Saying something: Part fifteen

I had an idea to do a little series of posts about things I've learned and applied to my personal and professional life. I'll keep these posts quite short but hope someone reads something they can fit into their own life of they can use to good effect.

Successful people and unsuccessful people

Successful: Welcome change as opportunity and are happy to learn from others and their own failures
Unsuccessful: Gossip, talk behind other's backs and secretly hope they fail

Successful: Work off to do lists, methodically and on the important things first and operate from a transactional perspective (working with others)
Unsuccessful: Are often angry, arrogant, difficult to get along with and self-absorbed without care for others

Successful: Understand that hard work, effort, persistence and discipline are required elements
Unsuccessful: Want things for nothing or no effort, to be gifted success rather than work for it

This is the third and last part of nine elements that differentiate successful and unsuccessful people and I'm interested in your thoughts. What elements make a successful or unsuccessful person - I'm not talking about what success looks like, but what a person does that makes them successful or not.