SIX keys to SUCCESS
(Shahzad Shameem, Abbottabad)
1. Attitude
Bloom where you are planted. You have a choice to get back up after temporary
set backs. Attitude is a small thing that makes a big difference!
2. Direction
If you don't know where you are going, any road will get you there. Write your
short term goals down on paper. I have discovered and continue to discover that
putting your dreams and goals down on paper lock in or focus your belief that
they can be achieved--even if you have to take a course correction in achieving
your goals. Success comes in cans, failure comes in can'ts.
3. Values
Explore what is important to you. Maybe it is family, friends, your spirituality
or working hard at any given task. I can assure you that your priorities will
change as you grow older. Very important that you value yourself and treat
yourself like the valuable gift from God that you are.
4. Interests
Birds of a feather flock together. This is to say that if you are hanging around
winners or others with a "can do" mind-set, you'll likely adapt to this same
kind of thinking. Remember--"SUCCESS LEAVES CLUES!
5. Commitment
Feelings may change, commitments do not. "Success is getting up one more time
than you fall." I have often wanted to give up, and then I must think to myself
about what the consequences of giving up will be. Generally, this is more than
enough of a motivation to make us stick to the task at hand even if we don't
feel like it. When the task is achieved, Whow!--IT FEELS GREAT!
6. Encouragement
Be an encourager and comforter to friends that are feeling discouraged. I
promise that you will not regret this as you will be encouraged by one, if not
many, when you are feeling down. Encouragement and love are contagious qualities
that can change the minds of the most stubborn and "hard-to-get- along-with"
people you know. I have seen it happen over and over again.