No One Can Lie to You About Success Anymore After This Reading

Do you want to succeed? Of course, you do; I assume that is why you are reading this. But the point is if you are reading this, you saw the title of this story, and you want your life to be more meaningful.

Let me first clarify for you the concept of success since it is the keyword in the theme of this story.

If I asked people what success is, I would get a lot of different answers. So let's give a definition that will work for everybody: Success is getting what you want.

The concept of success varies from person to person; it is subjective. That what is for me may not be for you. Each person defines success according to expectations, life experience, or goals.

Let me remind you that achieving success is not an easy task. I had my first great success when I created a consistent and profitable clothing brand in two years.

If you want to be successful, You will have to work very hard. I cannot guarantee you any success. All I can do is share with you the three pillars, according to my perspective, are the basis of all great success;

To make it easier for you to understand when I had to create explanatory parallels regarding success, allow me to start with the following true story.

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In 1911 two explorers, one British and one Norwegian started a competition to see which of them would reach the South Pole first. No one had ever done this before.

The climate conditions in the Antarctic region are extremely challenging for temperatures that can reach as low as -60°C, winds of over 160km/h, and aggressive animals such as killer whales are some of the obstacles the explorers would face along the way.

The explorers would need to strategize very well because any error could be fatal.

They couldn't go too fast because otherwise, they would deplete the forces of their teams and inevitably lead to everyone's death.

They could not afford to go too slow either because resources would run out along the way, and the journey and the team wouldn't have enough to make the return trip.

So the British Robert Scott adopted the following strategy: Scott would hike as far as he could with his team on days when the weather was good to take advantage of the good weather and get a lot of walking in. On the bad weather days, Scott chose a different strategy: would set up camp, rest, and wait for better conditions to continue.

On good days, Scott would walk for over 10 hours straight in the freezing arctic sun. Whereas on bad days, they would not walk not even a minute.

Whereas the Norwegian explorer Roald Amundsen had a different strategy: Independently of whether it was sunny, snowy, windy, breezy, -60°C, or -10°C, Amundsen and his team would march religiously 20 miles to the south every day.

So every day, Amundsen's team walked about 6 hours towards their goal. No mile more, and no mile less.

When Scott reached the southernmost point on the planet earth, he was surprised a red flag with a blue cross was hanging in the ground. He was not the first. Amundsen the Norwegian was the first to reach his destination.

Sometime later, Hamissem was back in his homeland with his team, with everyone safe and sound. Scott the British did not meet the same fate as Amundsen. Besides the fact that Scott arrived after Amundsen at the South Pole, he and his team died on the way back to England due to the injuries they suffered walking a longer distance on days with bad weather.

Scott was not successful because he could not achieve the goal he wanted.

Besides the fact that success varies from person to person, it is also important to note that success can also change for the same person depending on the current objective that the individual wishes to achieve.

In the case of our friend Scott, success for him at the beginning of the expedition would mean being the first to plant his country's flag at the southernmost point of the planet.

After Scott's team got sick; Now his only success would be getting back safe and sound in England.

Let's now look at Maslow's pyramid to help us see how many levels makeup success.

According to Maslow's pyramid, success is composed of 5 different levels, which are:

• Physiological: These are biologics requirements for human survival. Things like air, food, drink, shelter, clothing, warmth, sex, sleep.
• Safety: Once physiological needs are satisfied, the needs for security and safety become salient. People want to experience order, predictability, and control in their lives. These needs can be fulfilled by the family and society (in the case of police, schools, business, and medical care).
• Love and belonging needs: Belongingness refers to a human emotional need for interpersonal relationships, affiliating, connectedness, and being part of a group.
• Esteem: Maslow classified esteem needs into two categories: (i) esteem for oneself (dignity, achievement, mastery, independence) and (ii) the desire for reputation or respect from others (e.g., status, prestige).
• Self-actualization: This level is about the realization of a person's potential, self-fulfillment, seeking personal growth, and peak experiences. Maslow describes this level as the desire to accomplish everything that one can, to become the most that one can be.

Each level is a specific need that the human being must fulfill to advance to the next level.

So the success of a person is to conquer each level of this pyramid? Someone who is starving is hardly thinking about personal growth; the only thing that this person wants at that moment is to supply her physiological needs because that is what is urgent for his survival at that moment.

For this reason, Maslow's pyramid starts from the most primitive things to the most subjective things.

While each level brings something new, three pillars undeniably support all the levels of this pyramid: health, relationship, and freedom.

1. Health

Let me remind you that when we talk about health, it doesn't matter if we are looking at physiological needs, or at building a family for social acceptance, or at having fun in the pyramid time.

Climbing Maslow's pyramid depends on your time, on your body is in a condition to seek and live each of these experiences of success that a human being can achieve.

If you want to succeed, never stop taking care of your body and mind. The weaker your health is, the more your attention turns to achieving the goals of the lower layers so that the big target of self-fulfillment gets further and further away.

2. Relationship

As humans, the relationships we form with other people are vital to our mental and emotional well-being, in other words, indeed to our survival. Humans have an inherent desire to be around other people, to connect and build relationships.

There are several studies on the positive effects that a healthy romantic relationship can have on your health. Here are five benefits of healthy relationships.

• Less Stress;
• Best cure;
• Healthier behaviors;
• Greater sense of purpose;
• Long life.

3. Freedom

Freedom carries within it a fundamental value, which is autonomy.

Autonomy for what? To take a moment of rest to experience new sensations, for you to work with what you love.

In our capitalist society, achieving a complete state of autonomy is directly associated with money.

The more money one has fewer money matters.

Of course, if we have a lot of money, we don't have to worry about the problems that arise from the lack of money.

These are some of the problems that come by lack of money:

• Not being able to travel to see your family who is living in another state;
• Not being able to afford medical treatment;
• Not being able to take the sabbatical year to get to know the world, acquiring new experiences meeting new people.

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In the end, health is not only a condition for living, but it is also an indispensable condition for freedom.

Relationships allow us to build and develop build and develop emotional bonds that are also fundamental for happiness for any person, especially when it comes to the state of physical and mental health.

Freedom brings time. Time for us to travel the world doing what we want for as long as we think it is necessary. Time allows us to build relationships and increase our health.

It reminds you that in the world of success, there is no arrival, only the way. Let me summarize for you, in the form of a metaphor, my perspective success.

Imagine that you are going to shoot an arrow. Pull the bow back, aim at a target, and release it until it rips the wind towards the target. Until it rips the wind towards the target, in this metaphor, the target is our whys.

In the first moment, the target can be much smaller, like supplying your basic needs.

Let's suppose that there is a second target behind the first, a bigger and more difficult one more difficult now related to your sense of self-worth, social status, recognition.

Since you have already reached the first target, you can now go for a bigger target, a bigger why.

Imagine that there is a third target that is related to helping the people that are close to you;

This target invites you to undress the selfish sense of doing something for yourself and think about lifting the people you like and trust and share success with the team you have in your company, with your family, with your friends. To legitimately help the people you love.

A fourth target later: Bigger and more difficult to reach is to push the human race forward.

As we conquer these new targets accomplish our goals, and reach new whys, they will become more collectivist. It's like Ellon Musk wanting to form a sustainable civilization on Mars or accelerating the transaction to sustainable energy on our planet because the world needs it.

It is Bill Gate with the Bill and Melinda Gate Foundation eradicating the disease by bringing sanitation infrastructure in Africa.

Because the more we can supply the things that are good for us, the less our interest in doing more for those of us who already have a lot ends up being.

Greater becomes our interest in helping the collective, in making our planet, the people our planet, the people who permeate our humanity, so that they are the people who benefit from our successes.

It is of the utmost importance to keep in mind that it's no use to have those whys these targets are to be reached if we don't have a robust structure. An arrow capable of going through all those rips and keeping its integrity.

Now, it's necessary to keep in mind that it's no use having these whys, these targets to be hit if we don't have a robust structure. An arrow capable of going through all those rips and keeping its integrity.

When we talk about success, three characteristics also guarantee our support of them are:

• Discipline: discipline for us to march the 20 miles every day, with no mile more and no mile less.
• Consistency: consistency involves getting the job done every day without excuse.

By marching 20 miles every day, we make sure that we don't get stressed leaving work late. We make sure that we don't end up in a rush spending our health from working harder and making up for a bad job.

Besides, we have self-respect, not to go beyond what we know we can't handle. It is not a 21-mile march; it is a 20 march.

• Self-fragility: self-fragility is the ability to stay persistent on the course, taking a beating and coming back stronger than when you fell; 

Self-fragility is having the humility to recognize that we have a lot to learn.

Self weakness is listening to feedback from our customers and adjusting our product. It is not giving up when it involves failure.

So in the remise, we have discipline, consistency, and self fragility. At the tip of the arrow, we have the consequence when you exercise these three basic principles which are: health, relationships, and freedom. With these three things, we can pursue and reach our goals.

And then, after we reach these four targets, is it over? 

Just because you reach a target doesn't mean that's the end.

We need to recognize that this is an unfinished process. Good luck to all, and I hope you can use this to succeed in life