Hacks For Being Successful?

 Yes, there are but they are extremely hard to do and not everyone call pull it off.

1. Raising your standards: Easiest hack to be successful is to raise your standards. If you are a businessman and sell a product, don’t just build a mediocre product instead but the best one you can. If you are a student don’t just do the bare minimum to score well, instead focus on understanding the concept better than anyone else. Raising standards is the real overnight success hack. The reason why most people will fail at this is because raising your standards requires a lot of effort.
2. Being your own brutal critique: We all yearn for appreciation, we like it when people praise us. On the contrary we hate it when people point at our faults even if they are correct. Why? because we all love to love in a false bubble which gives us a false sense of happiness. Yes, you should not care about what people think about you but you can always use their feedback to improve ourselves. If one really needs to be successful we must always critique our own actions and behaviors. Be honest, say that my life sucks, everyone is doing better than me, I am just being lazy. However that does not mean you should make yourself feel bad, NO! we are not using self shaming here. Instead use this to actually act upon things. Thinking that you are fat and shaming yourself wont do anything, say you are fat and use all that emotion to stop eating junk and start going to the gym.
3. Don’t act like a common man because you are not one: I know a lot of people will be offended and triggered after reading this point but please read the entire thing before coming to a conclusion. Here is the thing, there is no such thing as a common man, it’s a myth. None of us is common, not you, not me. Every one of us is all the same biologically. A common man does not mean a person who is not well off financially, NO! All of us are uncommon and have something in us that makes us different from someone else, so stop counting yourself in the common man’s category because there is no such thing. You are mentally as capable as any other human being on this planet. Thinking that you are a common man only limits your potential to achieve more. No certification agency has given you a certificate of being a common man, hence don’t label yourself as the same.
4. Consistency over intensity: If you plan to build muscle in the gym, never aim for intensity. If you work out intensely today, tomorrow you would be sore and won’t feel like lifting weights. What you should aim for instead is consistency, aim to maintain a long workout streak, workout less but workout for days in a row to build that consistent streak. Working out intensely is a lot easier, anyone can workout for 1–2 hours, bust their ass for one day. However consistently going to the gym for 30 days is hard to pull off. Same applies to other areas of your life as well. It’s easy to pull an all nighter before an exam, however it's hard to study regularly for an entire semester.
5. Stay mentally far away from unsuccessful people: Be it your friends or a family member, if they are unsuccessful, stay far away from them, not physically but mentally. By this I don’t mean you should get away from them or stop talking to them, but stay away from them mentally and don’t let their thoughts influence you. I don’t mean to say this because they are bad people, however people who are consistently unsuccessful develop certain ways of thinking which are unhealthy and you don’t want to be influenced by them. For example, if you be around a person who has failed at diets and is still overweight, he might influence you into thinking that diet or exercise are just scams and they don’t help reduce weight. The best way to deal with such people is inspire them and lead them by example, follow a diet and exercise plan, show them the progress and help them break the myths which hold them back. In short, influence them in a positive way.
6. Give up short term happiness: Activities that take us closer to success never feel good in the moment, going out consistently to the gym does not feel as good as going in the moment however you would be happy after months or years of working out when you finally look at your body in the mirror. Studying after attending a long day of college feels terrible to do in the moment however you will be pleased on the day exam results are declared. On the contrary, skipping gym and laying around in bed playing video games sounds fun in the moment however if you do that for months, you will regret later because now you have a belly. Coming back from college, watching Netflix feels really good in the moment however you will regret your deeds when the exam results come out. Learning to code is frustrating in the beginning but it will put a smile on your face when you launch your first app. If you wish to achieve success that gives you long term happiness then you must give up on things which make you happy in the short term.
7. Expect setbacks and problems: They only time when you don’t have problems in your life is when you do nothing. However, if you wish to achieve success in any domain then setbacks and problems are to be expected. The bigger your goals are the bigger and more setbacks you will have. You will have them even after you are successful, the funny thing is that when you become a success, these problems and setbacks grow by a large amount. For example, if your goal was to build a startup that does a million dollars in revenue a month. You faced all the problems and setbacks and finally you are making a million a month in revenue, however that does not mean all your problems will disappear, in fact you will have even more of them.
8. Don’t do it if the above points make you feel depressed: Success has a different definition for everyone. Success and happiness aren’t the same thing, if after reading above points you think that they are depressing and you can't do it then it's absolutely fine and it does not mean that you are not destined for success. Nobody can judge you and advise you what's the best for you except you. If you just wish to be happy all the time, then it's completely fine and there is nothing to be ashamed of it. For you, success might mean living a peaceful life with no stress then you should, by all means, aim for it and not let other people dictate what success is for you. For some, success would mean getting highly educated, for someone else it might mean career or money, for others it might be romance, for someone else it might be friends and family. For someone it might be a combination of 50% career and 50% friends and family, The trick is to define your own definition of success.

-Saurav Sharma