A Key To Success

One key to success is to find successful people to emulate. Be careful if you ask for advice, though. Here is a better plan.

Emulating successful people is one key to success. Be careful, though, if you ask them for advice. Often, people don't really know why they succeed, but they will give you as many explanations as you want anyhow. A 100-year old man once explained that smoking a big cigar everyday was one of the secrets of his long life. It might be nice to know that he has lived for so long, but I'm pretty sure we won't learn by asking him.

Key To Success - Study Successful People

One key, then, isn't in doing what successful people say, but rather doing what they do. Naturally you have to look closely and apply a little brainpower to see what they are really doing that is causing them their success.

A successful real estate investor told me he didn't believe in setting goals. However, watching him and listening to him, I came to realize that he knew just where he expected to be with his projects in six months. This, of course, is goal-setting - he just called the process something else.



Never stop listening to what successful people have to say, but read between the lines. Listen for insights into how they think about things and how they approach their challenges. Suppose the advice of a successful basketball player is just to practice more, but he casually mentions "I saw that going in," after a great shot. Isn't it time to start visualizing your shots going in?

Key To Success - Model Successful People

You won't always know what is causing a person's success. Internet marketers promote their websites by exchanging links, but when I first tried to exchange links with other websites, the owners didn't respond to my emails. Then I found a simple email letter used by a successful internet marketer to get links. It sounded silly to me, and I wanted to change it, but I tried it anyhow. It worked repeatedly.

You won’t always know how a person succeeds. Internet marketers promote their websites by exchanging links, but when I first tried to exchange links with other websites, the owners didn't respond to my emails. Then I found a simple email letter used by a successful internet marketer. It sounded silly to me, and I wanted to change it, but I tried it anyhow. It worked repeatedly.

It is more important to do the right things than to understand why they are right. To also understand is great, but at first, it may be best to just copy many of the actions, attitudes and approaches of someone who is succeeding. Try to model success, even before you understand it.

As you learn more, you can drop those parts that aren't contributing, and add elements of your own. If you model a successful parent, for example, and life with your children gets better, does it matter if you know right away which changes were the most effective? Of course not.

Is it better to understand why what you are doing is working? Certainly, but you may never understand why some things work, and this is okay too. It is better to have success than to explain it, so find successful people and do what they do, not what they say. It is an important key to success.

Technology as the key to success

Technology gives us hundreds and thousands of potentials. Technological improvements over the years cultivated many different ways on how to make life, well, easier. We, as Filipinos benefit so much from this technology. Computers, cellphones, televisions, kitchen appliances are just to name a few. However, I feel that we’re not getting the full potential of it. We need to grasp beyond the distance of what we encounter through our everyday technological lives. We see technology as it works. But do we see HOW it works?

First thing to do is to set a goal. By this time and so, the Philippines shall be a first-world country by the help of technology.

We see the trend, so we follow it. More and more technological advances are leaping through everyday. So we send our students to study them. Aside from being a good income source, studying technology would give one an edge of how the world is today. Why be stuck on traditional lives? When we can all say hello to the modern lifestyle.

The more students of technology there is, the more professionals of technology there will be. Engineers, inventors, scientists, and computer experts will find more ways, invent more gadgets, and upgrade more computers. By then we will have plenty of gizmos and gadgets that other countries haven’t. Having that privilege then, would give us the opportunity to export these gadgets and innovations outside the country. Economically speaking, that means more money.

As we export more, we earn more. This gives us the end point of our goal, the Philippines, earning more than ever.

Not only that, technology has the potential to make life easier. By advancing in technology, innovations in factories and network companies give them the power to create more, do more, and function faster. Without the traditional ways of manufacturing sardines for example, gives the manufacturer the power to manufacture more sardines in a faster, easier way.

More and more manufactured materials from the Philippines give us the opportunity to again export these outside of the country. Thus, making our nation known throughout the globe.
Again I shall say, as we export more, we earn more. This gives us the end point of our goal, the Philippines, earning more than ever.