Chances are, you are addicted to success, which is why you are curious to know about the habits of successful people.
Well, first of All, you should know that success is not a skill, its a habit.
And habits take time, when you repeat something over and over then only you can make it your habit.
95% of everything you do is the result of your habit – aris totle
So it’s clear, if you want to be successful you need to developed success habits if you don’t! then no matter how talented you are, you will never succeed.
And secondly, define your own meaning of success. Because success has different definitions for everyone, for example, I will consider myself successful, when I will go on a world tour( hell yeah).
Your success will be different from mine, you may want to earn 10k dollars a month, and consider yourself a successful person, so define your own version of success.
Also, successful people are busy in their own life, They don’t care about what others are doing, they are not easily approachable.
Now let’s see what are the most important habits of successful people, which differentiates a successful person.
9 Important habits of successful people
1) Successful people take 100% responsibility for their life
Successful people take the responsibility for their life, they don’t blame the government, economy, or people. They just take responsibility for everything, that happens in their life.
This is the most unique habit of successful and rich people, why?
Let’s know what dan lock says about this!
I failed at 13 businesses, I was frustrated, I was blaming everything except myself!
then I met a mentor, he asked me! what’s not working? I shouted nothing is working, bad government, worst economy, poor people! nothing is working for me.
so he gave me golden advice, unless you take responsibility, you will never be successful in life.
This advice saved his life, from a bankrupt to a multi-million dollar businessman.
The reason it’s so important is, that if you don’t take responsibility for what’s happening with your life, you will just sit there and do nothing.
When you know that you are responsible, you are the only one who can change his life, then no one can stop you from being successful.
Here is what happens you take responsibility for your life completely.
- You will find what’s wrong.
- You won’t blame anyone else but yourself.
- This will compel you to change yourself.
When you are responsible, you will realize that problem is in me, inside my head. so instead of changing the world, you will start to change yourself.
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2) Successful people are resilient
I got rejected 30 times, they are all sorry now – jack ma
In the list of habits of successful people, the second most important habit is, they are resilient! in other words, they handle failures.
Successful people know that life is not going to be straightforward, they will face ups and downs! so they are already prepared for what’s ahead.
We fail at things, everyone fails, in fact, the most successful people of the world have been failed the most amount of times.
Learning from failures is the most important habit of highly successful people, here is how jackma explains his way to success.
- He applied for the job 30 times and he was rejected.
- For KFC 24 people applied only he was rejected
- 5 people applied for police, again only he was rejected
So that’s the story of china’s richest person, he was rejected so many times, but he didn’t accept him as a loser!
If you look at failures as an experience, one more way of not doing things, you will not be afraid of failures anymore, because the more you fail, the better you become.
As Robert Kiyosaki says
Some times we win some times We learn.
3) Successful people take risks
Taking risks has always been a habit of successful and rich people. in fact, the highest success equals the biggest riks.
This leads us to the concept, that they are not afraid of failures, they don’t want sure things, they ignore conformity. because you can never confirm any idea without taking risks.
Elon Musk is one of the examples here, he always takes risks, his SpaceX launch was absolutely insane.
His ideas were rejected by Neil Armstrong, who is considered to be an American hero, Who was an expert in this field, and the fun fact, Elon musk was inspired by him.
Neil Armstrong’s words about him “you don’t know what you don’t know” didn’t change his mind. in fact these words fueled him more to be successful.
In an interview he was asked to answer Neil Armstrong question, he just smiled and said,
No one knows what they don’t know – Elon musk
He failed two times in his first launch, but still, he didn’t give up, now SpaceX is worth 2 Billion dollars.
This is the difference between rich and poor
The difference between successful and unsuccessful people is one thing, taking action!
The common misconception is that people think rich guys are smart and they have ideas, and poor guys are dumb with no ideas.
That’s not true, in fact, poor people have a lot of ideas, but they lack confidence, here are 3 reasons poor people don’t succeed,
- They have an idea, but they don’t apply it
- Because they are afraid of failure
- They are afraid of what people will think about them if they fail
- They only want a win-win situation
Unsuccessful people want god to show them in the dream that their idea will be successful, they don’t want to take any risk, they just want to follow the safe route.
There’s an old IQ test that was nine dots and you had to draw five lines with a pencil, within these nine dots without lifting the pencil. The only way to do it was, to go outside the box, so don’t be afraid to go outside the box “ danzel washington
4) Successful people know exactly what they want
You might have heard, clarity is the king.
Successful people are clear about what they want, they know exactly what it is, that they want from themselves.
This is what napoleon hill talks about in his book, Think and grow rich, where he emphasizes clarity,
There is one quality that one must possess to win, and that is definiteness of purpose, the knowledge of what one wants, and a burning desire to possess it. People who are constantly striving to achieve something meaningful in life crave clarity.
Successful people are 100% clear about their goals, this clarity helps them focus on their goals.
What does it mean to be clear?
When you are setting a goal, you should be clear enough, I mean there is a difference between, I will be rich, and I will earn 10k dollars a month after a year.
Clarity is a habit of success, successful people are clear, which allows them to work strategically, and smartly. they know the exact deadline for their goals, which compels them to work harder.
If you don’t clearly define your goals,
- You won’t truly know about yourself
- What strengths and weaknesses you have?
- You won’t be consistent
- You will try to be someone else rather than being yourself
Don’t try to have unspecific goals, it’s dangerous, you will try to fit in something which you can’t, and ultimately you will find it harder to hold on.
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5) Successful people visualize their dreams
At the time when i had no job, nothing. i was still able to feel like it was, i have been feeling like a ufc champoin since i arrived here. conor mcGregor( ufc champoin)
Visualization is one of the habits of successful people, which makes them addicted to success.
This is called the law of attraction when you visualize your dreams, you feel it, you know how it looks like.
Visualization is a technique of thinking about your dreams, accepting as if you have achieved them. when you think about your dreams all the time, you know what happens? you are emotionally attaching yourself to your dreams.
Visualization helps you create an addiction to success, here is how it works
- You visualize your dreams
- You are emotionally connected to your dreams
- It creates a memory in your subconscious mind
- You become obsessed with your dreams
Our subconscious mind is way more powerful than conscious, once it catches something and marks it as an important task, you will become unstoppable.
The only way to do this is through visualization because our mind does not understand logic or word. it only understands emotions and feelings.
6) Successful people solve problems
Successful people invent things by solving problems. most of the time it’s their own problem, which they solve and then bring it to the market.
Youtube has the same story, hardly some people know that youtube was a dating site at first! then later it was changed to youtube.
So how did youtube start? well, Javed Karim( one of the youtube creators) wanted to watch videos of a music concert, but he couldn’t find the video anywhere on the internet.
This is where he thought, that if we allow people to upload their videos to our site, we will do much better since then youtube started.
So that tells us, if we want to be successful we need to solve problems, and here is how successful people do it.
- They find a pain problem of people
- Offer a real-world solution
- Then they sell the solution of the problem as a product
Successful people solve problems, this is one of the daily habits of successful people, they look for the problems, identify them, and solve them, to add value in the lives of people.
This differentiates the two, successful and unsuccessful people. the unsuccessful people live just for themselves, they just want to get a paycheck and live their lives.
While successful people contribute to the world, they provide value to other’s lives, it’s not just about them, it’s about the whole world.
7) They wake up early
I wake up at 4:00 am take breakfast ,goto gym, and then i go to work, i workout twice before everyone wakes up – Dwaine the Rock Jhonson
There is a reason successful people wake up early, they goto work while others are stills sleeping.
Biologist Christoph Randler carried out the research, the questions were, at what time do you feel energetic and motivated?
In this survey 367 students were involved, the students who woke up early said that they are more motivated when they wake up early in the morning.
Professor handler researches show that, people who wake up early,
- Have more chances to do better in life,
- Are proactive,
- And see greater success in life.
People who wake up early are happier, and that’s why they can perform better. sleeping late at night leeds to negative thoughts, and negative thoughts won’t produce positive results.
The logical reason why the morning habit of successful people will make you successful
When you wake up early in the morning at 4:00 am, it’s obvious that you have a lot of time.
You can prepare yourself, before going to school or the office. you can take exercise, which will help you boost your mood.
Secondly, it’s so calm early in the morning, there is no noise! so you can focus better on your work.
8) They work on self-Improvement
Successful people also look for areas to improve, they never stop at learning and improving.
The more you learn, the more you earn – warren buffet
Rich people know a secret, which is called marginal improvement, they know, by improving a little more will enhance their chances of being successful.
Every successful person on the earth is obsessed with self-improvement, why? well, because they know if they don’t improve, someone else will take their position.
Us Navy, William McRaven spoke remarkable words in his speech, this is in fact the best ever speech we have heard! he said,
If you want to change the world, start off by making with your bed.
Having it done will give you a small sense of pride, and it will encourage you to do another task, and then another task.
By the end of the day, you will have accomplished many things. making the bed will also reinforce the fact, those little things in life matter.
If you can’t do the little things right, you will never be able to do the big things.
Self-improvement does not mean to do an intense workout, or take long hours of meditation, or watch hours and hours of self-help videos.
You can start with little things because they matter! once you value little things, you will know how to do big things in life.
9) They make daily goals
A habit of successful people, they can manage their time better than anyone.
They are experts in time management, they have a lot of tasks to do, but still, they got enough time to do them, so how do they manage their time? well, the answer is by setting daily goals.
You will never change your life, untill you change something you do daily – jhon C Maxwell
When you set your daily goals, what happens? Actually, you are telling your mind that i am ready for it.
And you have already set your priorities, what I am gonna do first? what is the most important thing? you will not mix things up, you will stop doing things that don’t matter.
Final thoughts
There a lot of habits of successful people, but these are the most common which i have shared,.
Well, now I just wanna summarize the difference between successful and unsuccessful people.
Habits of successful people
They take responsibility for their lives, they know that they are the only ones who can change their lives.
When they have to do something, they create a plan, they just don’t put themselves into something without calculation.
They don’t want sure things, because they know it, there is nothing for sure, you have to take risks.
They set highly specific goals, and work hard to achieve it, and if they fail, they learn from it.
Habits of unsuccessful people
They blame the government, people, economy, and the whole world for their failure.
They create a huge plan, but when it comes to taking action, they start to procrastinate.
Their goals are too wide and general, they want to be rich but they don’t know what will make them rich.
They want everything to be perfect, they are afraid of taking risks, and failures, which is why they stay poor.
That’s it
That’s really the difference between successful and unsuccessful people.
Which one of these habits do you think is more important than anyone?
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