Top 3 Will Smith Tips To Achieve Your Goals

At first glance, Will Smith just seems like a down to earth family man who enjoys life and has an easy smile.  But his impressive success is testament to a deep tenacity which has shot him to extraordinary achievement in many fields.  On closer examination, past his easy smile and infectious laugh, you’ll find some valuable insights into meeting your own goals.

But Will Smith does not spout a bunch of pre-canned psycho-babble, the likes of which you’ll hear ad nauseum on talk shows and on book shelves.  His flavor of success advice stems from down to earth lessons learned in the real world.  Traditional wisdom from his grandmother, married with the wisom gleaned on his path to success, results in a down to earth approach to achieving our success.

3 Will Smith Principles of Success

Decide to Make a Choice

Don’t accept the common convention of what is possible.  Figure out what you want to be, what you want to do and how you can get there.  If you can believe in that interpretation of reality as possible, it will be.  Dax Moy, a particularly effective success writer, calls this “suspending reality” in his e-book, The Magic Hundred success program.

Will Smith once said, “You are who you choose to be.”  And therein lies the magic of his approach.  If you decide on mediocrity, you will live a life full of mediocrity.  If you make a choice for greatness, you will achieve greatness.  How you act is a result of how you think and what you believe.

Transform Setbacks Into Opportunity

An important lesson Will Smith learned from his grandmother is that in life you must turn lemons into lemonade.  Accept life’s apparent setbacks as opportunities to make something better.  Smith refers to this as being an alchemist and turning lead into gold.  Take situations that may seem negative at first and seek out the opportunities for growth that lie hidden within them.

But if you want to recognize those opportunities, you have to accept for your life.  You must own up to that outside factors are not to blame for all your troubles.  In taking responsibility, you are opening the door do self-examination.  This engenders awareness and the wherewithal to see and act on opportunity.

Put Your Nose To The Grindstone

This is the crown jewel of Smith’s success blueprint.  Not withstanding our tireless wish for rapid results, the time tested secret to consistent success is to get your hands dirty through hard work.  This piece of advice may seem to conflict with our first point.  However, it is actually the natural extension of it.  Once you choose who you want to be, you have to begin taking sustained steps towards that reality. 

There is no magical magnetism which will realign the universe to your will.  But you can gradually coax reality to your vision by consistently taking small actions towards your goals.  Just like the constant flow of a trickling stream can, with time, alter an entire landscape.  Your constant action steps will alter the course of your life and affect everything around you.


“If you stay ready, you ain’t gotta get ready.”

This is the perfect Will Smith quote to close things off with.  Make A Choice, Make Lemonade and Work Hard; if you do, you’ll be ready when it counts.  Often that is the biggest difference between people who achieve their dreams and those who don't.  Successful people are on the lookout for opportunities, recognize them, and have the will to answer the call when opportunity knocks.

There’s nothing fancy here.  Only reminders.  That’s what is so great about Will Smith’s approach to success.  There's no fancy or trendy tricks.  It’s about age old traditional values.  Overnight success is a ten-year affair that requires hard work and drive.  Choosing to take action daily is the start of that journey.  And every small action, each tiny detail begins to accumulate into something exponentially more profound than what we might imagine.