The #1 Secret of Success

Posted on March 19, 2015 by G Christopher Wright, One of Thousands of Spirituality Coaches on Noomii.

The #1 Secret of Success

One can find thousands of gimmicks and thousands of life coaches with techniques and skills that promise a certain ease of success. One can employ behavior modification, neurolinguistic programming, positive thinking, this, that, and the other. However, in the end, there is one thing that is more important than all the rest. This most important thing is not intelligence, not personal background, not support from others, and certainly not gimmicks or tricks. The single most important secret to success is to begin – with whatever one has and wherever one is – towards the chosen goal and to never stop until that goal is attained. It is along the path in pursuit of this goal that we learn techniques and skills, but unless we continue to pursue the goal we will never discover which techniques work and which don’t. We may pass through challenges, and trials, joys and triumphs, but if we pursue something attainable by human beings and continue to pursue it, we are sure to gain so much more than the goal we are after. Why will we attain more than the goal we are after? We attain so much more than the goal because we have irreversibly bound ourselves to a goal and cannot help but grow in self-knowledge. Somewhere along the way we may even decide – legitimately decide – that we don’t actually want that goal. If that happens, then we have indeed grown in self-knowledge, grown in skill and fortitude, and we will be better prepared to pursue the next goal that we desire.

There really is no such thing as failure. It is true that we might stop short of our goal, but even if we do stop short it is we who have stopped, and we have stopped by choice, so it is not failure but rather a choice to stop. Of course, there can be many reasons why we stop short of our goal. We can blame fear, impossibility, circumstances, lack of support, financial difficulties. All these explanations may very well be real to us, but none of them need stop us from pursuing our goal. If we truly want it we re-think, re-tool, and re-align ourselves with what we want.

In sum, the value of pursuing a goal – though the goal itself may be of value – is the person who is built in the process of pursuing the goal. That person is never built if we don’t actually bind ourselves to a goal and pursue it until it is reached or until we are changed to such a degree that we find that our very desires have changed and so our goals change.

So pick your passion. This passion may be your work, it may be a hobby, it may be something that you have yet to muster the courage to pursue, whatever the case, pick your passion. Pick your passion and pursue it until it is attained or transformed and in the process you will find that you have been transformed.