{"id":406,"date":"2017-01-01T16:48:10","date_gmt":"2017-01-01T16:48:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cdn.gillion.shufflehound.com\/?p=406"},"modified":"2019-10-31T03:39:51","modified_gmt":"2019-10-31T03:39:51","slug":"the-single-most-important-thing-you-need-to-know-about-success","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lebanesemap.net\/blog\/2017\/01\/01\/the-single-most-important-thing-you-need-to-know-about-success\/","title":{"rendered":"The Most Important Thing You Need To Know About Success"},"content":{"rendered":"

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  1. Live with integrity.<\/b>\u00a0 Live in such a way that would make your mom proud, even if she knew all of your worst moments in life.\u00a0 No one is perfect.\u00a0 We all make mistakes.\u00a0 We all fall down.\u00a0 However, we should always strive to do the right thing and to do our best to live with integrity. For me, integrity is doing the right thing, even when no one is watching.<\/li>\n
  2. Do what it is that ignites your soul.<\/b>\u00a0 If there is one thing that I have learned about life, it is that the world has it wrong.\u00a0 Success does not create happiness.\u00a0 Happiness creates success. We are happiest when we follow what is in our hearts.\u00a0 When we are at our happiest, we are most alive and naturally willing to give 100% to every minute of every day.\u00a0 When we give 100% to every minute of every day, extraordinary things can happen.\u00a0 Dreams can turn into realities.\u00a0 Do what it is that ignites your soul.\u00a0 The funny thing is that we don\u2019t choose who or what we love in life.\u00a0 Our hearts want what our hearts want, irrespective of logic or reasoning.\u00a0 When you feel a strong attraction to someone or something, it is a sign. Embrace it (as long it is not harming anyone or making you do anything illegal or immoral). The world does not need more people who blindly chase material things.\u00a0 No, the world needs more people who are alive \u2013 truly alive \u2013 to make it a better place for all.\u00a0 Ultimately, I would rather risk being a failure at something I love than be guaranteed a success at something I hate.<\/li>\n
  3. Find mentors and role models.<\/b>\u00a0Success leaves clues. Find mentors and role models who have already achieved what you would like to achieve in life. If you want true love, study what the happiest couples have done to stay together for decades. If your dream is to be the best lawyer in your country, study what the best lawyers in your city or country did to achieve their reputations. If you want to be a World Champion, study the lives of World Champions and learn how they did it. If you want to be a millionaire, find millionaire role models who you would like to be someday. If you want to be an entrepreneur, find a few entrepreneurs who inspire you and study how they achieved what they did. Without a doubt, mentors and role models are your shortcuts to unleashing your greatness in life. By learning from the experiences of others, you will increase your probability of success, and avoid unnecessary mistakes. History is always a great teacher of what to do and what not to do.<\/li>\n
  4. Grow 1% every day.<\/b>\u00a0 We are all works-in-progress.\u00a0 No one is perfect.\u00a0 The most important thing is to keep learning, growing, and evolving every day.\u00a0 The power of compounding is one of the most powerful forces in life.\u00a0 If you grow something by 1% every day, it will double in value after only 70 days.\u00a0 Of course, it is impossible to know if you are really growing yourself 1% a day or 0.1% a day or 5% a day or not at all.\u00a0 My point is simply that we should all strive to learn, grow, and evolve every day.\u00a0 It is a daily attitude.\u00a0 It is an every day mindset.\u00a0 It is a life philosophy.\u00a0 Do your best to learn from experiences, books, lectures, videos, conferences, history, and any other medium.\u00a0 Every day is a golden opportunity to become a better father, son, brother, mother, daughter, sister, doctor, engineer, fighter, entrepreneur, student, or whatever.<\/li>\n
  5. Surround yourself with greatness to unleash your greatness.\u00a0<\/b>\u00a0We are all simply the average of the 5 people with whom we spend the most time.\u00a0 If you surround yourself with dreamers and achievers, you will become a dreamer and achiever.\u00a0 If you surround yourself with haters and doubters, you will become a hater and doubter.\u00a0 In every facet of my life, I try my best to surround myself with those who inspire me to dream more, do more, and be more in life.\u00a0 From my experience in the martial arts industry, I can tell you that World Champions are only made when they have a great team of people around them: training partners, coaches, family, business leaders, etc.\u00a0 It takes an entire army to build a World Champion in martial arts.\u00a0 The same goes for every other job.\u00a0 No one succeeds alone.\u00a0 There is an African proverb that I love.\u00a0 If you want to go fast, go alone.\u00a0 If you want to go far, go together.<\/li>\n
  6. Embrace failure.\u00a0\u00a0<\/b>Failures are simply stepping stones on your path to greatness.\u00a0 Embrace them as wonderful opportunities to learn, grow, and evolve.\u00a0 I have failed many times in every area of my life.\u00a0 However, my failures in life have often laid the groundwork for my biggest successes in life.\u00a0 I have never met a successful person from any field who has never failed.\u00a0 In fact, the most successful people in the world often have stories and stories of failure before they achieved success. \u00a0Failure is your key to success.<\/li>\n
  7. Give more than you take.<\/b>\u00a0 I always try my best to create win-win situations with everyone, but I also try to give more than I take for all of my relationships \u2013 be it in my personal or professional life.\u00a0 It isn\u2019t necessarily altruistic, but rather simply a long-term approach to relationships.\u00a0 When you create win-win situations and leave some value for the other side, you will always find yourself in good situations.\u00a0 If you do the reverse, you will always find yourself in bad situations.\u00a0 Gratitude is a natural magnet.\u00a0 Greed is a natural repellent.\u00a0 The average man seeks what he can receive from the world.\u00a0 The extraordinary man seeks what he can give to the world.\u00a0 I firmly believe in this saying, and I try my best to live it.<\/li>\n
  8. Eliminate the bad apples.<\/b>\u00a0 I believe in surrounding myself with good people with positive energy.\u00a0 People always ask me why I am slow to hire and quick to fire for my companies.\u00a0 I hire very slowly because I believe the culture of a company is its fuel for extraordinary achievement.\u00a0 A broken culture leads to low morale and poor performance.\u00a0 Every single hire is a critical component to the culture of a company.\u00a0 I fire quickly because nothing is worse than a bad apple who damages the happiness of others or brings the team down or does not exemplify the shared values of the team.\u00a0 Likewise, in life, nothing is worse than negative, selfish, entitled people in your life.\u00a0 It takes strength and courage to eliminate the bad apples from your life, but it is necessary so that you can unleash your potential.\u00a0 Think of those people as deadweight bricks.\u00a0 Cut out the deadweight bricks from your life, and watch your life soar.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

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