Be Honest. How Much Do You Want Success?

I want success to be 100. What else could it be? I think that the success quotient should either be 100 or 0. There are no middle of the road people who want success. Either you want it or you don't.

Understanding why we want to be successful will determine the success quotient. If the reason for success isn't enough to make the quotient 100 then change the reason.

Micheal I want it real bad but yes I am not putting any efforts.
I am thinking if I put more brains I can find different ways to success.
wat say.

I have to agree with pmg. I wish to be very successful (more like create a name for myself and innovate, rather than just make money). But am I putting in the right, dedicated efforts for it? Honestly, I am not so sure!

@PMG & @Prince

Being honest with yourself is important.

I have probably put in thousands of hours of efforts... but I am not always sure how efficient the efforts have been.

Michael, do you track the time you spend on doing things? And the yields (more difficult to quantify).

Let me put it this way - I was speaking to someone yesterday, and he said that high quality bloggers that make a lot of money spend over $80 (time not included) on a blog post. This includes guest posting, link building, advertising and marketing. They see good returns on it. He believed that if we can spend $30-$40 on each blog post, we could easily see good returns. Of course, money is quantifiable, but success is not.

I would suggest documenting your time better, it would certainly evaluate your time expense, and see if you are being productive or not (I might be going away from topic here, sorry!)

I'm probably at 80, I should be over 90 but I feel like I'm not pushing hard enough!!

I agree with Price, according to me there is no work which can not be completed in 9 hours of time, which we supposed the working hours. Also human brain has got its own efficiency. so tracking ur efforts might help.
Most of us, like me, spend time only in thinking, as I think a lot.
I do not know if it will help but sometimes it helps me in putting my efforts in perfect directions.
Nothing is useful blind efforts and wishful thinking..

Right now I'm at around 100 percent,but I have been so complacent in my life at times where it has been probably a 20. I used to have a big fear of success,and I've missed a lot of opportunities that I'm sure would have bagged me a lot of money had I not had that fear. It may seem odd to some to have a fear of success,but I've quit things or not started things because of the overall anxiety that I would become super successful and wouldn't know how to handle the success.Of course I've also not done things out of a fear of failure,but for some reason the fear of success was more demotivating than the fear of failure.

Thank God I've changed this ridiculous mindset because I want success not at all costs unless the cost is my soul or integrity. I'm kind of okay with failures too because they will help me learn what I don't need to do in my journey to success.

I am at about 98 or 99 and it still isn't enough!
Do I want it badly? Absolutely, however I keep procrastinating and making plans that lead nowhere...

I don't want to put my success on a scale. Or the image of what I want to achieve.

Success varies in so many different avenues. Sometimes I want to be successful at something, but someone else is already doing such a great job that I don't feel necessary to go into the industry.

I want success more than anything in this world, followed by recognition and being a role-model for those around me.



By the way, this video was recorded about 5 minutes from my place. I know the locale almost every scene of this video ha.

At the position i am in, 100! i need to be successful!!!! and i WILL!

....great post...thanks a lot

I feel that I rate myself at 95, but I'm not contented yet. I just need to do something that can increase my success rate at 100.

110%

I haven't been playing too many video games, watching TV, or doing much leisurely things on my spare time since I'm so dedicated to my IM and video making efforts.

Success parameters are different for different indivisuals but 4 me it is 100.

Yes. Although as seen in this thread, the concept of what constitutes "success" is sort of nebulous. I would like to be able to travel whenever I want, run/work out whenever I want, and take the pictures (pro-level SLR gear isn't cheap) whenever I want. Everything else is icing on the cake. I love icing.

Hi guys,

I have a saying Entertain the outcome, focus on the process.

Reading about people that are successful, pages are not spent describing how they really wanted to be successful, pages are spent describing what they did to become successful and their thinking strategies when they come across setbacks and opportunities.

To be successful, there has to be complete ecology with the rest of your world. Are you prepared for the sacrifices that come with being successful. Gary Vaynerchuk talking about if you have a job at the moment, working 9-5, see your kids till 7, then working on your IM business from 7-2am..are you prepared to do that.

While people have the weekend off, are you prepared to work if needs be?

While your mates go out on the alcohol, are you prepared to say your staying in to work?
Being successful is about being fully embodied in the experience of doing what needs to be done and due to this fully immersed experience, what people call your unconscious (it not a real thing btw but thats another story!) will begin to wire up for the process to be automatic enough for your behaviours to be the consistency needed to be successful.

Anders Erickson, the psychologist who spent his life researching expertise did not find it wasn't the want that determined who was more successful, it was the person spending the most time on 'deliberate practice'.

Aaron Morton

U will keep it to the 100.
When u reached 100 then this is the achievment.
thanks

I think being 100% driven for success can be dangerous. That means you might be willing to compromise your personal principles to obtain success, and could end up seeing it all tumble by not following the 'rules'.

Your actions will tell you how bad you want it. How many hours are you spending per day working balls to the wall making your success a reality. The proof is in the pudding.

I am in the middle and i truly want more.

I truely believe that success is a state of mind.

Being "successful" is not about making money and being financially secure. I can tell you for a fact because I know many financially secure people, including myself, and you can still feel like a total failure, but have a ton of money in the bank. People can admire your success all day long, but if you don't believe your successful, their words will mean nothing to you. You may even grow to despise them. For thinking that money can actually change the way you feel about yourself. Like one day you just make a lot of money, and automatically feel like a success. Thats definitely not how it works.

Being successful, simply put, is feeling successful. Some people might say that feeling successful, is about working hard, and feeling accomplished at the end of each day. I say, you should feel successful the minute you wake up every morning.

I think this is a really important concept for a lot of people to understand. Like the book, "Think Rich, Grow Rich", that so many people consider a classic... but somehow still forget what success actually means.

Its the same thing, "Think Success, Grow Successful".

For instance. My oldest brother makes $440,000 a year as the vice president of a well known brokerage firm. But he's always trying to buy the newest/most luxurious vehicle, or the best suit, the best clothes for his kids, the best home, trying to be a member of the best golf club, have the best shoes, always overly concerned about how he talks, how he behaves, the church he goes to etc etc.

To most people, it would seem like thats normal stuff for a successful person to do.

But all his brothers, including myself, really know how insecure he is. Always worried about coming off like a failure. I have learned, as the youngest of 4 older brothers, to live my life in the complete opposite way of my oldest brother. I drive an affordable and efficient car (civic), I don't care what people think about my shoes, I love to shop at thrift stores, I can't remember the last time I bought a brand new polo shirt from the mall, etc etc.

Some people would call me a cheap/frugal bast**d. And I am. But more importantly, I have learned that success is a state of mind. If you are always trying to make yourself look better, or have a more expensive car, home, clothes, etc etc... then how successful can you really feel inside? When you're always trying to prove that you're not a failure?

I look at people like Mark Cuban. Thats one successful guy. Not because he has money. But because he has no problem cooking himself food, or wearing casual cheap clothing. He doesn't need a servant around his home... he has NOTHING to prove to anyone, because he is a secure and successful man. Both of which, I will always believe, are just a habitual state of mind.

If you feel like a failure now, I hate to break it to you, money is not going to change a thing. In fact, it can actually make things worse. Especially the day you realize, that you've wasted your entire life thinking you need money, just to feel successful.

I think my target is 80 % if i can want it that much then I will get it.