There are many other powerful habits that can be developed to help us achieve success as we have defined it. These success habits apply, and are basically the same, whether we are talking about personal success or success in leadership. Attitude, people, relationships, action, success ‘ they are all intertwined. Let’s examine a few additional success habits:

Success Habit #3: Dream. Search your soul! Choose. Believe.

Know who you are and what you want! What are your dreams? What are your priorities in life? Begin with the end in mind and determine where you want to be when it is all said and done. Imagine the future and believe in it. Eleanor Roosevelt said, “The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.” What is your purpose? Decide what is most important. There must be congruence in your life between your goals, your values, and your priorities for you to reach your full potential. “No planet, star, or sun could hold you, if you could but know who you are.”"‘Emerson

Success Habit #4: Chart your course.

To reach any destination there are certain things we must know. We must know where we are going, where we are starting from, and directions to go from the starting place to the ending place. Chart your course. Start with where you want to be in the end and work backwards to where you are today.

Success Habit #5: Write your goals! Big, Hairy, Audacious Goals!

Written goals are powerful! Your subconscious mind begins to work on the tasks that you have given thought to, and especially to those that are written. In charting your course, make sure that you have written goals. Big goals! Remember, if your goals are not a little scary, you are not pushing yourself out of your comfort zone. You have to step out of your comfort zone and determine to do new, sometimes frightening things to reach new heights and get an improved outcome. “If we keep doing things like we’ve always done them, we will get what we’ve always gotten.”

Success Habit #6: Get Busy! Be passionate! Take action! Go for it! Give it your all!

It is reported that someone once asked J. Paul Getty, U.S. oil man and one of the richest men in the world in the 1950s, the secret to his success. It is said that he replied with this answer:

” Number 1, Get up early. Number 2, Work hard. Number 3, Strike oil.”

Nothing gets done without action. Such a simple statement, yet so many times we seem to sit back and wait for things to happen. Be proactive! Get out there and take action ‘ work towards your intended outcome. Take responsibility for your actions, for your life. Live passionately!

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Tune in next time for the final part of the series, Success Habits…Part 4.