Success:

It's a broad topic to talk about, right?

But if you sit and just try to give it some clarification, it could be a lot simpler or maybe it's just my opinion.

Success is different from person to person. For some of us, money means success. For some relationships, status, happiness, satisfaction, self-love, academic results, self-improvement and the list goes on and on.

Believe me, these are all successes, but maybe for now, only because as we grow our priority changes, so does the definition of success.

So, as we now have a little understanding of success, let's generalize it so that we can understand it together.

Do you think your success depends on you?

That you can control your success.

The answer is yes, about 70% to 80% in normal conditions. There are many unknown factors involved that can flip the situation, such as luck 🤞.

But 70% is a big ratio, but even then we fail, by our own selves, consciously or unconsciously, it's due to our habits. These decide whether we will be successful or not.

Habits define what we really are, and habits can be good or bad, but the plus point is we can also build good habits and replace bad ones.

If you want to learn more about habits, I would recommend you to read "Atomic Habit". It's a wonderful book and will help you understand and build new good habits.

The first step is that we need to be self-aware of our actions and understand what we do and why we do things. Just observe your actions and emotions in different situations.

The second step is to make efforts and give your 100% in what ever you want todo. That's the only thing you can do and everything else is the byproduct, even the success. Just enjoying the journey should be the goal, not the success.

OK, now you know the path, but how will you know that you are on the right path? because that is what our brain does. It gives us self-doubt and makes things even harder for us. Just being aware of this is self awareness and determination, consistency and believing in your ideas or the way you are doing things are the indication that you are on the right path.

I hope you get the idea.

Thanks,

Abdul Latif Shaikh