5 Habits of The Most Successful People

Caelan Huntress
Aug 31, 2018 · 4 min read

Habits of successful people provide a roadmap you can follow. If you begin following the habits of successful people, it’s inevitable that you will become a successful person yourself. These five habits can change your life.

Habit #1 — Daily Rituals To Enter “State”

There are daily rituals that put you into what Tony Robbins calls “State,” and rituals that take you out of it. State is the emotional condition where you feel energized, and powerful, and connected.

Successful people intentionally create rituals to keep them in State. When they go out of State, they look to their daily rituals to recalibrate their life.

“Most people in life fail not because they don’t have the ability or the intelligence or the skill, but because they don’t have the emotional gas to get up the mountain of success.”

Tony Robbins

Habit #2 — Perpetual Positive Attitude

A positive outlook will allow you to see the advantage in situations that paralyze others. As the old Stoic maxim goes, “Cheerfulness in all situations, especially bad ones.”

Jeffrey Gitomer, sales trainer and best-selling author of The Sales Bible, said in Success magazine that one of the top 10 traits of high sales performers was a positive mental attitude.

“Perpetual, consistent, positive attitude and enthusiasm is the first rule of facing the customer, facing the obstacles, facing the competition, facing the economy and facing yourself.”

Jeffrey Gitomer

Habit #3 — Eat the Biggest Frog First

Mark Twain said that if you have to eat a bucket of frogs, start with the biggest one first (and you should do it first thing in the morning). Otherwise, you will be dreading the difficulty all the livelong day, and the rest of your work and life will suffer.

This willingness to do the difficult first is an essential habit of success, says Brian Tracy, author of Eat That Frog.

“Successful, effective people are those who launch directly into their major tasks and then discipline themselves to work steadily and single-mindedly until those tasks are complete.”

Brian Tracy

Habit #4 — Imagine What You Want

In an interview with Leo Babauta on Zen Habits, author of 7 Habits of Highly Effective People Stephen Covey said during his morning routine, he visualized his entire day. Covey decided in advance how he wanted everything to go, how he wanted to feel, and the principles he wanted to live by. This is what Covey calls “the private victory.”

“We may be very busy, we may be very efficient, but we will also be truly effective only when we begin with the end in mind.”

Stephen Covey

Habit #5 — Start Your Day In Intention

The worst thing you can do right after waking up, high performance coach Brendon Burchard says, is check your inbox.

Brendon calls your inbox “a convenient organizing system of other people’s agendas.” Do other people’s agendas really deserve to be the focus of your attention during the first part of your day?

“You can give yourself twenty minutes, before you serve the rest of the world. You need to be in a good place. Give yourself peace through better planning.”

Brendon Burchard

Recommended Next Step: Join a Mastermind

If you’re ready to start improving your habits, you can do more than write it down and try it alone. Declare your intentions to a group of your peers, and meet with them week after week, in order to see immediate results.

Are you ready to try that for three months?

Join The Make It Happen Mastermind.

Caelan Huntress

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Father of 3. Website designer. Digital marketer. Retired superhero. Creative director at https://stellarplatforms.com

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