Is Success a Phase or Fad: What do you think?

People often confuse being successful as just a temporary phase or fad. To some, it’s more of a destination than journey. I believe that’s no different than those who think of a diet as just a phase or a fad. We often see adverts like “Lose weight in 48 hour” or “Make £60,000 in 30days”. My definition of success is not really a temporary diet. It’s not a fad. It’s a permanent lifestyle.

Living a successful life is a lifestyle that is guided by the principles of success (and preservation). It’s the result of thousands (if not millions) of small decisions that stack up hour after hour, day after day, week after week, month after month and year after year. Whether you are in business, an employee, housewife, or an executive; the same principle of success applies to all spheres of life and professions.

Successful people know how hard it was to get to where they are and therefore they spend appropriate time and energy on preserving it.

Building a successful business enterprise, or career takes patience, which is something that few people have. Everybody wants success right here, right now, as in immediately without putting in the required effort. People want to cut corners. They want immediate gratification.

They would rather take a pill, potion or lotion than work out to be healthy and they would rather skip to the end to “get rich quick.” Success requires good behavior executed over long periods of time. The most successful people are those that do a little each day to increase their probabilities of being more successful tomorrow. Slow and steady fills the purse. A few bad decisions or bad behaviors can quickly wipe out enormous efforts and previous sacrifices.

But the world doesn’t work like that (no matter how much we wished it did). That doesn’t mean that the juice isn’t worth the squeeze. It does. Ask any successful person.

In a recent survey conducted by Head Affairs Coaching to determine the critical traits a successful leader must possess, five traits were considered very important to the future success of any business or organisation.