Luck and Success: Succeeding by a Roll of the Dice

Luck and Success: Succeeding by a Roll of the Dice

What role does luck play in success? Do you tend to attribute your own successes to luck or effort? People often overestimate the influence of effort in success. Though hard work, skill, and intelligence are often necessary first steps toward success, they rarely account for runaway success, which is far more often due to luck—a positive rare event plus a lack of negative rare events.  In today’s article, we’ll talk about luck and success—how huge of a role luck plays in bestowing success and why we often mistake it for skill.

How to Reach Your Goals by Doing One Thing at a Time

How to Reach Your Goals by Doing One Thing at a Time

Do you know how to reach your goals strategically and effectively? What steps should you take? You won’t reach your goals unless you line up the dominoes to connect the present to the future. Strategic thinking, or breaking down the process for achieving a big goal into steps, is critical for getting where you want to go. Just as dominoes fall one at a time, your focus should be on doing one thing at a time. Keep reading to learn how to reach your goals with this winning strategy.

Focus on One Thing: The Key to Extraordinary Success

Focus on One Thing: The Key to Extraordinary Success

If you were to focus on one thing at a time, what could you achieve? What difference could it make for your success? When it comes to achieving your goals, a daily focus on One Thing will make the biggest impact. Start by thinking big, and then focus small to identify the One Thing you can do right now—and then the next One Thing you can do toward reaching your goal. Read more to learn how a focus on One Thing at a time is the key to extraordinary success.

The Three Certainties of the Straight Line System

The Three Certainties of the Straight Line System

What are the three certainties from Way of the Wolf? Why are the three certainties essential in Straight Line sales? In his book Way of the Wolf, Jordan Belford discusses the three certainties of the Straight Line system: 1) the product, 2) the seller (you), and 3) the company. If you don’t gain a prospect’s trust in these three areas, then you are less likely to close the sale. Continue below to learn more about the three certainties and what happens if you fall short.

The Focusing Question: What Is Your One Thing?

The Focusing Question: What Is Your One Thing?

Have you asked yourself the Focusing Question? What is your one thing? It’s easy to think that the key to success is doing more than anyone else. However, that’s a recipe for spreading yourself too thin and accomplishing nothing significant. Instead, you should focus on a few, right things. It starts with asking yourself the Focusing Question. Continue reading to learn what the Focusing Question from The One Thing is and how to apply it.

Avoid Distractions at Work: Make a Deep Work Space

Avoid Distractions at Work: Make a Deep Work Space

Are you easily distracted at work? What steps can you take to reduce your distractions? In his book Deep Work, Cal Newport provides steps on how to create a deep work environment. The steps include creating a designated workspace, getting rid of distractions such as social media, training your focus, and making the most of your focused time. Keep reading to learn how to curb your distractions at work.

Find Your Life Purpose: 4 Tips for Discovery

Find Your Life Purpose: 4 Tips for Discovery

What is your life purpose? Are you living it? Your purpose is the one thing you want your life to be about more than any other. Your life purpose determines your priority. Connecting purpose and priority with productivity determines your success. To live an exceptional life, live with purpose, live by priority, and live for productivity. Continue reading to learn how to find your life purpose.

Hold Yourself Accountable: Be the Author of Your Life

Hold Yourself Accountable: Be the Author of Your Life

Do you hold yourself accountable for the way things turn out? Or are you just a victim of circumstance? Like everyone else, you want to succeed. You want great results. Holding yourself accountable is a critical aspect of success. It means that you are the owner—the author—of your life. Read more to learn the power of holding yourself accountable.