Failures are unavoidable for even the most talented, driven people.
The successful, however, learn from their setbacks and develop habits that keep them from making the same mistakes repeatedly.
Napoleon Hill, author of "Think and Grow Rich," one of the bestselling books of all time, explained that there are three common reasons people don't achieve success.
He talked about them in an undated radio broadcast most likely from around 1953, since Hill was promoting his book "How to Raise Your Own Salary," published in the same year.
This radio clip, titled "Three Causes of Failure," was among the years' worth of material the Napoleon Hill Foundation gave motivational speaker and author Greg Reid, whose latest book "Stickability" repurposes Hill's teachings on perseverance for a contemporary audience.
Here are what Hill considered the most common reasons people fail:
1. Being unable to get along with other people
Hill placed tremendous importance on having a "million-dollar personality." Successful people have a network of those who will go out of their way to help them.
As Hill says, "The first step to causing others to like you is to begin by liking them." The best collaborators are likable because they care about their reputation and understand the value of others. The key is to be genuine, since people can easily see past a fake smile and insincere handshake.
Reid recommends adopting an "inverse paranoid" personality, where you think the world is conspiring to help you rather than hold you back, and you'll be more open to positive connections.
2. Quitting when things get tough
In the radio broadcast, Hill says that Thomas Edison, who he had previously interviewed, tested countless materials for the incandescent lamp before finding the ones that worked.
"One failure is sufficient to make the average person quit. Perhaps this is why there are so many average persons, and there was only one Thomas A. Edison," Hill says.
3. Procrastinating
Procrastination is rooted in fear, whether it's a fear of not meeting your own ambition or being embarrassed. Successful people lack this fear and make decisions after they have a sufficient amount of information, avoiding the need to feel like their decision is "perfect."
The 4 Habits You Need to Be Successful
The most successful people in this world maintain and master good habits. They realize what they do on a daily basis and where they direct their energy deeply matters when it comes to reaching their goals.
The habits you have picked up over the past couple of years is a reflection of where you are right this moment.
The sad news is that most people don’t have very good habits. The great news is if you are unhappy where you are at in your life you can gradually change the trajectory by altering what you do daily. To achieve high levels of success, you must start to develop the habits of the highly successful.
Below you will find four habits that will help you maximize the results you have been producing and live the life of your dreams.
1. Focus your energy. Learning how to direct your energy towards your most rewarding tasks is crucial for achieving high levels of success. One of the biggest mistakes that many people make is directing their energy towards low-valued tasks. Take a look at everything you have going on right now in your life. Pay close attention and ask yourself what the high-valued tasks are -- the ones that have the potential to bring the most reward to you and your business.
2. Ability to prioritize. Think of what is your most important goal right this moment. If you had to pick one goal that would make everything else in your life tick, this is it. High achievers never lose sight of what their major goal is. Every day, do something that will inch you closer to the achievement of your main goal.
3. Can project and complete tasks. Being able to start something and follow through until it's completed is a key to long-term success.
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Picture yourself completely finishing your projects and tasks. Take note of how you feel visualizing yourself getting the job done. The more you can picture yourself following through and completing important tasks, the more determined you will be to actually do so.
4. Having a PMA. To be successful, you need to have a positive mental attitude, or PMA. If you do nothing about negative thoughts, chances are you will be settling for average. Instead, you need to continually feed your mind with positive thoughts.
A great percentage of successful people have all experienced some sort of setback or failure. They could have just stopped their journey right there and called it quits. Instead, they had a positive mental attitude about themselves and their abilities, which gave them the power needed to continue along and reach their goals. Creating this sort of attitude could be one of your most important habits that you end up incorporating on a daily basis.
No matter where you are in life, there is always more to reach for. When you constantly strive to become a better person, refine your skill set and invest in your future daily, you become more as an individual. When you become more as an individual, your value increases. The more your value increases, the more successful you will become -- and it all starts with your habits.
Thank you for reading this Blog
I hope this offered you some perspective and things to think about.
Antonio Mostales Nabuya Jr
Online Entrepreneur
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