Here are three more secrets that can be found in the lives of all successful people.

1. Successful people DREAM.

The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams. Eleanor Roosevelt

Every success story starts with a dream.

As we noted in the previous post 3 Simple Secrets of Successful People, one key characteristics of a successful man or woman is that they first discovered their purpose in life (or their why) and pursued it with all their might.

Have you found your WHY (your purpose in life)?

Your why is your reason for doing what you do. Your why is also your reason for pursuing your dreams.

You will probably have many dreams in life. These will be things you want to experience, to do, to be or to have.

It has been proved that the lives of successful people do have some things in common. In fact they show at least 3 simple secrets for success.

So what do successful people have in common?

1. A Purpose In Life – or A “Why”
Have you taken time to write out your purpose in life? Your why?

If you are building and/or running a business just to make money, there is a good chance you will fail.

Your primary focus needs to be your WHY (your purpose in life). Your purpose for what you do is what is going to drive you forward no matter what happens.

Activating Your Ambition seems an odd title for a book because the word “ambition” usually sends an image of selfishness to our brains.

However in actual fact there are two main definitions of the word “ambition”.

One definition does describe the power hungry individual we tend to visualize when we hear the word.

Anyone who is enjoying success today has faced failure, and not just once, but many times.

The difference between those who succeed and those who call themselves failures is often just one step.

What if Thomas Edison gave up trying to invent the light bulb after just 1000 attempts at finding the right material? After all 1000 attempts is a LOT of time and effort.

This quote from Thomas Edison shows his attitude towards failure:

Our greatest weakness lies in giving up. The most certain way to succeed is always to try just one more time.

Do you know that the fear of failure will always paralyze your attempts to step out and succeed in your chosen path in life.

Fear is one of the strongest emotions that can pop up and try to stop you from succeeding.

Fear comes in many shapes and forms. Sometimes we may even mistake fear for precaution. Fear can even disguise itself as “being conservative”.

Now I am not saying that to succeed you have to be rash and reckless. Absolutely not. But you DO have to take some risks.

Someone said: “he is risks nothing, achieves nothing”. There is a great truth in that. Risk taking is a part of the path to success. Of course the risks need to be well calculated.

I know that the first time I flew out of Christchurch, New Zealand ..