Three Essential keys for Personal Success

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“The three great essentials to achieve anything worth while are: Hard work, Stick-to-itiveness, and Common sense.”
Thomas A. Edison

When you think of Thomas Edison, most certainly you think of the invention of the electric bulb. This great scientist was also an inspiring and thought provoking leader. The quote above is one of the numerous motivational words on personal success. In it you have the three most important essential keys for personal success. For the most part these keys are some of the values that our parents or custodians have inculcated into us or to say to the least have tried. As these keys were potent in Mr. Edison’s time they are equally potent today. Your personal success requires the following components:

Hard-work: You probably must have heard or read, “Work smart and not hard.” However, the reality is working smart is hard work to be honest. Working smart is not indicative that work is going to be easy, without errors or smooth sailing but it implies your ability to leverage relevant information, adapt to new trends, acquire and update your skills to produce the expected results. This thus comes with hard work. Thomas Edison further observed, “There is no substitute for hard work.” Do not let people make you believe that working smart is sitting on a beach in Maui and enjoying all kinds of exotic locations. This also comes with working hard and smart. Ask any successful individual today what is the number one secret of their personal success the unequivocal answer will be hard work. As Mr. Edison remarked, to achieve anything worth while hard work is a prerequisite just as our parent thought us.

Stick-to-itiveness: Dictionary.com defines stick-to-itiveness as dogged perseverance; resolute tenacity. J. Robert Buchanan stated, “You’ve got to have reasonable goals and the stick-to-itiveness to get there” To achieve personal success you have to persevere through the process, be tenacious in your objectives and the action plans that are congruent with your desired objectives. There will be temporary detours and difficult moments on your personal success journey but you must negate any haphazard tendencies and not abandon the ship, throw in the towel and let your ideas go unfulfilled. Whatever insurmountable challenges that stands on your path to your personal and professional success you’ve got to have this stick-to-itiveness mentality to achieve your goals.

Common sense: The last but not the least of the three keys for personal success is common sense. As I research various quotes for common sense this particular one by C. E. Stowe which states “Common sense is the knack of seeing things as they are, and doing things as they ought to be done.” resonated. It can’t be plainer than that, the knack of seeing things as they are and doing what you are suppose to do to get the anticipated results. According to Mr. Edison, achieving anything worth while requires common sense. Go to work on yourself applying these three keys and your personal success is guaranteed.

Dedicated to Your Success & Mine

Richard Onebamoi
Success Facilitator, Success Empowerment Network^TM

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