Success Is An Everyday Pursuit

Posted on October 08, 2008 by Ronald T. Brown, Ph.D.

Success is not something that happens to you. It is something you pursue - and this pursuit starts in the morning when you get out of bed and continues through every moment of the day.

Success comes from your attitude, your posture, your diet, your use of time, the way you relate to others, the way you respond to challenges, the way you talk to yourself and others, and the priorities and values you choose to live by.

What can you do to be more successful?

Everything

. Everything you do affects the level of success you achieve, for success in one area of life cannot be isolated from your success in another area. It infuses the whole of you.

Each day there are thousands of opportunities for you to be successful. And a little progress each day will build on the progress made the day before, which has already been added to the progress made the day before that.

** So, is there something you can achieve in the next fifteen minutes to move you toward success?

Of course there is

. You can make a phone call to a client to follow up or keep in touch. You can learn something new by reading an article on the web or magazine. You can outline that new idea that’s been bouncing around in your head and get it down on paper. You can walk over to someone and say ‘THANK YOU’… Yes, you can make a difference in fifteen minutes. And then, you can do it again, and again and again.

Distractions may come along. Unanticipated challenges may block your path and throw you off course. Yet nothing can get you down unless you allow it to do so. People just like you have thrived despite overwhelming barriers – and you can do the same…

CHALLENGE

: Have your behaviors these past few hours moved you toward your personal definition of success?