Friday, November 19, 2010

Characteristics and Traits of Success

1) DISCIPLINE:

  • This is the key ingredient for anyone who is successful whether it be a professional sports, music, business, being a parent, or anything and everything.
  • Everyone has heard the phrase, “I’m going to give it my best shot,” or “Well, I gave it my best shot,” right? Well who are the ones who say that phrase? Is it the winners who came in first or the losers? It’s the losers or the 2nd place people, which in my opinion are the same. The winners talk about what they did to be a winner and the losers talk about they gave it “their best shot.” Are you kidding me?! Are you telling me that that’s your best? You are incapable of being a winner? No! You just didn’t do the things that the winners did to win! Winners get the job done and they accomplish this through discipline and work ethic – this is the foundation for everything else I’m about to talk about.

2) BE CAREFUL WHO YOU GET YOUR ADVICE FROM:

  • If you want to be a doctor, then you wouldn’t ask a retail clerk where to go to med school. You would ask a successful doctor, right? You also, wouldn’t ask a secretary about how to run a successful business…go to the source!

3) CONSISTENCY:

  • Success is a combination of hard work & discipline.
    • You must be consistent at both 24/7 - whether you feel like it or not - but more specifically when you don’t feel like it. That’s what separates those who are successful and those who are not. Just like what separates those who are courageous and the cowards. The courageous ones just stuck in there 5 minutes longer than the rest.

4) YOU WILL BECOME WHATEVER YOU CREATE FOR YOURSELF:

  • Easier = weaker and harder = strength and perseverance.
  • Great (not good) habits are what will create your success! Anybody can be “good” which means you can only have what anybody else can have, but “great” habits is what separates what only few can have because only few are willing to develop those habits.
  • Great habits cannot and will not wait until tomorrow! That is because whether you realize it or believe it, every action you do are the habits you are creating for yourself. Therefore tomorrow is always too late – they always begin right here, right now. (Use example of waking up at 5:30am instead of 6:00am to be the first to the office – it’s easier to hit the snooze button and say you’ll start tomorrow and you will be passed by the one who didn’t wait and started right here, right now.)

"Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things you didn't do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover." -Mark Twain