30 Short Habits of The Top 10%

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Thomas Oppong
Personal Growth
Published in
5 min readSep 9, 2022

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Habits are the building blocks of success. Your habits make or break you. The top 10% of any population have an uncommon set of habits that make them rise above the rest. When planning for your best future, focus on habits rather than specific circumstances.

“People do not decide their futures, they decide their habits and their habits decide their futures,” F. M. Alexander rightly said. Good habits compound in our favour. Practised over time, you become unstoppable.

The top 10% of performers in any field drive the bulk of the results. Highly productive or successful people are always seeking to elevate performance.

For many people, the top 10% means being on the cutting edge of life, finding ways to do things differently and breaking free from traditional notions of how things should be done.

The challenge is how you can raise the bar or replicate the habits of successful people. There is no magic bullet. Top performers succeed by practising deliberate habits consistently, almost every day.

The top 10% increase their net worth by doing more of what’s working. Benjamin Franklin was right when he said, “Your net worth to the world is usually determined by what remains after your bad habits are…

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Thomas Oppong
Personal Growth

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