No Nonsense Guide to Success

Success means different things to different people. Some feel that if they drive a new car, they are successful. Some feel that if they finish college, they are successful. This article will interpret it and give you a no - nonsense way to achieve it

• What is Success?
• Integrity.
• Hard work
• Stick to it
• Help others be successful
• Enjoy but do not boast

1. The dictionary describes success as; "the favorable or prosperous termination of attempts or endeavors; the accomplishment of one's goals." While that is an accurate description, it does not quite define success. An eighty-year-old woman completes college and everyone says she is a success. A twenty - five year old girl does the same thing and she is a success. It means different things to different people.
2. Integrity is one of the necessary ingredients of success. You may own a thriving business, but if you do not have integrity, your success will be short - lived and cause sleepless nights.
3. Nothing will ever take the place of good, old-fashioned, hard work. King Solomon summed it up this way; "Don't be too fond of sleep; you'll end up in the poorhouse. Wake up and get up; then there'll be food on the table." I am not advocating you ignore your family, or that you work 16 hours a day. I am just saying, "when you snooze, you lose." Do not work harder, work smarter, but work!
4. You may call it persistence, but I say just stick to it! Do not give up - the stories are endless about people dying on the doorstep of their house in a blizzard. My favorite for quotes is Yogi Berra; "It ain't over 'til it's over." You are not successful until you succeed - just keep at it until you cannot only smell the roses, but you can pick 'em.
5. Zig Zigler said it well; "You can have everything in life that you want if you will just help other people get what they want." Still true today that success is not a lone wolf theory and no man is an island. We need other people to help us, and we want to help other people be successful.
6. Once you have succeeded and feel you are a success, enjoy every minute of it, but do not boast about it. Let others praise you. You do not need to wear a sign saying, "I am a success." People can spot a fake a mile away.

"A successful man is one who can lay a firm foundation with the bricks others have thrown at him." David Brinkley. It is true that when you are a winner, some people will be jealous; however, I like a statement I heard once; "When the big dog goes by, the little dogs bark." You will always have yappers at your heels. Just keep on trucking and you will be a success.

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