What Makes People Successful? Hello everyone, I hope you are well. In today’s post, I will be sharing what makes people successful. Lately, I have been focusing on my blog and life. A lot has changed, which is a good and bad thing. Luckily, I am the sort of person that welcomes changes, and I always try to work my way around them. However, I have reached a point where I ask specific questions like how people become successful and what makes people successful? Why Am I not successful?
What Makes People Successful?
Strategies for Success
- What do successful people do that others don’t?
- What motivates them to keep going?
- Can anyone be successful?
- What makes them different from others?
Attitude
Successful people are confident, honest and driven.
These are attitudes, not skills.
Our attitudes can improve our skills, so we must change our attitudes and become more focused and driven.
Our minds find it impossible to store all the information it receives in a day, and so it deletes unnecessary detail. So it would be best if you changed your attitude toward your business or your life. You need to set goals, concentrate on knowing what you want, and work towards achieving your goals.
But your goals need to be SMART goals:
- Specific – know exactly what you want.
- Measurable – be able to follow the progress
- Achievable – be within your capabilities
- Realistic – be possible to do
- Time – you must take the time to do it
You need to know exactly what your goals are, be able to set a plan and follow it, be achievable for you (e.g. don’t attempt to be a brain surgeon if you can’t stand the sight of blood), and be possible to do (e.g. don’t try and think you can fly). You must be prepared to put in the time to achieve your goals or have the time to do it.
Seeing Things As They Are
Some days start tremendous and get better, while others start wrong and get worse.
Why is this?
It all depends on your attitude and what you’re focusing on. If you’re in a bad mood, everything will seem bad because you’re focusing on it.
It’s just the same with your goals. If you focus on missing them, then you will.
You see, our brain never hears the word “won’t” or “don’t”. That’s why children always do what you tell them not to. They never hear the word “don’t”.
So if you focus on not missing your goal by thinking, “I won’t fail”, then you will. Instead, tell yourself, “I will succeed”.
Forget Failure
Children learn faster than adults because they have no fear of ridicule or failure.
Children always look on the bright side:
- Kids are curious – Adults are cynical.
- Kids love puddles – Adults hate rain.
Babies learn to walk by setting a goal and working towards it. When they fall, they adopt a different strategy, such as holding onto the furniture, and then keep going and learning. We should take a leaf out of a baby’s book.
Never say, “I can’t do this.” Just take notice of what’s not working and change strategies. This will move you closer to your goal.
What else stops you from achieving your goals?
Beliefs
Your beliefs can hinder or help you, but they can only help you if you understand that they are only beliefs. Events don’t shape your life. It’s your interpretation of these events that shape your life.
Your beliefs and certainties have the power to expand or destroy your true potential. Beliefs are limiting, so it’s essential to understand that they are only beliefs, not reality.
The past does not equal the future. Just because you haven’t achieved something in the past doesn’t mean you can’t reach it in the future.
It would help if you questioned your beliefs and where they come from.
Remember, you can change – but not if you believe you can’t.
Focus on what your limiting beliefs have stopped you from achieving. Change whatever is limiting you. If you believe you’ll win, then you will.
Remember that you don’t have to be 100% successful in everything you do to be successful. Every step you take to achieve your goal is a success. And if something goes wrong, chalk it up to experience – we learn from our experiences.
Things You Can Do Right Now
Always ask yourself:
- What did I do well today?
- What did I learn today?
- What am I going to do differently tomorrow?
Never avoid failure.
Stride for success
Keep trying different strategies. We slump when depressed and sit tall when we feel successful. Adopting these postures can affect our attitude and state of mind.
How you feel on the inside can affect how you look on the outside, which can influence people around you. What you focus your mind on affects your body language. Therefore you can change your state of mind by changing your posture. So when you feel depressed, adopt the upright posture of a successful person.
People and circumstances can also affect your state of mind, but this can be controlled. Instead of giving up letting external factors control your state of mind, adopt a positive attitude, stand tall and refuse to be influenced by negative things around you.
This is easier said than done because our responses are learned, and our unconscious mind cannot always distinguish what is and isn’t real.
For instance, if you raise your hand to your mouth and imagine you’re sucking a lemon, you’ll wince. The lemon may be imaginary, but your mind has a conditioned response which makes you wince.
Therefore, never forget:
- If you think you can’t achieve something, then you won’t.
- Nothing will stand in your way if you think you can achieve something.
I hope you enjoyed that.
Talk soon
18 Comments
Sarah
Attitude is definitely HUGE for success. Having the attitude to keep going, work hard, have motivation is very important.
Iris Findlay
This is such a helpful and inspiring post. I would love to interview you for a blog post in October if you are interested and have time for that.
Soniasblog
Hey Iris, I will be honoured to take part. Send me a mail on Facebook.
Mamie
Using SMART goals have definitely helped me at work.
Michelle thibeault
These are so true. I think not being afriad of failure is super important
Forever Freckled Blog
This is so true; having the right mindset is key to success. Needed to read this today, thank you for sharing.
Monica Simpson
Oh if only we adults could embrace failure the way babies do. When they’re learning to walk and they fall down, they don’t give up. They don’t even see it as failure. Such a beautiful reminder on how to change our attitudes!
Leah
Totally agree! It’s so important to get caught up in what we perceive is a failure. Instead we need to ask “What can I learn from that? “What can I tweak or change to reach my goal?” Great insights!
Jasmine Hewitt
totally agree, its all in that mindset
Jennifer Van Haitsma
I totally agree, especially about mindset. Having a clear, positive mindset really gets you going in the right direction!
Ashley
These are all great, my favorite is attitude! You have to have the right mindset and positive attitude to be successful at anything.
Cheeia
Thank you so much. Seriously I was just thinking about this today. I was starting to question my worth and why i was working so hard for nothing. But you reminded me to get my mind set back to where it needs to be. Thank you
Samantha Laycock
I love that success can mean different things to different people.
Lourdes
I really needed to read these today
Puja Kumari
This is such a Motivational post, I really need hear this during this situation when we are getting only negative things.
Diana
This is great advice! Having the right mindset definitely helps.
shay thomas
Hey, I just wanted to say that this is a great article. I’m really big on setting goals but, I never really make them “SMART” So, your advice is truly helpful and I can’t wait to apply it.
Soniasblog
Thank you so much for reading. I am glad ‘SMART’ helped.