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Do you remember the first time self-development became
important to you?
I do. I was 7 years old and I was in love with basketball.
My mother had bought me a book called Rare Air, the autobiography of
Michael Jordan.
Through this book, Michael Jordan brought me into his world.
He shared stories of what inspired him, the emotions he felt, how he handled
the failures and rejections and how he discovered his passion.
I was absolutely blown away and fired up after reading his
book. It felt like my childhood hero was right there with me, teaching me about
the importance of working on yourself and becoming the best you can possibly
be.
I read this book every morning before school to be highly
motivated for the day ahead.
Once that book was finished, I continued to read other books
like 20 Ways to Make Pocket Money and Rich Dad, Poor Dad. As I
made this motivation session part of my morning ritual, I noticed my belief,
confidence and passion skyrocket.
I wanted to be just like these high achievers so I started
waking up early, setting my goals and learning as much as I could about new
skills and life each day. Little did I know that I was hard-wiring a series of
positive unconscious actions that eventually led me to a life of multiple
successes: Hosting radio shows, signing record deals, promotions to higher
paying salaries, training with world-class experts, meetings with my idols,
creating one of the top self-development websites in the world, being offered
millions of dollars for my business and being featuring on the cover of
magazines.
I became infatuated with the idea of growing and evolving as
an individual so much so that over the past four years I’ve committed to
interviewing hundreds of entrepreneurs, authors, celebrities, coaches and
multimillionaires to find out what separates the super achievers from your
every day “Average Self"
What I’ve come to discover is that a good 90 percent of the interviewee’s
credit their success to the persisting energy bolts of action that we call
"habits."
So being the curious cat that I am, I decided to go a little
deeper and squeeze the juice out of this new discovery.
I started asking each high achiever what their daily habits
are that keep them on top. I then averaged their answers out to break it down
into these 7 simple successful
habits:
Habit 1: Write
Your “To-Do List” The
Night Before
The high achievers would write their to-do’s every evening
before dinner or bed so they were prepared for the following day.
Habit 2: The Mind,
Body & Soul
Ninety percent of the super-successful practice some form of
physical concentration time or health focused activity at some point in their
day.
According to Deepak Chopra, meditation increases the amount
of rest you would normally achieve through sleep and is almost twice as
effective as taking a nap.
Habit 3:
Goal-Setting and Visualization
Ninety-five percent of the successful achievers I have
interviewed practice writing down their goals, plans, or vision first thing in
the morning for success on a regular basis.
Doing this prepare your mental state for a day of challenges
on the road to success.
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Habit 4: Gratitude
and Positive Self Talk
Being grateful and focusing on the positive seems to be a
common priority in the lives of the highly successful people.
Best-selling author and neuroscientist Joe Dispenza shared something
this with me:
"If you’re saying affirmations like, 'I am abundant, I
am wonderful, I am unstoppable,' but your emotional state is in fear, then your
body is in opposition.
Thoughts are the language of the brain and feelings are the
language of the body. Those thoughts will bounce off because they aren’t equal
to the emotions of fear.
If a person feels gratitude, and has practiced it over and
over authentically and they say affirmations like, 'I am wonderful, I am
incredible, I am unstoppable' and so on…
and it aligns with their autonomic nervous system then this is where the real
power comes into play."
Gratitudes are powerful, and a lot of people nowadays are
catching on to this.
Habit 5: Self-Development
The super-successful people focus heavily on learning new
skills, reading practical books and listening or watching podcasts, interviews
and informational courses.
Try and read 20 full pages a day, or even listen to an
hour-long audio/podcast that roughly equals more than 36+ books a year of new
knowledge. Wow!!
Habit 6: Networking
The high achievers know and live by the saying, “Your network determines your
net worth.”
So they make it a habit to work on building new bridges,
collaborating, helping others, attending social events, getting back to people
and being a man (or woman) of their word.
Make it a habit to meet at least one new person a day or
making one follow up/catch up a day.
Habit 7: Meetings
and Accountability Sessions
Lastly, but not least, the seventh habit that was highly
practiced by the uber successful was holding accountability calls each week
and/or a coffee catch up with a mentor or business partner to hold each other
accountable.
Find someone who is on a similar level to you in life and
make a commitment between you and your accountability partner to hold a
catch-up call or meeting once a week to share your achievements, struggles, new
goals and what you have learned from the previous week.
This is a great way to stay motivated, knowing that you will
have to come clean to your accountability buddy if you haven’t been sticking to
your goals and habits.
If you are new to these habits then I would recommend
starting with two to three habits and making them easy. The key is to commit yourself
to at least two to three months of continuous implementation as your body
adjusts to the new life you are creating and the habits you are conditioning.
Enjoy the process and make sure you throw in some fun
habits, that focus on your mind body and soul also as balance is key to staying
sane during this process.
See you at the top!
Awake the giant in you!!
Become the best you can be!!!
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It’s a great day.
Credit and Inspiration to JOEL BROWN
Entrepreneur, Speaker & Founder of Addicted2Success.com
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