Create Your Life Series

CYLS 003: 10 Pillars of Defining and Achieving Your Success

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Episode Summary

This episode of Create Your Life Series is all about finding, creating, and achieving your success. The host, Kevin Y Brown, has 10 pillars that can help you achieve and be exactly where you want to be. We redefine what it means to be successful and take active steps to reach those goals. It won’t happen overnight, but it will happen if you do it the right way.

 

Are you ready to define your criteria for success? Tune into the episode and find out now. 

 

Kevin Y Brown

Kevin is a seasoned multi-media executive who is passionate about Africa’s digital future. As an award winning entrepreneur, podcast producer (over 1,000 episodes across different genres with over 30 million downloads across clients) and tech veteran, Kevin is the Chief Content officer and Head of Strategy at Afripods leading their multi-country strategy and product vision.

Kevin is the host of the Create Your Life Series podcast and has been featured or spoken in Forbes, Black Enterprise, Essence, Podcast Movement, Podcast Sessions, Ted X, Sirius XM, Inc. magazine and many more…

 

Insights From the Episode

  • Success is a habit that’s created consistently and with clarity
  • Break your goals into smaller tasks, and see how easily you’re able to achieve them
  • Always be willing to learn and adapt 

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    Quotes From the Show

    • “Comparison is actually a defeating perspective because it doesn’t help you to reach your maximum potential or reach maximum results”  - Kevin Y Brown, Create Your Life Series, #003
    • “Success is also an accomplishment of an aim or purpose. In order to accomplish your aim or purpose, it needs to be aligned with you”  - Kevin Y Brown, Create Your Life Series, #003 
    • “Your core values will drive you to stay consistent when you meet challenges on the journey to your goal” - Kevin Y Brown, Create Your Life Series, #003 
    • “In order for us to reach our goals, we have to be an everyday renegade. That means we get up and we walk away or break away from the habits that we used to have in order to become bigger and better at what we’re doing” - Kevin Y Brown, Create Your Life Series, #003
    • “You’re going to have to start taking on the habits, and you have to start preparing your mind mentally to be that person” - Kevin Y Brown, Create Your Life Series, #003 
    • “A vision board is any sort of board on which you can display images of whatever you want to be, do, or have in your life” - Kevin Y Brown, Create Your Life Series, #003 
    • “It takes ten years to become an overnight success. These people are literally putting in the work and always talking about the journey of how they got there” - Kevin Y Brown, Create Your Life Series, #003 
    • “I took my one-year goals and I broke them down into quarters. Then, from quarters, I broke them into months. And then, for months, I broke it down into weeks. So, now I know what I need to accomplish every single week, in order to accomplish my goal for the month and in order to accomplish my goal for the quarter to accomplish my goal for the year” - Kevin Y Brown, Create Your Life Series, #003 
    • “Change is constant, but growth is optional” - Kevin Y Brown, Create Your Life Series, #003 
    • “Remember, if you ever want to be successful, look at what everyone else is doing. And do the opposite” - Kevin Y Brown, Create Your Life Series, #003 

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      10 Pillars of Defining and Achieving Your Success

      1. Be yourself
      2. Clarity
      3. Create strong habits
      4. Do research
      5. Plan backwards
      6. Create SMART goals
      7. Consistency
      8. Curious & teachable
      9. Having thick skin
      10. Be on time

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        Resources Mentioned

        • 6 Months to 6 Figures | Peter Voogd

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          Favourite Quote

          • “Success is a peace of mind which is a direct result of self-satisfaction in knowing you did your best to become the best you’re capable of being” - John Wooden
            • “To be early is to be on time, to be on time is to be late, to be late is to be forgotten” - Elin Hilderbrand

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