There are many areas of skills – general skills that you can look into to improve and attract success. I am here to tell you some of the skills you can look into to improve yourself and put you on the road to personal success.
Project the voice of success! Articulate clearly, express yourself in a confident and authoritative manner, be it to an audience of 1 or of thousands; this is crucial if you want to convince people of your success. Be more comfortable, more confident, and more attractive to be around. Being able to speak effectively means you can sell anything – products, of course, but also ideas, ideologies, worldviews.
If success depends of effective action, effective action depends on the ability to focus your attention where it is needed most, when it is needed most. In order to keep focused on the important things, you will need to have strong organizational skills, a strong sense of discipline, and a firm effective sense of productivity. The bridge that leads from analysis to action is effective decision-making – knowing what to do based on the information available. You need to find a balance between being overly analytical and not being analytical at all. Indecisiveness is a definite hindrance that you should avoid having as a habit. Being able to take in the scene and respond quickly and effectively is what separates the doers from the wannabes.
Just as you’ve improved your verbal communication skills, so too should you improve on your written communicative skills. Writing well offers many of the same advantages that speaking well offers: being able to express yourself clearly in words would undoubtedly give you an advantage over less-skilled writers, whether it’s to convince someone of an idea or even convincing someone to make a purchase of a particular product. Given the huge amount of text generated by almost every transaction – from court briefs and legislation running into the thousands of pages to those foot-long receipts you get when you buy gum these days – there is no limit to what can be achieved if you become a master of the written word.
The point is, you need to have the desire to improve yourself before you can even think of achieving success at any level. Don’t look back into the past and what it has done or not done for you but always look to the future. Take action for a change and do something about your lack of success; take the initiative to look into yourself and see the potential in you just waiting to be converted into success.
This is by no means an admonishment for you to register for some exorbitantly priced self-improvement course. Anyone can do this and normally the effect is highly varied from those who do so because they want to and those who do them because they feel they need to or are listening to someone else. ‘Want’ is the big idea behind self improvement, because no matter how many doctors you visit, how many psychologists you seek advice from – it will all come to naught if you do not have a desire to turn your life around.
