Pursue Excellence Rather Than Focusing on Success Is the Best Way To Succeed Without Stress

Focus your efforts on what you can control.

"If you focus on success, you'll have stress. But if you pursue excellence, success will be guaranteed."

-Deepak Chopra

You want to succeed. You have very ambitious goals that you want to achieve in your lifetime. The sooner the better. To achieve your goals, you have defined plans and strategies that you follow to the letter daily.

However, success is slow in coming. You realize that the overnight successes you see in the media are just smoke and mirrors.

Seeing other people succeed in obtaining the results you are aiming for much more quickly than you begin to discourage you. You feel certain stress. You wonder if your turn will ever come.

After all, if these people have managed to achieve in only one year the success you've been aiming for more than 5 years, your chances of success seem very slim.

Added to this stress is social pressure. People around you keep asking you where you are in achieving your goals. At first, you answer honestly, but with time, you almost start to feel ashamed.

This downward spiral handicaps you more than anything else, but you don't know how to get out of it.

If you think about it, there is a solution to your problem. This solution is a major shift in your worldview. Instead of focusing solely on success, you need to focus all your effects on the pursuit of excellence in everything you do.

This advice seems trivial, but you will find that very few people actually do it.

Too obsessed with the will to succeed, most people put the cart before the horse. They focus only on their goals without doing what is really necessary for their daily lives.

The best thing to do is to start with your goal and break down all the steps that will help you achieve it. Then you should aim for excellence in each of those steps. Having this breakdown in small intermediate steps will boost your motivation like never before.

With each success, you will continue to keep the motivation to be excellent. You can control the level of excellence you want to achieve. Not when success will come. So focus only on what you can control: you and your efforts.

Instead of wasting time looking at what others are doing, you will focus on your next step to achieve. Step by step, you'll get closer to your big goal without even realizing it. The one that gives meaning to everything you do.

A goal that gives purpose to your life is so big that you can't use it every day to stay motivated. Why not? Simply because it seems too far away.

When you climb a mountain, it's not the summit you should be looking at, but the next intermediate stop. All your efforts must be concentrated on reaching this first point. Once you have reached this point, you will move on to the next. This way, you will be able to give it your all every time.

Final Thoughts

Pursuing excellence every day is like climbing a mountain.

By following this approach, your success will be guaranteed. Better yet, you will not feel the stress that ruins your life and penalizes you in the achievement of your goals. So now you know the approach you need to follow to lead a more fulfilling life: it's the pursuit of excellence.

Success will come as a positive consequence of the excellence that you will have tried to achieve daily over a long period of time.