8 Keys to Success

What It Takes To Reach Your Potential
by Lee Johnson

For years, I have been training people from all walks of life, nurses, artists, marketers, stay at home moms, managers, and other creative people on what it takes to be successful. I've worked with 1000’s of successful people, and trained 1000’s of new business owners and working professionals on their way up and a few on their way down. I've also looked at my own career, talents and motivations along the way, and come to the conclusion that there were eight keys to being successful. I will be posting one per day over the next 8 days in their order of importance.

#1 is PASSION (emotion) feeling very strongly about a subject or person, usually referring to feelings of intense desire and attraction.

Passion is the difference from making a living and making a fortune. It is the difference between success and failure. It is what fires any creative person, something that gets you angry, or something you love and want to share. It's ambition, a vision of the future. That vision leads to setting short-term goals, and long-term goals (I want to be a financially free) and short-term goals, (I want to pay off my debts). I ask everyone I mentor, have you written down your goals? What are your 20 reasons and your top 3? Most people have not. Have you? Reasons are powerful they can affect your life and they can affect your soul.

Do you know where you'd like to be in five years? I do. I have written it down, so that at year's end, or on some quiet sunny day, I can look at what I've written and reflect on where I've been, my progress and where I am going. How far along the path I've come and how far I've got to go. Often, I realize I've reached those goals and need to be dreaming about new horizons, new challenges and new goals. Write down your goals and 20 reasons. They will tell you what to do for the short-term goals? What books to buy, what skills to develop, what seminars to attend Etc.

When you know what you want, and you want it bad enough, you will find a way to get it.