Qualities for Success
What is Success
Success is the enthusiasm for achieving a well-defined goal after going through a struggle phase. Goals set up by individuals may differ. The harder the goal and the struggling phase involved, the sweeter the success tastes.
There can be situations, where success and goals get overlapped. There can also be situations when a person later feels that this was not the right path to proceed, even after completing the goal and attaining success.
This article discusses the qualities a person should possess to attain success rather than defining and formulating a process to achieve it. Success can be a short time and a long time based on success achieved in a smaller time, and success that takes a longer time to accomplish. The best way to achieve success is to focus on the work and do the right things at the right time.
Let us take an example to understand a situation. As a person, you are preparing for an examination that requires a lot of effort to attain good grades. In the meantime, you get attracted to a boy or a girl, and slowly your focus shifts towards meeting and spending a good time with that person. This is an example of the emergence of a goal within a larger goal.
As focus shifts more towards the person, you tend to deviate from the original goal. Prioritizing your thoughts and focusing on the goal and doing the right thing at the correct time is the best way to avoid such distractions. It may so happen that the person that attracts you, accepts your proposal, and you feel elated and happy. After spending some more time of togetherness, you find that this is not the right kind of person for you, and you end up losing the precious time that would have gone into achieving the original goal.
Success Parameters
Intelligent quotient (IQ): Intelligent quotient refers to a value that describes the logicality, rationality, or reasoning ability of a person. A successful person should possess an adequately good IQ ranging between 120 – 140 because these are the qualities that help a person in their decision-making skills. A person with good decision-making abilities will always find a way to achieve success.
Emotional Quotient(EQ): This value refers to understanding the level of one’s emotions and subsequently controlling them. If a person is very emotional and tears come out of the person’s eye in case of any adversity, the person is considered emotionally weak. So this value represents how strongly a person can control and understand their emotions.
Situations may arise where you want to share your emotions with anyone, but you are unable to express the same, or the situation may be such that you are trying to absorb the pain within yourself. The best way to shelve this is to go to an empty place or room and shout your heart out. This relieves mental stress making the person much lighter and softer.
A person who can manage and control their own emotions and possess the ability to control the emotion of another person has a very high emotional quotient. A person managing the emotions of other persons can indeed, become very powerful with a huge fan following.
Adversity Quotient (AQ): This is the value that determines how a person can adjust adversely to the environment and situational circumstances surrounding it. Life brings both happiness and sorrow to an individual’s life. The faster a person manages and copes with the adverse sorrow and stress that life throws at them, possess high adversity quotient.
Situations like the death of a very close friend or it may so happen that someone had written some false propaganda against you on some social media platform or a sudden fear of failure has crept inside you, these are different kind of situations that makes a person stronger. The better a person adapts to this situation is considered to have a god adversity quotient.
The art of ignoring is a specialized characteristic that gives a person an upper hand over their adversities. Every day in life may bring some or other problems, if one starts thinking and over thinking about each such problem then instead of making life an enjoyable one; they end up making life miserable. Thus the art of ignoring problems and controlling your emotions provides a person to traverse a successful path.
Qualities of Success
A successful person has their feet firmly planted on the earth. They do not provide a false impression of themselves, they do not boast about themselves. A person who previously faced rejection, be it from a girlfriend, job interview, or social event is more likely to become successful because that destroys the thinking that they are the best and brings them to the ground.
A successful person searches for his ways to find happiness among the stresses of life. They intend to find the solutions to different problems faced by them; some solutions might bring the results according to the plan, while some solutions may expose unplanned situations that bring more trouble, but it always provides knowledge of improvement.
Successful persons are those who have strong self-motivation. Self-motivation is a by-product of emotional intelligence. A person possessing strong emotional control of their own can manage and control the emotions of others. Those are the ones who achieve success faster.
If you follow successful politicians around the world, they may not be good at management, but they have very strong emotional control and the ability to manage the emotions of people. They go among people and try to address issues that are important to that community. This makes them accepted by people as one of their own thus emotionally controlling them. They dress according to the situation; dressing in a definite attire of that community attracts the attention of the people.
The best example in this regard is Mahatma Gandhi, who refused to wear clothes on the upper part of the body considering that India was poor at that time. It is tough for a person educated in London to take such a decision, but that helped establish a connection between the common man and the rest is history.
Persistence Quotient
Persistence Quotient is the value of the persistence ability of a person, which happens to be an important factor for a successful person. This quotient is a combination of 3 words that start from the letter ‘P’. Persistence, Perseverance, and Patience.
Persistence means continuity of achieving their goal, persistently focussing on the goal without deviating from it. Some people gets instant motivation and charged up instantly. As an example, suppose you went to a social gathering, and there was one person in that gathering, with whom everyone wants to shake hands and obtain a selfie. Sitting ignored in a corner suddenly motivates your mind to become similar in popularity to that person.
Such motivations serve as a good injection to pursue goals, but the effect of these does not sustain in the long run. The motivation fizzes out sooner, within a few days. A similar analogy would be when a person is very angry, generally, this situation does not last for more than a few hours, but this time is the most vulnerable of life. If someone commits some mistakes/incident in this fist of anger, most likely they have to face its consequences for the rest of their life. Hence anger should not control your actions.
Persistence means a constant fire and charge that always keeps a person engaged over the entire duration unless the achievement of their dream. Perseverance is the constant firmness associated with persistence which does not allow you to deviate from what you dream of achieving.
Some dreams and goals require constant effort over a long period, and that requires patience. A goal that is not low hanging and that cannot be achieved over a small period requires patience to complete the accomplishment.
It takes time to achieve success similar to a plant that provides flowers or fruit only when its season arrives. Though one has to constantly water the plant throughout the year even when it does not provide any fruit or flower to keep it alive for the next period of a good harvest.
Another analogy is related to Mahatma Gandhi, who could have chosen any path based on his education but preferred the path of freedom struggle. The first major mass movement launched in 1920 was the Non-Cooperation Movement to revoke cooperation from the British. This movement failed, and he faced criticism but never bogged down. After a wait of 10 long years, in 1930 the next movement was launched by the name of ‘Dandi Yatra’, also known as Salt March.
This movement also could not create much impact as anticipated. After a wait of 12 years the next movement was the ‘Quit India Movement’ was launched in the year 1942. This stands as an example of perseverance, to constantly persuade his goal of freedom over such a long period of 25 long years with multiple failures and again bouncing back with even more impact.
A successful person must work on and inculcate these qualities. They don’t need to be all inherited. These qualities can be cultivated by strong willpower and reacting to situations effectively.
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