6 Factors That Determine Whether You Will Succeed or Fail

A blueprint to success to guide you in your journey towards your goals

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In all our endeavors, success is a desired end state. It brings a moment of exhilaration, joy and pride that’s hard to explain. Failure on the other hand is disappointing, frustrating and can even demotivate some people from trying to reach for their goals.

Multiple setbacks, challenges and obstacles are inevitable when you’re doing something worthwhile. It may appear that they’re blocking you from reaching your destination, but look at them another way and you’ll find that they provide helpful signals to carve a path to your goals.

You also get a continuous stream of feedback from other people and the things in your environment. Depending on how you process these inputs, they may either give you just the cue you need to keep moving forward or distract you from your goals.

There’s no playbook to success because it’s often a culmination of many different factors — depending on not only what you’re trying to do but also your circumstances, knowledge, experience and luck.

These 6 critical factors don’t guarantee success, but they can definitely shift the balance in your favor. They provide a blueprint to success to guide you in your journey towards your goals.

Within you is the power to succeed, but you must express that power to succeed in actions toward achieving your goals — Jeffrey G. Duarte

Clarity on success criteria

We all want to succeed. Yet, we fail to define what success means to us. Leaving the criteria open-ended or having only a vague sense of what success means to you can make it hard to determine when you have achieved your goal.

When you don’t clearly know what you want, the more time, effort or energy you put into something, the less it appears within your reach.

Achieving success starts with defining what it means to you — what matters to you, what do you wish to achieve, why is it important, how can you measure it?