Success Principles

4 Questions That Will Lead You To Success

December 9, 2008 , 7 Shawn

Do you want to be successful? This is a stupid question because I believe that everyone in the world wants to be successful. Some people desire to have a healthy body, some people desire to be rich while some people desire to live a happy life.

No matter what you want in your life, you must always ask yourself these 4 questions…

1. Where Are Your Right Now?

In your journey to success, you’ve to know where you are. Know where you are today will give you a big picture of how you’re going to achieve the things that you want. For example, if you’re a student and you want to be rich, it is possible for you by doing some home or online business. It is the same if you’re a teacher and you want to be a millionaire. By simply holding a job teaching in the school will not make you a millionaire. You’ve to come up with strategies that can make you more money.

For example, you can create a tuition system that works without you, earn money from this business, sell the license to other teachers, or you can set up an internet tuition center that teaches students from the comfort of your home. There are basically many ways how you can achieve your goals.

But first you must find out where you are right now. If your goal is to make $1 million, how much you’ve accumulated up until now? By knowing your position in your journey, you’ll be able to come up with better strategies to achieve what you want.

As you know, the strategies you need to earn $1,000 is totally different from the strategies you’ll need to earn $100,000. Read this post for more understanding, Are You Using The Right Strategies?

2. Where Is Your Destination?

Once you knew where you are, you must then find out where you want to go. Knowing where you’re coming from is not important, what is important here is where you want to go. This is one of the most common reasons most people living a mediocre life, they don’t know what they really want in their life.

If you want to achieve great success in your life, you MUST know what you really want in your life. If you don’t know what you want, you’ll be just like everybody else, repeating the same life cycle every single day, doing things that you don’t like everyday, living without purpose and breathing without reason.

Everyone has something that they want in their life, some people want to be rich, some people want to drive luxury car, some people want to live a happy life with their loved ones and so on.

Life should be excited and fun. If you feel that life is boring and meaningless, it is because you don’t know what you really want in your life. So find out what you want to achieve in your life today, set goals and create plans to achieve it.

Once you knew what you want, you can then put in 100% focus and commitment to achieve it.

Therefore, find out the real meaning of success in your life. What Success Really Means To You?

3. How You Can Get To Your Destination?

Asking this question allows you to come up with a clear plan of how you can achieve what you want in your life. Many people stop at the first 2 questions above. After they knew where they are and what they want, they stop right there. If you’re serious in achieving what you want in your life, you must ask this third question, how to get to where you want to go.

Don’t worry if your action or strategies are wrong or incorrect, you can adjust them later. The most important point here is to come up with an action plan how you can get what you want in your life. People often give excuses in this stage. After they knew what they want, they then give lousy excuses like it is impossible to be a millionaire, they don’t have the money to make more money, they don’t have the time or they just don’t have the skills and knowledge to make it happen.

When you ask yourself this question and the moment you’re creating your action plan how to achieve what you want, you must adopt the ‘fake it until you make it’ mindset. You must always think and act as if you already have all the resources that you need. For instance, you should think that time, money, skills and knowledge are not obstacles for you.

Here is a post that can help you in this stage, Organizing Your Action Plan To Achieve Higher Success.

4. What Should You Do Now?

This is the last question you have to ask. What should you be doing right now to achieve what you want? It is the action that you take that will make all your dreams and goals come true. Success is about getting things done. So take the first step now and all else will follow.

Confucius once said, “The journey of a thousand leagues begins with a single step.”

You’ve to develop the momentum by taking the first step immediately right after you know what you want to achieve in your life. Many people procrastinate and delay their action after they knew what they want to achieve in their life. They tell themselves, “I’ll do it someday”. You know it very well that someday will NEVER come.

If you’re going to do it, do it NOW. Don’t delay and don’t procrastinate. The number one reason people procrastinate and delay their action is because they are not doing it IMMEDIATELY. Don’t think, straight away put yourself into action. The more you think the more likely you’re going to procrastinate.

And the number one solution to procrastination is take action right away.

Here are some ways how you can propel yourself into action instantly, How To Achieve Anything You Want In Your Life.

There you have them, the 4 questions that you must ask to be successful. Know where you are, know what you want, know how to get it and take the first step right away.