I loved Seth Godin’s blog post on How to succeed, here’s a little clip:
You don’t need all of these, and some are mutually exclusive (while others are not). And most don’t work, don’t scale or can’t be arranged:
- Be very focused on your goal and work on it daily
- Practice every day
- Quietly do your job day in and day out until someone notices you and gives you the promotion you deserve
- Do the emotional labor of working on things that others fear
- Notice things, turn them into insights and then relentlessly turn those insights into projects that resonate
- Redefine your version of success as: whatever I have right now
- Contribute more than is expected
- Give credit to others
- Take responsibility
- Never hesitate to share a kind word when it’s deserved
- Persist, always surviving to ship something tomorrow
- Have the ability to work harder and more directly than anyone else when the situation demands it
