10 Principles to Make Big on Success in Business

by Nousheen Mukhtar

This article by Nousheen Mukhtar shares insights into the healthy mindset and habits that make a business owner successful. Nousheen Mukhtar is a serial entrepreneur, 7 times founder of different ventures. She currently runs Impact Events and Media and Nousheen Marketing Management. She began her career as a writer in 2009 and turned into an entrepreneurs on the basis of her talent and expertise by 2012. Ever since, her journey has been replete with inspiring experiences. The best part is that she loves sharing it all to ensure the paths to success are well-lit for others.

Success is not simply a matter of luck. It is not incidental or accidental. People do not become millionaire just by accident. Although, the conventional beliefs about success and success in business, especially, are a lot closer to perceptions rooted in incidental, accidental or luck based, I strongly believe everybody may become successful in business if they have a blueprint ready. In this article I will be discussing ten principles to make you successful, so that, you may have an instant recipe to brew your success independently. And Claim It!

If you want to be successful in business (as this article speaks of creating business success), you must follow the following ten principles.

Principle 1: Master or Victim

I know many of you would feel it is wrong to say that I am the master of my life or at least the financial life, but trust me you need to have maximum steering control to become successful. If you have the victim mindset, you will keep blaming people, incidents, circumstances, and hundreds of other factors. But if you understand that it is you who controls most of the financial decisions in your life, you will own it. It is more a matter of attitude than anything else. If you do not control your financial life and consciously create life for yourself, you will not succeed. Take responsibility. You need to have what the wise man says, “I create my life rather than life happens to me” attitude. You make the choices that lead to better or worse outcomes. You invest in places and people that can benefit you or not. You own your life. When you are steering it, you will certainly be conscious of the direction and the destination.

Principle 2: Focus on Winning

All those who have had great success in life were not the ones fearing loss. They focused differently. Yes, you’ve got me, they focused on winning. They knew their goals, their objectives, they assembled the resources, they set the intention and they continued their way towards success. In order to win big, you have to aim big, and not just once. Intention, focus, consistency, frequency, and determination – this is needed.

Principle 3: Commitment

What do you want the most? How do you intend to get it? How badly you want it? You need total commitment to make success possible. Many people believe that their passion and their enthusiasm for running a business will see them through everything and they will eventually succeed. That is not true. Another group of businessowners believe, if they just have some good people working alongside them, business will boom. That is another misconception. Yes passion matters, yes enthusiasm is attractive, yes you need a good team but that is not all. If you are not fully committed to your business and to make it successful you will not achieve your success goal. You have to have an unwavering desire to grow it and achieve success.

Principle 4: Think Big

Achievers think big, and they think far and beyond the obvious. Strategy comes from thinking, at least this is what I believe. If you are thinking big, aiming high, you will end up mediocre. Let us look at the way different trainers aim. Some aim for a bunch of people in the room for their coaching sessions, while others want hundreds. I know that you have already understood, it is simple and obvious. A bunch of people will pay some sum for the training but the numbers for hundreds will generate handsome ROI. Hence, the point, if you want to win big, think big and aim higher.

Principle 5: Know in your GUT & BELIEVE

Faith is a big thing for high achievers, for winners and the successful business owners. If you believe you deserve to win and with full faith you invest yourself, your resources and strategy, success is inevitable. What is your natural bent of mind when it comes to faith in yourself and your capabilities? If you know the answer to this clearly, you know how to succeed.

Principle 6: Focus on Opportunities

Challenges are opportunities disguised. To people with a positive mindset and winner attitude, problems and obstacles are ways to exercise new solutions and find new paths. Opportunities are a favorite with success. Capitalize on every challenge. Whining about difficulties will make you not just dull but you will not find new ways to succeed. Do not think that should things not work out, it would be disastrous. Instead, be bold to face the challenge straight in the face and use your talents, creativity, resources and go-getter approach to get the success you want. If you really want to be consistently successful, hunt opportunities and challenges. Consider it an exercise.

Principle 7: Action beats Inaction

Pro-active is the word? You have thought of a product idea, it is fantastic, you have designed it, decided its value and have thought of a marketing plan but if you are too inactive to pilot test it and then bring to the consumers, how would you be successful with it? Procrastination is not for achievers. Action beats inaction. Timely action with a strategy behind always nails it. People who are very passionate about their business are also very active in taking strides. It is about mileage in business as well, the more you run, the farther you are likely to run. Let me say it this way, the more effectively you run, the farther you will go. I have seen the most active of the entrepreneurs to be quite successful.

Principle 8: Achievers associate with Positive Successful People

Jim Rohn, is often quoted for saying, “You are an average of the five people you spend the most time with”. I do not fully agree with Rohn because I am certainly different from majority of the people around me and 5 is very limited, but what I do with the influence they could exercise on me is following: Ignore the bad and absorb the best practices. What brings in negativity and is likely to end in loss of value, resources, time and reputation is considered bad. What bring in positivity, leads to growth, brings in value, builds up resources and rewards investment of time and reputation is good. I believe, if you want to be successful, choose your company wisely. Invest your time in the company of winners and leaders, you will know your path towards a thriving future as the conversation will be different. Observing mistakes of not so successful people will help you know what does not work.

Principle 9: Promote, Promote, Promote

Successful people do not hesitate to promote themselves. If you are good, people must know. If you do not educate them about you, they will live in ignorance. Stand out to rise! As a branding expert, I have advised hundreds of entrepreneurs and business owners to capitalize on every opportunity to educate people about themselves and the value they bring. It is a major key to success. Promoting is simply educating strategically. Don’t do it, and you will fade in the unknown.

Principle 10: Do it from the Heart

I strongly believe in the power of love. You give love, you receive it back manifolds. Universe blesses those who love. Love your business, love your family, love your growth plans, love the people you serve and serve it from the heart. This is the ultimate mantra of success. I have never seen anyone lose the game here.