Start with sitting down and deciding what success is to you. What would it take for your to feel you are successful. Is it that you want financial independence? Would you rather a successful marriage and family. Do you want to be popular at work, home, in your community? What about having it all? These are the things you will need to define in order to know what success means to you. This will be your main goal.

The only thing that you will want to keep in mind is that all goals need to be feasible. They need to be reachable in the fact that they are possible. Finally the goal needs to be one that you can reach by using several smaller goals to get there.

Then when you know what your goal of success is, you will need to break that overall goal down into several smaller goals. These are the goals that are attainable in a shorter amount of time, and that will ultimately lead you to the larger overall goal.

So if your goal is to run your own law practice, then depending on where you are in life, you will need to make smaller goals, or steps on your list that will lead to that success.

As you break down the overall larger goal, you will need to make the smaller goals attainable in a way that they can be finished within specific amounts of time. That way you will feel that you are reaching those goals that will lead to the overall success.

As you reach the goals you are working on, take a little time to reward yourself. This will help keep you motivated toward the next goal you will have. This can be small reward for yourself that can be very inexpensive but very personal to your needs. That way you feel that emotional boost of gratification about meeting an important step in your life.

When you are setting up and following through with your goals, be aware that if success is something to you that will take many years to complete, that your goals may change. Therefore if you are not flexible about your overall growth and goals, you will find yourself unmotivated and stagnant in your movements.
Following these steps and tips will make it easier for you to reach your overall goal of success in the life you want. Keep in mind though that it will be very important to maintain consistency with your motivation and small steps in order to get to where you want to go. This is because you cannot reach your goal with out starting out taking those steps and then to continue taking those steps. Each step you take no matter how small is one more step in the right direction of success.