10 Habits Successful
People Give Up to Increase Their Productivity
Carl Preston
What are you willing to do in
order to reach success?
It is common among people these days to be average and
not stand out too much.
But those who are successful do not fall under
this category.
In order to stay on top of
your game and reach the level of success you want,
you need to follow a certain set of self-induced
rules.
Success is not something that happens by accident; if you want it bad enough,
you will get it.
Learn the habits that
successful people have given up in order to reach their own success.
1. They don’t work in
their comfort zone.
What is your comfort zone?
Your comfort zone is defined as “A psychological state
in which a person feels
familiar, at ease, in control, and experiences low anxiety.”
When you get outside of your
comfort zone, it doesn’t mean that you should strive for
a constant state of anxiety
and stress. It simply means that, in order to grow,
you should try new things and
expand your horizons.
The reason we are comfortable
in our comfort zone is because we are not taking risks
when we are in this state.
When we live in our comfort zones, we are living life like hamsters
on a wheel, going around and
around in a constant cycle, but going nowhere in our lives.
Famous motivational speaker,
Les Brown, said it best with,
“If you put yourself in a position where you have
to stretch outside your comfort zone,
then you are forced to expand your
consciousness.”
2. They don’t do without
first learning.
Learning is what we do best.
The greatest thing about learning is the benefit
that we receive in all
aspects of our lives. Successful people strive to continue learning
new things and expanding on
things that they already know.
If we stop learning, then the
only thing we can do is settle with what we already know;
if we settle for
that, then there is no way to expand our minds.
Expansion is essential on the
path to success.
Since our minds require learning for expansion, we must never
stop seeking new knowledge.
Imagine what would have
happened if Bill Gates stopped learning and growing.
The internet would be much
more primitive than it is today.
But because he followed his
dreams and continued growing, he founded
one of the biggest companies
in the world and it is still flourishing and growing today.
3. They don’t fear asking
for advice.
Richard Branson, a famous
entrepreneur, stated,
“When you need to make hard
decisions, being able to discuss your ideas with entrepreneurs
and business leaders who have
solved similar problems can make all the difference.”
Asking for advice is not
always easy. We think that we have the same opportunity
as everyone else and
sometimes feel insecure and dependent,
so we decide not to ask for
advice, and try to figure it out ourselves.
But this could be greatly
limiting us from reaching our full potential,
because the advice we might
be seeking could be something that somebody knows very well.
4. They don’t get lost in
the small details.
When life gives us seemingly
endless opportunities, it is very easy to get lost
in the small details. The
small details are very easy for us to become focused on,
thus causing us to miss out
on the overall vision, also known as the “big picture”.
Focusing too much on the
smaller details constricts your ability to see
how everything ties together.
Much of our lives hinge upon the connections
that we make with others and with
ourselves.
If we get lost in the small
detail, it is like having missing pieces to a puzzle.
How are we supposed to solve
that?
Imagine what would have
happened if Henry Ford only saw the small details.
When building the company
that Ford is today, he knew that he must do something different
if his company was to
succeed. After many people told him it couldn’t be done,
his company continued
improving upon the smaller details until they got it right.
Henry Ford didn’t focus too
much on the small details, which were the hundreds of times
he failed; he saw
the overall goal and knew that it could be accomplished.
It required seeing the bigger
picture to make it happen.
5. They don’t multitask.
Multitasking is typically
viewed as a skill that only certain people possess.
But truth be told, nobody actually has the
ability to multitask. Multitasking is known to
actually decrease productivity.
Those who are successful focus on one specific task
and do that task to the best
of their ability without interruption.
When you multitask, you limit
your ability to fully focus on one specific task at a time.
Successful people
utilize the talents and abilities that they have
by focusing it on one task and
one task only.
Emma Watson said, “I just
dropped my iPhone in my soup. I think it might be time to tone down
the multitasking..” This
demonstrates how destructive multitasking is
highlighting the fact that
when we multitask, we are greatly limiting ourselves.
6. They don’t lie to
themselves.
Lying to yourself is one of
the easiest things for you to do.
It is much more difficult to accept the problems that we have
without make excuses for them.
Successful people understand
that we will encounter problems, both internally and externally.
But it is important to accept
the problems that reside in our lives,
rather than not dealing with
them and lying to ourselves about them.
As Steve Maraboli said, “Stop
lying to yourself. When we deny our own truth,
we deny our own potential.”
7. They don’t
procrastinate in asking for feedback.
Feedback is important,
because it gives you a different perspective on your current situation.
Sometimes you are not able to see the answer that is right in front of you. But
when someone
gives you feedback, it allows
you to see something from the perspective of someone else.
If you procrastinate asking
someone for feedback,
you are missing out on time
that could be put towards accomplishing your dreams.
The longer you wait, the
harder it is to utilize advice that others can give you.
“I think it’s very important
to have a feedback loop, where you´re constantly thinking about
what you’ve done and how you
could be doing it better,” entrepreneur Elon Musk once said.
8. They don’t follow, they
lead.
You have probably heard the
phrase “lead, follow or get out of the way.”
There are two types of people
in this world: leaders and followers.
The ones who are successful
are the ones who are leading the pack.
Successful people are not
successful because they got there by chance.
They did not follow somebody
to the finish line.
They paved their own path in
life to get where they needed to be.
Just as the great Robert
Frost stated, “Two roads diverged in a wood, and I
– I took the one less
traveled by, and that has made all the difference.”
9. They don’t let the past
dictate their future.
The past is something that we
will never change, nor should we want to change it;
because without it, we would
not have learned the lessons we needed to learn.
Therefore, we would wind up
making the same mistakes over and over again
until we learned the lesson
that life is trying to teach us.
At one time, businessman
Shahid Khan washed dishes for $1.20 an hour.
His humble background did not
prevent him from thinking bigger though.
With a net worth of $3.8
billion dollars, he now owns Flex-N-Gate,
one of the largest private companies
in the U.S., the NFL’s Jacksonville Jaguars,
and Premier League soccer club
Fulham.
10. They don’t hang around
negative people.
Negative people are very
destructive to be around when it comes to achieving success,
because there are so many
situations that life throws at us
and causes us to get down on ourselves or our
situation.
But some people like to focus on this aspect of life the majority of
the time.
When you are around negative
people enough,
you start to see things
negatively and you begin to lose sight of your dream.
Success is more about mindset
than anything, and if you always have a negative mindset,
life will reward you with
negative outcomes to deal with.
Joel Olsteen once said, “You
cannot expect to live a positive life if you hang with negative people.” So if
you wish you be successful, don’t focus on the negativity that others bring.
To be successful requires
focus and determination. It seems that every successful person
follows similar patterns.
Therefore, it’s easy to see why they are where they are.
They knew what they had to do
in order to achieve their dreams
and they didn’t let anyone or
anything stop them from getting there.
You have the power in
yourself
to become one of those successful
people you admire and look up to.
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