Success isn’t guaranteed, but there are steps you can take to increase your chances of realizing your goals and dreams.
One key attribute of successful Entrepreneurs is that even in times of uncertainty, successful people identify and stick to the foundational guidelines or principles they have set for themselves and their business.
Business principles are the backbone of a professional and a company, as these principles hold critical outlooks, strategies, standards, and priorities that you carry with you in every business decision. These business principles help professionals in every aspect of their professional journey, whether it be a company’s prosperity or a challenging situation.
If you want to achieve success, consider the following 13 principles that have withstood the test of time.
Most fundamental work principle: Make your passion and your work one and the same and do it with people you want to be with.
Ray Dalio
If you want others to believe in your business, you first have to believe in it. When you believe in your business and yourself, you emit energy and passion that others can see and feel. This spark is influential for customers, but it also empowers your employees to feel engaged, committed, and driven to work harder to meet or excel in business goals. You get the same energy and focus that you put into your business and professional goals.
The first 2 years of being an entrepreneur will be a roller coaster ride. The goal is to eventually own the roller coaster.
Patrick Bet-David
Success occurs when a person is diligent, passionate, patient, and growth-minded. Success rarely happens overnight. It takes hard work and time. Some days you will see remarkable growth, while other days, you feel as though you’re taking a step back ... or perhaps a number of backward steps may hit you out of nowhere, but progress is progress, no matter how small.
Make clear and defined goals for yourself and continue to put in the work, and every day, you will come closer to meeting your dreams and goals. You may need to take a step back to reevaluate some actions and goals, but remain focused, and your hard work will eventually pay off.
There will always be some new trend to follow or feature to use. But, despite the noise, you must stay on track to meet your goals. Remember: the main thing is to keep the main thing the main thing.
There's a silly notion that failure's not an option at NASA. Failure is an option here. If things are not failing, you are not innovating enough.
When you choose to overcome your failures and persevere, you will discover new things about yourself, become more compassionate and understanding, and find a new level of strength that you never knew possible.
Likely, you will also discover new strategies and opportunities that may not have been possible if you had not first fallen.
As T.S. Eliot once wrote, “Only those who risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go.” Don’t be afraid to fail, and if you do fall, dust your knees off, learn from your mistakes, and try again.
I think it's very important to have a feedback loop, where you're constantly thinking about what you've done and how you could be doing it better. I think that's the single best piece of advice: constantly think about how you could be doing things better and questioning yourself.
If your customers were to describe you, what would they say? What about your employees and co-workers? Would they say it’s your way or the highway, or are you respected as a leader?
If you want to succeed, you need to be willing to listen, ask for help, improve yourself and your actions, place the needs of others before your own, and admit when you make a mistake. Humility opens you up to the art of connection and allows you to make valuable relationships.
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The Moving Forward Newsletter is a bi-weekly advice column by Kim Peterson Stone, the CEO of Linkability.us where we give you a peek behind the curtains into what it takes to put together campaigns that help you grow your business and career on LinkedIn and in Real Life.
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