how success looks like and how you can get it.

We all see what other people have and how easy it came to them and we think in ourselves that they are fortunate and we aren’t. That isn’t completely true: yes, some people get lucky or inherited wealth or genes of whatever. But the most people made it all by themselves, by doing the things they have to do to get there.

Most of us don’t see how hard people work for it; they only see when people succeed. Just like an iceberg they see the top of it, not what is beneath it. So I will give some key points if you want to succeed and I will use steemit as an example for it.

dedication

If you want to succeed than you have to keep reminding you what your goal is. Make sure your goal is something that you can give people or that you like doing. If you do things for the wrong reasons it wouldn’t work. When you have found your goal be dedicated to it and see what the best way is to get there. If you just do the things for money, then sorry I have to bring it to you but it isn’t going to be a great success. Do you think that some professional athlete does it for the money? I don’t think so, many great athletes get rich if they win one title or succeed a couple of times and even after they have earned so much money that they don’t have to work anymore, the keep doing what they do because they love it.

In terms of steemit:
Why are you here? Is it because you wanted to earn easy money? Or is it because you want to share interesting things to people? There is a big difference between them. If you are here for money, then you will get a hard time earning them. If you are here because you have something interesting to say or you can help people with something then you might get rewarded for it. Do you want to know how you know which of the two you are? Answer me this: if you couldn’t earn any money with it; would you still be here and write posts?

hard work

When you determine your goal then to get there you will need to work hard for it. You will not get it on a silver platter. You will need to work hard and see if what you are doing brings your results. Also maybe you should learn more about what you want to tell the people, so research can be another factor has in terms of work you should do to get to your goal. Most people try shortcuts by promoting themselves of by taking from someone else, rather than working for it. If they don’t succeed they get frustrated and it turns out in being angry at the people who are successful because their success is an overnight success.

In terms of steemit:
Make an article and see for yourself what you can do better next time. In my case it went like this:
Making a lazy introduction post, then learning how I could make pictures in my post, making a nice layout and I see that my post slowly get better than the previous one. The last post I made before this one I like it so much that I read it a couple of times and see my spelling mistakes I made, even big ones.

good habits

If you want to reach your goal, you need to see which habits can help you to get there and which ones need to be adapted. It all depends what your goal is. Good habits makes the work goes much smoother and doesn’t cause heavy stress. Make your habits work for you rather then against you.

In terms of steemit:
Depending on what your goal is here on steemit, you should see if there are habits you can change so it helps to get to your goal quicker. As a truck driver I need to take a break after driving 4hours and a half. My pause is 45minutes long: In the past I would have watch an episode of the big bang theory or how I met your mother now I can write another article for steemit or do some reading so I can fill in the blanks or understand the subject better before I make a post of it.

disappointments

There are going to be times that you did so much and work so hard and you think you are going to accomplish it and then it doesn’t happen. Then you feel disappointment and start to question if you will ever accomplish your goals. When you feel disappointed then understand that it is part of the journey.

In terms of steemit:
Normally if you do it for the right reasons as I described above than you shouldn’t feel disappointment. You can only feel disappointment when you want to accomplish something and you didn’t get it.

sacrifice

On your way to success, you will need to sacrifice things that you love to get to your goal. Some people work 15hours a day, so they could work and accomplish the things that bring them closer to their goal. Others use their free time to do stuff. Nobody want to make sacrifices, but if you want to reach your goal ask yourself: what is more important to me? My goal or the other thing?

In terms of steemit:
Depending on how your life is like, you sacrifice some small or big things in your life to be here. In my case I sacrifice my free time to work on post and read others post and vote for those I like or find interesting. Sometimes I do research for the things I don’t understand or want to know more off.

failure

I can guaranty you that you will fail. Sometimes, sometimes not and when you fail you should see what you did wrong. What things you need to adapt and try again to see if it will work this time. You can fail a couple of times before you will see improvement. It is like Einstein once said: ’Insanity: doing the same things over and over again and expecting a different result.’

In terms of steemit:
You should try different things on here to see what works best for you. Sometimes you should try something unusually as I did with my sex story. Actually I am trying different things in my post to see how people react to it. As in this post I try more images in it.

persistent

No matter how many times you fail how many sacrifices you make, all those disappointments, the hard work, dedication and good habit it all will be in vain if you don’t persist. Persistence is the raison why you will reach your goal. Learning from your failures will give you a bit of success, sacrificing give you more success, …. In the end only if you have persistence then all those previous things will fall into place.

In terms of steemit:
Keep doing what you do to get to your goal. I don’t know what your goal is, but if you ever want to reach it, if you ever want to be rewarded for it one way or another then keep doing it. That’s what I am planning to do anyway, keep posting so I can give back. Sometimes that means entertaining people with stories or pointing out the way they can follow if they choose to.

If we pour all those things together we get this picture:

It is an illusion that successful people have it easy. Maybe now when they have made it them have it easier than you, but they all worked for it. They all were committed to their goal and they were prepared to pay the price to get to it. That is something we all have to ask before we even start: the price I pay to reach my goal, am I prepared to pay it. If not don’t even start. If the answer is yes, then do it and know that those 7 things I talked about will happen, must happen to get it done.

Until you decided to go for your goal

Take care!