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It doesn’t matter your endeavor; starting a successful business, building a house, cleaning the garage, winning a football game, running a successful military operation, or yes, getting out of debt. There are 4 keys to success. They are the same for anything you might be attempting.

1 - Plan For Success – You’ve got to at least have a plan. It doesn’t have to be the best plan. It doesn’t even have to consider every eventuality. But you’ve got to at least have one. It should also be written down somewhere. If it’s just rattling around in the old noggin’, sorry, it doesn’t count. Having a plan, however rudimentary it may be, will force you to see things you might otherwise miss, and to pick up problems early, before they become insurmountable. It will also make you look at different alternatives to achieve your objective.

2 – Initiate the plan – You’ve got to actually get off your fat butt and set the plan into motion. The world is full of people who come up with great ideas, even ideas that could change the world for the better, or make them wealthy. Many of those people are still living in a van, down by the river, because that idea in their heads remained just that;an idea in their heads.

3 – Focus on your objective – It’s easy in this crazy world in which we live to let the multitude of distractions get in the way. You can’t let yourself get distracted. I’ve said it in other posts; treat every task like a military operation. Focus on the objective until it’s accomplished.

4 – Don’t whimp out. You can’t quit. Ever. You may have to refine what you’re doing. You may even have to rethink things completely, but you can’t quit. There are millions of dejected quitters that stopped before they reached their goal. Many were oh, so close. If you fail once, get back on the frickin’ horse, Tex! The world is also full of extremely successful people with multiple failures in their background. Even Donald Trump, the most successful real estate investor in the world, has had his down periods. One of his companies even declared bankruptcy. He didn’t, however, stick his head in a noose and give up. The key is to treat failures as a learning experience and not to repeat them. Find a way to succeed

These 4 keys to success will serve you well in anything you’re attempting. Just attempt something, please.