Whether you are a salaried individual or a business owner, we all urge for a successful career. However, success is not something that comes to everybody. Have you ever thought why some people reach the heights of achievement and another fail? To be precise, it is not easy to be successful, besides hard work and dedication you need the right attitude and strategy.
Success is anything but rigidity and fear of change. Your beliefs, habits, attitude and flexibility decide your level of success. If we talk about ability, there may be no difference between two business owners, as they can do anything they want to do. What contributed to one’s success and another’s failure is the mindset and working habits.
How can perfection drag you into a loss?
Perfection may sound like the perfect ingredient for success when you hear influential people like Oprah Winfrey say, she is successful because she is a perfectionist.
There is no doubt that perfectionists are appreciated and admired for their error-free working. However, the thought of being perfect in everything you do can be the greatest barrier in the path of success.
The biggest mistake perfectionists make setting unrealistic high goals, for which they give their best and do everything they can. The immense desire of being the best all the time sometimes turn into the fear of being incompetent, resulting in permanent failure.
Many individuals set high goals and feel disappointed, but they tend to move on very quickly. However, perfectionists fall into the status quo and start defining themselves incompetent forever. This fear of failure will not allow them taking greater risks. Comfortable in being perfect in what they think they can achieve, hold them back from taking the risk that an endeavour may not make the grade.
Being adaptable to the rapidly changing contexts and circumstances is the key to success. However, Perfectionists believe in the thought of “we have always done in that way”. They trust in a straight right and wrong way of doing things and accepting changes can be quite difficult for them. The perfectionist has a limited vision and tends to see only one possible solution for any problem. Even though there are multiple ways available to resolve the same issue and gives equally good results. The inflexibility of perfectionists harms innovation and creativity, which results in lower business growth rate.
Here are some mindsets that can help you in growing your business:
Be experimental, leave fear and choose courage
To grow your business, you will have to leave fear and be courageous. Most of the part of being successful is about going beyond the limits; you think you can achieve and indulge in new, innovative ideas. Before trying anything, you should not get stuck up with the thought of results. Whether you succeed or fail, you will learn something and grow. As said by Winston Churchill, “Success is walking from failure to failure with no loss of enthusiasm.” Till the time you do not try something, you cannot say it will work or not. Growth is something you achieve the level of success, whether you receive it from failure or success.
Believe in what you do
Attitude makes all the difference. Negative attitude contributes to failure while positive attitude is the ladder to achieve the heights of success. If you do not believe in what you are doing or what you are planning to do, you will get diverted from the path of success. Success doesn’t just happen; success is created with hard-work and continuous effort. As said by famous professional boxer and activist, Muhammad Ali, “It’s lack of faith that makes people afraid of meeting challenges, and I believe in Myself”.
If you believe in yourself, you can achieve anything you want. Your belief in yourself is your power to build the fortitude and resilience required to keep going when you are in tough situations.
Know what you want to achieve
If you know what you want to achieve in business your growth path will be clear to you. Being clear about your growth path comes from within. Therefore, if you choose your goals, you are much likely to achieve it. Achieving such goals gives you motivation, and you feel fulfilled.
When your instigations help you to aim what you want to achieve, they have a deeper meaning and reflects the more profound positive impact on your personality. Realisation of your self-chosen goals develops an expansion to your identity as an individual. Your personal growth is the first step towards your professional success.
Welcome challenges
Accepting the challenges which come to your way, is an essential ingredient in the secret recipe of success. Any challenge you overcome is a level up in business as well as personal growth.
Challenges create your personal development besides the journey of success. Anything that obstructs you way in attaining your dream is your chance to find a more defined and accurate direction. Be happy about the challenges you receive in the journey to success; they help you grow and give you a great sense of fulfilment. “Challenges make you discover things about yourself that you never really knew”, Cicely Tyson.
Be open to risks
Whether it is your business or your personal life, Nothing is guaranteed to stay forever. No path can assure you complete success. Therefore, taking risks and learning from failures are the best mechanisms you need to follow if you want to be successful. The combination of knowledge and risk finds out the right path to achieve your goals.
If you are scared of risks, you will limit yourself where you are and push away your success, in both personal and professional life. If you are open to risk rejection and move forward to what you desire, you can achieve anything you want.
Be willing to find and love your purpose in every aspect of what you want to achieve in business. Stay committed and keep track of what you are doing for the upliftment as a whole. The day you will start loving your business and devote yourself, nobody can keep you away from success.
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