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Creating A Life Of Success
7 Ways to Create a
Life of Success Without Ceilings
Success without ceilings keeps us inspired, growing and
creative.
CONTRIBUTOR
Psychologist, Author, Speaker
I recently attended a red carpet even for my
new book Success Equations: A Path to Living an Emotionally Wealthy
Life in Nashville Tennessee.
One of our publishers gave a very
inspiring talk to all of the authors who were present. He’s a career football
coach, business man and publisher.
This amazing man taught us the difference
between winning and succeeding and what this difference means when developing
any brand, any product or business.
This talk was so inspiring that it feels
unfair to keep it to myself, so I will share it here.
To get to where we want to go in our business
endeavors we must learn to focus not on winning but succeeding.
Winning is a moment-to-moment process that has
a start date and an end date.
Succeeding is a long, uphill climb that builds
our resilience and fortitude to create a life of success without ceilings.
We need the following to stay in the process
of succeeding:
1. Leadership
If we want to succeed, it is a must that we
become the leader of our own life and of that voice that speaks to us from
within.
If we can’t lead ourselves well, if we cannot
find inspiration from within, if our inner voice is constantly berating us, it
will be very difficult for us to effectively lead others.
We must believe in our vision and our purpose
so deeply that our fears of risk and of blind commitment come second to
charging forward to test and see what we’re capable of.
Success of any kind takes internal leadership, humility and the ability to communicate and
network well with others.
2. Integrity
The greater our leadership abilities, the
greater our knowledge, the greater our passion grows for what we do.
The more honestly we show up, the more we
demonstrate to others that we honor our word and their time, the more
successfully we build solid, trusted networks.
When we have integrity, we don’t quit. We do whatever it takes to
manifest what we want to see happen in our lives.
We accept there are no short cuts to success
that will bring us anything lasting or meaningful.
We must have the integrity to be patient, to
be truthful with ourselves and others and to be a person of our word.
To have integrity we need to prove time and
again that we do what we say we’re going to do.
The more integrity we have, the more other
people trust they can depend on us to follow through.
Nothing will take us further in life or
business than having integrity.
3. Vision
To succeed beyond our individual wins, our
vision of success has to continue to evolve and grow.
With each win, we also face the new challenge
of defining and training for our next win.
Success without ceilings is a type of success
that keeps us inspired, it keeps us in the process of growth and the consistent
flow of creativity.
Visions are never black and white when we
focus on winning rather than succeeding.
Succeeding is a journey, an evolvement process
and one that has us reaching for and living levels of life that drive us
further into the depth of what we and those working with us and for us can accomplish
and share in.
Visions are meant to be shared and experienced
together.
Winning can be accomplished alone, but
creating lasting success requires a team.
4. Commitment to Excellence
To succeed in the long-term, we can’t just be
prepared for the challenge in front of us.
We must commit to a new level of excellence at
every turn.
Living with a commitment to excellence means
we never ever give less that what we’re capable of giving.
Giving the very best of ourselves to each
detail of our business, to our brand or to our product will show itself in
the results.
Excellence takes discipline, passion and
commitment. This type of commitment doesn’t allow us to rest after a win.
Excellence is always about being proactive. It
keeps us striving for that elusive taste of success that is just out of our
reach.
With a commitment to excellence what is
elusive will soon become a reality.
5. Intentional Impact
We don’t just want to have an impact on
people, we want to intentionally infuse them with a sense of purpose
and motivation.
We want those we touch to feel so inspired
that we are able to establish deep and meaningful emotional connections with
them.
When we include others in our vision, we
become much more than an individual success.
We morph into a team bonded by an emotional
bond held so strongly that it serves to support the vision, grow the vision and
take the vision forward to next level, and then to the next.
On any team when a coach can develop an
intentional and emotional impact on their players, those players feel like
they’re a part of something bigger than their individual role on the team.
Team members feel they are connected to their
comrades, to an empowered leader, to a family and to a crusade that makes all
the pain and hard work it takes to succeed well worth it.
6. Faith
Any effort or endeavor we engage in requires
the faith to be patient through the more
challenging and painful times along the journey to success.
Part of succeeding is also failing and
learning to come back from those failures. It is through our failures we learn
to overcome our fears.
We gain the experience of having to come from
behind, of having to re-set our sails whenever necessary to get back on course,
and to learn when to take a different path up the mountain.
All of these experiences are what give us the
faith and resilience to overcome.
It is going through the up’s, the down’s and
the uncertainties along the road that we develop the deep value of faith; the
faith in ourselves to succeed long-term.
7. Never satisfied
To get to where we want to go in our life, it
takes training, it takes education, it takes grit, it takes losing, it takes
getting back up and it takes the desire to always want more than the individual
wins we have achieved.
We must view ourselves as the eternal underdog
to our goals and to compete against those goals until we achieve them.
To rise above winning and transmute ourselves
into true success stories, we must continue to elevate our game, raise our
standards, try new things, break ceilings, break the rules of status quo, be
willing to redefine and re-invent ourselves, set new goals, and always be
willing to get back to the drawing board. Never be satisfied.
Never ever be satisfied with where you are,
when you can always achieve more.
Sherrie Campbell is a psychologist in Yorba Linda,
Calif., with two decades of clinical training and experience in providing
counseling and psychotherapy services. She is the author of Loving Yourself: The Mastery of Being Your Own Person. Her
new book, Success Equations: A Path to an Emotionally Wealthy Life, is
available for pre-order.
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