What determines if one is successful or not?
Well, my research shows it is all in how one thinks and approaches situations.
Are you one to actively go all in or do you wade in the water, testing it first?
Here is a list of what successful people do daily:
1. Focus on What Matters
There are only 24 hours in a day, but of those hours, where are you spending your time? Successful people know what has to happen day in and day out. It’s getting the necessary work done before watching viral YouTube videos.
2. They Don’t Have Endless To-Do Lists
To-Do Lists exist but they include only the top projects that need worked on today. Usually completing three key items a day will mean that the day has been productive. If you complete those, then you can continue on to the other projects. Looking at an infinite To-Do list is not how people think. Make the tasks at hand manageable and they will get completed.
3. Bouncing Off Ideas with Other People
Have a great idea that you want to launch? Well, do not keep it a secret. Start sharing that idea with others in your industry, friends, strangers, people at the coffee shop. See what their feedback to the idea is. Maybe they will point out something that you have never thought of before and help make your idea soar.
4. They Use the 80/20 Rule
The Pareto Principle is that 80% of your results come from 20% of your efforts. Identify that 20% and focus on it.
5. Learning to Quiet the Mind
Meditation is key with successful people. It’s taking time out whether it be 5 minutes or 30 minutes to clear your mind and set the day off on the right foot. We are inundated with information and your mind must have a way to cut through all of the noise.
6. Having an Optimistic Outlook
Stop thinking of all the ways that your home business will not work and believe in the one that will work. When you think positively, the outcome will have a better possibility of being successful. Negative thoughts just destroy your mind and everything that you work on.
7. They’re Not Afraid to be Unconventional
Popular thinking does not always lead to the expected result. It takes being unconventional and risks to get the result that you want. If the conventional thought does not lead to your intended result, maybe it is time to start doing things differently.
8. They Follow Through
Successful people always follow through. If you say that you are going to do something, do it. People will recognize this, and you will rise above the crowd.
9. They Collaborate with Others
Have a great project that you want to launch? Perhaps partnering with someone to make it even better and have a greater reach will make a world of difference. Many successful people realize that their project can use an added creative spark from others. Network Marketing is all about this.
10. They Know They Can do It
If you think you can, then it is possible. It all starts with believing in yourself. If you want to be a NY Times Best Selling Author, you first have to believe that you are a writer. Believing is key to your success.
11. They Develop Their Thoughts
That great idea may not happen overnight. It takes willingness and time to let it develop. It’s not a one day project that leads to that successful launch, but it takes patience in making sure that the idea is fully developed and that you have put in 100% effort to make it your best.
12. They’re Not Afraid to be Different
If you don’t come from an entrepreneurial background, don’t let that get in your way. In a home business and people you know say it will never work….. just show them it will work and use their negativity to drive you.
13. They Stand for What They Believe in No Matter What
Successful people are willing to make a stand for what they believe in. You’re not always going to have an army of people supporting you, but it takes a willingness to stand up for your ideas and beliefs no matter what the situation.
14. They Go All In
No, we are not playing a game of poker here but instead, the game of life. You must be willing to risk it all at times to do what you believe in. Will it work every time? No. However, you must be willing to learn from what happened. You never know if it will work or not unless you try it.
15. They Learn from Their Failures
Whether something worked or not, you must analyze the situation afterwards. What went well? What did not? What can be improved? Successful people always step back from projects after it is said and done, look at the results and learn from their failures so it does not happen again.
The above, from my research, is what successful people do to become successful. Please remember that most multi millionaires have failed many times before making it….and lot’s of them even lost everything, then fought back to make it. Lot’s have made it – then lost it – then made it again!
One video that say’s it well. Arnold has 6 rules:
All the best ……… Rob Howells
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