By being successful, I don't actually point to being wealthy or by going far in your career. You can be successful in anything you do in life, no matter how big or small of a matter it is. Be it in a family, a small scale business, or a large scale organization, you need to possess the required qualities to make important decisions that could decide the lives of your family members and your employees.
What's more, these qualities will help in proving your worth. Your words will weigh more no matter where and when, you'll only have respect coming to your ways.
The few qualities are,
I'll take time slowly explaining the qualities that I've been talking about...
Passion
Passion is what we develop as we grow, everyone has it, but most tend to ignore and set aside their passion to follow reality and the path of life that others choose for them. For most, passion is at its peak at the age of about 7-10 years old, it is when our imaginations run the wildest. That's when our passion starts developing, as for whether it will grow more and more depends on how we decide to ignore or develop them further.
Ideas & Imaginations
By deciding to develop your passion, you start advancing to the next stage where ideas and imaginations start popping into your mind. Then you'll start thinking about all possibilities of developing your passion to the next stage. Like how Mark Zuckerberg evolved social media from how it was in the past, it may have started from just his imagination.
Imaginations don't hurt, don't ever curb it away. It may not be that useful in daily lives, but it'll prove its worth at the unexpected time when knowledge isn't much help in such a situation.
Creativity
This is one of the qualities I personally favored because it's the cause of countless inventions that mother earth possessed as of now.
Creativity is taking whatever ideas and imaginations you have into the next stage and creating something new, that's what we called, inventions. Being creative allows you to materialize your ideas, allowing your passion and dreams to come true.
Even if you don't aspire to invent something, creativity is needed in jobs these days. The contents you see on the internet, on Youtube, on blogs, and advertisements are all products of creativity, You now see how important it is these days? Be sure to develop whatever creativity you have into the next level, don't be stagnated.
Mindset
Before you actually start doing anything, ever reflect on yourself about what kinda mindset you have? What kinda perspective do you have towards life, career, and building your wealth.
Do you always think about the possibilities and find ways to do things? Do you always choose to ask how can you do it instead of saying that you can't? Will you choose to believe in learning new things instead of declining and refusing to learn?
Mindset is extremely important, it's what sets you on the path to either success or failure. You may have the best resources around but without the right mindset, you won't achieve a thing here. Don't ever let your mindset go negative, it'll be like a devil, restraining you as you'll going to your success. Even if Elon Musk comes personally and gives you the opportunity, you won't be able to grasp it without the right mindset.
Action Taking Attitude
You know that by changing your mindset, you're changing your life too, right? There's another thing that'll be like a propeller to help change your life, and it's called, "Action taking attitude". After having your thoughts filled with positivity and possibilities, you now have to develop the next qualities needed. You need to be able to take action on your ideas and mindset, to make dreams come true, you should never procrastinate and just do it. No matter what the results are, know that you won't regret having tried it.
Vision
Have any of you tried visualizing how your life would've been in 5 years? What about 10 years? What's more important after you've started taking action? You got to visualize how big your company would've been by the next 5-10 years, how happier your family would be, how much knowledge will you've accumulated, what would you've done.
Possessing vision means you have to understand what you're doing now, and where it will take you shortly to the far future. Let's say you're starting to build a crypto trading app, you'll have to understand the core of your work and be able to see how long it'll take to be able to officially launch it. Then after launching it, you'll be able to see approximately how much it'll grow in the next 5-10 years. To be able to see ahead where your path will take you is my personal opinion of vision. Feel free to advise otherwise.
Courage & Determination
This is a hard one to explain, I'll try my best then. It's kinda like the means to be able to push forward regardless of the circumstances and uncertainty. It's what most people develop after going thru countless difficult situations in life, these people confront problems till they don't fear the unknown anymore. So be sure to confront problems instead of hiding from them, they'll serve as nutrients to developing your courage and determination.
Adaptability
It's one hard quality to develop, like developing courage. But some people are born with an exceptional capability to adapt to various situations. But some develop them going thru various unlikeable circumstances in life that forced them to adapt even if they don't like it. But you don't need to go to the extreme to develop that, just choose to do things you don't like as often as possible. You'll come to accept doing uncomfortable things and be able to adapt wherever and whenever.
I'll offer my respect in advance to those who'll accomplish this in the future because even for me, it's quite hard though I've accomplished it already. Kudos!
Knowledge Hungry
This is one thing I can't impart to you guys, but it's one of the best traits of successful people here. But the downside is you can't force people to be hungry for knowledge, as they won't benefit from it no matter how they learn because they aren't interested in gaining more knowledge.
People who are hungry for knowledge tend to have it since born because I see that these people are always curious no matter the place and time, no matter how old they are, they're always either asking or reading up on new knowledge. And it's these kinds of people that, even if they don't succeed in life, they'll at least go very far, a lot further than most of the people they'll have met in life, like how Bill Gates and Warren Buffet are still reading every day despite being so successful. So if you're in this category, don't forsake it, always be curious even if it's annoying to others, but it'll benefit you in the long run.
A Big, Big Heart
This is another quality that can't be instilled in someone, but the good part is it can be developed. To be able to have an open heart, first, you have to start looking at things from multiple perspectives. Cast off your past narrowed-mindedness, and start opening up to opinions and advice. Continue by learning to respect others how you want to be respected, and treating others the way you want to be treated. Don't ever think yourself to be the center of a universe, be neither arrogant nor conceited, it'll only show how ignorant you are.
Be magnanimous, if it's not too serious of a problem, try to forgive, and if possible, forget. You feel a sense of relief if you're able to achieve that. Paying for others' food doesn't always mean a big heart, sometimes it's more of a matter of dignity. A big heart means to be able to cast away your ego sometimes just to soften down difficult situations and problems.
Conclusions
Good qualities are developed in successive order, sometimes to develop one quality, you have to develop the others first. Like how you develop your mindset first, then go on to develop an action-taking attitude. These are the things we all have to go thru in life, just that some choose to cower away from them and thus, missing the opportunity to develop talents, skills, and good qualities required to succeed in life. Some are forced to develop them due to hardship in later life, but it may be too late instead of choosing to develop them early in life. Then they wouldn't have to have difficulties facing hardships in life. I'll admit I didn't manage to develop all the qualities mentioned, but at least I tried to for some. And, I don't regret doing it.
Advice for parents,
Don't try to curb and cast away your children's curiosity, it's a heaven-sent gift. Instead, help them develop their gift, you'll see the magic happen one day, and I bet you won't regret it.
I found my aspiration for writing from my everyday life, any incidents could've ignited my next topic. But as a beginner as I am, I'm still trying to improve my writing, feel free to criticize, I'll then be able to learn from it.
