What are your success habits? Reflect On These 3 Questions

When you achieve success, you feel infinite. You have worked endless days, months, and years to achieve what matters to you, and finally, you have met your desired goals and dreams.

For you, maybe that is creating a leveraged business and moving to a hot, exquisite part of the world. Or maybe it’s becoming the patient, inspirational leader you have always been striving for: finally, you are initiating thoughtful, lasting change.

You probably currently have a goal that you are working on. Although, as you are reading this, I am assuming you have not met it yet. What is the obstacle stopping you from achieving your success? Even though you may have a thorough, clear plan for the goals you would like to achieve, putting things from pen to paper just isn’t enough.

Your current mindset and pre-programmed habits you have set yourself are the other half to opening that desired door. So, what are your habits leading to where you are right now? Let’s discover your success habits and your not-so success habits:

Success habits:

  • Taking some time out of your day to reflect on the positives and negatives – a great way to reflect on your day is by recording your reflections in a journal – at the end of every night, record: 1) 3 things that went well today 2) 3 things that could be improved
  • Regularly reading to enhance knowledge and increase focus – what would you like to develop in yourself right now?  Take the action to improve by picking up a book on the desired area of growth. Perhaps you are struggling with patience, or you would like to increase your confidence in public speaking
  • Taking time to listen– you will always learn something from listening. When you are next having a conversation with someone, stick by the 3 second rule – when someone has stopped speaking, wait three seconds until you say something. They are likely to speak more and you will find out information you otherwise would not have known if you interrupted them!
  • Obsession with goal pursuing, planning, then ACTING on it – the purpose of forming success habits in your life and business is so you can take more action towards achieving your desired goals

Bad habits:

  • Regularly procrastinating– ‘I’ll do it later.’ How much is procrastination is costing your business? There are many reasons why business owners procrastinate, for example, the fear of failure, fear of success and failing to break their tasks down into smaller, more manageable chunks. Start identifying the reasons why you are procrastinating in your business, and create a plan of action to overcome these procrastination habits
  • Setting goals in your head hoping for a miracle – a plan in your head is only a dream – success habits involve writing where your business will be heading within the next 5,10,15 years on paper
  • Using your time unwisely – where are you wasting your time as a business owner?
  • Negative self-beliefs – pay attention to recurring thoughts you say to yourself on a daily basis and you may be surprised how much negativity comes out of your mouth. The best way to change your self task is through affirmations – read out positive and success encouraging affirmations to set you on the right path to making the most of your success habits

Perhaps some of these sound familiar to you.  What you must understand is that these habits will either make you or break you- a business owner may read regularly but setting goals in their head will not clarify their objectives.

While you can’t pick and mix which good and bad habits you like, you can begin taking the good habits or dwelling your life around the bad ones. If you are ready to make a positive change, there are some questions you should first ask these 3 questions to help shift your mindset around creating success habits:

1) Do you think success is due to hard work or luck?

2) On a scale of 1-10, how much of your success habits formations will be down to you?

3) What are some of the barriers which will prevent you from forming success habits, and how can you overcome them?

Forming and sticking to success habits heavily comes down to your perceived locus of control. It is your perception of events being determined by your behaviour, or the external sources around you.

After all, if you take ownership of your actions and hold yourself accountable for forming your beneficial habits, you are going to move forwards, compared to using blame, excuse and denial to explain your actions. If you would like to learn more about the locus of control, follow this link here.

Take time to educate, apply and improve your current success habits- perhaps within the next five years, you will be surprised by what you have accomplished. If you would like additional resources to help you achieve this direction, check out some useful success related downloads