Successful Habits
Habits Create Success
We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence then, is not an act, but a habit.” – Aristotle
Your success, whether it relates to your business, family, your health or your wealth, is therefore predicated on your habits! Just about every successful person you know of has habits that make them a success. Even more importantly, most successful people share many of these same habits. Habits are a requirement to achieving success.
Stephen Covey, author of “Seven Habits of Highly Successful People” and “The 8th Habit: From Effectiveness to Greatness” did a remarkable job of breaking down habits that created such people. From having a proactive approach to setting goals; from creating win/win situations to continuous learning, Covey was very well in tune with what each of us can and need to do to be successful.
Since everyone can’t run out and grab these books and digest them in the next few minutes, I have put together a short list of some simple habits or traits that are required to ensure opportunities for success:
- Have a plan
- Focus on solutions, not problems
- Control fear
- Surround yourself with positive
- Take calculated risks
- Be proactive
- Listen first, speak second
- Communicate often
- Maximize your time, be efficient
- Maintain discipline
- Learn to adapt
- Be a Leader!
Now, this is obviously a very condensed list of habits/traits that most successful people share, but at a glance, can you see how these could apply to anyone, for any set of goals? Can you see how the inclusion of just a few might fill your life with even greater happiness? Just think for a second of how much of our lives our wasted on destructive habits like procrastination, playing the blame game, fast food, smoking, drinking (too much), etc. Why do we do this? We only have one shot at this life thing, make the most of it! For all of you parents, if for no other reason than the example you are setting for your children, choose your habits wisely!
Whether you desire to live a better family life, better your business world or enhance your health and wellness, this list should provide you with some motivation and resource from with which to begin. Remember, pick and choose your battles. You cannot fix everything at once. Have goals, but be realistic. And never forget, your health is priority #1. If you cannot maintain your health, you cannot provide for yourself or your family! Wellness is not a given, DO NOT take it for granted.
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Yes, I can see how even 1 or 2 of Covey’s steps can be truly transformational in most people’s lives. Great article!
What about the serious procrastinator, who can’t do the basic tasks that primarily sustain his life, like work projects to get paid or academic assignments, to be in a position to work on the big questions in a given field?
The real procrastinator (20% of the population) can’t get to the level of self actualization because the fulfillment of their more basic social and emotional needs is compromised by their procrastination problem!
This level of procrastination is clinically speaking, a real life-interfering tendency. It costs in dollars, emotional, physical and spiritual well-being, heck; it can cost in lost years of life!
The real way to stop this kind of life-harming procrastination is as simple as it is counterintuitive. It’s about learning how to borrow motivation from the things we love doing and do every day, and plugging it into or transferring it over to the important tasks we don’t like doing and avoid.
Harnessing and transferring motivation is what cures clinical depression better than medication. It’s what cures autism and helps a stroke victim quickly recover.
The part people miss out on, is that the natural process of brain rewiring is driven primarily through external motivators. And so is the process for overcoming serious procrastination.
Thanks for this incredibly thought provoking article!
Gratefully,
Duddy (Professional, Counselor/Behavior-Change Consultant)
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