What is success to you?  Your definition is likely unique to you, just as its definition to your neighbor is unique to them.  What leads to success though?

The 4 P's:  Passion, Planning, Positioning, and Persistence.  All four carry a tremendous amount of weight on your path to success, and not one of them can function on its own.  You must have all four playing, integrating and operation in harmony.

This week we'll start with, Passion, and its effect on your definition of success.

Quite simply passion is the first critical key to your success.  Passion is the fire in your belly.  When your knocked down or feeling out of sorts, Passion is exactly the ingredient that will fuel your fire to get back in the game and keep persisting.  

Passion is a deep-seated love that's so strong you simply want to do more and more.  The challenge is most people don't work their passion.  They've settled for a life less than what they are destined for.  The status quo has taken over, and they basically are going through the motions day-after-day.

If you really want to be successful in life, on your terms, then you must find and work your passion.  What you'll discover is that your job is no longer a job.  It now is like playing everyday.  What would you rather do; work at a job or play everyday?

The answer is obvious, and by the way, you'll find the most successful people work and play within their passion.  Success isn't all about money, but when you play everyday and are paid to do so, isn't that a huge part of success?

Passion is the first critical element of the 4 P's to your success.  Find it, discover it and nurture it.  Life will reward you accordingly.  This leads too Planning, which I'll cover in detail next week.

There's a small line delineating success and failure, and often times success can be reached by simply following through and pushing through thresholds.  More often, though it tends to be a combination of violating one of the top ten reasons or a combination of them below.

There are tons of reasons for failure, and this list is in no way the end-all, be-all list.  They are however, the top 10 reasons why I see people failing more than any other collection of reasons.

1. Never followed through completely - you can't win if you stop short of the finish line.
2. You're afraid to pressure and demand of others what you really must demand of yourself.
3. Lack of belief and conviction in yourself, your company and your value offerings.
4. Not willing to accept full responsibility for every area of your life.
5. Poor judgement when sizing up what's truly required to succeed.
6. Having realistic expectations.  You set yourself up to be demotivated when you do this.
7. Failing to plan every area of your life equally.  You can't be a little pregnant.  Go all in or not at all.
8. Not a strong enough positive mental attitude.  Stop letting others negative crap inside you.
9. Misjudging hurdles and not planning for the inevitable.
10. Failing to constantly up your game through seminars, reading and learning.

You can succeed if you're willing to put the work in.  After working with thousands of professionals each year, from all walks of life, I'd have to be an idiot not to recognize why a small percentage succeed and most fail.  The reasons are obvious, and this list easily covers overwhelmingly why most fail.

Read this list, study this list, and look deep inside of yourself to find which of these 10 are causing you to not get what you want.

If you really want something in life, you absolutely must commit to going for it 1000%.  You must live, eat, sleep, breath, be willing to die to get what you want.  Watch this video and enjoy!