Success means different things to different people. Regardless of how you measure or define it, you can only say that you have succeeded in life when you are in the place you aimed to be, no matter where that is.

Whoever you are today is an accumulation of your decisions yesterday. If you choose to start your journey to succeed, your future self will thank you.

However, the road to success is never an easy one. If you want to get there, check out these 10 ultimate tips to be successful and get everything you want in life.

1. Prioritize

It’s always a good thing to know what you want in life. But if you don’t prioritize, you would not know what to do first or what to let go of.

Prioritizing sets a direction and makes your goals clearer and more precise. Without priorities, you end up juggling between different tasks that sometimes don’t align with the purpose you resonate with.

2. Become disciplined more than motivated

Motivation is a surge of emotions that would vary if you encounter setbacks or obstacles. When motivation fails, discipline will save you.

Having discipline means you can act above your emotions. It’s having a set of behaviors that are ready to be executed to last you longer as you hustle.

Without discipline, you would find yourself becoming inconsistent with your tasks while relying on and waiting for the wave of motivation to strike you.

3. Work around passion

Knowing your way around what you love will significantly help you succeed. Doing what you love is one thing, but not everyone can afford that privilege.

If you work around passion, you can either learn to love what you do or figure out a way to do a job efficiently even if it isn’t what you exactly imagined yourself doing. That is, until you find a way to do what you’re really passionate about.

Entrepreneurs sometimes struggle around working a fortune around something they end up not loving. Learn to incorporate passion in a healthy way into your work and you can worry less about your drive to push through greater heights.

4. Maintain balance and harmony in your life

Maintaining balance in your everyday life is one of the most crucial things that prevent people from burnout. With balance, you can do more things and maintain a healthy relationship with yourself.

Additionally, with balance comes harmony. Harmonize the things you do and you will feel the weight of your struggles less.

Without harmony, you will find yourself jumping from one unrelated task to another, sometimes forgetting your progress on the first task which is counterproductive. Without balance, you would feel burnout or purposeless, either by working too hard or barely working.

5. Care for your health and rest if you must

Most people who aim for success often forget to check and pace themselves. They work for an insane number of hours that result in a promotion that sometimes comes with hospital bills.

You cannot work hard if you don’t care for your health. Listen to your body and rest when it tells you to. Also, check your mental health.

A little rest would not do your dreams any harm. If you’re worried about being late, ask yourself who you’re going to be late compared to. Realize that your timeline isn’t relative to anyone else’s.

6. Never stop learning

Success takes time and effort. However, you don’t have to read 60 books a year like most CEOs. You can start with one book as the first step and increase it over time.

You can also use a medium that suits your learning style such as ebooks, among others. The important thing is that you don’t stop learning something new without burning yourself out. This is because knowledge will help you adapt to this ever-evolving world.

7. Practice resiliency

Life throws us into crazy situations sometimes. If you read any successful person’s biography, you would notice how much they’ve conquered: failing companies, recession, getting fired, from which they didn’t give up.

Bouncing back after a setback will make you stronger and wiser. It prepares you for tomorrow’s challenges.

8. Practice gratitude

Success is not just one destination. Celebrating smaller milestones will help you recognize how far you’ve come.

If you practice gratitude, you would feel accomplished and would be able to set your momentum for the next destination.

9. Have fun

Many people have found themselves in a dark place after focusing so much on the work they’re doing. That’s why you should never forget to have fun.

Enjoy the process. Bad days pass and time does not come back. Make the best of it.

10. Never be afraid to fail

Many people have viewed failure as the opposite of success for a lot of years. Fortunately, it’s now being seen as an instrument towards achievement.

Anyone who ever succeeded had failures in his or her pockets. This is because you will learn more in failure than in success.

Without failure, life would not be as meaningful as it should be. You would also not grow as a person without them.

Bonus: Start being a doer

All the tips we have in this article would be useless if you don’t start doing them. You know that saying, “Not trying is worse than failing?”

Failure isn’t always avoidable, so stop overthinking it. Plan and make a safety net. Afterwards, do it. Start that company. Release that song. Take that job.

Regret comes more from not doing something than from doing it.

Take the first step

Success is a tedious process. Only the strongest ones get to survive the road to it. Don’t give up too easily. If you start applying these tips now, you might not become a CEO tomorrow, but you will move drastically closer to your dreams.