2 Important Qualities For Success In The Business World

A successful business doesn’t just need a good foundation but also a qualified person behind the curtain. Guts and Resilience are very important qualities.  

What gives the successful ones advantage over others? Is it a magical formula? Or luck? Or a divine gift? I can guarantee that if you ask any of them, you wouldn’t get any answer related to luck or divine gift or even a magical formula.  They are admirable people, ranging from corporate gurus to internet start-up sensations to sports men.

Success is built on some certain foundational qualities and all those successful people we admire ultimately possess these qualities. Having a successful career is so much like screwing a bolt to its nuts but won’t stand firm if it lacks some necessary force.

Qualities

First Quality: Guts

The first foundational quality one must have to achieve success is having guts. Starting a business can be extremely intimidating, and if you lack the courage to face your fears and get started then success will not materialize on any level.

Having courage doesn’t mean you have no fear, everyone fears something or fear arise at some point. Men and women in whatever career field they’ve selected experience fear and must stand in the line of fire of whatever threat looms before them.

It is okay to be afraid, it is not a measure of how brave you are. Being brave requires you to control your fears and not vice versa. You swallow hard, take a deep breath and rush headlong into the fray of battle. That’s how victories are won, both on the battlefield and in the business world.

Obstacles will assuredly arise that seek to prevent you from taking your first step. It’s not the avoiding of obstacles but the facing and overcoming them that leads to victory. Obstacles cannot stop you if you have the courage to face and find a way around them. You most certainly can and will get past those obstacles and fears if you have the guts to forge ahead.

Second Quality: Not Giving Up

It is one thing to muster up the courage to take the step in a new direction, but if you don’t have the resilience to keep pressing forward through the bad times as well as the good then your journey will come to an abrupt end. Many people fail simply because they don’t stay in the game. Success comes from weathering the storm when everybody else has been swept away.

In most of the arenas of life, if you get knocked down and decide to stay down because you’re afraid, uncomfortable, intimidated or have your feelings hurt then you are not going to make any progress, much less succeed. You’ve got to pick your sore, tired and humiliated butt up off the floor and try again!

You have to keep coming back without limiting yourself to what’s immediately doable. Instead ask yourself, “What’s possible?” If you give in to the negativity of harsh and seemingly defeating experiences then you significantly limit your ability to overcome, both for that particular instance and those that follow.

Stumbling, bumbling and falling are inevitable parts of the journey. The trick is to not only get back up and learn from those mistake. Never fall twice for the same reason. You can bet your ass there’s another obstacle around the next bend and you can equally be sure that it will be different than the last. So, there’s no sense dwelling on past mistakes. Get back up, learn from the experience and move on.

Guts and the spirit of not giving up

You need the guts to start in order to succeed.

If you don’t have the guts to get moving, you won’t have the ability to reach your destination.

You need to face the fears that seek to stop you from succeeding.

When obstacles arise, find ways around them instead of being paralyzed by them.

You need the staying power of resilience to realize success.

You will undoubtedly face tough struggles and fights on your journey. Resilience is the staying power to keep you in the fight until the victory is won by helping you recover, learn valuable lessons, proceed with caution, and become more confident that you can make it to your goal.