The Nature of Success

By: jwilder, 5/13/2025

The key to living a successful life is to have a deep understanding of the nature of success.

If you cultivate a success nature, then you will always believe, think, and act in ways that are in harmony with the nature of success.

The nature of success is:

What you Believe.
What you Love.
What you Think.
What you know.
What you Do.
Who you serve.
How you Respond.
Where you are.
Who you are.

1. What You Believe

The nature of success begins with a belief system. It is our first job to craft a set of beliefs that align with success. The most fundamental belief is your purpose. Your purpose is something you craft. It should be general and true to who you are. This is important because we all must learn who we are. We learn by doing and paying attention. Secondly, you must have a dream. Your dream is how you fulfill your purpose. Your dream is something you want to accomplish for you and is also beneficial for others. This can take time to refine. You must believe you have a purpose and that you can accomplish your dreams. It is also important to believe that your purpose and dream will reveal what you need to learn along the way. You must trust that your dream is your teacher. Living your purpose and taking action on your dream each day is the key to living a meaningful life. A meaningful life is a successful life. Enjoy the journey of living your dreams. Discover and adopt as many empowering beliefs as possible. What you believe is the foundation for your dream.

2. What You Love

Your heart is the place of continuous power. Your mind is where you reason, but your heart is where you love. True success understands the nature of the heart. It’s natural to do what you love. It’s natural to devote yourself to something you care about. Make no mistake, it is still work, but it’s satisfying work. Love is powerful. People willingly make sacrifices for love, but it doesn’t feel like a sacrifice. When your purpose and your dream are aligned with what you love you tap into a continuous flow of power. It is a gentle power. It is not forceful. But it is always available. Without love, it takes more energy to get what you want. Effort without love is only temporary. In the long term it is usually fueled by negative sources of power such as greed, anger, and competition. You eventually run out of power to continue, or your life ends up in ruin. What benefit is it to gain the world but lose your soul? Choose love and live a life full of meaning. Love never fails.

3. What You Think

The quality of your life reflects the quality of your thoughts.

Our minds are always thinking. It’s impossible to not think (try it). Thoughts and ideas, good or bad, always stream from our minds. No person is immune to negative or distracting thoughts. The person most swayed by the wind of an undisciplined mind is the person with no purpose or direction. Their attention is reactive and their direction ever changing. When there is no purpose or direction there is a void, and the mind will fill this void with something, and it’s usually not good.

Therefore, guard your thoughts carefully. Reject unproductive thoughts and focus only on what is good. Make your thoughts productive by aligning them with your purpose and your dream. This is the transforming process of adapting to the Nature of Success. The purposeful mind, the mind aligned with the Nature of Success, is a productive mind. It is your greatest ally. It will always move in the direction of your dreams and to ever increasing life.

More: conscious and subconscious level.

4. What You Know

Knowledge in action is your unique value. Knowledge comes from self learning, experiences, and deliberate practice. There are three things you must know. These three things are worthy of study for the rest of your life. The three things are (1) know your dream, (2) know the nature of success, and (3) know who you are. If you focus on your dream and the nature of success, you will learn who you are.

Your dream is your teacher. It will show you what you need to know. This truth is priceless. Get this in your heart and believe it with conviction. The only way to truly know your dream is to live it. Taking action on your dream every day is the best thing you can do. Take the best action that advances your dream. You will have many challenges. Each challenge shows you what you need to learn about the mindset and practices of success. As you live your dream you will have to make decisions and choices. These are personal; no one else can make them. This is where you learn about yourself: your preferences, style, aesthetic, character, and values.

There are many things to learn about the nature of success. Keep expanding what you know. Build expertise for long-term mastery. Learn the principles, practices, and mindset of success. Understand that your knowledge will compound and become more effective. Treat knowledge as gold; gain it, use it, retain it, and build upon it.

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James Wilder

I write about success principles and practices that help you take action and live your dreams!