These inaccurate beliefs can cause you to take actions that are not appropriate or you may not take any actions at all. The things you don’t know won’t hurt you but the beliefs that are not true will. Success can be very elusive if your success ideas are faulty.
Some of the misconceptions about success are:
A certain type of personality is needed to be successful. There is Bill Gates who is considered to be not shy but introverted. It is said that Barack Obama is aloof. Many extroverted people are successful as well. You can be assured that whatever your personality type is, you can reach a high level of success.
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Money changes people. No one has ever been changed by money. You can act on your impulses when you have money. You can do and buy what you want and what you daydream about when you have money. Money just puts a light on the truth.
You need to be intelligent to be successful. The opposite may be true. Many brilliant people have attained high levels of success, there are lots of examples of people that have an ordinary intellect being just as successful.
- When it comes to being successful, bring consistent and determined are more important than intelligence.
Success requires originality. To achieve success, you don’t have to invent the next Facebook or Microsoft. You can marginally improve something from other people’s work and ideas and be successful.
- To guarantee success you just need to outwork the competition.
To be and stay successful, you need lots of time. Everyone has the same 24 hours. You need to ask if you are being as effective over your 24 hours as you possibly can.
- You will decrease the amount of time you must work by focusing on the day’s most relevant tasks. These tasks are not enjoyable so most people avoid these pertinent tasks.
You are lonely when you are successful. Do you think that once you are successful you will be sitting home all alone? This is not true. While there are a lot more unsuccessful people than successful people, because you are successful you will have more business and social opportunities.
You have to be lucky to be successful. While many people who are successful have also been lucky at times, the only method to be lucky is to give yourself the opportunity to be lucky. The more work that you are able to do, the more chances you will have to be lucky.
- You don’t need luck to be successful, it is nice to have but it isn’t mandatory.
Successful people had it easy. You may be shocked to discover the amount of adversity that most successful faced. Many started from a very disadvantageous position and had many obstacles in their path to success.
- The successful person didn’t quit like many others would have, they kept moving forward.
To be successful you need lots of willpower. Unless your life is at stake, you will find willpower in short supply. When you are starting to develop a new habit, willpower is useful. Willpower isn’t that necessary after the habit has been formed.
Do you have a lot of these misconceptions about success, have you changed your mind about some of them? Your odds of achieving success are increased when you have an accurate representation in your mind. You can expect to achieve new levels of success when you know and embrace the truth about success.
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