The majority of people presently have a very narrow-minded, simplistic and linear view of success…

This collective perception of success mainly is the result of the current materialistic-consumer cult that is predominantly endorsed by the civilized and capitalistic inspired western world, which encourages and promote the avoidance of failure as the “perfect” way to achieve success.

This is a very sad and unfortunate state of affairs, because the above generally accepted view of success, ultimately damage and damned individuals to follow a Wild Horse-career path and life, well camouflaged as an illusion of success and delusion of prosperity. Thus, to break this self-destructive and emotional suffocating view of success, and to follow an Oryx-career path and life - driven by self-determination, self-development and growth - implies that our understanding of success should be extended, adapted and tweaked to incorporate the bigger success-dynamics picture.

It is important to realize that success and failure, are two equal sides of the same performance coin and the one just isn't possible without the other. As a matter of fact, success isn't at all possible without a balanced synchronicity with its counterpart, failure. Nor is failure possible, without success synchronicity. This success & failure synchronicity is the launching platform from which we can successfully learn, develop, grow, expand our horizons and excel in our personal and/or professional life. Therefore…

• success contains the seed of failure and
• failure contains the seed of success

…which - for example - can be illustrated as follows…

1. A personal expectation to read leads to reading failure, as a result of an inability to recognize the scribble patterns.
2. This failure prompt a process of learning to recognize the patterns and master the alphabet.
3. Successful recognition of letters, but failure to recognize and understand letter patterns.
4. The learning process continue to master letter combinations (i.e. words) and their meaning (i.e. connections to reality).
5. Successful recognition of words and understanding of their meaning.
6. Reading success as the outcome of a couple of much needed reading failures.

The above performance-preparation cycle works well and has been applied successfully for decades. Regrettably though, as a result of a narrow collective view and perspective of success, we mainly try to avoid failure in order to ensure our success, and because of that we negate our dreams, scale down our expectations and lower our performance standards and - gradually - success becomes much scarier than failure. When that happens we have successfully established a Wild Horse-way of life and fail miserably at following an Oryx-way of life.

At AltanaESP we promoted and encourage the following view and context of success in symbiosis with anticipated performance levels…

Success is… when preparation and opportunity meets. Success is dependent on preparation, and without preparation there is sure to be failure. Failure is when lack of preparation meets reality.

• To be what we are, and to become what we are capable of becoming, is the only end of a successful life. ~ Baruch Spinoza
• Success is a by-product of productive work, not its goal. A creative man is motivated by the desire to achieve, not by the desire to beat the competition. ~ Ayn Rand
• The secret of success is constancy of purpose. ~ Benjamin Disraeli
• Success is to be measured not so much by the position that one has reached in life, as by the obstacles that one has overcome while trying to succeed. ~ Bookert T. Washington
• Success is the result of learning what you need to learn and then by practicing it until you become proficient at it. ~ Brian Tracy
• There is only one ultimate success… to be able to spend your life in your own way. ~ Christopher Morley
• Achievement seems to be connected with action. Successful men and women keep moving. They make mistakes, but they don't quit. ~ Conrad Hilton
• Success is not measured by what you accomplish… but by the opposition you have encountered, and the courage with which you have maintained the struggle against overwhelming odds. ~ Orison Swett Marden
• They who are the most persistent, and work in the true spirit, will invariably be the most successful. ~ Samuel Smiles
• Successful individuals are not the ones who have never struggled. They are the ones who never give up, despite the struggles. ~ Sharon Jaynes
• The difference between a successful person and others is not a lack of strength, not a lack of knowledge, but rather a lack in WILL. ~ Vince Lombardi
• You can succeed if nobody else believes it, but you will never succeed if you don't believe in yourself. ~ William J.H. Boetcker
• Success is 90% preparation and only 10% perspiration. ~ Louis Pasteur
• Fortune favors the prepared mind. ~ Louis Pasteur

Being successful in our personal and professional life's isn't something magical, nor is it reserved for only a selected few. Anyone can achieve success in life, providing that we prepare ourselves to dedicatedly pursue and implement the following eight keys to success…

When any kindplugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigAny form and permutation of goal setting, regardless whether personal, professional, business, parental, educational, self-actualization, training, team goals, ..etc. are assumed and implied here. of goal setting is sourcing from and directed by well defined Objectives and Key Results, success (i.e. productively set objectives to achieve goals) are a certainty and magic - so to speak - is just around the corner. The following TED-talk delivered by John Doerr, is striking in the manner in which he integrates and merges all the success principles (as already indicated) so that success is practically possible, regardless of what is intended or to be achieved. Please note - although not reference as such - the importance, value and purpose of a sourcing vision, mission, value and legacy statements for ultimate success.