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How to Achieve Massive Success Before,
or after ... you're 21!
How do you land your dream job, win the world's most
prestigious scholarships, and get into your top school choices?
Conventionally, students are taught that the main way to achieve these
things are by getting great grades in the right classes and getting
great holiday jobs in the right fields.
This strategy may have been a safe bet for awhile, but
it simply isn't anymore. With more and more people applying to the same
positions, competition is spiking dramatically. Simply working harder
or taking a test prep course isn't enough anymore. In fact, it's risky.
The best way to achieve massive success is to passionately plan, prioritize, and pursue your vision today, not tomorrow!
Landing your dream job, winning the world's most prestigious
scholarships, and getting into your top choice school has more to do
with the choices you make today rather than how well you fill out your
application. College students from across the country, even from the
most prestigious universities have learned this lesson the hard way
last year when fewer positions were available and recruiters had stacks
of hundreds of resumes.
So what can you do?
Below are 10 tips for achieving mega success before you hit 21 ... or after!
1. You’re
failing if you’re not making enough mistakes. One thing successful
people have in common is that they fail a lot. The average millionaire
goes bankrupt more than once. Pursue your dreams and use failures as
stepping stones.
“Every adversity carries with it the seeds of a greater benefit.”
- Napoleon Hill, Best-Selling Author, Think and Grow Rich
2. If you don’t
have skeptics, than you’re not thinking big enough. To be in the top
.000000001% you cannot follow the road most taken. You must create your
own.
“If at first the idea is not absurd, then there is no hope for it.”
- Albert Einstein
3. Never
take a job for money. Like a business, we all have tangible and
intangible assets. Intangible benefits to our brand, network, growth,
and knowledge are more important than our salary or hourly wage when
choosing a career.
“If
a man empties his purse into his head, no man can take it away from
him. An investment in knowledge always pays the best interest.”
- Benjamin Franklin
4. Good grades
and test scores are risky. The opposite of good is great. By achieving
our school system’s goals, we are set up to be good, but not great. We
must create our own path in life. Like a business creates a business
plan, individuals must create a life plan.
“There is no correlation between high grades, University Scores, and money.”
- Thomas Stanley, author, The Millionaire Mind
5. Experience
and knowledge can make you close-minded. By having experience of how
things should be, we become close-minded to how they could be. Today’s
youth, the first generation to grow up with the Internet, have access
to and the ability to implement new opportunities that adults can not
see.
“Young people will dominate most of the twenty-first century.”
- Don Tapscott, best-selling author, Growing Up Digital
6. If you are
comfortable, than you’re obsolete. By being comfortable being
uncomfortable, we create new possibilities in our lives that allow us
to excel over others who refuse to change or grow.
“Restlessness and discontent are the first necessities of progress.”
- Thomas Edison
7. Don’t pursue
backup plans. Because of fear of failure, many people pursue careers
that are safe, but that they are not passionate about. By doing this
they set themselves up to be average. Individuals who plan, prioritize,
and pursue their vision are bound to succeed.
“Most people live and die with their music unplayed. They never dare to try.”
- Mary Kay Ash, founder, Mary Kay Cosmetics
8. Don’t always
listen to your friends and family. While your friends and family may
have the best intentions for you, their first reaction is often to
shelter you from being hurt instead of encouraging you to take risks
and pursue your dreams.
“Be nobody but yourself in a world which is doing its best
- night and day - to make you everybody else.”
- E.E. Cummings, poet
9. Pursue
Extreme Endeavors. Pursue unconventional, success activities that you
friends only dream about such as; making a job in a company or your own business,
taking time off from school, shadowing a role model, attending
interesting and relevant seminars/conferences, and conducting
informational interviews.
“In order to be irreplaceable one must always be different.”
- Coco Chanel
10. Plan,
prioritize, and pursue your vision before you graduate. It is better to
have a quarter-life crisis than a mid-life crisis. The decisions that
you make now determine whether you have a life of success or distress.
"The time is always right to do what is right.”
- Martin Luther King
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