What are you willing to do for success?  Are you willing to fail for success?  Are you willing to give up everything for success?  How long are you willing to wait for success?  Are you willing to change for success?  Why do you want success?

The answers to the questions above might seem simple and obvious.  However, many folks will change their answers once they are on the path to success.  How do I know that?  It’s from my own observations and experience.  I know that many of us are willing to do whatever it takes to succeed, but when the time comes to pay the price, most of us simply back out.  The key to success is with you!

If you are not realizing the success you want, it is probably because of you.  Many times, you have to change the way you think, the way you act, the way you execute your plan of actions, and more.  For example, how punctual are you?  If you say you will call someone back later, do you call them back later that day or later in the week?  Are you time punctual?  If you say you will meet someone at 3 PM, do you make sure you arrive a few minutes early at the very least or do you arrive a few minutes late?  Little things like these may not seem to matter much when you are in college, but you will be surprised as to how habitual this will be in your professional life.  You need to become more professional and more resilient with what you say and how you execute. 

Would you like to succeed 1000 times and fail once or would you like to fail 1000 times and succeed once?  Before you answer, carefully think about the question and your response.  If you would like to succeed 1000 times and fail once, you will always fail because if you are succeeding 1000 times, you will have no incentive to change your approach.  Hence, if you fail once, you will not understand why you failed when you were using the same formula for success.  If you fail 1000 times, it is likely that you are trying out new ways to find out success and continually changing your strategy.  Therefore, once you find your success, it is likely that you will continue to alter your strategy to continue the success and you’ll know 1000 ways on how to fail.  Sure there are general exceptions and room for arguments, but you get the idea.

No matter what anyone says, the bottom line is that success begins with you.  Only you can do what is necessary to realize success.  If you don’t change things about you or what you are doing, you cannot accomplish success.  Remember, the world is a highly dynamic place.  That means, the world is continually changing and you have to change to keep up.  You cannot expect the same method to work always and therefore, you cannot expect success with no change.  So go ahead and dare yourself to change and evolve.