What Do Successful People Have In Common?
Restored from the Empower Network archive (2011–2017), lightly edited to meet our current advertising standards. Views are the original author’s.
Have you ever asked this question?
Maybe you’ve even Googled it. And if you have, you know there are over 68 million results for that one question. Crazy right? And each one is different! “7 habits of highly successful people”, “50 traits successful people have”, “8 character traits” blah blah blah blah-blah!
Seriously, gag me. Who is correct?!
Here’s the truth. Each “success story” comes from a totally different background, totally different set of circumstances and each has their own specific goals.
The thing they all have in common is their mindset. ALL IN. Won’t stop til they reach the top. A positive attitude.Seriously, let’s be honest for a second- you thing these people would have succeeded if they were like, “shoot man, I can’t afford to do that right now” or “I don’t have time” or if they were like “oh poor me, my life is so hard”.
Simple answer? Nope. They wouldn’t.
In the Forbes article, “Hire for Attitude“ it basically said technical and “soft skills” are less important than attitude. The reason being that it is wayyy easier to teach those skills than to teach someone how to change their attitude. If you go to work every day cursing your boss with your brow furrowed and a frown on your face, guess what? Everyone knows you are miserable and who wants to be around grumpy pants all day?
So how do you have an “attitude adjustment”?
Just like someone who wants to lose weight…you need to make a lifestyle change.
The old saying “what goes in, must come out” is totally true in this case. Whatever you feed your thoughts and your mind is what is going to come out..through your ACTIONS, your WORDS and your ATTITUDE.
What are you reading? What are you listening too? What are you watching? Who are you surrounding yourself with? If the answers to these questions aren’t ones that will help you reach your goals and succeed…maybe it is time to make some changes.
I don’t know about you, but I’ve heard people say “personal development, personal development, personal development” and in the beginning I brushed it off and was like “that’s stupid”. But it’s TRUE. But just listening to audios or just reading books is NOT enough.
You need to ABSORB the information. Live it. Breathe it. Make it a part of you- live by it. At this point in my life I’ve listened to a LOT of audios and read a lot of books. Some things along the way have just stuck with me. In some cases I don’t even remember who or where I heard it from..but I remember it and live it. Here are a couple examples (if you know the source of the quote, leave a comment and let me know!)
“You need to work harder on yourself than you do at your business to be unusually successful.”
“If you learn just ONE new thing from the product you invested in, it was WORTH the money.”
“If you aim at nothing, you’ll hit it every time.”
“Find people who have what you want and do what they do.”
“Don’t stop when you’re tired- stop when you’re finished.”
“Goals are dreams with deadlines. Set one.”
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