This article is intended for anyone (student, employee or entrepreneur) who wants to be successful at his/her career or life.
I’m introducing you to new philosophy I term it as F–R–A–P.
FRAP stands for,
Focus
You’ve to set your eyes firmly on your next step and tell yourself that “this is what I’ll be doing in the future” The earlier you discover your area of focus, easier it will be to gain the expertise.
Resilience
Resilience is the ability to bounce back when you fall. It’s the ability to ‘hang-in’ there without quitting till the time is right to bounce back. This is one character that differentiates people who have just tried and people who have tried and succeeded.
Adaptability
You need to adapt to the changing circumstances, changing scenario, changing environment. You should be capable of changing your strategy according to the changing circumstances.
Passion
If you’re ready to skip your favorite pastime and rather enjoy the work that you do then you can understand that’s your passion. The more you start enjoying the activity and challenge to outdo yourself that will become your passion. For some people, it might be coding complex algorithms, for someone playing Tennis or for someone to solve Sudoku.
For instance, if you want to be an entrepreneur and your goal is to build a successful organization
You must highly focus on the area where you want to build your organization. Your focus should be so intense that you should be able to spot the gap in the market and market in that gap.
If the entrepreneur is not resilient he’ll not be successful. It’s one quality he should absolutely possess. His first product release may not be liked by the potential customers, he might receive a lot of negative criticisms, if the entrepreneur is resilient enough he would not lose heart and take all that negative criticisms as a learning and incorporate required changes to come up with next successful release.
An entrepreneur must adapt to changing market requirements, changing technology and ever changing customer expectations otherwise he’ll end up with a product that nobody wants.
An entrepreneur must be passionate in what he does. He might have to wear different hats in the beginning. He is the CEO, CMO, CSO, etc…if he’s not passionate enough soon he’ll end up giving up his goal.
I hope the above FRAP philosophy would have given an idea about the qualities that are required to be sure shot successful in life or career.
I’m sharing the link to my speech at KLN college where I originally highlighted the FRAP philosophy to the students
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yB8_e5CCnJ8
Hope this helps.
Dinesh Srinivasan 