Be Successful in Life, Starting Today.
People who fail to succeed in life don’t just have bad luck; their failures are usually the result of some shortcoming on their end. It may be simply doing things incorrectly or failing to do something that needs to be done. Unsuccessful people like to blame anything and everything except for themselves, which is just going to make things worse.
You can’t get through life thinking you know everything and don’t need help. You also can’t try and build your life off of unrealistic standards sold to you by Hollywood. So instead, opt to try and observe and learn from real people you know who are successful and take advantage of their expertise.
Developing Healthy Habits
In life, the first step to being successful is learning from successful people. It can take time, and you have to be willing to put in the work to develop healthy habits. You won’t become successful overnight. Instead, you have to incorporate certain habits into your daily or weekly routine and do it frequently enough that it begins to happen naturally.
Controlling your train of thought can be tricky, but you can do it, and this is one of the first healthy habits to work on to be successful. When something goes wrong, a successful person’s train of thought is typically to ask, “what did I do wrong?” and “What do I need to change for next time to make sure I get it right?”
Thoughts such as “I’m hopeless,” or “I’ll never get it right.” are a great way to set yourself up for failure. You have to train your mind to ask the right questions and not shift the blame or let yourself give up at the first sign of struggle. Doing so will have you going in circles, looking for answers you will never find.
Do not go into any situation thinking you already know it all. There is always more to learn, and there will always be people who are better than you. However, if you go into it seeking to learn and improve, this is how you will be successful.
Learn to recognize your current habits and ask yourself, are they leading you toward success or failure? If you realize your current habits and thoughts are unhelpful, learning to redirect them and create new thought patterns is key to achieving your current goals.
Overcoming Bad Habits
It might seem impossible to think about changing some of your current habits, especially if you can’t remember a time when you didn’t have them. However, there was a point where you picked up your behavioral patterns from someone or something. We typically develop habits over time, usually learned from our parents or other childhood influences in our lives.
Not all of our old habits are bad, but how can you tell which ones are and which ones should be kept? Is it possible to change lifelong bad habits? The answer is yes.
Regardless of how long these bad habits may have been in effect, it is possible to change them or eliminate them entirely. You can also work on reinforcing your good habits and using them to recognize how to make new, better habits. All you need is a lot of focus and willpower.
3 Healthy Habits to Lead You Be Successful in Life
There are plenty of healthy habits that you can incorporate into your life to help you be successful if you’re willing to put in the effort. Here are some of the best ways you can do that, and it may not be as simple as you think.
Create Your Own Success.
You won’t be successful at anything if you’re sitting around and waiting for good things to fall in your lap.
None of America’s most famous names have a story that starts with “I just waited, and then boom, I was amazing.”. No, it was a long, hard road that led to a great victory in the end. You have to chase your dreams, not wait for them to come to you, because that simply will not happen.
Believe In Yourself
How can you expect others to believe in you if you don’t even believe in yourself? You have to be confident in your skills and abilities, and when you fail, believe that you will get back up again and do better next time.
“You yourself, as much as anyone in the entire universe, deserve your love and affection.” —Buddha
“No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.” —Eleanor Roosevelt.
“Nothing can stop the man with the right mental attitude from achieving his goal; nothing on earth can help the man with the wrong mental attitude.” —Thomas Jefferson
Never Give Up
Instead of looking at a failure as the end of the road, look at it as a lesson. For example, after 10,000 failed attempts at making the light bulb, Thomas Edison was famous for saying, “I have not failed, I just found 10,000 ways that don’t work.”
Keep a positive attitude, learn from your failures and try again and again. J. K Rowling was, at one time, a divorced single mother living off of government financial support when she wrote Harry Potter. Publishers rejected her drafts several times before she finally got her big break because she never gave up.
Trying Your Best
You’ll never get anywhere if you do things half-heartedly. Learn the rules, read the directions and be sure that you are following guidelines to a T. Just because you think your way might be better doesn’t mean it is.
You can take creative leeway and bend the rules on occasion, but don’t be so arrogant as to think that your way is the only way. Instead, watch the people around you—are they succeeding? Then follow them. Once you have a grip on things and are successful, then take the liberty to make improvements.
Take Action
One of the best ways to develop new habits is to associate with those who are doing the same or have some kind of visual reminder of what you are trying to accomplish. For example, having an accountability partner or hanging out with people you admire is a good way to keep yourself on track. Likewise, spending time with negative people will decrease your likelihood of success.
Choose wisely the people you surround yourself with. If insecure, unsuccessful people are constantly influencing you, then you too will be insecure and unsuccessful. Don’t let negative influences get in the way of you reaching your goals.
It takes the average person 21 days to start a new habit or break an old one. Once you have a goal in mind of what successful habits you’d like to adopt and which ones you need to break, it’s time to take action.
Focus on one goal at a time—any more than that and you set yourself up to fail. Be patient and be willing to put in the time to be successful in life. It takes concentration, effort, and time to properly repeat the correct habits you wish to intricate into your life. Before you know it, you’ll surprise yourself with how far you’ve come.
