Successful People Feed Their Success, Not Their Failure
Do you ever wonder what makes successful people successful? What is it about them that gives them the edge that sets them apart? One of the most basic features of a successful people is their habits.
Habits can literally make or break a person. Whether we like it or not, our habits control us. Therefore, one of the best ways to find success is to create habits that carry us to that success, rather than away from it.
Habits of Successful People
In his groundbreaking book, The Slight Edge, author Jeff Olson makes the following statement:
“Successful people form habits that feed their success, instead of habits that feed their failure.”
Each action you make leads you either to success or to failure. And since so many of our actions are automatic and habitual, we are feeding our future all day, every day, often without even realizing it.
When analyzing successful people you’ll see the key to their success is that they are intentional about creating habits that feed a successful future rather than one that is unsuccessful.
But creating successful habits is not an easy task. It requires not only knowledge about what success is but also determination to push through the pain that sometimes arises on the road to victory.
What does success look like for you?
Perhaps it is a healthy and fit body. Maybe it is a peaceful relationship with your spouse. Or success might be a productive business. Once you define your success, then you can get to work on creating the habits that lead to it.
One of the best ways to do this is to model successful people who have what you want.
For example, if your success marker is a healthy and fit body, you will need to establish habits that lead you to health rather than habits that lead you away from health. Some of these habits that successful people would include; getting enough sleep each night, refusing to eat unhealthy food, working out five or six days a week and eating plenty of nutrient rich food.
By practicing these four successful people actions every day, you will eventually build habits that carry you to health.
However, if you habitually rob your body of sleep, eat fast food several times a week, pass on the vegetables and only exercise occasionally, you will not be healthy. You will be carried along to a state of unhealth and unfitness.
Every decision you make is taking you either in the direction of success or failure. And since most of our lives are dictated by habits, make the effort to examine your current habits and how they line up with your definition of success. Do the hard work of changing those habits, so that the trajectory of your life is toward success and fulfillment, rather than failure and mediocrity.
