What no one tells you when you first begin working towards your dreams is that, motivation is the key to everything! Without motivation, there will be no fuel to the fire so to speak. You would have no drive to achieve everything you have ever wanted and there would be no reason to move forward. But what is motivation?

There come many moments in life when you feel like giving up on everything. You must have lost hope on your relationships, business, studies or changing habits at some point. Or it’s just that you feel hopeless about yourself because of your recent failures. You may even wish for the end to be near so that you can just close your eyes and know nothing more. Feel nothing more and be gone.

Most people say that their biggest desire is to achieve success in their careers and personal lives. But, what is success? Do you really know what it means? The definition of success is not a fixed one. It changes according to each person’s perspective. That’s why it is up to each one of us to define the concept of a successful professional, and individual, to make the necessary effort to reach these objectives.

Whatever your idea of success, know from the start that it is not possible to achieve it without hard work.

With that in mind, we researched what foremost authors, inventors, and entrepreneurs consider success to be. 

When you're looking for inspiration as you try to move up in your career or improve yourself generally, the best source, of course, is those who've achieved what you're setting out to achieve. But that doesn't only mean doing what other successful people have done—it's just as important to pay attention to what they're not doing. Successful people know to avoid time-wasting activities, morale-draining company, and generally negative ways of thinking. And when you know what not to do, too, you can focus your attention on all the forward-moving changes that will propel you in the right direction. With that in mind, we spoke with career and lifestyle experts to share the find out all the things that successful people never do. Because the don'ts are just as important as the dos.