What is the best way to ensure success in life?

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The first thing anyone has to do to ensure success in life is to personally define what success means to them. Some common ways in which people define success are: Accomplishment of personal objectives (building a family, staying in good health, ability to enjoy what life has to offer) Accomplishment of professional objectives (getting a degree, advancement and promotion in one's career, gaining recognition, amassing wealth and material possession) While everyone's definition of success varies, I would posit that the conventional definition of success tends to be along the lines of gaining something of value while not losing something of equal or greater value. In addition, there is a tendency to compare your achievements or accomplishments to your peers to try and determine who among you is relatively more or less successful. Unfortunately, these definitions only serve to make us feel miserable because our frame of reference tends to be focused on external points instead of our own intrinsic progress. Here are some principles I use to define success and ensure I am successful: 1. I like to define success as my progress relative to where I was 6 months, 1 year, 5 years, 10 years, 15 years and 20 years ago. As such, it does not and should not matter to me where I am relative to others. 2. Every incremental improvement I make each day moves me along the path towards becoming more successful by my own definition 3. I try to improve myself even by a small degree every day because I believe incremental improvements all add up over the weeks, months and years 4. Equally important, I value tenacity and persistence above everything else - success is a marathon - there will be occasional bumps and road blocks, but they only make me stay the course 5. I make mistakes - but I seek to learn from them. Making a mistake (in private or public) is not a validation on my ability / skills or my likelihood of success. Everyone makes mistakes, the important thing is to learn from them. I am not embarrassed to admit my mistakes. 6. Finally, success is not destination / stop in my journey - success is the journey - staying the course, doing things right, having different experiences, expanding my knowledge, helping others. Following these 6 principles keeps me happy and content with my life, and I feel like I am successful.

Careful planning and acting on your plans. Ensure that you are financially literate and save and invest as much money and time in yourself as you can!

“Take up one idea. Make that one idea your life; dream of it; think of it; live on that idea. Let the brain, the body, muscles, nerves, every part of your body be full of that idea, and just leave every other idea alone. This is the way to success, and this is the way great spiritual giants are produced.” - Swami Vivekananda

Always remember: Not for a moment do You stop GROWING. If You decide to brood.. You grow in Diameter and therefore heavier. Else.. You Grow up.. Soar.. Rise.. Higher..up..! Even a person on top can't stay there long without growth. Rise and shine! #diary-note.

Do what you think is right! Be a better and a wiser person than what u were the previous day! :) I just realised as I started growing up, I hardly managed to have a strong bond with my friends! There is only one person who is my best friend and whom  I can trust totally! And the rest totally just envied me because of my success and started treating me badly! At one point of time, I began to question myself! If I was wrong trying to grow really quick! And then I realised no! There will be a lot of people who will pull u down in the process! All you got to do is stand firm, dont care even if a single person does not support u until you believe in yourself and have confidence in what u r doing! And I am sure u wll be successful! :)

Minimize risk, maximize simplicity and become a priest.

decide what success in life is. each person have different meaning for success.