Here are 10 of the most common traits of successful people
1. Successful people get out of bed in the morning. I have been lucky enough to know many very successful people in my life. The one thing that separates them from everyone else is that they get up each morning ready to accomplish something. They don’t lie in bed bemoaning the drive or their next sales call or the next meeting. They wake up to take on the day.
2. Successful people learn. I am always amazed at how much successful people believe they have to learn. They read, they go to seminars, they take night classes, they go to computer school, they learn, learn, and learn. Successful people understand the world is changing and they either change with it or get left behind.
3. Successful people expect more of themselves. I have yet to hear a successful person tell me he or she has it made. They believe there are new worlds to conquer every day of the week. If they own their company they are looking to expand their products/services. If they are satisfied with their business they look to charitable work. Every day brings a new challenge and new possibility.
4. Successful people exercise. They walk, they jog, they stretch, they weight lift, or scuba dive or ride horses or something, but they don’t sit around. Perhaps the most important aspect of life they understand is that you have to feel good and look good to succeed. Think about it, if you don’t like the way you look and you don’t feel energetic, you tend to sit around feeling sorry for yourself.
5. Successful people have little time for television. This is my personal pet peeve: I believe television steals life. I tell my audiences in my seminars that a good life begins with turning off the television. In fact, I tell them, the only worthwhile knob on the television is the off button. I know people who turn the television on when they wake up in the morning and leave it on until they go to sleep at night. They don’t read, don’t exercise, and don’t achieve. In fact, I have yet to meet a person whose life has been improved because of television. Sure, there are good programs now and then, but television should be the last thing, never the first, in your day. Watch it only when you have already achieved your goals for the day.
6. Successful people compliment others. You will rarely hear a successful person talk about his or her achievements. In fact, you will rarely hear a successful person talk about him or herself. Successful people understand that very few people find success without the help of others, and they value the help that you and others give them. Since they value you, they nurture you and, if you will let them, they will help you be successful. Because the more people we help succeed the more successful we will be.
7. Successful people listen. A very wise man once remarked that we have two ears and one mouth because God wanted us to listen twice as much as we talk. None of us can learn a thing when we talk. Everything we learn comes from information we allow in to our ears and our mind.
8. Successful people measure the possibilities. This is just a different way to say that successful people plan. They look at what they want to do, decide if it can be done, and then outline the steps to accomplish it. Luck has nothing to do with it.
9. Successful people expect more of you. Have you ever noticed that successful people never settle for less? When you mention something to them they ask questions, questions that often make you second guess yourself. Successful people have a difficult time understanding mediocrity, even more difficulty understanding why others settle for it.
10. Successful people make the effort. Everybody wants more, but very few are willing to make the sacrifice. Success is no accident.
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