7 lifeskills to skyrocket your success
These seven life skills will help you skyrocket your success.
I was talking to one of my friends a few years ago about what it takes to be successful. For the longest time, I had always seen success as this none starter. You either would become successful or you wouldn’t. It was as if you could be granted magic success powers and instantly figure things out. At the mention of a word or saying you would become successful.
“What do you think makes a person successful?” I asked, genuinely curious.
“I think it must be dedication,” she had told me.
I was desperate to know what really were the building blocks that I decided to ask my father. He had run two businesses and was a pioneer in his day, so my mother and siblings would joke about it. He was in the kitchen, concentrating on preparing breakfast and at the time I was in my second year of college.
“Dad, I want to ask you a question,” I asked him.
He looked up and stared at me. “What’s wrong?”
“Nothing, I wanted to know, what makes a person successful.”
You think this is one of those blog posts where I tell you that the answer he gave me is the title of this blog post but that isn’t going to happen.
“That is a loaded gun question. It isn’t an easy answer, I do believe the difference is that successful people know what they want and they go for it.”
That was the answer, successful people know what they want and they go for it. Though, I wanted to know what it takes for them to go after what they want. I later discovered that successful people had better life skills than most of us. That was the answer I needed all along, successful people had better life skills and everything aligned and clicked. I knew that if I wanted to be successful I needed to have better life skills and I spent the next couple of years working on my life skills. These life skills will help you skyrocket success and it is important to understand what life skills will get you to the top a whole lot quicker. These seven life skills will skyrocket your success.
Dedication
Call it determination, resilience, persistence or devotion. Dedication is one of the life skills that will help skyrocket your success. People who don’t learn dedication tend to give up. Success is not an overnight thing, regardless of how many stories we hear of people who woke up and became successful. For the longest time that is what I thought.
I believed that these people were overnight success stories. How could one man make a million dollars in less than a year? If I could I’d pay top dollar to find out how he did that. The media wants us to eat these stories like cheese on a string. Why? Because they are in the business of selling stories and telling stories about wunderkinds or overnight success stories.
The truth is these people spent years developing on their skills, honing their craft and working on their dreams. There’s no secret ingredient to making someone successful. You can’t skip ahead. We all have to go through the steps required to become successful and dedication is the top life skill you need to skyrocket success.
Concentration
How many times have you found yourself staring into space or the walls? How many times have you daydreamed and wanted to shake yourself silly because you failed to follow-through. Life-skill number two to skyrocket your success is concentration.
For all those who struggle with concentration, I know the struggle is real. It doesn’t mean you can’t find a way to concentrate or focus on your tasks. This is the trick, you need to know yourself. I know we all hear that often, sometimes it feels as if it is slapped on a cheesy cereal box with motivational lines. “Know thy self,” it might say.
Though, it does work. You have to know the time you concentrate the best and that is when you use that time to work. I work best really early in the morning and when I start slacking, I drink a smoothie that helps me concentrate. But if I didn’t know what worked then I’d struggle. Life-skills can be learned and taught, but you need to be willing to put in the work and learn more about yourself.
Time management
When it comes to time management, most of us struggle to cope with it. The day, month or year goes by and we are furious we didn’t achieve as much as we
hoped we would. It all comes down to tracking your time and noticing how much time you spend on certain tasks.
It comes to being productive and using time wisely. If you master time management then this life skill will help you skyrocket your success. The reason why most people aren’t successful is because they don’t know how to use time wisely.
This is one of those life skills that we all know we should have, but we all suck at it in one way or the other. I have learned that sometimes we spend so much time thinking about what we want to do rather than actually doing it. That is why it is always important to know things in advance. For example, know what you want to work on you and work on it. Another thing is to know what you want to buy before you go into the shops.
Sometimes, wondering what we want to do takes so much energy and time from us. If you want to reduce that write a to-do list to help you do things at a
much faster rate than before.
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Patience
Patience is one of those life skills necessary to skyrocket success, but many of us struggle with it. Human beings aren’t patient, it doesn’t come easily for us especially when compared to the animal kingdom.
Though, we need patience if we want to be successful. If you aren’t patient, it is so easy to make the wrong decisions because you want fast results. It is easy to give up when you are not getting the results you want.
It is frustrating working on something and you still haven’t made any money from doing what you love. it is annoying working night and day on your business and a zero balance is reflecting in your bank account. You need to know often at times you can’t see the milestones you achieved because we are so interested in seeing the bigger picture if it has been finished.
Patience is more important than you realize and it is alright if your success breakthrough is taking longer than you expected. Sometimes, you have to be a little patient and willing to wait for the results you desire.
Self-confidence
Self-confidence is a life skill that we talk about often as one of the best ways to skyrocket your success. The people who aren’t self-confident tend to doubt themselves more and make more mistakes. Making mistakes is part of life, but when you are self-confident even when you make those mistakes it doesn’t break you.
When my self-confidence was low, I made a ton of mistakes and I used to be so furious at myself for making them. It was as if every time I made a mistake, I thought I ruined an opportunity. That didn’t help with my self-esteem. I learned that mistakes are okay. Making them doesn’t mean you are a failure, but that you are learning.
Successful people learn from their mistakes all the time and that is how they grow. It is part of life to make blunders and then move on from it. How many times did your parents make mistakes when you were growing up? How many times does your boss or coworkers or friends make mistakes? You have to be okay with the the heartache of the learning process.
Leadership
Whereas some leaders just follow the orders of their boss and can discourage instead of inspiring. It is still important to master leadership because when you learn leadership you inspire people and that creates a chain reaction. You also inspire people to look up to you and if you are seen as trustworthy they will want to learn
This is what most people are missing. Most online marketers or entrepreneurs are great leaders and that is why they make as much money as they do. If they weren’t great leaders, no one would buy from them. They wouldn’t be successful. The same can be said for other entrepreneurs like Tai Lopez, Mark Zuckerberg or Karlie Kloss. If they weren’t great leaders then their companies wouldn’t be worth as much as it is. The two are linked. People don’t work hard for those who aren’t great leaders or who don’t inspire.
It also all comes down to your message and incorporating that message into everything you do.
Also Read: How To Develop Leadership Skills in 4 Steps
Be willing to learn
This life skill is important to master and it can skyrocket your success. All of the ones, I listed do that, but this one can cut the learning process in half. You need to be willing to learn. Successful people read more books and watch programs that help them grow. Think more Shark Tank and fewer of the Kardashians. You need to find something that will help you grow.
Watch YouTube videos on starting a business, growing one and how to be more productive. YouTube has so much free content that you can learn and grow from watching it. This is what most successful people do and because of that, they stay at the top of their game.
If they don’t know about the investment they learn about it and even if they fail, they keep trying. They keep learning new skills. This is a life skill you need to master if you want to be successful. This can also change your life in so many ways. When I became willing to learn I started learning more, I developed my skills.
This is the last life skill you need to master to skyrocket your success. There are far more life skills out there that you need to master, but these seven will get you to where you want to go a whole lot faster.
What lifeskills do you think are important to master to skyrocket your success? Comment below.
Keep Pushing
Vanessa
