8 Things lead to success

Success is one of the main things everyone is seeking. It feels good to be successful. It brings the full package with it – money, power, jets, companies, contacts and sometimes fame .

While every one is looking for success in life, some people lose sight or get lost along the road. Here are 8 tips guaranteed to achieve success. Taken from a TED video for Richard St. John.

1 ) Passion

Do it for Love  not for Money and you will do it right. The funny thing is if you do it for love, the money comes anyways !

I’m driven by my passion .

Freeman Thomas, industrial designer for Porsche

2 ) Work

It all comes with hard work nothing comes easy. You gotta work, work and work hard.

It’s all hard work. Nothing comes easily. But I have a lot of fun.

Rupert Murdock, Big Cheese CEO.

3 ) Good

There is no magic in it, It only needs practice and more practice.

“To be successful put your nose down in something and get damn good at it.”

Alex Garden, game developer

4 ) Focus

Find one thing and put all your focus and energy on it.

I think it all has to do with focusing yourself to one thing.

Noram Jewison, filmmaker

5 ) Push

You gotta push your self through shyness or self doubts. no one knows yourself better than you, push it.

push yourself. Pyhsically, mentally, you gotta push, push, push.

David Gallo marine scientist.

It’s not always easy to push your self, That’s why there is something called a Mother.

6 ) Serve

Serve others a value, that’s usually how people get rich. Look at Google for example.

It was a privilege to serve as a doctor.

Sherwin Nuland,  Professor of surgery

7 ) Ideas

Ideas comes systematically first then creativity. To come up with an idea you need to

• Listen
• Observe
• Be Curious
• Ask Questions
• Solve Problems
• Make Connections

I had an idea, founding the first micro-computer software company.

Bill Gates, Microsoft Co-founder.

8 ) Persist

You gotta persist through failure.

You gotta persist through CRAP  which stands for

• Criticism
• Rejection
• Assholes
• Pressure

Persistence is the number one reason for our success.

Joe Kraus, Co-founder, Excite

That’s it, Make sure you do the 8 with desire for success and you will reach it – sooner or later-