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Success is tough to measure because it’s tough to define. What it means to everyone is different. Fast cars? Easy women? Stable job? Happy and healthy family? Aaron Marino of alpha m. is not claiming to know the secrets to success. He does know seven things that will destroy your success trajectory.
Everyone wants to be successful, but are you willing to do the things that it takes to be successful? These things are absolutely preventing you from succeeding:
- How much time during the day, week, month, year are you wasting on stuff that doesn’t matter (Social Media!) rather than doing stuff that’s productive?
- You think you are a hard worker … or are you just delusional? There is a difference between being productive and busy.
- Do you give up too easily? When the tough gets going, do you do something else? Persevering is too tough to handle.
- You don’t visualize the future goal. You work for just now, the short term goal. You need foresight and vision. Keep your eye down the road.
- Are you a risk taker? Can you take calculated risks? Weight options (good and bad) and choose the best option possible. You can’t be successful if you can’t be willing to fail. And if the risk doesn’t work out, brush your shoulders off. Nothing great was ever achieved because it’s easy.
- You’re not able to recognized opportunities when presented to you. You have to look, survey the scene, recognize the opportunities, and seize them.
- Do you surround yourself with people who prevent you from moving forward and excelling? Your success is the average of the five people who you spend the most time during the day. Take an inventory of the five people with which who you spend the most time. Surround yourself with smart and successful people. You may need to cut some ties or bring other people into your circle.
