The 3 Cs of Success: How to Create, Design, and Live an Unforgettable Life

“Ancestral math” shows twelve generations, 4,094 of your ancestors, came together from all over the world to create you… Your life isn’t the result of luck, chance or coincidence. Your life has purpose. It has value and meaning. 

Regardless of your roots, your resources, or your lack thereof, there are simple and powerful steps you can take today to redesign your future, live an unforgettable life, and be the one to make a difference in this world. One practice that has helped me on my own journey to be the one is focusing on the three Cs of success: confidence, commitment, and competence.

The three Cs are deeply connected; it’s impossible to have one without the others. As you take the steps to elevate yourself in one C area, it will have a direct impact on the other two.

THE FIRST C: CONFIDENCE

The foundation of your success is believing in yourself. Here are three things you can do to create new confidence and belief in yourself.

Step 1: Be courageous.

When you lack belief and confidence, lean into courage. Courage builds confidence. Courage is nothing more than taking action every day, no matter how scared, nervous, intimidated or unsure you are. You can have courage even if you don’t have confidence, and you build confidence by being courageous.

Step 2: Shift your attitude.

The single best thing about attitude is that you don’t need any external force to shift or change it. Pinpoint one attitude shift that you can make right now that will guide you closer to your goals. Then make the shift. Can you show up with better energy? Can you be a better listener? Can you radiate positivity? Can you take ownership?

Step 3: Take physical action.

Something that seems so obvious but something we often miss… All you need to do is take that first physical step forward. The world’s tallest mountains are climbed one step at a time. The greatest books are written one page at a time. When you take that first step forward, it will give you confidence to take the next step. Then the next step. And the next.

THE SECOND C: COMMITMENT

Research suggests that 92% of people don’t stick to their commitments. If you want to be the top 8%, go all-in on your goals. Get committed and stay committed.

Step 1: Trust the process.

Every real-life success story follows a process: dream, struggle, victory. You can’t achieve a “10” dream with a “3” commitment. If you have a big dream, you are signing yourself up for a struggle that is equal to or commensurate with your dream. So when your commitment is put to the test, trust the process and remember you are paying a price for a bigger victory.

Step 2: Never quit on a bad day.

It’s not that you should never quit; it’s that you should never quit on a bad day. The darkest hour is the one right before the dawn. Just as the day resets when the sun begins to rise, allow yourself to reset after dark days; don’t quit seconds before your brightest breakthrough.

Step 3: Persist until you succeed.

The word “until” won’t just make your success possible – it will make your success inevitable. Most people persist until things get hard. The bottom line is they persist until they quit. Don’t be that person. Grow until you succeed. Adapt until you succeed. Persist until you succeed. 

THE THIRD C: COMPETENCE

Talent comes naturally. Skill, on the other hand, is acquired. Skills can be learned, taught, and duplicated. You have the ability to learn and develop skills that can take you far beyond what your talent can do alone. Build skill above your talent to create competence.

Step 1: Schedule time for skill development.

Don’t just put skill development time on the to-do list; schedule untouchable time for it. If you buy the book, read it. If you listen to the podcast, apply the best practices. You block time out for plenty of other things in life; commit time for skill development too.

Step 2: Seek feedback.

Build skill and create competence by seeking feedback from people around you. Leaders run to the information; they ask the questions. They don’t wait for the information to find them. To be better, you need to know your baseline, so seek honest feedback. This is how you go from good to great.

Step 3: Prepare with excellence.

There is power in preparation. You can’t wing it and still win. When you prepare, you leave nothing to chance. 

Together, these three Cs will help to propel you forward, getting you closer to your goals and dreams to create, design, and live an unforgettable life.

How can you “be the one” for those in your future when your present feels like it’s at “zero”?

Like your ancestors, you make choices that will affect not only you but all others in your path, today, tomorrow, and for years to come. In his debut book, author and speaker Justin Prince shares a roadmap, an instruction manual, which lays out simple but powerful steps that you can take—today—to reset your course and aim yourself toward success. Click here to get your copy today.

About the author

Justin Prince is a global entrepreneur who has built 5 multimillion-dollar businesses that have generated more than 2 billion dollars in revenue, an acclaimed keynote speaker who has shared stages around the world with icons like John C. Maxwell, Jamie Kern Lima, and Ed Mylett, and a heart-centered husband and proud father of four.

Justin’s parents divorced when he was 12, he has no college education, and he began his professional career working construction, flipping pizzas, and selling animated Bible videos from a mall kiosk. In fact, his very first business venture left him below-zero financially, and his first sliver of success came while raising his kids in a 1-room loft above his in-laws’ garage.

Justin’s unexpected rise, proven personal development strategies, and tailored success systems have moved and motivated millions of people to create, design, and live an unforgettable life. In his latest book, Be the One, Justin shares the precise tools, habits, and action steps to help any reader do the same. With a focus on practical and actionable advice, this book serves as an easy-to-follow instruction manual for anyone to, as Justin puts it, “be the one.”