First Step To Success

FIRST STEP TO SUCCESS

Hey everyone, t wan to share with you what i believe might be the first step to take on the road to success. In all honesty these are not my own writings. After reading "Think and Grow Rich" by Napoleon Hill which is one of my favourite books, it totally changed my life for the better and this article is pretty much a summary of the first chapter

First off, lets get right into it, success may be defined in a lot different ways. Some people define success through materialistic gains like money, cars, houses, blings etc While others define success differently. However the one definition of success that stood out for me is the one by Nightingale who said "Success is a progressive realisation of a worthy deal" What that literally means is that success is not an end. You actually find success while you are on the way on achieving your goal. It is the process that took you to your goals which is in fact the real success. And i think Nightingale was completely spot on there, and this is exactly what i will be illustrating in the paragraphs below.

So, let us analyse the process of success that makes it a worthwhile journey.i would start with "DESIRE” as Napolean Hill stated himself. And he furthermore backs his views through numerous events of people who have achieved massive success because they had a burning desire. He takes the example of C Barnes who as we know now was the associate of Thomas Edison. But it never really was like that since the beginning of their relationship. When Barnes met Edison for the first time, he was so poorly dressed up that may be a tramp would look better than him. But that didn't deter him at all as Barnes was mentally prepared for anything in order to achieve his dreams of becoming Edison's associate. He may have resembled a tramp but his thoughts were those of a King!!! He was prepared to take on the most menial job available to achieve his dreams. Now we should ask ourselves, was that a normal desire or wish? Of course not, this was nowhere near a normal wish that C Barnes exhibited at that very moment. His desire, to best explain it, has totally consumed him, that is when you finally end up with a burning desire. As a matter of fact time proved him right as he stood in the same office he first met Edison and now he was the business associate of Edison.

Remember when he first started working with Edison, several years went by and there was no sign of any success looming ahead, but its only after his fifth year that everything turned around for the better for C Barnes. I think this is a pretty amazing story of how desire can lead you to achieve great things. Another great lesson of this is that C Barnes was so passionate about this that he never gave himself an alternative. Once he landed in the Edisson's office he burnt all the bridges and focussed on only working to achieve his dreams. Other things just didn't matter to him.

Here is another thing we need to bare in mind guys, when you have a burning desire like this you won't have any difficulty convincing yourself that you can achieve your dreams. If for instance,your desire is money, then you need to become money conscious until your mind is completely consumed by this then only you are making progress towards achieving it.