The 7 Rules for Achievement And SUCCESS || Julius Shedrack

One intriguing term is "success." "Achieving the desired or hoped-for results" is how the Cambridge Dictionary defines it.
The definition of the word will vary depending on who uses it. A successful person may be defined by their wealth, their professional aspirations, or the accomplishment of a long-ago self-imposed goal.

Yet when the objective is accomplished, success usually follows. You'll see that obtaining the desired results is even incorporated into the definition above.

That makes logic, and I can understand that. You do realize that success is when we truly attain our goals, don't you?

Maybe. But when that becomes the only definition of the word, I wonder if we miss out on its truest beauty.

Can’t success be found in simply the diligent pursuit of proper results? If we live our lives in such a way that we can look back at the end and be proud of the decisions we made, isn’t that success? Even if the results weren’t all that we wanted or hoped for?

Some might say, “No, if you didn’t achieve the results, you didn’t succeed.” But I want to define success differently in my life. Because the truth is, no matter how hard I try, I can’t control every outcome (just ask any parent).

• Managing what I can (my actions) and committing my life to the proper things are, in my opinion, the keys to success. My choice of living will satisfy me if I can accomplish that. Furthermore, regardless of the outcome, I shall view my life as a success.

My 7 Rules of Achievement And Success are as follows, using that as the end goal:

1. Choosing Our Own Values:

It is easy to drift through life swayed by culture and trends and fads. Of course, taking control of our passions and pursuits is difficult. It requires introspection, silencing the noise, and a deep understanding of the world and life itself—maybe that’s why there are so many different assumptions on the meaning of life.

Regardless of what values you choose for yourself, the first essential law of living a successful life is making the effort to define your own personal values and how you want to define your life.


2. Aligning Resources with Those Values:

Francis Chan said it this way, “Our greatest fear should not be of failure but of succeeding at things in life that don’t really matter.”

To live a successful life, it is not enough to merely identify our greatest values. A successful life is also one that aligns our finite resources (time, energy, money) around those values. That is why I am so passionate about minimalism—the lifestyle helps us accomplish this very law.

3. Adhering to Perpetual Development:

Though I still have a few months till I turn 27 in May, I'm getting close to that age. When that day arrives, though, I'm already considering what to write about. "Committing earlier to personal development and growth" would definitely be on my list of things I wish I'd done differently if I were to look back on that day.

Until we conclude that we can continually improve upon ourselves, our lives will never attain their maximum potential. We can learn from everything around us. And improving ourselves to the fullest extent possible will always enable us to have a beneficial influence on more lives.


4. Living for Others:

Regardless of your worldview or background, the data on this point is simply too great to ignore. People who choose to live selfless lives for the sake of others reach the end of it reporting higher levels of happiness, satisfaction, and well-being. This has been shown true over and over again. So much so, that living for others must be recognized as one of the key laws for success.

5. Doing the Next Right Thing the Best Way We Know How:

In his autobiography, Theodore Roosevelt quotes Squire Bill Widener as saying, “Do what you can, with what you’ve got, where you are.” And this to me sounds like success.

The wonderful thing is that this law of success is available to anybody at any time. Regardless of where we are in life in terms of experience or education and regardless of the circumstances surrounding us or the resources available to us, we can all do the next right thing the best way we know how. Choosing that option repeatedly, over and over again, is the perfect formula for success.

• Success is something that we should all pursue. It’s just not wise to measure in the same terms that the masses seem to.

• Success should never be measured by the yardstick of society’s expectations. It must be measured by the values we hold and and the level of pursuit we devote to things that matters.

Let’s choose a path of intentionality where we reach the end proud of the decisions we’ve made and with fewer regrets. If we only get one life to live, we might as well make it as successful as possible.

6. Managing Your Focus:

The ability to manage your own attention is the most crucial skill for the twenty-first century. Learning how to maintain our attention on important things is a valuable endeavor, especially with the abundance of distractions available to us all the time (if we let them). We squander much too much potential without it.

7. Not Using Someone Else's Ruler to Measure Your Life:

Nobody will lead a life similar to yours. You also won't ever live another person's life. Thus, we cannot gauge our level of success by contrasting ourselves with others.

Everybody has different gifts, abilities, and life experiences. Our starting points are not the same. Even the duration of our lives on Earth varies. While it's great to draw inspiration from other people's achievements, we should never define success by making comparisons.