Success Is About Making Progress
Most of society is obsessed with instant gratification.
The quick fix doesn’t exist. Focus on making progress instead. As Jim Rohn once said, “Success is steady progress toward one’s personal goals.”
Some one asked me once, “what is success to you?” I answered by saying “When you strip everything away to it’s core, success is just progress. If you are constantly improving, moving forward, and progressing in life, you are being successful”. When you focus on developing yourself in all areas of your life, over come barriers and work on progressing financially, economically, educationally, spiritually, emotionally, etc. then you are improving.
You are successful when you are gradually making strides toward a greater goal.
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That’s much different than what most of society sees success as isn’t it? Rather than waiting until you have finally accomplished the goal, under this definition you can celebrate your success as you achieve progressive smaller steps and move towards the eventual accomplishment of your longer term goals.
In other words, you can be successful every day so long as you are taking positive actions and making progress towards your goals. Source – Leadership Management Australasia
Success is about making progress.
Without continual growth & progress, words like improvement, achievement, & success have no meaning. ~ B. Franklin
It doesn’t matter what your goals or dreams are, just focus on getting one step closer or 1% better everyday. If you stay passionate, persistent, and patient on what your are doing and keep the end in mind you’ll achieve all of your goals in time.
Remember, everything worth doing, having or becoming ALWAYS takes more time and action than you think.
The Power of An Accountability Partner
If your looking to create success in any business or really any area of life, one of the biggest things you can do is create a system for accountability and get an accountability partner.
An accountability partner is a person who coaches another person in terms of helping the other person keep a commitment! So let me ask you….
Do you have someone who pushes you? If not you should.
An accountability partner can come in any shape or size. It could be a paid business coach. It could be a friend from childhood. It could be a random stranger you met on Facebook a few years ago . Whoever it is, make sure they can actually help you accomplish your goal. They should be able to help you stay committed and responsible in reaching your goals.
And as a partner you should be helping THEM stay committed and responsible for meeting their goals.
They push you, you push them!
This could be a study partner or a workout partner. Some form of accountability from another person that would force you to take action towards your goals and dreams.
The act of accountability is to assist you along your journey to success. It requires you to accept responsibility for your actions and to stay true to your commitments. People who are unaccountable make excuses, put things off and never reach their goals. They create a negative energy for the only purpose of deflecting the root cause of the problem… themselves.
Have you ever had a personal trainer?
If you never have, I’m sure there was a time you had a workout schedule that you never did. You put it off until “tomorrow”. We’ve all been there…
But if had a workout scheduled, and had a personal trainer or person there you’d probably get that workout done….RIGHT? That’s why having an accountability partner can be so beneficial. Coaches, mentors, and trainers can make great accountability partners but I think the best accountability partner is someone who is at the same level as you are, someone who is as equally committed to success in whatever endeavor you are both doing.
It doesn’t matter what it’s for. It could be for school, the gym, work, running, or if you have a home based business. In business, especially if you’re self employed – you should absolutely have an accountability partner and here’s why:
I’m self employed and one of the things that I think we lack most is accountability. Many of us don’t have an office to go to. We don’t have a supervisor to report to. We don’t have to show any what we are doing, our numbers or our results.
We don’t have to! If we take a day off, no one’s gonna know. So with that being said…
One of the key principals I’ve seen successful people do is that they find an accountability partner, a workout partner…they find someone who is on a similar path, similar trajectories, similar goals, and they push you. They don’t allow you to do less than you’re capable of doing, and you do the same for them.
When you find an accountability partner who is at a similar level as you are you’ll be more authentic with that workout partner because you’ll probably share the same goals and have the same objectives.
Perhaps its someone in your organization that you’ve met at an event, or it’s someone in your local market. Maybe they’re a competitor, a friend, or romantic partner that you develop a relationship with and you push each other, you hold each other accountable, you challenge each other. You don’t allow the other person to accept less than what they’re capable of. You be that coach that believes in them and they are the coach that believes in you. You check in with each other daily, weekly, monthly, and you hold each other accountable.
This has worked for me and it works very well for many of the successful people who are building their own businesses so I’m sure it will work well for you.
So go out and find that accountability partner, someone who hold your feet to the fire when it comes to do taking daily action towards your goals and dreams.
If you have a lot of self discipline you can hold yourself accountable, but if not, may be beneficial to have an accountability partner along the way!