How to Achieve Success principles of success!!!

Success involves creating a desired future first in your mind and secondly in your actions.
Individual success can only be achieved through taking responsibility for your vision, goals, plans, actions, progress and achievements.

Collective success is best achieved when others share your vision, commit to the goals, know the plan, choose actions appropriately, monitor progress regularly, review achievements and celebrate together.

Success requires a combination of visionary, creative, systematic, practical, decisive and reflective thinking.

When you achieve a measure of success you should pause, celebrate, enjoy and then take stock and move on.

Many successful people make their plans using a step-by-step approach to getting things done. The most successful leaders use planning loops, to back up their vision with action. There are a lot of planning loops around. You just have to find one you like. Each other loop was biased towards something like leadership, performance management, training, strategic planning or change management models & tools.

The Success Cycle makes use of the best of the rest and one unique feature missing from all others, the concept of balance. Balance holds the whole cycle together. Every step on the cycle is balanced by an opposite step. Each pair of opposite steps are equally important and must be considered and planned for at the same time. This saying was the inspiration for idea of balance. Vision without action is merely a dream., Action without vision just passes the time., Vision with action can change the world.

Success means achieving your vision and goals that you have set for yourself or, used the Success Cycle for both individual and collective efforts to achieve. There are stages of success, each stage in the Success Cycle is essential to achieving sustainable success. The stages should be followed in sequence.

The first stage is to create a vision. A vision is an aspirational and imagined future that is some way off. It is over the horizon, not yet touchable. You don’t know how you will achieve it but it is highly desirable and worthy of your best efforts.
Goals act as milestones towards your ultimate vision. It define the outcomes and achievements in smaller, more manageable and tangible, chunks than the vision. They are measurable. Goals also require deadlines and resources.

Plans define who will do what by when. They outline the methods you will use to achieve the goals and indicate the resources needed to be successful. Plans may be quite logical and structured.
Action is carrying out the plans, managing priorities and resources to focus your energies on your goals and your specific plans. It is doing what is right and what adds value. It may be about deciding what are not to do.

Monitoring progress requires you to collect and process data about your activities and what you deliver. This in turn requires you to have systems and processes established, and a disciplined approach to using them, also requires action to correct any deviation from plan.. The secret here is to collect only the data that is necessary to monitor progress against your plan and to measure success.