What defines success? Is it reaching the top of the ladder? Is it having a certain dollar amount in your bank account? For many, success is an elusive goal. They feel powerless and resort to blaming their circumstances for the condition of their lives. But success is more scientific than you think. When you look at it this way, you can take concrete steps to ensure you practice the science of success and create an experiment of excellence in your very own life. We’ll explain in this issue of Promotional Consultant Today.
The Function Of Followership: Contrary to popular belief, the job doesn’t make you; you make the job. The more engaged, authentic and proactive you are, the greater your rewards. Every time you engage in effective followership, you exponentially increase your chances of success.
You may feel that your organization doesn’t value your active followership. This may be true. It takes an authentic leader and a collaborative culture to value active and engaged followers; however, the type of follower you are today determines the type of leader you’ll be tomorrow. They are two sides of the same coin.
The Exposure To Experience: You truly grow under adverse circumstances. Trials are not noble; they are character-building. Pressures forge and solidify our core, and a mind stretched can never go back to its previous form. Remember, a diamond was once a lump of coal, and a pearl was a grain of sand.
The quickest way to success is to cram 50 years of failure into 15. Every experience, good, bad or ugly, adds a key to unlocking a future door.
The Momentum Of Motivation: Do you feel stuck? The reason could be the Law of Inertia, which states that all objects tend to “keep on doing what they’re doing.” Each one of us generates our own motivation. This is why people with the same opportunities experience different outcomes. Force equals mass times acceleration; therefore, if you want a greater force to “get you off your mass” you have to apply a higher degree of acceleration. When you dial into your internal cheerleader, you will be a body in motion that stays in perpetual motion.
The added benefit of motivation is that it is has a highly transferable quality. Thus, the more of it you generate, the more it multiplies. People also refer to this as “atmosphere.” Atmosphere doesn’t just come out of nowhere; someone has to generate it. You can be a thermometer that merely reflects what’s going on around you, or you can be a thermostat and set the temperature in your organization.
The Vector Of Vision: Vision is simply seeing what needs to be done and doing it. Often people fool themselves into thinking vision is some type of mystical prophecy only a genius can see, when in reality the great visionaries are people who took action and got things accomplished when no one else would or could. Vision is what directs your everyday path and decision. Vision also has a moral quality that aligns with your values and convictions.
The Physics Of Failure: The Second Law of Thermodynamics states that an effect can never be greater than the cause. The universe tends toward an increasing state of disorder, and that includes you. To defeat the forces of natural chaos, you must implement a series of internal transformations. These include healthier eating, becoming a better thinker and increasing your positivity. A robust body, mind and soul are foundational to a successful life.
Many people think that life gets better by chance when, in fact, it only gets better through change. Ralph Waldo Emerson stated that cause and effect are two sides of one fact. You cannot create a different outcome, nor even maintain the status quo, without injecting your life with some empowering forces. There’s no smoke without fire. If you do what you always did, you’ll get what you always got. So if you want to escape the black hole of failure, drill down to that root cause, commence countdown and launch yourself out.
Obey these laws of success and increase your choices in life. If you want success to be a factor in your life, remember: it’s not luck, chance or fortune … it’s science.
Source: Tracey C. Jones is a U.S. Air Force veteran, entrepreneur, speaker and publisher. She speaks to audiences across the nation on leadership, accountability, business success and other topics. Her latest book is Beyond Tremendous: Raising the Bar on Life.
