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My wallet - typical of many entrepreneurs where plastic takes precident over cash 
Success is defined as the achievement of something desired, planned, or attempted. Here are a few guidelines I use to keep my life in check on the path towards ultimate freedom.
Learn to say NO
You can do anything you want on any given day, the freedom of time that citizens of the industrialized democratic world have is truly the most under-appreciated right we have yet instead of realizing its value, most of us are running around like chickens with our head chopped off. We have become a society that fears saying NO to people, we don’t want to hurt peoples feelings or worst yet, try to get our self-esteem by making other people happy at the expense of our time.
Your time is the most valuable commodity you will ever have, it is like a bank account only allows you to make withdraws from. Take control of your life and take pride in saying NO to things that are not compatible with your life plans.
Take ownership of your life
Nobody really cares about your life as much as you do. Ask the person who loves you the most in your life how much time they have planned into turning your life around into one overflowing with success… I bet the answer you get is “huh?”. Success can only happen when YOU take ownership of your life, YOU need to plan and YOU need to execute YOUR goals. YOU are the only person who can invest the amount of time and energy required to achieve YOUR goals.
Plan your life before life plans you
The typical lifespan of most people is between 60-100 years, I would easily say that 95% of the people go through their entire life like a tree in the wind… simply going in the direction of the wind. If you want to make something of yourself and turn your dreams into reality, you must be that one stubborn tree that ALWAYS points in one direction… the direction of success. No matter what comes at you, you must never loose sight of why you are doing what you are doing. Plans do change, sometimes just as erratic as a breeze but as long as your able to adapt, you will be fine.
Goal setting with established absolute benchmarks go a very long way.
Find your purpose
Success, no matter if for you it means becoming head janitor at the school you work at or to make your first billion before the age of 30… it must have a purpose for being. If you are unable to build a strong emotional link as to why you are getting up every morning and going “against the wind” then your wasting your time and fooling others. We are emotional animals and without that fire in the gut feeling pushing you, don’t expect to get very far. You must not only WANT to achieve something… you must ABSOLUTELY REQUIRE it for your survival.
TAKE ACTION!
Success only can be achieved by taking ACTION. Dreaming about what you “would” do will not get you towards what you want out of life… everyday, take at least 1 action towards achieving your goal, no matter how small. Momentum builds onto itself rather quickly once you have developed the habit of action.
Expect to make sacrifices
Success takes sacrifices, I can’t think of many people who have achieved success in absolutely every part of their life, often there is great success in one area of their life at the expense of another. I don’t think its possible from the onset to become successful all around, it takes so much focus and attention that something will else will suffer. Expect some pain and very tough decisions to come your way… but always remember to also enjoy the journey. Are you willing to make life long and life altering sacrifices to see a dream come to reality?
Even friendships are on the table of business
Haven recently gone though some very large business turnovers in the past few months, I can tell you that friends come and go - if there is no longer a reason to remain as close as you once where, don’t fight it - it’s simply the evolution of your life taking a leap (usually for the better). Life isn’t a popularity or “friend collection” contest, to be blunt, friends can sometime be dead weight on your life which you need to drop off at the next embankment of life, no matter the emotional/financial connections in order to get back your life and move onward with it in a positive way.
The Bottom Line
Success is how you define it but with enough intensity and attention, anybody can achieve what they want out of life.
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