How to Be an Achiever and What Factors Affect Achievement?

“What you get by achieving your goals is not as important as what you become by achieving your goals,'' the American poet and philosopher Henry David Thoreau said.

You must know the things that make you an achiever and determine the factors that affect your achievement. This will be the subject of our article, so tune in with us in the next few lines.

How to Be an Achiever?

There are many things that can enable you to become an achiever. Here are some of them:

1. Allocating the morning period for matters that require greater focus

When you wake up in the morning and after you finish your personal tasks, try to prioritize the tasks you need to complete or that you want to do, and then complete them in that order.

After you finish the very important things, you will be able to enjoy the other tasks that you love, unlike people who discover that they have accomplished nothing because they did not organize their priorities, so the day passes without completing what is required of them.

2. Focusing on one task at a time

With the intention of saving time rather than wasting it, many people attempt to complete multiple tasks at once. Nevertheless, they are unaware that no matter how hard they try, they will become distracted and end up finishing one task at the expense of the other.

They will be forced to start over. Therefore, in order to be an achiever, it is very important to adhere to the following rule: “Focus on completing one task at a time.”

3. Learning how to be an organized person

One of the major factors that prevents you from being an achiever and erodes your motivation to complete your tasks is a lack of organization. Lack of organization makes you feel that the work required of you is beyond your capacity and resources and that you cannot accomplish it.

Over time, tasks accumulate, anxiety and panic strike, and confusion sets in. Fortunately, the solution is very simple, which is to “learn how to be an organized person.” If you think that it is difficult, you can learn the skill of time management.

What Are the Factors That Affect Achievement?

When any of us performs a task or action, our achievement motivation is affected by many factors. Here are some of these factors:

1. Achievement motivation

We have different levels of motivation to achieve as well as motivation to avoid frustration and failure. The difference between these two is that:

• The first motivation makes us complete our tasks diligently and enthusiastically, pursuing achievement.
• The second motivation makes us carry out the required tasks carefully to avoid expected failure. The motivation to avoid failure is greater than the motivation to achieve the desired achievement. It is worth noting here that this motivation is acquired as a result of our repeated failure experiences and setting unrealistic goals.

However, if expectations of success or failure are possible, the motivation for carrying out these tasks depends primarily on our prior experiences and is unrelated to the challenging nature of carrying them out.

2. Environment and social upbringing

The environment in which we grow up and live—whether our homes, our neighborhoods, our schools, or the neighbors next door—all play a vital role in motivating us to achieve. This is what Rosen and Dandrad confirm, saying, “Achievement motivation is positively related to social upbringing practices, such as training for achievement.

A study we conducted to ascertain the connection between social pressures placed on kids and their levels of motivation for achievement revealed that there is a link between high levels of motivation for achievement in both genders and the encouragement and demands of achievement, as well as a link between the mother's instillation of independence and the high levels of motivation for achievement in females."

3. Religious factors

Instilling the proper religious values in the children's souls from a young age and ensuring that they perform religious rituals correctly and soundly has a vital role in enhancing their motivation for achievement in the future.

Famous Quotes that Motivate Achievement

1. “Champions keep playing until they get it right.” - Billie Jean King
2. “Potential is not an endpoint but a capacity to grow and learn.” - Eileen Kennedy Moore
3. “Small daily improvements over time lead to stunning results.” - Robin Sharma
4. “Everything can be perfect for those who achieve all their goals with vigor.” - John Wooden
5. “Show me a person who has never made a mistake and I'll show you someone who has never achieved much.” - Joan Collins
6. “All our dreams can come true if we have the courage to pursue them.” - Walt Disney
7. “When your desires are strong enough, you will appear to possess superhuman powers to achieve them.” - Napoleon Hill
8. “Competition is a by-product of productive work, not its goal. A creative man is motivated by the desire to achieve, not by the desire to beat others.” - Ayn Rand
9. “Optimism is the faith that leads to achievement. Nothing can be done without hope and confidence.” - Helen Keller
10. “I must have no fear of failure. It was my fear of failure that first kept me from attempting the Master Work.” - Paulo Coelho

Thus, we have presented the factors that affect achievement and how you can be an achiever.