Success is a By-Product: Focus on the Process

By: Exclusivia Team

Many times we will look people who are achieving success with admiration because from the outside they seem to make it look easy. As if they have a code of some sort that the rest of the world doesn’t have. The very best performers and leaders are obsessed with a commitment to the process. They fully understand that success is just a by-product to consistently focusing on doing the right things everyday.

Take a look at one of the greatest coaches of all time: John Wooden basketball coach from UCLA. He won 10 NCAA Championships in 11 years and is widely considered the greatest coach of all time. Yet if you analyze the philosophies you’ll observe there were no secrets, no shortcuts, and most importantly an obsessive focus and commitment to teaching the fundamentals everyday. Coach Wooden’s pyramid of excellence serves as great teaching tool and testament to his commitment to focus on the process. He always understood that if he and the players focused on doing the principles in the pyramid, his team would have success as a by-product.

You can apply this logic to everything in your personal and professional life. The best business executives, coaches, athletes, writers, investors, parents, friends, and leaders all have an incredible commitment to processes and principles. Success isn’t fast and there will be difficulties or setbacks; however, when you remain fully committed to high quality processes success will eventually come as a product of doing the right things.