Understand the Psychology of Success

The definition of success differs from person to person, but what remains in common among successful people is the way of thinking and the way of doing things. Abdu Kalam, Sachin Tendulkar, Sha Rukh Khan are few of the super achievers of our own time to mention.

Success means a lifetime fulfillment that comes from creating a sense of meaning in your personal life and work. And achieving material fortune alone is not considered as success. What differs from successful persons and mediocre persons is not the mental capacity but the way of thinking and doing things. Success in anything requires the following ingredients.

The Ingredients of Success :

1. Self - awareness
2. Self - direction
3. Self - esteem
4. Positive thinking and Optimism
5. Self - motivation
6. Self - discipline
7. Positive relationships

Brief explanation of the success  ingredients : 

1. Self-awareness is paying attention to one's own thoughts, feelings, emotions, beliefs, attitudes, motivation, actions. It comes from constant self-observation. It helps to set achievable goals for an individual.

2. Self-direction is knowing what to do in life. All successful people have clear goals. At the instance of obstacles successful people do not retire from pursuing their goals.

3. Self-esteem is the confidence one has in one's own self. All successful people tend to have high self-esteem. High self-esteem persons are assertive, they are confident about their goals, ideas and freely express their feelings to others.

4. Positive thinking is a tendency to see the plus points of one's self and others. Successful people do not retire on occurrence of a set back. They focus on their strengths and pursue their goals.
Optimism is expecting good results from all. Successful people are positive thinkers and optimists.

5. Self-discipline is teaching the self to not follow the impulses but to pursue the goals. No people who have no discipline have never succeeded.

6. Self-motivation is determination to achieve the goal. All successful people are self-motivated people. They do not look at others to tell something to do.

7. Positive relationship is having positive people. No great achievement in the history human kind came from single hand. All successful people have positive people in life.

You can interpret your state of being and other people from the context of psychology of success. It will help you to understand your self and your life's direction. It will help you to understand how you are doing your work. It will help you to understand the importance of people in life and would help you to identify the way for maintaining your relationships. And it will also help you to realize the apt way of handling your children If you have any.