Success is a bullshit label. Highly relative and subjective, a favorable outcome through the eye of the beholder – you see what you want to see. 

Candidly, we all search some empirical form of it even if it’s just a proxy for recognition. If we analize all people who achieved great things by any measure, what they all share is an underlying behavior pattern that carried them to unequivocal acknowledgement – consistent impact and intensity.

Progress is determined by the Impact of what you do, not by the amount of what you do nor its complexity. Impact becomes the ultimate inquisitive metric. Judging the significance of any action, company or even person through marked effects in the world of others.

How you decide to do things with the time you are allotted can have as much impact in the outcome as what you decide to do. Time passes a constant speed, 1 second per second – this is true for you, your colleagues and competitors. Ultimately you can think of Intensity as a representation of any measure of strength and passion, it’s how you make that time count. 

And while single blocks of concrete laid out randomly along the shoreline make no difference, when properly stacked together they can divert the course of the biggest river. Consistent delivery compounds into greatness – sporadic achievements yield more ego than progress.

Lastly and perhaps more important than all this self-realized mambo jambo, none of these traits are unique or somehow genetically exclusive to some. The people you look up to that can be labeled as “successful” didn’t get there by copying others or emulating behaviors, they got there by working fucking hard.

Consistently driving impact through intensity is not a recipe for success, but it will help, if you work fucking hard.