Everyone of us love secrets we hate being excluded, we all love being insiders, we love the feeling of knowing that something is known by us and us alone and no one else has our secret
In business, secrets do more than giving us invisible shoulder pad.We love making it big. we love having the upper hand.
So when someone like Dr. Ivan Misner, founder and chairman of BNI, the world’s largest business networking organization boasting 5.4 million referrals and more than $6.5 billion in resulting revenue, asks, “Do you want to know the secret to success?” you listen.
WHAT EXACTLY IS THE SECRET
The secret is just not one but think about this definition of success success is the uncommon application of common knowledge
That means when it comes to success its not about learning new things and applying the things we have learnt but the correct application of the principles we have learnt.
Here are four not-so-secret secrets of insanely successful people:
1. They have a vision.
Success starts with answering a fundamental question of WHAT DO I WANT
Whether you call the answer "to achieve my goals" "to live my dreams" "to become very rich in life" " to be unfluential" doesn't really matter, it's still the same mission in all
Here’s how Bennis puts the idea: The leader has a clear idea of what he or she wants to do—professionally and personally—and the strength to persist in the face of setbacks, even failures.
The keyword is “clear.” And clarity means writing it down.
Have a vision, write it down and make it plain
Two of the most statistically significant factors that set the richest people apart from everyone else is that 81 percent of them maintain a to-do list and 80 percent focus on accomplishing a specific goal.
2. They are honest.
Successful people are always honest with themselves they tel the truth, but in an environment where there is pressure to look good, look like the best millionaire, eke out profits and win by any means necessary is constantly increasing, honesty is becoming a scarce commodity.
Still honesty pays
According to research in Robert B. Cialdini’s Yes! 50 Scientifically Proven Ways to Be Persuasive, when companies “explained failures in their annual reports, those that pointed to internal and controllable factors had higher stock prices one year later than those that pointed to external and uncontrollable factors.”
That’s means taking responsibility for the mistakes made by us and and admitting with no reluctance that we are wrong is smart and financially In ot.
What’s true for companies is just as true for us. As Bennis wrote, “Leaders never lie to themselves, especially about themselves…. You are your own raw material.”
3. They show gratitude.
Successful people are always grateful they don't complain because complaining is a negativity . When you're not grateful you will have less motivation to go after more good things
Gratitude shouldn't just be expressed when something good happens it should be expressed every time for the good things in our lives. Gratitude is an habit that we develop
And just like all the other secrets on this list, it is something we choose, something we make a wide-eyed, premeditated, self-determined decision to experience.
How? By actively looking for reasons to be grateful and second, by simply saying, “thank you.”
When we search out reasons to be grateful when we are intentional about it we will find out reasons to be grateful. When attention is called to those reasons we develop gratitude within ourselves and our relationships and organizations.
4. They are adaptive.
Success isn't about hiding from failure of avoiding failure. It's really about learning from failure, learning from your mistakes.
Thomas Edison’s is a good example, his famous quote about inventing the light bulb was: “I have not failed. I’ve just found 10,000 ways that won’t work.”
Instead of hiding from failure, insanely successful people anticipate and integrate failure into their lives in ways that transform it from an end into a means.
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