becoming successful 101

Tyrik Alford
CTE Advanced Studies
Thomas Oxendine
December 5, 2014

Becoming Successful Everyone has their own opinions about success, what it takes to actually reach your goals of becoming successful. There are steps to becoming successful at anything. First you must understand the meaning of success. Get familiar with what it really means to you and how bad you actually want to reach your goals. Then make sure nothing is standing in your way of success. Finally, go for it and do everything you possibly can to become everything you want to be. I was once at a point where I did not understand the meaning, now I am familiar with it and what I have to do in my life to become successful.
When you hear people talk about success it seems like it would take a life time, but when you understand what the world really means, it makes it feel so much shorter. The word success may mean different thing to different people. To me it is not just about setting goals and reaching them. For me success means so much more. My meaning of success is when you have accomplished every struggle in your life. When you have completed all your goals to be what you have always wanted to ne and your dream of the way you want your life to turn out is finally coming true. Everything that you have worked hard for is finally sitting in front of you and you are willing to do whatever it takes to keep it right there. Although, the real meaning of success is the accomplishment of an aim or purpose. Also, for a person or thing that achieved desired aims or attains prosperity. This part of becoming successful to me is the most important. You cannot set goals to become successful, if you have no idea what success means. It is not easy trying to define success, you have to know how it makes you feel to really want it or need it in your life. Success is everything is someone’s life, no matter what they are trying to make of it. Having a job is not a part of being successful, even though your job may pay well and may be your number one priority it can still make you feel miserable and unsatisfied just because that was not what you really wanted out of life, it was not your dream. Most people that have seemingly great jobs that pay well are still deeply depressed and unfulfilled for just those reasons; it was not their dream of becoming successful. So having a job is not everything in life although, it plays a huge part. You will never be successful stopping at “good enough”. To be what you want to be, good is not what you want to settle with. You want to go for the exact thing you want. The first part of discovering what you want is to find out what you do not want. You can only accomplish this by trying, experimenting and taking massive action. When you start off figuring out what you want and do not want, you will always be confused and unclear. As you keep moving forward, you will feel inspired to take action in one direction instead of another. You have to take many different paths down the road to becoming successful to know which one is the right path is take. Once you have figured that out, then you will be just one step closer to actually becoming successful. You have to stay focused on that path as well. Once it has becomes clear enough to see than do not let it get back foggy. Setting your goals also gives your mind more focus. If you do not give your mind something to go after than it will not know what to do. So you have to ask yourself where you want to be in twelve months from now. That would be a start on setting goals for the future. Once you have set your goals, it is time to start moving forward with it and taking action. People that have their goals already planned out face the same amount of challenges as anyone else. The only difference is that they view their failures differently. They have tried many things already that have not been good for them, so they know which roads to take and which to keep moving past. You have to give everything a chance though so you know what is good for you and what is not good for you. Letting things or people stand in your way of becoming successful is never a good thing. When you are striving to do better with your life and really trying to succeed, you must let harmful things and negativity in your life go. In my life I have set goals and never reached them. I have let so many things come in the middle of me becoming successful. I later realized that by letting everything get the best of me and by never sticking to my goals I was never going to get to where I really wanted to be in my life, so I took another route. As I mentioned earlier, you have learn what it means and how it makes you feel. I have now known the real meaning of success and how it makes me feel to know I have a chance at actually reaching the goals I have set and understanding success has made me think about different decisions I have made in the past because I did not understand what the word really meant. Now that I know, I am trying everything I can to live up to becoming the real meaning of successful. I am now a senior in high school. The first step I have taking in becoming successful was to keep on the path in my mind that finishing high school will help me succeed at my goals that I have set for my life. I have to first complete high school in order to attend college. Before completing high school though, I would have to make good grades and do everything I can while I am here to finish. Those are some things that I work on today; I try my best to be on time for things, to come prepared for every day and to make good grades on all of my assignments. After I have reached my goals of completing high school, I will then make more goals on my future. My further goals would be to go to college. By me going to college, I know I am just one more step closer to becoming successful. I have a dream and a way that I want my life to go. At the end of all my goals I want to feel like I am successful and I know I am never going to feel that way if I do not accomplish the goals I have now. There is more to it than just feeling it though. You have to be successful not just feel like you are. When I finish high school I know I am going to feel successful, because I accomplished my goals for now. Will I be successful though? No, because I have not accomplished my dream in life. My dream is to be everything I can possibly be and have a job that I enjoy and that I know I have worked hard for, but that also pays well. When I go to college I will do the same things I did in high school to succeed, only better because by then I will know more about life and where I really want to end up at the end. I will then be more focused on my career and what I want to become one day. There will be more things I have to do than just go to college. I will have to make sure everything else in my life is going good. No, nothing will be perfect and there will be a lot of bumps, but you cannot let anything negative stop you from your goals. There may be some dead end roads that I will have to turn around on and go back and try it a second time. No matter what to become successful you have to keep focused and keep moving regardless of what stands in your way or what pops up. I know there will be other things in my life I have to focus on and do before I can go to college every day. It goes all the way down to being healthy. That would be another goal/step in accomplishing my goals. Without your health you have nothing. Your life is about everything that you go through and everything that has anything to do with you. Being healthy and staying active with everything is an important part of setting goals to become successful. Reaching my goals from goal will then determine what the rest of my life will be like. I will then be starting on my career. After college, it can be difficult for some people to get a job right away depending on what career path they have chosen. So, I would also have to keep that in mind as I am going for my goals. That could potentially be a hiccup in my path. Never let that stop you though from reaching your goals. There are going to be something’s you have to work around. When I finally start my career and I know I am doing good with myself I have everything I need to be happy in life, I will then be successful and I can then say that I accomplished all my goals in life. Still I would have to remain focus on my work and my life to make sure there is no change in it. It does not stop there. You cannot just do everything to become successful, then nothing to remain successful. In my opinion that’s a lot of people’s problem. They chase their dreams then let the littlest things mess it up. Your dreams can be crushed just as quickly as you let it. Becoming successful and maintaining that success is not easy for everyone. There will be struggles to come up and things to make you want to give up on everything, but it depends on how much you want it and how much you are willing to do to stay successful in life. I hope my life turns out just as I plan for it to. I have come across a lot of choices that would lead me in the path to nothing, but I stay strong through those times and look to God to help me through it. You have to stay positive to become successful and know that this is what you want your life to turn out to be. Some people say you only have one chance at life to become successful. To me, that is not a hundred percent true. You can have goals set, never accomplish them, then realize you actually want to become something some day and go back for them again. Have mentioned that earlier, that is what I was referring to. I have put my goals aside at one point in my life then realized that was not the path I wanted to take. Now I am closer than I have ever been at reaching my goals for the future. Those are the steps to becoming successful. As long as you follow those simple steps and have it in your heart to become successful then you can. Different people have followed different paths that have leaded them up to success. Not everyone has a plan to become successful when they first get their mind set that they want to be successful. At first I did not have a plan, I just told myself that I was not going to stop until I became successful, but the further you go the more goals you tend to set for yourself the more you want to accomplish for yourself. Once you make a plan you can then follow these steps to become successful. You can have more than one plan as well. Just in case the first plan fails have a fallback so you can always have something else to lean on. I never worry about failures in my life because all they are lessons learned. Those failures help me to do better in my life. They push me to want to become successful even more so that I know I will not ever have to go through them again. It is all about the way you carry yourself as a person and individual as to what your life is going to play out to be. Becoming successful has always been my dream in life. It has always been the most important thing to me besides my family. They too have helped me get to where I am today, by motivating to do better, by pushing me to succeed. Without motivation, you have nothing, but an idea of what you want. Something has to make you want to do better. That is the reason why I am who I am today as a person because I have something to motivate me. Having listed all the steps to become successful, I think anyone could follow them and become everything they want to be in life. First you have to know what the word success means to actually get your plans in check. After that you can then begin to set your goals and start to reach them. Becoming successful should be everyone’s top priority in life. It should be something that everyone wants to do with their life. I love the fact that I have all my goals in route and am going down the right path to become everything I want to be and most of all successful.