The Laws and Secrets of Success

Success Area 2 - The Three C's (Competition, Challenge and Character)

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The Three C’s and Success

Most of us avoid or dislike obstacles, but not the most successful.

Successful people realize that it is important, to quote from Joyce Meyer, to use the hardships in life to “make themselves better rather than bitter”.

This mindset is a critical difference between highly successful individuals and those less so.

Successful individuals recognize and in fact appreciate that life can be, and often is, difficult, but that this is not something to be feared or criticized but embraced.

Less successful people instead make excuses and cast blame. If only they’d gotten better breaks or not been mistreated. A victim mentality.

By contrast, successful individuals take responsibility for their lives and the results in it, and do not blame other people.

Competition

Successful people are often portrayed or considered as ruthless.

As competing withothers and taking whatever they can grab in a win-lose proposition.

You’ve heard the expressions:

“Who did you step over (or sleep with) to get to the top?”

“It’s a dog-eat dog world”

“No good deed goes unpunished”

Despite this conventional wisdom, this is not, in fact, how most successful think and act.

Far from it.

You may not be used to thinking this way about successful people, so it may sound a little surprising at first, but consider this:

Successful people realize that the real competition is actually with oneself.

Others just serve as a mirror, and a measuring stick, for us to allow us to see where we are at and improve. This is part of taking responsibility for one’s life.

And for one’s success.

Life created each of us differently. An oak tree will never be a better maple tree than a maple tree. It will never be a better bird than a bird.

But if it takes advantage of its surroundings to the maximum, plays well the cards it is dealt (or can acquire), then it can be the best oak tree that it is capable of being.