3 Success Habits
The Habit of Continually Learning:
Why is that when most people finish their formal education they tend to think, “well that’s it, I am done, no more school or classes for me”, I know that’s how I was. The unfortunate truth is that the way in which many formal education systems are structured is so that we grow up thinking like this: 1. Finish school 2. Go to college 3. Get a job, done. The problem is that school is not equal to learn and education is not equal to growth.
The only true way that we can learn is if we take full 100% responsibility for our own learning, this requires knowing what it is that we need to learn, and how can one know what they need to learn, find your passion. Once you know what your passion is, you spend hours reading books, watching training videos and attending classes to learn more about it because it gives you life.
The Habit of not Caring
That’s right, the most successful people, do not care. Before you think this means that they do not care about people or that they are selfish, no that is not the case, on the contrary successful people are some of the most caring people in the world, just look at Mandela and Mother Teresa, people who became successful because they cared. The most successful people do not care about the unimportant, irritating little things that happen in life that get under your skin but really do not matter.
In the book “Don’t Sweat the Small Stuff, and it’s All Small Stuff”, Psychotherpist Richard Carlson P.H.D talks about one hundred things in life that are seemingly insignificant yet they tend to take up our time, stress us and keep us from achieving our best results.
Carlson says that “Often we allow ourselves to get all worked up about things that, upon closer examination, aren’t really that big a deal. We focus on little problems and concerns and blow them way out of proportion. A stranger, for example, might cut in front of us in traffic. Rather than let it go, and go on with our day, we convince ourselves that we are justified in our anger. Try to have compassion for the person and remember how painful it is to be in such an enormous hurry. This way, we can maintain our own sense of well-being and avoid taking other people’s problems personally.”
So the next time a colleague or loved one gives you an unfair criticism or comment, or something ‘small’ happens before you react, remember, it is just small stuff and it is not worth your success and the most successful people just don’t care,
The Habit of the Early Morning
Sigh, sigh, sigh…I know, waking up early, it’s so hard and you have tried to do it so many times. Anyways, why must I get up half an hour or an hour earlier than I have to. I could really use that extra sleep, and as for exercise, reading or meditating, I can do all of those things later in the day.
If you think this way, you are right, you do not have to get up earlier than you already do, you can still do the things that you want to do in the afternoon or during the day. However, getting up early is not about doing the things that you want to do, getting up early is about doing the things that you have to do to achieve success. Successful people don’t get up early because they have to, or because it is a particularly great thing to do. They do it because they know that in order to be successful they must be driven to do the things that others are not doing.
About the Author
Timo is a leadership and success coach.
He and his team are dedicated to and passionate about changing the way people think about success and leadership.