Attitudes to Success

Attitudes to Success.

For each of us, how successful we feel will depend upon our attitude toward success. Similarly, our motivation to achieve will be determined largely by our attitude. Equally the amount of success we achieve and the amount of success we do not achieve, will be determined in large parts by our attitude to success.

Our attitude to success is part of our Success Intelligence. Recognising our attitudes and changing them can often be a way of achieving greater success. Recognising and understanding our attitudes toward success is a way of improving our Success Intelligence. It is also a way of helping to overcome some of the 'blocks' that inhibit our path to success.

Your Attitude to Success

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Success only comes through effort and hard work. If I am not achieving success it is because I am not putting in enough effort. More effort should bring more success. If my efforts are not working then I need to try even harder.

This suggests that you believe that success is the result of hard work and effort. In order to achieve more success, you need to be more hard working and put in more effort. If you are not successful or not successful enough then it is a sign that you have not been working hard enough.

Your response to a lack of progress or a lack of success is to put more and more effort into it. Even though, your efforts may be producing less and less return, you believe that putting in more effort is the only answer.

The problem could be though, that you are simply working too hard. Possibly you have become 'blinded' to other possibilities or other approaches. All your efforts are directed in one direction and you fail to see alternatives, especially if those alternatives seem easier!

It may seem true to you that success is, as the old saying goes, " 1 percent inspiration and 99 percent perspiration". However, by putting in more and more effort, you could well be producing more than 99% perspiration when what you need is more inspiration.

I first came across the concept of Success Intelligence in the book of the same name by Robert Holden.

This is an easy to read book that outlines his concept of Success Intelligence and its various aspects.

If you are interested in this area or in success generally, then I can recommend you to read this book.