52 Weeks to Guaranteed Increased Success

[tconnor]

Success Tips #213
52 Weeks to Guaranteed Increased Success

The following 52 behaviors when mastered as a part of your personal and career development will guarantee increased success. Each of the 52 topics are critical to your continued success. However, if you master some of the techniques, they will ensure success in some of the others. For example, if you improve your attitudes that will go a long way in ensuring a more positive outlook. If you develop a system or more accurate goalsetting that will ensure that you improve your focus.

At first glance you might feel that there is just too much here to work on at the same time. I agree. That's why it is essential to focus on one skill each week. Some topics each week could require more effort and time than other topics. The key is always have a focus for each week and develop a strategy for adding this to your overall career and personal success.

1. Read something positive every day. Learn to fill your mind with inspirational thoughts.
2. Have fun. Smile and look like you are enjoying yourself.
3. Spend at least one to two hours each week planning your activities. Make planning a routine.
4. Set weekly, monthly and yearly goals and write them down. Direction is the critical factor in life.
5. Spend time with people who are successful. Have lunch once a week with someone you respect.
6. Commit. To be successful you must lock the back door once you begin something new.
7. Learn from everyone. Study success and successful people with a purpose and a passion.
8. Get a mentor. They can save you time, money, effort, prevent you making poor decisions and more.
9. Stay focused. Focus is the vital trait that all successful people have in common.
10. Become other centered. Rather than self-centered. It's not all about you.
11. Join or start a mastermind group. When like minds share ideas the results can be incredible.
12. Spend routine time in self-evaluation. If you don't know what you are doing wrong it is hard to improve.
13. Develop a do it now attitude. Overcome procrastination. Learn to do the difficult things first.
14. Learn to handle your fears. Fear prevents people from happiness/ success more than any other cause.
15. Get a personal coach. A coach will ensure that you stick with your goals and intent.
16. Do what you love. Live without regrets. Regrets weigh tons. Discipline weighs ounces.
17. Maintain balance. Your life is always either moving toward balance or away from it.
18. Listen to positive messages at least two or three times a week. Repetition is the key to understanding.
19. Manage your stress. Stress is your inside-out reaction to outside-in circumstances, events or people.
20. Deal only in the truth.
21. Say thank you every day for all of your blessings.
22. Keep a good stuff jar. This is a storehouse of everything that is good about your life.
23. Know your real intent. This is a 'whatever it takes' attitude about goals, projects and challenges.
24. Don't ever lose your passion and desire. Dream big dreams and don't let anyone talk you out of them.
25. Keep a journal. This is a compilation of lessons learned, goals achieved and much more.
26. Improve one area of your life every month. It can cut years off the ultimate price of success.
27. Make decisions. Don't try and make right decisions. Make decisions and then make them turn out right.
28. Keep things simple. When things get too complicated people get confused and tentative.
29. Be an early person. Get to meetings, work, - everything early, then read while you are waiting.
30. Listen better. You will learn far more about everything and everyone by listening rather than talking.
31. Take responsibility for your life. No one owes you a thing. You have and get what you deserve.
32. Never give up. Persistence is the key to long term success. Stick with it, try again, and keep trying.
33. Invest in yourself regularly. Invest at least 5% of your income in personal growth every year.
34. Control your thoughts. Don't let someone else's mental baggage become your destiny.
35. Let go of old baggage. Letting go of hurts, slights disappointments will guarantee you will live longer.
36. Share what you have with others. Try giving yourself away more often.
37. Forgive yourself and others. A lack of forgiveness for your mistakes and failures is unforgivable.
38. Live in the present moment. It is the only one you have. The future isn't here yet and the past is gone.
39. Detach from outcomes. You can't control the future. All outcomes are subject to outside influences.
40. Manage your expectations. Most of life's disappointments are due to unrealistic expectations of others.
41. Now put some effort into it. Success requires work and effort - you can't just sit there all day and hope.
42. Make wise decisions. All decisions have consequences some are negative and some are positive.
43. Manage your time. Wasted time is one of the biggest causes of failure.
44. Save 10% of everything you earn. The key to wealth is an effective savings and investment plan.
45. Believe in abundance and prosperity. Abundance is everywhere all you have to do is look.
46. Develop your character. Character is the congruence between your behavior in public and private.
47. Practice being happy. Happiness is not an address or bank balance. It is inside you not outside.
48. Take risks. What would you try if you knew failure was impossible.
49. See problems, adversity and failure as tools. Problems and failure are not positive or negative.
50. Eliminate your limitations. The only things that hold you back in life are your own self-limitations.
51. Eat right, exercise and relax. Proper nutrition, exercise and regular vacations can work wonders.
52. Come up with one of your own, you should be able to do this by now.

Success is never easy or fast. Many people lack the courage, commitment, belief and follow-through to integrate some or all of the above techniques or strategies into their behavior. I can only tell you from years of experience both applying and teaching these techniques that if you are determined to excel in your career and life that sooner or later you must improve in many or all of these areas.

[tracyho]

Thanks Tom , a long list but worth consider ,

To your success,
Tracy Ho
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