Life Lessons – Page 47 – Climb to Success

Why Do I Do This?

Why do I write these long posts? Why do I share my stories and advice? What good is any of this to you? If you read on you’ll most likely understand.

I chose to create this site, and this brand for a simple reason. I want nothing more than to be successful in life. I want to be successful, and I don’t let anything stand in my way. So what does success mean to me? It means a series of financial goals, a series of personal goals, and a series of business goals. My financial goals all have set steps to get there, and benchmarks set for certain ages so that I can measure progress. These goals are always reachable as well, because if they aren’t reachable, I’ll just lose motivation as I fail along the way. I have personal goals like buying my first property by a certain age. So you understand my level of drive I will share that this property goal was set for age 26, which I actually accomplished this year at 22. Lastly there is business goals, this goal is based on benchmarks as well, such as learning new skills, or meeting new people.

Regardless of what the goal is, I have a set path to reaching each one of them and the drive to keep myself constantly moving forward. So now that you know what Success means to me, let’s go back to why I write these posts.

1. These posts help me stay motivated and keep myself accountable to my own goals.

2. I believe that a true benchmark of success and character in a person is that person’s ability to help other people grow. That is the simple answer, I write to help others succeed along with me.

Until next time,

There Are 3 Things You Must Do In Order To Become Wealthy

There are three things you must do in order to become wealthy. You must have the right mindset, discover your purpose in life, and find a business that expresses that purpose

This is an incredibly accurate statement, that very much holds true in my life, particularly when I take the time to really reflect on the words. Having the mindset to be successful allows you to devote yourself to that goal. If you are not in the proper frame of mind, then you may not be able to put this goal above other wants in life, to drive yourself forward as quickly as possible. You must discover your purpose, and NO making a lot of money is not your purpose. Finding something that you love, and that allows you to feel fulfilled, will allow you to work much harder and with less risk of burnout, than if you were doing something you don’t love. Lastly, you have to find a business that expresses this passion to people, and this also is true. When you convey your passion and excitement to your clients, these clients will be much more eager to work with you.

All of this holds true to both my full-time career in Business/Technology, and my blogging on the side. Both of these allow me to love what I do, feel like I’m helping people, and convey this feeling to others. This overall feeling of the path I’m on allows for driving forward without being unmotivated by road blocks as I have historically been on less exciting paths.

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Until Next Time,

Alan

Success – What does it mean?

In my last post, I talk about knowing what you want. Knowing what you want in the long run, gives you something to set smaller goals for, each smaller goal being another benchmark along the way to the larger end goal. This being said, success isn’t a standardized benchmark that can be blanketed across all people. Success is something that means something different to each of us.

My personal ideal of success is a specific set of financial goals, a set of career goals, and a set of personal/family goals. Each of these goals has a number of smaller goals along the way, and a specific age or date set for reaching each of these goals. By setting these smaller goals not only can I see how far along I am, but I can also tell if I’m ahead of, or behind schedule along the way. By doing this I can specifically hold myself accountable along the way to reaching each of these goals.

So you think, okay I have a goal, I have the steps I need to take to reach this goal, and I know how I’m going to get there, so I’m set up to start the Climb to Success right? Not necessarily. You also need to make sure your goals are SMART, Specific, Measurable, Attainable, Realistic, and Timely. If your goal doesn’t meet these criteria then you are not setting yourself up for success, you’re setting yourself up for disappointment, demotivation, and potentially failure. If you set the bar too high too soon, and you fail to meet your first couple of benchmarks, then you’ll lose your motivation and feel like you may never be able to reach these goals.

If you know what you want, but aren’t sure how to get there, or how to set these goals along the way, head over to the contact page and send me a message, I’d be more than happy to help you along your personal Climb to Success!

Until Next Time,

Don’t be a leader, Sell ice cream

Steve Jobs once said “If you want to make everyone happy, don’t be a leader, sell ice cream.” And as funny as this quote is, it holds a great deal of truth. As a leader it will never be possible to make everyone happy, all the time. Every time you make a decision affecting one person in a positive way, it will generally make another feel either negatively affected, or unfairly treated in some way. Thus you can’t make everyone happy.

Until next time

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