By Books Author Denise Turney

If you live in a modern society, you’ll likely experience a mental money attachment when you think about success. Taking the leap from where you are to the success you want might seem easy if you already have lots of disposable income. On the other hand, if money feels tight for you, there could be work ahead if you want to move from where you are to where you want to be.

Important Success Tools

But here’s the thing. Whether you already have what you believe you need to achieve success from a material perspective or not, to maintain or enlarge success, you’ll need similar (if not the same) tools. It doesn’t matter if you have material resources “at your fingertips now” or not. For instance, to achieve, maintain and grow success, you’ll need:

• Inner vision
• Passion or strong emotion
• Strong desire to achieve the goal (this cannot be overstated – you better really want what you say you want)
• Purpose
• Willingness to continue to learn
• Curiosity
• Commitment
• Determination

In addition to the above, you need a willingness to get started. Believe it or not, at some level, you do have access to what you need to achieve success. However, if you merely research, reflect, wish, pray and hope, you might end up only waiting for the success you say you want to magically show up in your life, seemingly out of nowhere.

If You Want Success, Avoid Self-Rejection

Choose this approach and you might end up feeling frustrated, abandoned — overlooked. Hence, one of the greatest acts that you could take is to go after the good that you want and to, time and again, prove to yourself that you are capable of achieving success, cared for, helped and enough.

Visualize success, actually see yourself experiencing what you believe will cause you to feel ever increasing joy, love and peace. Make this a daily practice. Do it until you are convinced that you’re going to get what you want because you feel a strong attraction to the experience.

Avoid self-rejection or telling yourself reasons why you won’t get what you want. Instead, strengthen your inner vision and desire by thinking of reasons why you “will” receive the success. Then, become curious and consider the “reason” or the “purpose” for why you want what you do.

Curiosity Matters When It Comes to Success

For example, what good could come from books that you write? As a start and depending on what you write, readers of your books could renew their commitment to a worthy project. Readers could also move from feeling dejected to feeling motivated and encouraged. Learning how to perform a task, improve their parenting skills, become a better communicator, repair an appliance, grow their own food, etc. are other rewards that readers could gain from reading books that you write.

Using that example, one purpose for writing for you could be to teach or to educate. Discovering the purpose that’s connected to your success is important. After you make this discovery, you could shift from wanting to achieve your goal to becoming committed to achieving your goal. See a lot of value in the purpose and you could become absolutely determined to achieve success.

This determination can fuel you forward when you feel like quitting. Combined with passion, strong determination can keep you open to change, making you more flexible. You might also have a growing willingness to continue to learn.

Willingness to continue to learn is a must, especially after you achieve success. After all, you’ll need to keep learning to build upon your success. It’s this continual growth that may well prove to be among your biggest and most rewarding successes. But first, you have to get started.