Superstar Qualities

Superstar Qualities

Great works are performed not by strength but by perseverance. --Samuel Johnson

Perseverance is a great element of success. If you only knock long enough and loud enough at the gate, you are sure to wake up somebody. --Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

As we come to the final chapter of this book, here are some personal thoughts that the authors have on achieving and enjoying success.

First up is Jose Silva.

Develop superstar qualities to

bring you more success in life

by Jose Silva

What makes a champion? What are some of the star qualities you see in highly successful people?

What goes through the mind of a superstar during training? While practicing? In competition when success or failure hangs in the balance?

There are several characteristics that are common to the stars in athletics, as well as those in business, industry, science, art, and other endeavors.

Champions are persistent and dedicated. They are able to control and direct their physical and their mental energies. And when they make decisions, they are more often right than wrong.

The Most Important Quality

The most important quality I've observed is persistence.

You can achieve any kind of goal you set for yourself if you make it the most important thing in your life and sacrifice everything else for it.

There are people who do that. But that is not necessarily what I'd call success. Achieving a single limited goal at the expense of everything else is usually not worthy of a person's whole life.

To achieve success, you not only reach your goal, but you are also able to take advantage of the benefits that come along with your accomplishment.

To achieve success in life takes as much persistence as reaching a single goal. Perhaps more.

To reach your goals, you must make them more important than anything else. Any time something else comes up that seems important, you should analyze it at your level and put it in its proper perspective: Second to your primary goal.

Sometimes things distract you from your primary goal. At that time it is important to relax, enter the alpha level and analyze it. If you want to be a champion, you have to stick to your major goal, whatever it is. All else must be secondary, regardless how attractive it may be at the time.

Achieving success