5. Giving Up
Successful people experience failures along the way, and they find the strength of character to drop what isn’t working and move on to the next project until they achieve success. However, they don’t give up on the larger goal of being a success and they don’t let the failures stop them from working to achieve that success.
Just because a project is likely to succeed in the end, that does not mean it will run smoothly. Successful projects probably require even more resilience and determination than the unsuccessful ones because there is no walking away from them. Somehow the achiever needs to find the right balance of single-minded purposefulness and determination. They also need the tactical skill to drop or adapt projects that aren’t working.
It almost sounds like a game of poker. Dropping cards and picking others up, always with a strategy and an end-view in mind always. After all, the winning hand might be quite different from the initial cards. And indeed, achievers often enjoy the thrill of the challenge. As in poker, a lot of skill and experience are necessary to make the right choices against a background of chance. You also must be willing to fold when necessary.
Most successful people will have an amusing anecdote about the strange and surprising circumstances where happenstance led them to a successful end. While the story seems to show the person blown about like a leaf in the wind, achievers maintain a steely eye on the end goal. Through all the ups and downs, they make sure they stay open to whatever fortune or success may come their way.