The Four Sure-Fire Traits Of Highly Successful People
Success comes in a variety of ways. A lucky few, bred
with the proverbial silver spoon in their mouths, have
success thrust on them by heritage. The greater
majority achieve it the old-fashioned way, through
“sweat, blood, and tears.” Ever noticed something
unique about the latter group? Observe carefully and
you’ll find the following four distinctly defining
traits:
Business Ownership: Most successful people have their
own business. The popular saying that you cannot get
rich working for somebody else is true today more than
ever. A recent survey puts the proportion of authentic
business ownership at only 5%. Granted that entrepreneurial
trend is reported to have reached an unprecedented peak in
this generation, still far too many new businesses are of the
fleeting kind and the survey refers only to abiding
business ownership. With business ownership
estimated at only 5%, it means that the rest of us are
content with our “jobs” mentality and content with faithfully
enriching the already bulging coffers of a select few. Consider
this fact the next time you hear how the economy is booming,
and how many more new jobs it has created. An outstanding
95% of us provide the impetus for that boom.
They offer a good product/service: Find a need and
fill it, and your success is assured. One of the
greatest difficulties in starting a business is
determining a need to meet. The typical consumer’s
needs run the gamut from desired products to
services of different variety. A good product/service
is one that is brimming with customer benefits.
These benefits may take the form of saving
people money and time, or helping them stay
healthy, youthful, and vibrant. It is not hard to think
of examples that fit these categories. Why do you
suppose, for instance, that e-commerce has soared
to incredible heights so quickly? Because it offers
stress-free shopping from the comfort of the prospect’s
home, a welcome relief from our much-harried
lifestyles. What about those ubiquitous nutritional
supplements? They too, promise something
people crave - health, youthfulness, and longevity.
The thing to remember though, is that promises
alone are not enough to foster success. To truly
succeed, you must deliver them.
They yearn to help others succeed: Ray Kroc
revolutionized this idea and in time others followed.
I’m referring to the idea that success is more quickly
attained by helping others succeed. Look around you
today, and you’ll find a McDonalds on just about every
block, because that man hit upon the notion of setting
up franchises as a way of inviting others to share his
good fortune. Notice too, that the businesses that
succeed the most are those that have embraced
aspects, if not the whole of Ray’s model. I recently
read an interview by Tom Monaghan where he credited
precisely such a model with the bulk of his success.
Much contemporary network marketing philosophy is an
offspring of this model. My grade school teacher
used to say: “One good turn deserves another.”
The evidence is compellingsuccessful people
have discovered the immutable secret that one good
turn does not merely deserve anotherit strides forth
and boldly invites another!
They dare to dream: The Bible’s Book of Proverbs,
acknowledged by many as the repository of profound
wisdom, has this to say: “Without vision, the people
perish.” Without a dream and the insight to visualize
your dream, most business endeavors falter and success
stays elusive. As a poor young boy, Tom Monaghan’s
dream was to become wealthy so he could invest
significant resources on his passion for religion.
Guess whathis dream came true, just as he had
visualized it! Not very long ago, Tom decided he
he’d had enough of the trappings of wealth and sold
his interests in Dominos Pizza, pledging his time and
vast fortunes to the Catholic Church.
Of immense significance in making dreams come true is
faith, easily the most potent ingredient necessary to
nourish dreams. Faith is of course the confident
assurance that the ends we desire are inevitable.
Faith emboldens us to picture those ends vividly in
our minds’ eyes, long before they become real. In the
absence of faith, dreams are a mere fantasy, a
wistful, idyllic longing for the things that can be.
Faith gets a hold of our dreams and unleashes an
action-producing force that transforms them from
fantasy to concrete reality. Throughout human history, sages
have emerged to point us to the incredible power of faith.
“If you can believe, all things are possible to him
that believes.”
With those words, the good master himself attempted
to launch us on a great excursion through faith. How
often have we said to ourselves: “I will believe it
when I see it?” Motivational writer/speaker, Dwayne
Dwyer says we’ve got it all wrong. “You will see it”,
he insists, “when you believe it!”
Want to be successful? Start your own business. Offer
a good product or service with customer satisfaction
at the core. Help others succeed. Build a dream, and
dare to believe in that dream.
Dr. Benjamin Okeagu is a business consultant and the
President of Resources Marketing Group. His revolutionary
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