For many years I’ve been fascinated by what makes people successful in their life, whatever it is they do for a living.
I’ve read biographies, watched people being interviewed on television, studied newspaper and magazine profiles and spoken to many people who are successful in their fields of activity.
I’ve been going on the premise that if I want to be successful then I need to do what successful people do.
When these people are asked about success they usually define it as something that’s personal to them; a feeling of contentment, achievement or happiness.
However, what I’m interested in is, how do they get to that state?
The conclusion I’ve come to is that there are five basic characteristics that successful people have. I like to call them –
They have the ability to run their own mind. They don’t let other people or circumstances run it for them. They reprogram their negative conditioning. They raise their level of self-esteem and they develop a positive attitude through continual positive self-talk. They don’t react – they think!
Successful people have a passion for what they believe in. They know what they want out of life and they achieve it by motivating themselves. They have vision.
- Energy
They have lots of vroom! They manage stress and they know how to relax.
- Rapport
They have the ability to communicate and get on with people, and to persuade people to accept their point of view.
People who make a success of what they do are willing to try. They’re prepared to make mistakes, to assert themselves and not get too concerned about what others might think.
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Awesome post. I think the first point is the best one. We can’t control the things around us, but we can control how they affect us, and how we interpret them. In a large way, we control everything in our lives, including our happiness.
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