Attributes of Successful People

If you really want to bring success into your life, you should cultivate yourself just as you'd cultivate a garden for the best yield. If you think the way the most successful people think and adopt the same habits they have, you also can be successful. These attributes don’t happen by luck or accident, rather originate in habits, built a day at a time.

1.    Ambitious

Successful people see themselves capable of being the best. I learnt this great thing in my college where I saw most of the students getting better grades than me. I naturally assumed they were better than me and I was worse than them.

See, that’s the big problem of our society – the “feeling of inferiority”, which often gets translated into feelings of “undeservedness”.

Rhonda Byrne in her best-selling self-help book, “The Secret” beautifully claimed that positive-thinking can create life-changing results.

Remove any sort of inferiority or negativity from your life and become ambitious. See yourself capable of being the best.

2.    Determination

Short-cuts don’t work in real life. All great success in life is preceded by long, sustained periods of focused effort on a single goal, the most important goal, with the determination to stay with it until it is complete. All through history, we find that every man or woman who achieved anything lasting and worthwhile, had engaged in long, often unappreciated hours, weeks, months and even years of concentrated, disciplined work, in a particular direction.

3.    Preset your tasks/goals

Imagine yourself setting off across an unknown country without a roadmap.  You may get somewhere eventually, but it will take you much longer, and it is far more likely that you will get lost or may not reach the place you wanted to go, and waste an enormous amount of time, than if you planned your trip carefully, with a roadmap, and full information about the future terrain, before you started out.

That’s the simple “funda” of life. Discipline of goals. This means that you sit down with a pad of paper, a pen (or a To-Do app on any smartphone – in today’s tech-savvy world) and “ample time”. You think through and then make a list of all the things you want to accomplish in the next five years. You organize the list into the various areas of your life; your career, your money, your family, your health and the other parts that are important to you and then think of all the things you can do right now to move you toward the attainment of your goal(s).

4.    Atychiphobia

Fear of failure. Have you ever been so afraid of failing at something that you decided not to try it at all? Or has a fear of failure meant that, subconsciously, you undermined your own efforts to avoid the possibility of a larger failure? I shall be highly shocked and happy if your answer to these two questions is a ‘No’. Take failure positively. Learn that you can’t reach success without failing. Never be afraid to “try”. Failure is the best teacher. So, fail more but fail better.

Always remember these two great quotes -

“The master has failed way more times than the beginner has ever tried.” — Stephen McCranie

“I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work.” ― Thomas A. Edison

5.    Masters of “time”

A day has 24 hours and that can’t be changed unless you know the secret of “time-travel” perfectly. Now, it’s on you how you utilize your day. Just for an example. I see lot of my friends completely indulged in Facebook, Instagram, WhatsApp and what not almost the entire day. I offer no offense against social media or people using social media but anything used upto a limit is good. I agree these apps act as a means of entertainment and helps in mood-relaxation but learn to restrict your usage.

Time is by far the most powerful tool you have at your disposal. Successful people hate distractions. They are the masters of time.


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