Habits form an important part of your daily life. Something apart from luck (if incase) that makes you successful is your Habits. Knowing what these habits are and making it part of your life is something worthwhile.
For some people Success means that you getting big and getting rich. For some people success is having the feeling of fulfillment in life. Well, whatever is your outlook towards success, it is important that we develop some strict behaviors in our life and keep them practicing which are ultimately our habits and that can make you or break you.
You will agree that when we look at some successful people we look for their daily habits and inherit them within us expecting that we will be the same one day.
Let’s look for some habits that can make you move towards Success at a greater extent.
1. Follow your Passion
An individual serious about his career working professional or want to start a business, it is important that you look something that is within your passion. Following your passion helps you succeed at a good pace as your efforts will be a combination of your Talent, Discipline, and Persistence you will stand different from others. Any kind of obstacles will not let you down or nothing will tend you to stop what you are doing. You will keep on improving every single day and there will be a time that you will become the Master of your Domain.
Let me tell you, Steve Jobs was a strong believer of following the passion. It claimed that it was his passion that made all the difference in his life.
2. Stay Positive about your Success
a. Don’t confuse yourself
It is rightly said that “Confused minds will always so no”. You will have many opinions about your ideas, but it is you who has to decide what is best and what not. If you believe, then a good idea is a good idea which needs to be implemented. If you are going to slice it down with different opinions, you might end up with least response or a zero at times.
b. Take Failures as Learning and don’t be afraid to Fail
Well, if you are the one who is afraid of getting a failure, you better stay where you are. If you go through the history of successful Entrepreneurs, you will barely find somebody who didn’t face failures. Remember, every time you fail, you learn something new. A famous quote we have been hearing since childhood, “Failure is the stepping stone to success”. It is not a vague statement but an impressions of real life examples.
Have you ever heard this statement, “I have not failed. I have found 10000 ways that won’t work”
3. Exercise Daily
We all hear Exercise is good for you and it helps to keep you healthy, but we miss out to know the real benefits of it and what it can do to us. It is never too late to start exercising. It does not always mean the muscle and strength training where you go to a gym and lift heavy weights or do intense cardio but, you can find ways to do some physical activities that will keep you fit no matter what is your age like Aerobics and Yoga.
Let us see what are those benefits that can help boost ourselves.
- Increase your Energy Levels
- Improves Muscle Strength
- Helps you to Maintain Healthy weight
- Improves your Mental Health
- You get better Sleep
- It improves your Thinking and Learning Skills
- Reduces the Ageing effect
- Reduces risk of Chronic Diseases
Exercising daily get you sense of Motivation in your daily life. This will build you to keep moving in various tough situations.
4. Follow Time Management strictly
Before we dive in to Time Management, have a look at the below points and tell me if you are the one who is willing to face these in your life:
- Producing low quality of Work
- Do not want to succeed in life
- Not meeting the deadlines
- Getting Stressed
- No work Life Balance
- Harming your Social and Professional reputation.
Now, I would agree that 100% of you don’t agree on this. Nobody wants to face these challenges in life. But, are we willing to put certain efforts to make it better. That’s where Time Management comes into the picture. It’s an amazing tool that will deliberately change the route of every difficulties you come across. It helps you to control your day and makes sure every minute of you are put in proper use.
Here are some benefits of Time Management:
- Improves your Performance
- Enhance Career Opportunities
- Produce Better Work
- Delivers Things in Time
- Maintains proper Work Life Balance
- Reduces your Stress
- Boost your Confidence
- Become more Efficient
Time isn’t infinite, neither you have a control on running time. Each of us have equal amount of time. some practice to utilize most of it for enhance themselves and some utilize it for entertainment.
5. Start Networking
Networking in simple terms is to meet people and build relations who shares Professional or Personal Interest. This are kind of Life-long support that might help you in difficult times. But it important that we just don’t keep on taking the benefits out of it but it should be a give and take relationship. This helps to build a good social presence of you. Networking helps you to explore more and learn new thing each day in and out. In your life you shall be building as many connections as possible mostly with those who share the same interest as you.
Let us see how Networking can help you in Personal and Professional Life:
- It contributes to your social well being
- It leads to Exchange of Ideas
- You can build relations with new people matching your Interest
- It helps to build Self Confidence
6. Always stay with Positive and Goal oriented people
“If you are going to hang out with Chicken you will Cluck, if you hang with Eagle you will Fly“. A very famous statement made by Dr. Steve Maraboli.
It is very important to understand if we are spending our time with the right people and what attitude they carry. Are they the ones who sees the glass Half Empty or the ones who see glass Half Full. Positive People always has a simple behavior, they keep the Negativity away and appreciate the good things. They believe in Quality Work and Continuous Improvement.
Staying with them brings Positive Vibes around you. Here are some reasons why you should surround yourself with Positive People:
- They are Great Influencers who will Inspire you
- Help you make Better Choices
- Keep you away from Negativity
- They motivate you to follow your Passion and pursue your Goals.
- It helps you to improve Mental and Physical Health.
7. Think Innovative
We should always be thinking about the future and innovative thinking is the future thinking. The world is changing and moving fast. It is welcoming new ideas that can solve the current problems. Technology today is minimizing the current manual work and many opportunities are at risk.
The one thing that the Technology is unable to perform is Creative Thinking as we can. Thus, it is important that we move out from the regular work schedules and look out for what is the opportunity that can create a good success for us.
Here’s how we can start this:
- Look out for the problems in the Market.
- Encourage your Family, Friends to provide some crazy ideas to solve this.
- Start to compile the suggestions that you receive from your family and Friends
- Look how you can get a creative solutions by combining those ideas.
- Implement it and work to make it more social.
8. Keep Reading and Learning new things Each Day.
It is not new to say that Reading improves your Knowledge. In the current century with lot of advancement in Technology people prefer to use Audio book or a Video. No doubt it is also adds a great value and is time saving. However, apart from the adding value there consistent reading can add other benefits as well.
- It will Exercise your Brain
- It improves your focus
- Improves your Memory
- Improves your Language skills
- It can reduce Stress
Will you keep on Reading on going through audio or video files, it is important that we implement what we understand and keep learning new things. Gaining Knowledge is one of that Habits that can make you successful.
9. Spend Quality time with your family and friends
Family and Friends are important part of our Life . It makes us feel secured and feel happy. They help us to grow with values by teaching us what is right and wrong. It gives a sense of fulfillment even in difficult situations we go through. Studies say that it helps in Personal Development of an individual. Lets look some of them.
- Maintains Mental Health
- Develop Good Behavior
- Builds Self Confidence
- Teaches effective Conflict Resolutions
- Build adaptability in Challenging situations
The Bottom is, all of us have Habits. But some of us have good habits and some need to develop. Successful people have the habits that contribute to their success. The good part of it is, we can start building the habits that can make you successful and this will bring us the desired result.
