The 77 Traits Of Highly Successful People – Part 3/5

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*This blog post is Part 3 of a 5-part series on ‘The 77 Traits Of Highly Successful People‘.

I hope you enjoyed reading Part 1 and Part 2 of this series. Today, I’m presenting you Part 3 of the series and I hope you’ll enjoy it just as much.

The 77 Traits of Highly Successful People – Part 3 (Trait 31 – 45)

31. Plan to Live Your Dream

As the saying goes, “Failing to plan is planning to fail.” Dreams don’t turn into reality by chance. Dreams require a combination of good planning and massive actions to take life.

Successful people don’t do things randomly to become successful. They always plan a few steps ahead so that they have a good sense of the direction they should be taking in order to get to where they want to be.

32. Determine Your First Major Milestone

You can’t plan without knowing where you want to go. However, you don’t only plan how to achieve what you want to achieve in the next few years. You should set your first major milestone at least ten years down the road. Subsequently, you break it up into smaller yearly, quarterly and monthly milestones.

Once you’ve achieved your first major milestone, then you can set your second major milestone another ten years down the road and plan how to get there.

33. Visualise

Visualisation is another great success tool which highly successful people constantly utilise to help accelerate their achievement of any success.

This is an activity which a lot of athletes are told to perform by their peak performance trainers on a daily basis and just before a match.

Visualising your goals has two main benefits. One is that, when you visualise your goals, it will help you to fire up your burning desire so that you’ll be motivated to go all out and do your utmost to turn your goals into reality.

Secondly, when you visualise what you want, your subconscious mind will be activated to start noticing everything that is available to help you achieve your goals and create solutions for achieving them.

34. Fake It Till You Make It

This does not mean to lie about what you do or who you are. It simply means to imagine as if you’re already where you want to be, doing what you want to do.

Before they’re successful, highly successful people already think, talk, dress, and act like they have already made it in life.

This follows the theory of Be Do Have, where you first be the successful person you strive to be; do what a successful person will do; and then you’ll eventually get what you long to have.

35. Take a Break

Although successful people enjoy what they do, they still get burnt out if they do nothing else but work. Breaks from work are good for recharging oneself and reflect on what needs to be improved to make things better. It clears your mind and prepares you for the journey ahead.

36. Admit Your Mistakes

Subdue your ego. Be brave to admit your mistakes.

“Even a mistake may turn out to be the one thing necessary to a worthwhile achievement” – Henry Ford

By admitting your own mistakes, you’re able to develop a clearer perspective on the issue at hands that needs to be resolved and hence, helping you to come up with a viable solution to make things work.

37. Set Your Goals

After you’ve decided what you want (see Trait 5), you need to turn them into specific and measurable goals and write them down in details.

Vague goals produce vague results, which is why your goals need to be as specific as possible and there must be a way of measurement so that you know very well if you have achieved your goals.

It is important to write them down in details because writing them down will send stronger signals to your subconscious mind and trigger it to seek out opportunities and solutions to help you achieve your goals.

38. Think Long-Term

Highly successful people don’t sacrifice long-term advantage for short-term gains. For example, they’d rather forgo a sale than risk tarnishing their credibility and reputation if the sale is not conducted in their clients’ best interest.

They understand high credibility and good reputation are what will bring them the most benefits in terms of repeat businesses over the long-term.

39. Speak to Win

If you want to achieve great success, you have to learn how to win friends and influence other people. Highly successful people are great in motivating and impelling people to think, feel, and act accordingly with the mere use of words.

It may or may not be a skill they’re born with. But whether they possess it naturally or not, they will seek to pick up or further enhance this highly valuable skill.

40. Put in the Sweat

Most people are too lazy to be successful. They may already be working hard at work, but they’re not willing to make sacrifices after their work hours to learn, study, and pick up extra skills that are helpful in propelling them to higher achievement.

Highly successful people often start their day early, work long hours, take short breaks, and they’ll always dedicate time to learn something new to grow themselves. They understand they have to put in the sweat before they can reap the dividends.

41. Establish Good Relationships

I’ve mentioned on my blog before that no millionaire is self-made. Every millionaire makes his/her million(s) with the help of someone else – family, friends, partners, etc.

Everybody needs help every now and then. Highly successful people are always not afraid or embarrassed to ask for help (Trait 24 – Ask For What You Want).

But you can only get help if you’ve established good relationships with the people you’re seeking help with.

42. Give to Receive

If you want to receive, you must first give. If you want help from other people, you first be willing to help them. You must first volunteer to help without asking anything in return. Be genuine in wanting to help.

And this goes the same for everything in life, be it money, happiness, love, care, attention, or anything else. You must first give to receive.

43. Stretch Yourself

If we keep living within our own comfort zone, we’ll only be trapping our own potential to achieve something great and remain stuck in the rut.

Highly successful people believe that they’d have accomplished nothing if they had not stepped out of their comfort zone.

They’re always ready to do what they’re unfamiliar and uncomfortable with, and are prepared to face whatever comes along as challenges to help them grow to become better, wiser and richer.

44. Increase Your Financial IQ

Highly successful people became successful and remain successful because they’re financially educated.

Robert Kiyosaki has said, “It’s financial education that enables people to process financial information and turn it into knowledge… and most people don’t have the financial education they need to take charge of their lives.”

Highly successful people don’t simply follow other people’s advice blindly no matter how professional they are.

They will seek professional advice, do their own analysis, make their own judgments, and then make their decisions.

By doing so, they become educated and increasing their financial IQ in the process.

45. Be a Risk Taker

The greatest risk in life is to take no risk at all. If you don’t take the risk, you have zero percent chance of getting what you want. But when you take the risk, you’ll have at least 50 percent chance.

In other words, taking a risk means giving yourself a chance or hope. If you don’t take it, you’re simply depriving yourself a chance and give yourself nothing to hope for.

This is the end of Part 3 of the 5-part series. In the next post, you’ll get the list of Trait 46 – 60. So stay tuned.

Cheers~

(Update: Read Part 4 here)

P.S. If you’ve missed Part 1 and 2, please read them here and here respectively.

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