How to Plot Your Path to Success

​When you get a job with another company, you usually get an employee handbook, or at least an employment contract, outlining what’s expected of you and what the company will provide in return. There are a set of rules you need to follow and those rules are simple and straightforward. Unfortunately, the same cannot be said of starting your own business.

​Sure, there are business success books that will tell you some of the steps you need to follow to launch and run a successful business, but no book can tell you everything you need to know because each business is different. What worked for one entrepreneur might not work for you because you are two different people running different businesses. So, while you can take some inspiration from strategies that worked for someone else, don’t expect to be able to replicate their success just by doing what they did. You have to find out what works for you, and that’s often the hardest part of being an entrepreneur.

​In this blog post we’re going to go over some strategies you can use to plot your own path to success, regardless of what anyone else is doing.

​Perfect Your Goal-Setting Systems

​Before you can plot your path to success, you need to define what success means to you. Only once you define your end goal can you start plotting a path to take you from where you are now to where you want to be.

​Understand That The Path to Success Is Not a Straight Line

Many people set out to do something and get frustrated when they don’t get the results they want immediately, or at least soon after they start out on their path to success. This is largely the fault of the myth of the “overnight success” and stories we tend to hear about people who “hit it big”, but if you take a closer look at what those people really had to go through to achieve success, you’ll soon see the path is rarely, if ever, a straight line.

​We like the idea of the “overnight success” because it makes for a good story. All those late nights wondering if anyone will buy our products/services aren’t nearly as interesting, but behind every story of overnight success is a reality of long days of hard work and sleepless nights.

​So don’t get discouraged when you don’t immediately find a pot of gold, or when you stumble into a roadblock on your path to success. Recognize that it’s all part of the process and come up with a way to work around that roadblock.

​Sometimes we can’t see our own path to success because we’re too close to it, in which case it can help to have a coach helping you plot your path and guiding you through the steps. If you’re tired of trying to figure it all out for yourself, it might be time to schedule a FREE clarity call to see if coaching is right for you.