Remember that you move forward only by doing what you can in your present environment. No matter how much money, time or resources you have, you can get to where you want to be by making full use what you have now. Do not think that you will magically obtain what you think you need to have in order to operate at the level you wish at this moment. People who think that way never make full use of what they currently have as they wait for what they think they need to have to just fall down from heaven.

Something only advances to the next level when it becomes too big for its current level. The way to get to where you want to be is through growth. Keep on finding ways to improve what you already have or to make use of more things that are available around you. If there is something you can improve, improve it. If there is something you can use, use it. Do not think of anything as too small. Nothing in the path of growth is ever too small. Do things with an advancing mindset and you will keep making progress.
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The only time when you do not do something that may contribute to your progress is when it is not fully aligned with your best vision or is not the right time to do it yet. Other then that, if it is something that fits into your best vision and can be done now, then do it. Do not wait for something better. Be willing to take calculated risk and use your time and resources to implement those things. Success may come from them or it may not. But in either case, you are making full use of what you have around you.

Sometimes you may have to move three steps forwards and two steps back. You might feel that you have wasted time and resources and therefore do not feel like making such efforts again. But that is when you become stuck. Success is for those who keep doing all they can to achieve it. Success is primarily a state of action more than an achievement. Successful people are those who keep on doing things even when there is no guarantee of success. They dare to fail in many areas in their act of advancing.

Success is about further success. No matter how much success you have achieved, if you want to achieve further success, you must keep persevering, keep doing things and keep daring to fail in many areas. This may seem like the hard thing to do but it isn’t. This is simply the nature of success. You can decide to keep moving forward or you can stay where you are. Not achieving further success means not achieving anything, which means failing. You are not a failure when you keep acting to create more.

Those who started by following their passion did it with a mindset that whether they live or die, they would just go with it because it’s the only thing they wanted to do. This is the attitude you must continue to have no matter how much you have succeeded with your passion. It’s never about the success but it’s always about the passion. You want to achieve more success not by itself but with what you want to do. Never deviate from your special calling and turn to something else just to achieve more success.

The danger of success is that once you have achieved a certain level of it, you may want to do other things if you find that you may have reached the limits of it with your passion. It is like once you have made a certain amount of money doing what you love, you may decide to do other things to make more money instead. You didn’t think that way before when you started because you didn’t have success and money to lure you. But once you have success and money you must keep following your passion.

Sometimes progress might be fast and at other times progress might be slow. The secret of success is always the same, and that is perseverance. To grow is to grow past limits. There are times when your progress may slow down and you feel like you may be limited. What you need is to continue creating further progress in any way or to create a breakthrough. Only perseverance and doing things, taking calculated risks and daring to fail, can accomplish this. Keep doing what you can to push the limits.

A failure is one who stops exerting time, energy and resources to create further progress, and just ride on whatever level of success he already has whether it is nothing or a significant amount. Success is not an achievement but a state of action. Continuous effort is needed for continuous growth. Only the old retire, sit back and relax since they are not going to go any further. It is ok to enjoy whatever success you have and smell the roses. But to create more success, you must get to work and get cracking.

Sometimes when people have already achieved a certain level of success, thinking about the term success does not move them forward. Because they already have it, and therefore the term doesn’t move them forwards. In life, we never stand still. We either progress or regress. That is why some successful people like the idea of starting over again or starting something new. The idea of moving into success gives you a feeling of movement. It is the feeling of movement that enables you to create further success or bring you to even greater levels of success. So it works for your benefit to constantly think of moving into success whether you are already successful or not. The same goes for mastery, wealth, etc.

The thought of moving towards success for some people can create the feeling of not having it yet. Whereas for others it creates the feeling of joyful, eager anticipation of success. You can tell exactly what kind of thoughts you are thinking by the way you feel when you think them.
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