What Is The Difference Between Achievement And Success?
Posted on March 12, 2015 by Tricia Ryan, One of Thousands of Business Coaches on Noomii.
We know that there are 3 ingredients critical to achieving success. They include skills, knowledge and attitude. Attitude is by far the critical comp
“Everything you want is out there waiting for you to ask. Everything you want also wants you. But you have to take action to get it.” – Jack Canfield
We know that there are 3 ingredients critical to achieving success. They include skills, knowledge and attitude. Attitude is by far the critical component of the recipe for success accounting for 85% of the success quotient.
But what is success? It can be defined as simply as “being happy with what you have.” Merriam-Webster defines it as “the fact of getting or achieving wealth, respect, or fame.” In fact several leading individuals were quoted in Business Insider Magazine as all having very different definitions for success…
-Arianna Huffington has defined success as “To live the lives we truly want and deserve, and not just the lives we settle for, we need a Third Metric,” she says, “a third measure of success that goes beyond the two metrics of money and power, and consists of four pillars: well-being, wisdom, wonder, and giving.”
-Spiritual teacher Deepak Chopra believes success is a matter of constant growth.
-Billionaire Richard Branson believes success is about engagement. and
-Zappos CEO Tony Hsieh says “success is about living in accordance with your values.”
Brian Tracy feels you can enjoy success simply by reaching a point where you have satisfaction and contentment with your life in every respect. It is not necessarily defined by material things or accomplishments. Brian also feels that there is a distinction between success and achievement.
Achievement can be defined as: a thing done successfully, typically by effort, courage, or skill. However, achievement is different from success. It refers to ‘getting what you want.’ Achievement requires the ability to set goals and objectives, to make plans of action, and then to implement those plans. Achievement requires that you overcome obstacles and difficulties in reaching goals that you have set for yourself.
So like our many successful leaders and mentors we have to know that both success and achievement are the starting point of attaining great accomplishment in every part of our life. The key to this success or achievement is to set goals programmed around these values. Once you program your target or desire in the subconscious your superconscious mind stimulates the power to drive and steer you to the attainment of your goals. It certainly helps to define these goals and attach action steps and strategies to match them. In doing so you will re-inforce within the subconscious and superconscious mind your desired outcome for quicker manifestation.
So the key to success is being perfectly clear about what you want and exactly how it will look when you achieved it. To move yourself to being one of the top 3% of high performing people in the world, it is hard to believe that a pen and paper and making a list of what you want is all that is stopping you from having the life you want to have with both success and achievement in it. It also helps to look at the attitude that is supporting the manifestation as we know it is 85% of your success quotient and drive.
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