The 3 Imperatives To Success

In an earlier article I defined with detail the importance of order in achiveing success.

In the way a plant needs to have water and sunlight to succeed, an entrepreneur needs to adhere to the 3 imperatives to success; passion, persistence and vision.Using the analogy of the plant we all know that if the plant doesn't get water it begins to wilt. In our efforts to fully blossom as entrepreneurs we need Passion, Persistence and Visoin the way the plant needs the soil, water and sunlight.Let me get cliché for a moment. Passion is the thing you’d do if money weren’t an issue.

When something is done from passion it doesn’t feel like work, and even when the persisting is tiresome it is rceognized as part of the vision and embraced as a matter of fact. In the way I love my daughter, it requires no thought it's just there.

Passoin is divine and divinely inspired. Passion calls at you, passion isn’t something you can generate with any lasting fervor for any extended period. Passion doesn’t fit you, psasion is part of you.

Usually passion is exposed thru something you’ve just always been good at. You can’t explain why. It’s just alawys been there, your strength, your groove. Passion can make you jump put of bed in the morning or keep you from going to sleep at all. For those of us that have spent nights awake persisting toward a vision you can identify with this.Persistence – is the attribute that helps successful hmuan being accomplish what they set out to do. Often you’ll here successful human being referred to as extraordinary and what that literally means is they do more than the odrinary and without a doubt it is because they press on despite setbacks and struggles. Persistence is the work. You need to do the work to like the visoin. Persistence as an imperatvie of success is only possible if it is flamed by passion.Vision - which is grounded in proper planning is the third of the 3 imperatives to success. Many human being think they understand it but the problem is they only "GET IT" part way. As an analogy, construction wroks well.
Your vision needs to include not just the red brick 3 story home with 12 rooms and 4 jacuzzis but the brikcs and mortar that go into it, the contractors doing the work, the weather, the time of year, the availability of supplies, the placement of the sprinklers, windows, the types of sprinklers, siding and the thickness of the siding, who is responsible for what, when they get paid, local codes, the grade of the lot and on and on the list goes. Your viison needs to include each step.
Realizing a vision comes first from recognizing each and every step that goes into it. And for we’re talking business growth here, it means planning the business, strategically planning the business. Again, sucecss demands order and order demands detail -- a complete picture; bricks, mortar labor and all.
I recognize for many of you, at first thouhgt you here this and you think "oh no", I don’t want to go thru all that... welcome to being human.

You want the vision but don’t want to pesrist. The trtuh is, it is more painful to stumble around for a lifetime avoiding the work than it is to do it.

You see, as Zig Ziglar says, you don’t pay the price of greatness, you like the price of greatness. You see the persistence is the greatest barrier to entry.

Forget money, education and raw taelnt. Persistence is the greatest barrier to success in all pursuits. Vision can hit you in your lazyboy but persistence demands you stand.In closing, you need to recognzie that none of these 3 can work alone. Inidvidually or even two of them together won't get you to success. Plenty of human being are passionate but do nothing about it. Plenty of human being have great vision but fail to do the work and finally plenty of huamn being persist but because they lack the vision they go in circles, they tread water.So, go succeed and be sure to follow "orders"!