Here’s the secret. There is no magic pill or secret formula to being successful. Instead, according to Ira Riklis who is a successful businessman: it takes a goal, persistence, and plain, old, hard work.
Another successful businessman and author Malcolm Gladwell says this in his book Outliers
“The difference between the “haves and the have not’s”is 10,000 hours. Gladwell calls it the 10,000 Hour Rule. He points to phenomenal successes like Bill Gates and The Beatles. These were not particularly brilliant or gifted people—just hard workers. They put in 10,000 hours of more of consistent work on their focus.”
- More about the book in Wikipedia
Do you agree? What have you been so passionate about (for Ira Riklis, it’s skiing and business) that you would gladly throw yourself into it to be successful?
I think another interesting thing is how many people who work hard in life are just as popular (or more so) after they die! They stop doing the work and other people pick up where they left off and make a lot of money doing it. In other words, a measure of your successs is that your legacy continues long after you do.