11 Things Successful people do

Successful people are those who make it in life. It could be in their business or in anything they do. If you want to follow their steps, you need to know what they do and follow it. Here is a list of 10 things successful people do.

1. They commit to their goals

When successful people set a goal, nothing gets in their way of achieving it. They commit 100 percent to the outcome, knowing that one difference between successful and unsuccessful people is that the successful ones commit to a goal and don’t stop until they achieve it.

2. And they persist until they achieve them

Obstacles to success are normal and should be expected. They can’t always be planned for. However, you can decide when you commit to success that you’re going to persist no matter what obstacles arise. Go around them, go over them, or push through them, but persist no matter what happens. That’s what successful people do, and so should you if you want to mimic their success.

3. They take responsibility

Successful people know that they are the masters of their own destiny. You don’t hear them complain about the things that stopped them from success. You won’t hear them make excuses. Instead, they push forward knowing that they are the only thing that will make or break their success.

4. They work hard

Have you ever met someone who is super-successful and lazy? Neither have I. The truth is that the road to success is paved with hard work. If you want to achieve great results, you’ll need to wake up early, stay up late and put in your time. Success doesn’t just come to those who want it. You’ve got to pay your dues.

5. Find people who are doing what they want and emulate them

A college professor once gave me some of the best advice I ever received. He said, “if you want to be wealthy, hang out with wealthy people. If you want to be funny, hang out with funny people. And if you want to be poor, hang out with poor people.”

The truth is that people naturally mimic the behaviors of those around them. Mindset is contagious. So if you want to be a big success in life, spend time with others who are already successful.

Don’t know anyone successful? That’s ok. You can read books written by them or about them. Listen to their radio interviews or watch them on TV. Attitude and success is contagious, so catch it by hanging around some of the greats.

6. They believe in themselves and their vision

The school of hard knocks isn’t easy, so if you want to achieve big results, you’ve got to believe in yourself. The world’s most successful people have unshakeable confidence in themselves and in their vision. Without it, they’d have to give up too easily after a few obstacles got in their way.

How’s your confidence? Do you believe you can achieve your dreams? I’ll tell you something in case nobody told you before: you can do whatever you want in life, you’ve just to first believe it, and then work like mad to get it.

7. They take care of themselves

When was the last time you saw a successful person who was obese or extremely overweight? Sure, these people exist, but they’re the exception to the rule. Most successful people know they need energy to get ahead, and the best way to have that is to eat right, exercise and get proper rest. Which brings us to our next point…

8. They rest and recharge

Hard work is a requirement for success, but you can only push yourself 24/7 for so long. Successful people work hard and then unplug so they can refresh their minds and bodies.

If you’ve been pushing it to the limit, think about unplugging for a long weekend or more. Once you get back to the grind, you’ll be more effective at getting the results you want.

9. They constantly learn

Successful people believe that learning never ends. This doesn’t mean they’re going to school to get new degrees, although they may. Even without formal education, they’re constantly reading and learning from others around them, perhaps from books, trade magazines or conferences, or from others who are ahead of where they want to be.

What have you learned recently that can get you closer to the success you want? If you haven’t picked up a book, trade magazine or listened to CDs or MP3s that can get you smarter in your field, it’s time to start.

10. They make mistakes and learn from them

Successful people aren’t afraid to take risks. Because of their unshakeable confidence, they treat any mistake as a learning opportunity.

Think about the last mistake you made. Didn’t make a sale? Reevaluate your sales call and make it better next time. Screwed up a presentation? Read a book on how to present successfully so you can crush your next one. Failed in your last relationship? Call your ex and ask what you can do better with your next partner. So go take some risks, don’t be afraid of making mistakes, and if you stumble, learn from it so you can be better next time.

These are 10 things successful people do. How many of them are you doing today? If not all, or most of them, it’s time to upgrade your behaviors so you can get the success you deserve.

11. They take risks

Successful people take risk knowing that it can cause them everything when they fail.  To be successful, you need to learn how to take risks.

These are the ten basic things successful people do. Look up for more.

THE SUCCESSFUL MIND.

In this modern era, everybody wants to be successful, I think we all do from time to time. What’s interesting is that this limiting behaviour can be traced all the way back to the day we were born. That’s right, did you know that we are born with millions of neurons that don’t know what to do? A neuron is a cell that in combination with neurotransmitters, processes and transmits information to your body and mind. These neurones are programmed so as we learn to respond to pleasant and unpleasant things, it sends messages and create beliefs that we often carry with us into adulthood.
I’ve been thinking a lot about the subconscious mind and how it manifests itself in our life. Nearly all goals that are successfully achieved start as an idea and with positive vibes, eventually turn into reality. As personal successful seekers, we must train our mind for success. Training the mind for success begins with positive thinking and believing that you are entitled to success and keep working hard to achieve success.
To be successful, you must conceive your dreams, believe in your dreams, pursue your dreams and achieve your dreams. To do this, you must know your dreams and your dreams should be in your thought and you think about how these dreams can be achieved but this must be done at our early ages of life so that our dreams will control us, because if you know what you want in life, you are always turned to working hard to achieve them. As quoted by Eva Evangelista a passionate life consultant and the bestselling author of great and ore forward in life and rise of sea-landers. “You have this lifetime to make the best of your dreams. Don’t wait a moment long, start right now”. To be successful, you have start at an early stage in your life. After conceiving your dreams, you believe in it that with hardworking and determination, you can get there because believing in one’s self helps propel the individual to greater heights. You then begin to pursue your dreams, you chase after your dreams, and you exploit all avenues relevant to the realization of your dreams. You talk to people, ask questions from other people who are making it big, you learn from them and then you apply them to your life because to be successful, you have to ask questions so that your ways shall be directed, then you learn because the most powerful on earth do learn from others because learning they say, does not have an end in the life’s of humans.
Also to be successful in life, you have to put your best self forward. Putting your best self forward is simply being diligent in all your doings. Diligent is the act of persistently being focused on any tasked or dream you set your mind on doing, by so doing, you always would want to realise your goals. This is achieved when you schedule your time properly and set activities that aims at your dreams and you make sure that you follow them. You will agree with me that the world’s most successful people even have schedules they follow each day, they just don’t wake up before they think about what they will do within the day. So as people aiming for success, we should always have a plan for the day and we must stick to it in order to produce the quality success that we yearn for because diligent people produce good and quality results. As quoted by Danielle Pierce a certified life coach and the author of Just Make it Happen which is an empowerment and inspirational book, “To be all that you can be, for the true secret to success is simply this, always do your best”. Putting your best self forward is all about doing your best because people who always do their best end up becoming successful people. As in the life of Professor Francis Kofi Allotey upon all the failures, he sat down, learnt very hard persistently to …………..and with good planning got the good grades and is now one of the best mathematicians in the world.
Lastly, I would say, successful people don’t give up on their dreams. For one to be a successful person in life, he/ she should try enough to train him or herself not to give up on their dreams no matter the situation. As quoted by Lailah Gifty Akita, a Ghanaian and founder of smart youth volunteers’ foundation and the author of the book; “The Alphabets If Success” which is a passion driven life book and quotes about think great: Be great, “Keep trying no matter how many times you have failed. If you fail, try, try again. Never stop trying. Your success will come unexpected. As people aim for success, failure shouldn’t hold us back, it should rather change us for greater things ahead. As in the life of Ben Carson, a surgeon, philanthropist and journalist, who upon the many challenges as a child never gave up but rather continued to believe in himself upon all the failures at his early stages of school life. Upon putting his failures aside and beginning to learn was able to earn a scholarship to college, passed the MCAT and advanced to medical school and he was the first doctor to separate Siamese twins with the heads together. Failure is never the end of one’s life, do you know how many influential people who have failed in life but with determination, hard work and the will to never give up in life have made it in life, so if you fail, get up, try, try again and you will be successful unexpectedly.
Conceiving your dreams, believing in your dreams, pursuing your dream, achieving your dreams, putting one’s best self forward and never giving up on your dreams surely will lead you to success and not only that but will also make you a better person.

THE PERFECT YOU

Many are those who have wondered, and are wondering and will still wonder, how to come out of this seemingly engulfing menace of, for a lack of a better word, failure and poverty in life and be transmitted into the world of ever increasing success. Of course, it is not that it is an easy task to do, especially when background does not favor you. But the fact still remains that the power of success lies within every man. God, in his divine intent and purpose, created every man to be independent of each other in various aspect of life. For this very reason, we often find ourselves asking mind provoking questions about success like what can i do in this big world with this my little life to become a great successful personality in the society and also to make a positive impact in the society we find ourselves. I believe that about 90% of the world’s population of humans have asked such questions personally to themself and have tried to derive valuable answers to them of which some have found the answers but others to have not, numerous questions with diverse answers. For some of us, we have found working answers for some of these questions and therefore living a quite independent life. For the rest of us too, who form the majority, answers to these questions have eluded us and so we are still depending on what others can offer us. You have to know that life is not about what one can offer you or do for you but LIFE is strongly about what you can do for yourself or the best you can offer yourself with, in other to unleash the perfection in you out to make a better living for yourself.
That is what brings the perfect you out but nothing else.
For the purpose of this piece, I will like to offer the reason why each person must find answers to them. This reason is ultimately one and only one, and that is “GOD HAS MADE YOU PERFECT” but alongside this ultimate and great reason, there are others or sub reason why you have to be successful or have a better living. I would also give you, out of my experience the strong big five(5) keys or points that will bring the perfection in you out. The holy book makes us understand that after God created the earth, He saw that it was perfect including the creating of man so therefore he also made man perfect. Perfection simply means completion, fulfillment, accomplishment, wellness, etc. Now you have to know that also, Perfectionism is the uncompromising persuit of excellence, that why you must be successful in whatever you are doing in life because the spirit of perfection remains in you. Remember that God made us Perfect in the sense that the earth contained everything that will make man live independent of each other. Perfect in the sense that He has created man in a unique way, a superior creature among the created. Perfect in the sense that He has given man the most powerful tool on earth to make his/her life a success. Perfect in the sense that He created man to be so close to Him so He can easily have access to His divine abilities concerning anything pertaining to life on earth.
Other reasons why you must be successful or have a better living in life is that:
• Success makes you a highly esteem personnel in the society.
• Success gives you all the respect you need to have in the society no matter your type of person or personality.
• Success makes you prestigious and also gives you integrity in life.
• Success will make you a happy fulfilled person in life.
• Success gives you the pace of becoming a role model, mentor and a great follower in the society.
• Success makes life easy and enjoying for you.
• Success strengthens you and gives you the mentality that all things are possible under this very sun.
Success makes you a better person and brings the perfection in you. That why you must be successful in everything you are doing in life because it will enrich and give you a wonderful, prosperous, healthy and a beautiful tomorrow (destiny). The greatest word i can ever give is not to give up with success or in life. There is something your heart is always communicating to you about in life to do or embark on, fellow your heart and out of it are the issues of life. It is in your heart that the real perfect you lie, so follow the voice of your heart and you shall be successful in your season.
Now concerning the principles of having the ability of bringing the perfection in you out, there are some strong(5) keys or points that will help you do that or enable you achieve the standard of you seek for or desire in your life. The first ultimate key of these principles of making a successful living is;
• GET WISDOM; Wisdom by the oxford dictionary is defined as the experience and knowledge together with the power of applying them or having a common sense. Unfortunately for me, i have my own way of describing or defining wisdom and that is, Wisdom are Words Instituted Sensibly in the Destiny of Man (W.I.S.D.O.M) which is practically instituted into action for benefits. The Holy book makes us understand that wisdom is a principal thing and that wisdom and in all your getting, get understanding. Wisdom will help you identify your dreams of how you can be successful in life and it will also guide your dreams and thought to the destiny of success.
• GET KNOWLEDGE; Knowledge in it contest of definition or explanation talks about a person’s range of information, awareness or familiarity, understanding of a subject etc. It is said that knowledge is power, this is because when you have knowledge in something, you make or cause a change or affect lives and yours to be specific. That’s why you must acquire knowledge no matter what because the more you know, the power or ability you have to improve on your life and to enforce the success of your destiny.
• GET UNDERSTANDING; Remember the Holy book says that in all your getting, gets understanding. It means that understanding is a prudent vital point in whatever you find yourself doing in life because without understanding you will fail in life. This speaks of the fact that you can’t pursue success or your dreams without understanding it even though you can have all the wisdom and all the knowledge in life to practically work and succeed in life but for the lack of understanding you will fail. You can’t insert a mobile phone chip into a desktop or a DVD player to make calls when you know that it must rather be inserted into a mobile phone. This means that, you have the wisdom and knowledge that, for you to be able to communicate with someone far from you, you must get a mobile phone and a chip but without understanding the uses of it, you find yourself putting the chip in another machine, which is not the right machine for it. So therefore get understanding of whatever you are doing and understand your dreams that you may be successful in life.
• HAVE DETERMINATION; Determination simply means firmness of purpose, resoluteness, to be precise, etc. This is when you have to get focused on whatever you are involving yourself in life to be successful. Where you cast all your mind, resources, ideas, strength, etc. into that which you are doing or your dreams in life. The strength of a man is power of that man, so therefore the failure to apply your strength in anything you are doing is the ability to kill your dreams of becoming a successful man in life. Remember that PURPOSE is the FUEL of LIFE, so therefore be determined in life, for life, with life and you will make your life a meaning, where success shall become your crown of glory.
• PERSEVERANCE AND ENDURANCE; simply put, perseverance is to continue steadfastly or be determined, whiles endurance is the ability to withstand prolonged strain, to be able to tolerate for long. To be successful and be able to bring the perfect you out, you must be a man of perseverance and endurance. You must withstand the hardship and difficulties, in fact the storms and fires will rise up on your journey of successful destiny but at the end you shall surely overcome and achieve every dream of yours.
To end with, i want to say that, there is something we call the perfect you and that thing is right inside of you which is the unique thing that will make you successful in life. Identify it, and with wisdom and knowledge, together with understanding, employ it into work and you shall make your ways successful in life.