"To be idle is a short road to death
and to be diligent is a way of life;
foolish people are idle,
wise people are diligent."
- Buddha

Being a successful person is not an enigma nor is it a mystery. It is not just a gift endowed upon certain people without others who have to suffer and agonize. That is totally untrue. I will discuss here the basic elements about success and leadership which you can train yourself to and do your best to master and muter till you achieve what you want to achieve and bring through the most hilarious and elegant times into your life, It is a process of continuous working and striving, no one exerts the credible effort and never arrive. No one keeps knocking and the door doesn't open, even if it needs from him to break the door off, he is willing to break the door. Let us delve into these five pillars.

Having the absolute confidence in your personality

You can have the absolute power in yourself when you have the absolute steadfast belief that you have the power inside. This is the simplest and easiest definition of absolute confidence. You have all the powerful resources inside you that can make you the best person in the earth. Unfortunately few of us utilize these forces though most people believe that they have it and they can lead a better life, can have a much resourceful relations, success and more favorable interactions and endeavors in their lives if they make use of. Only small proportion of people tap into this gigantic force because they are absolutely unconfident of themselves.

A simple talk can implant inside you confidence. Keep repeating to yourself that you are very confident of yourself and you are willing to take the adventure and next leap to advance your life. Keep nurturing yourself that you are fully capable of achieving whatever you want to achieve. By that just in three days you can gain the basic buzzer of absolute confidence inside your brain that keeps reminding you.

You are innately empowered to develop yourself and improve your whole life. Once you know that, you have no excuses to put through and pursue your own dreams. No one will ever take the brunt of achieving your dreams except you and those few exceptional people who you are gifted with and feel the full bless and bliss when you are among them. Have the absolute powerful confidence and you can make absolute miracles come forth,. peep out from every place and bearing in every walk of your life in addition to a real increase in those who will love you for your deeply beloved example of confidence, determination and human power." Just don't give up trying to do what you really want to do. Where there is love and inspiration, I don't think you can go wrong" as Ella Fitzgerald once said.

Being a person of virtue and integrity

After you fulfill the absolute confidence, credence and conviction in your ability, you have to be a person of integrity, a person who can keep his word with himself which is virtue and with others-which is integrity, a person who is willing to do his best to maintain the honest credibility in front of others and carry our his duties in the utmost beautiful form. By that he will be the center of attention of people whom he deal with and interact with. You have to be a virtuous person to really affect, influence and integrate others. Can you ponder for a while the famous quote of Cicero that sums up integrity and virtue "Glory follows virtue as if it were its shadow".

After you achieve your absolute belief and confidence in yourself, you have to recognize that you cannot make your dreams come true and your ambitions incarnated in reality without the help of positive, provocative and creative people. They should be the people who are always ready to provide you with the effective splendorous insights, notions,ideas and mansions of wisdom and help. They can save you tons of hours and tons of efforts that could be wasted or wrongly exploited.

I know that these factions of creative and terrific people are not easily to find. I can appreciate this but still you can make them, build them, lead them and bring about success and triumph to yourself and them .An enthusiastic and integrated personality is like a beacon that garner and gather the most splendid boats sailing in the sea of life to their final goals and happiness. Be a person of integrity and you will attract same and alike persons of integrity as the magnet does attract non breakable stainless steel particles.

Striving for the better

Striving for the better and searching for the most highly available standards in the field you are working your way at is one of the key factors of a successful personality. For example if you are seeking to be number one person in certain business, you should do your best to be the best general manager you would ever be. Always self analyze yourself and take some time to ponder the next step before you take it. You also should try to compare yourself with the extraordinary examples you have in your work field. Be this extraordinary example. You have to search and scrutinize for the main causes that led him or her to achieve such a burnished throne and then all you have to do is just to imitate him. Any person can do that with any talents or capabilities.

You have to model him to get excellence. In the advanced science of Neuro-linguistic programming which is basically concerned about the process of human evolution and enhancement. This is called Modeling. You do mimic what the excellent and most forwarded pioneer people do. However you should have your own sense of criticism, your own sensitivity to modify a very small portion of this model of excellence to accommodate it to your own field and your special circumstances. If you model with enough diligence and patience and took the same route as astute and pioneered people did, plus willing to have the enough sensitivity and smartness to tailor this model to your own needs, I can guarantee you the maximal performance and the most riveting victory in the smallest interval of time.

Can you remember the story of the small child who asked his grandma why did all the people keep talking and glorifying his father and his grandfather? She answered him that he kept doing as his grandfather did, His grand father did his best to succeed at his time and so his father does. He does his best to be great and come along. A nice parable and but true about modeling either in a family or life.

The power of applied knowledge

Knowledge is the most sacred treasure that no one can ever take from you for it is placed in your brain. Knowledge also is the number one factor that gives the others the gust of your uniqueness and exclusiveness. If you are a person of absolute confidence in himself, virtue and integrity and always attempt earnestly for the best, you can easily accept that knowledge is a mundane for self growth and progress. It is the real deal of success and empowerment, virtue and sovereignty.

Knowledge helps keep you in touch with the whole universe just in some pages you read. No one can afford the luxury of not reading and enriching himself with others' experience ,knowledge and fruitful feedback. No one can deny the simple fact that the most influential people and leaders have an extensive knowledge of everything related to their fields with sufficient ken and education of different sciences and human creative endeavors. They didn't just gather information but as important as gathering is practice and application of this knowledge lively. This is education by practice, the most powerful method of learning.

You should read at least 30 minutes per day. If thirty minutes that is good, If one hour this is really marvelous. If one and half hour that is virtually great.. But if two hours then you are indeed a genius. Just to quote the most beautiful words of Kenko Yoshida "To sit alone in the lamplight with a book spread out before intimate you, and hold converse with men of unseen generations--such is a pleasure beyond compare."

You have to read to update your mind, upgrade your orientation of your field and gain much love, respect and internal exhilaration to your life and work. Without reading and application of your knowledge you cannot claim that you are committed to excellence in your job and you life.

Mastering a hobby that rejuvenates your faith

The best people are those who have a hobby that makes them feel happy, motivated, enhanced and connected with the super powerful power in the universe. Can you imagine why old primitive tribes where involved frequently in hobbies of dancing, hunting, singing during their rituals of worship. They used these hobbies as a mean to communicate with the absolute power. It also has been proven in multiples of studies that people who are fascinated and monomaniac with a hobby are much able and strengthened to cope with life changes and vicissitudes more than those who indulge themselves and throw themselves about in just one monotonous boor job. This sends an obvious message that is to achieve excellence and attain leading success and fulfillment in our field, you have to have an inspiring and empowering hobby that you feel full relief when you practice it, that rejuvenates your life, increases your energy, and renews your stamina.

Interestingly, It has also been proven that those who practice regularly an active hobby sleep less and find more time for their families, dedicate more hours in their jobs and consequently more amenable to master their work and task, just to name few Winston Churchill, Napoleon and Roosevelt. You have no excuse to pursue your life in a single boring and non chastened way. This is not warranted scientifically. Some of you might moan and groan saying that he or she doesn't find enough time but he can find if he can train himself to do his job with lesser boredom and tedium, and sleep less. Others might claim that they don't have a hobby. It is simple, go and learn a new one. There are thousands of hobbies you can lean and millions of groups you can join to achieve excellence

So to be a successful person. Five things are essential which are having absolute confidence in you, being a person of virtue and integrity, searching for the better and excellent, creating an avid curiosity for knowledge with its application and lastly finding a hobby that can take your life off into a more fruitful zones and horizons.

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