The path to success is a vigorous one and one that not everyone can take. It is those that make the deliberate decision to be resilient till they get to their destination that will actually get there and sustain it.
The definition of success is subjective, yet it is generally accepted that the road to it can not happen by accident—if you ask those that have now attained success, actually. To be successful, one needs to be "process-oriented" and not "result-oriented." This is because the former is the condiment for sustaining the resilience needed to actually achieve the outcome of the latter.
People need to recognize that the path to success can only really be walked by those who look towards building in the "process." You cannot attain sustainable success if you do not conceptualize and internalize the imperative necessity to suppress the proclitivityto be after results. It is in the process of building in the "process" that you achieve the result you desire.
The more one thinks of success as a "deliberate" journey, the closer you are to attaining sustainable success. It would reflect more on your mindset, eventually, in your actions as well.
Hmm, beautiful, success is deliberate it doesn't happen by chance at all, I totally agree with you on that Joe. The problem with most of us is we just want to live a life of luck, if it happens, good but if it doesn't, it's my luck and that's a very wrong approach to getting success.
We have to know what we want and work hard to achieve it and not just sit around and wait for miracles to happen.