Are You REALLY Serious About YOUR Success?

How about that for a provocative question! I'm surethe prestige and respect that comes with it and of
your immediate answer is "Of course!" But manycourse, the good salary seemed very appealing. But it
people who answer in this way simply aren't reallyrequires endless hours of hard work and continual
serious about achieving success. Let me explain.development and this reality is far less appealing.
Recently, I had dinner with my best friend. I hadn't seen3. The man's father is paying for the course. He
him for a while as he is currently training to be aknows he can take as much time as he wants
commercial pilot. During dinner, we discussed thebecause his father will pay for the extra study and the
importance of having complete focus on achievingretaking of exams. As he isn't paying for his own
success.studies - and for his own mistakes - he doesn't have
In my own case, I wanted to run an Internet businessthe focus and urgency that comes when you spend
and this meant giving up my full time job so I couldyour own money. In other words, failing isn't painful
focus on learning the necessary skills and have theenough for him.
time to develop and run my business. The process has4. Easily distracted. Instead of doing extra study after
required me to invest lots of time, lots of hard workclasses, the young man surfs the Internet. He's a keen
and sacrificing a lot of other activities in my life tosports fan and spends hours on the web looking at
concentrate fully on developing my websites.sports sites. They are wasted hours, hours that won't
For my friend, his determination to become a pilot hastake him any nearer to becoming a pilot. This distracts
required an investment of around $100,000 to date. Hehim from the task at hand, as does:
too gave up his job to pursue his dream and he also5. Inviting his girlfriend over every weekend. Instead of
gave up his girlfriend. He has studied in 3 countries andworking, studying or flying at the weekends, he spends
has studied very hard, day and night, to attain theit instead with his girlfriend. They go shopping together,
necessary skills and qualifications.they watch movies together, they dine out and you
Conversely, we discussed how many people say theycan guess the rest! My friend tried to point out to him
want success but aren't really serious about it. A casethat he was wasting weekends he could use to get
in point is a young man my friend encountered on amore hours in. He was met with the reply "Yes, but my
course in Oklahoma. He too was studying to becomegirlfriend wouldn't be happy about that, we have to see
a pilot but was struggling to reach the requiredeach other" Despite my friend saying they could spend
standard. Despite having the ability, the young manlots of time together AFTER he'd qualified, the young
failed his tests twice and my friend highlighted theman still invites his girlfriend for weekends - and has
following reasons. As you read, see if any apply torecently failed a third test.
you:-If you are to achieve the success you really want, it
1. Heart isn't in it. He left university and didn't have arequires total focus. You must be prepared to give it
clear idea of what he wanted to do. His father hadyour full attention and be 100% committed to your
found a pilot's course whilst surfing the Internet andprojects. It must become the number one priority in
mentioned it to his son. Thinking that becoming a pilotyour life.
would make his family proud, he signed up. He isn'tSo, are you REALLY serious about YOUR success?
doing it for himself.Until next time.
2. Sold on romance: The thought of being a pilot with