10 Habits Successful People Give Up To Increase Their Productivity

10 Habits Successful People Give Up To Increase Their Productivity

Success is not by chance; it is result of long term effort and endeavors. Successful people grab opportunities, take risks and give up a lot, to be at the highest point in their lives. Successful people are not granted anything without effort or by luck; these are just excuses average people made to make themselves look good in their own eyes.

If you want to be among the successful people, stay on top of the game and want to achieve all your goals, give up these habits and join the elite club.

1. Successful people don’t give up where their comfort zone ends.

Challenging your own self is the ultimate point of success. You challenge yourself when you push beyond your comfort zone and that is the point when your success story begins. When you go out of familiarity and control zone, then you take risks and try new things. Every risk taken and every new thing tried is a step forward on the road of success.

2. They don’t measure success in financial terms

Money brings peace of mind and predictability for future but money does not define your success. Successful people are more concerned with their growth in terms of character, public standing and their positive contribution to society and their loved ones. Having multiple touchstones of success helps to keep things in perspective and gives multiple dimensions in life.

3. They are not shy of questioning and asking for advice

Asking for advice from mentors or coach or someone experienced gives a new facet, a new point of view of the same situation. When you ask advice from trusted people, you get the chance not to repeat mistakes others made and you come out with possible solutions and options. Questioning is sometimes difficult but at the end of it questioning makes you learn new things and as they said asking a question makes you a fool for a moment but not asking makes you a fool forever.

4. They do not make excuses for failures

Putting burden of your failure on circumstances, nature or other people is sure short way to deceive yourself. No one is responsible of your success of failure except your conscious decisions and choices. When you take responsibility of everything happening in your life, you are bound to make efforts in positive direction towards success.

5. They don’t follow, they lead

Successful people take the less travelled route, they take positive risks, make things happen for them and thus people follow them. They are the ones who are inspiring for others because they are more established internally and externally. Only following the leaders will only make you among the average people who did the safe things and thus only achieved the predictable.

6. They do not stop learning

Learning is a never ending process. When you stop learning, you stop going any further than where you are. Learning from others and from your own experiences is crucial for moving forward. You learn both by your mistakes and by right decisions. Everything you experience is your chance to learn.

7. They do not judge themselves by others’ opinions

Everyone has their own perception and their own set of values. You have your own set of problems, solutions, circumstances and values. So there is no point in trying to please everyone and to achieve a common set of everything with everyone. This is impossible and a futile practice.

8. They do not set blurry generic goals

Your goals define your personality. Having vague and generic goals means you do not have anything to measure your success against, you cannot monitor your progress against generic goals. For example, I want to be on top of my career is simply a vague statement but I want to be CEO of my company or I want to be in the list of top ten professionals in my field is a solid goal.

9. They do not live in the past

Past is unchangeable and beyond control but today is what you have. Today is all you have that you can change or control or make available for yourself. Learn from your past and move on. Spending too much time and effort on past means you are sacrificing your future for your past and this is not something anyone can afford if they want to be successful. Living in the past deprives you to enjoy the present and to work towards your future.

10. They do not resist change

People resist change when they fear it. Accommodating the change that comes in your way and to adapt to the new situation saves a lot of time that you would otherwise waste in actively or passively resisting change. On the other hand, changing yourself positively is key point in moving forwards.

Source: http://www.peacequarters.com/10-habits-successful-people-give-up-to-increase-their-productivity 5 May 2015