The 10 steps on the path to success. 

These are the 10 steps you need to take when aiming for success in life.
1. Written goals: The first step on the path to success is writing down what you want over the short-term and long-term in all areas of your life: health, relationships, finances, spiritually and in your career.

2. Model Success: To achieve your goals you need models of people who have already done what you want to do. Look at how they achieved it, what they did, what they read, the risks they took, and the systems they used. You must look for the principles and the context of their accomplishments.
3. Count the Cost: Understand what it will take to achieve your goals, the time, work, energy, effort, education, and risk. Know the cost before you begin. Before you go any farther you must be willing to pay the price for the success you want.

4. Create a System: You need a systematic process that moves you closer to your goals each day. What do you need to do every day to be just a little closer to your goal? What should you read? Who should you study? What should you learn? How can you grow yourself into who you need to be? How can you grow your business, career, connections, work, or project in some way no matter how small.

5. Work Hard: Each day you must do the needed work to move yourself toward your goals. This is the most difficult part that ends most people’s journey to their own goals. Work is what separates goals from just wishes, hopes, and dreams. Work is putting in the effort to take the actions needed to move closer and closer to achievement each day.
6. Work Smart: Work alone is not enough, it must be working at the right things that matter. You need a feedback loop that allows you to see what moves you closer to your goals, what doesn’t, and what wastes your time and energy. You must track your progress and analytics and see the work that is meaningful.

7. Quantified Data: You need to study your competitors for what worked for them, their biggest successes and failures and the data behind them. In no time in history has more data been available to show what does and doesn’t work in any field or industry,
8. Mindset: A positive mind and attitude can be an edge. Negativity can be a drain on your energy and ensure failure. If you don’t believe in yourself and your goal who else ever will?

9. Quality and Value: In whatever you do you must create and deliver quality and value to be successful. You must be giving more to your customers, audience, students, or in your relationships than you are taking from or costing them.

10. Perseverance: Quitting ensures failure, trying longer increases the probability of success. If you are on the right track then pursuing your goals and not stopping will continue to rise your probability of success until it reaches 100% one day.