Habits Needed to Become Highly Effective Entrepreneurs and Employees

 

25 Simple Lifestyle Habits for Every Day Success 

  1. Accept Personal Responsibility for Your Life – you have the power to control and create your own life experiences by the attitude you decide to have regardless of the customer you are dealing with, your coworker, your friends, or your personal relationships.
  • Proactive – Decide in advance how you’ll act ( be prepared) control emotions
  • Not Reactive – Waiting for events to occur and then respond according to what happen

 2.  Cultivate a Positive Mental Attitude

A positive mind find ways for something to be done – makes things happen,  A negative mind looks for ways it cannot be done.

  • What you think about you bring about
  • See opportunities and not limitations
  • Move away from Victim mindset to Victor mindset
  • Believe in yourself and see yourself as successful and victorious
  • Your thoughts build your life

 3.  Live without limitations (make no excuses)

  • Think Big! to see who u really are
  • We all have a genius within us waiting to be discovered
  • Be thorough, be clear
  • Whatever the mind can conceive it can achieve W Clement
  • If you can dream it, then you can achieve it. You will get all you want in life if you help enough other people get what they want.
    Zig Ziglar

  4.  Find your purpose and live it

  • Love what you are doing
  • Do what drives you
  • what makes u feel like u can hardly wait to get out of bed
  • Use frustration as a motivator

 5. Create Goals and take action – Work toward your goals daily

  • Know what you want in life and write them down
  • Be Specific – Make a deadline
  • Break Your Goal Down – Create Steps that will take you there

 6.  Think on Paper

  • “Failing to plan is planning to fail”. Alan lakein
  • Plan your day the night before or first thing in the morning
  • Prioritize the things to be done

 7.  Determination and Drive

  • Decide to never give up
  • Be Committed, Do What it takes and You’ll have what you want.
  • Passion, Persistence & Perseverance

 8.  Be the Best You Can Be at all times

  • Develop yourself 
  • Stay Focused “ What am I suppose to be thinking about now”

 9.   Self Discipline and Self Motivation

  • Think before you act -  Self control, control mind, thought emotions, actions
  • Develop a Mantra to keep you focused Recite it when you are feeling unmotivated. “ It is possible – I can do it! ”
  • Self Affirmations eg. I am successful
  • Do not take anything personal – “How people treat you is their karma; how you react is yours. ” Wayne W. Dyer

10.  Manage Your Time and Money

 Decide what you want, decide what you are willing to exchange for it. Establish your priorities and get to work. — H.L. Hunt

  • Prioritize –  Your daily Tasks and Responsibilities
  • Delegate – Non-essential Tasks and Concentrate on your priorities

When we plan our time, we take control of our day. We accept responsibility for creating our own life experience. Planning our time would involve looking at all the areas of our life, acknowledging what needs to get done, delegating more, and incorporating more of the things we love.

11.  Surround Yourself with Like Minded Persons or Successful persons

12.  Balance – Maintain Sound Physical and Mental Health

  • Physically
  • Emotionally
  • Mentally
  • Spiritually

13.  Develop Your Personal Value System – Live it

14.  Pleasing Personality – Your personality is your greatest asset or your greatest liability. It’s your most profitable asset and it’s free.

15.  Think Win/ Win

16.  Go the Extra Mile

  • Service above self
  • Don’t just do what is expected of you, exceed expectations
  • Render more and better service than you are paid for, sooner or later you will benefit by huge returns from your investment

17.  Personal Initiative

It’s better to work on a plan that is weak than it is to delay acting at all!

  • Stop Procrastinating
  • Just Do It

18.  Continuing Education  – Learn Something New Everyday

  • Know everything you can about what you are doing
  • Know what’s going on
  • Learn From Defeat
  • Be Teachable, willing to learn from each other

19.  Don’t be afraid to Ask for help or for what you want

20.  Develop your Interdependent Skills – Team Work

  • Together Everyone Achieve More
  • The most effective teamwork is produced when all the individuals involved harmonize their contributions and work towards a common goal

21.  Develop good communication Skills

22.  Acknowledge and Reward Employees

23.  Motivate Employees 

24.  Have a good system for filing

25. Set up a good accounting system