- 10 habits of highly successful people. Why are some people more
successful than the others? You see, you don't decide your future. You decide your habits, and
your habits decide your future. No one succeeds overnight,
and no one fails overnight. Success is nothing more than
the sum of small efforts repeated day in and day out. Today I want to share with
you the 10 successful habits that I have learned and
developed over the years. Habit number one, successful
people take 100% responsibility for their own life. You see, I was struggling,
I was in my 20s. I had just failed my 13th business. I had started and failed at 13 businesses. And back then I was lost. And I was blaming, I was
blaming everything else. And when I met my first mentor, Alan, when he sat down with me and
he asked me the question, "Dan, what's not working?" I said, "Everything is not working!" Right? "I'm not making enough money", right? "I'm in debt, I had all these
failures, I don't understand. "Customers are so cheap, the
government, I don't know why." Right? "The tax is so high and
everything, the economy's bad." And I was just pointing
fingers at everyone else. I wasn't taking responsibility
for my own life. My mentor Alan said to me,
"Unless and until you take "100% responsibility
for your own life, Dan, "you're not going to be successful." And I thought to myself,
"Maybe he's right, maybe." At the time, I thought, "Maybe, not 100%, but maybe I'm at fault." And he says, "Not maybe, because you chose "to start those businesses. "You chose those partners. "You chose to spend you time on this. "Every single decision
you made on your own, "to the best of your knowledge but still, "you chose what happened. "You chose and you act on it." And from then on, I learned
to take responsibility. The buck stops with me. If it's meant to be, it's up to me and it's something that
you need to think about because lame people blame people. You can make money or
you can produce results. You cannot do both, so
that's habit number one. Take 100% responsibility
for your own life. Habit number two, and
that is you have to decide exactly what you want. Most people in life
don't get what they want because they don't know what they want, and my mentor said to me, "Well, Dan you need to set a goal." Now up to that point, I
haven't set any goals. He said, "I want you to set a goal. "What is it that you really want?" Now at the time, as a young
person, I thought my dream, my dream was I wanted
to buy the RX8 Mazda. Red, rotary engine. And I thought if I could get that car, I have made it, right? That was my dream, that was my only dream! I thought it would be so cool
if I could drive that car. And he said, "Good, set that as a goal. "Make that, that's what
you want to do," right? I said, "Okay great!" So now from, kind of I'm
doing all these things and I'm starting all these businesses and I wanted to provide for my mom, but I needed something to motivate myself. I needed something that I
could see, that I could feel, that I could just focus on,
and the RX8, that was it for me because at the time, I
was driving the Mazda, Hatchback Mazda 3, right? And I wanted to upgrade,
that was my dream. So habit number two, you have
to know exactly what you want. Once you know exactly what
you want, habit number three is you have to believe it is possible. That's it! You just have to believe
that it is possible, not just for others but for yourself. Now for me, back then,
because I was already driving the Mazda 3, so in my mind
it wasn't like I was trying to get a Lamborghini or Ferrari. I was like, "Okay, it's an upgrade." Right? If I could focus, that maybe, just maybe it's possible for me. So it doesn't seem like so far-fetched. It doesn't seem like you're
not living in the basement with your mom and now you want to buy a 10 million dollar home. It was like, "Hey, I'm driving a Hatchback "and I could upgrade to a sports car." That was it. So you have to believe it's possible. It's possible for you. Napoleon Hill talks about
this in "Think and Grow Rich". "Whatever your mind can
conceive and believe, "you can achieve", and
it's very very true. You have to first believe
that you can do it. Habit number four,
highly successful people, they visualize success. So here's what I did. Once I know that this is my goal, once I take 100% responsibility
that I can make it happen and I believe that I can make it happen, I visualize success. So I cut out a page from a
magazine that had the RX8 on it and I put it on my vision board. I would look at it everyday
and I would visualize what it looks like, right? I would close my eyes and I could see the interior of the car, I could
see my hands is right here, right? I can see the stick, right? I can see the whole car,
I can see the interior. I can feel the leather seat. And I would visualize and
visualize and visualize it until it becomes so vivid in
my mind that I could see it, I could smell it, I could feel it, right? I could feel this, I deserve
this, this is what I could do. And I do that everyday,
visualize my success. So that's habit number four, you have to visualize your success. Habit number five,
successful people act as if, so when I hang out with
my friends at the time and we would see an RX8 driving
by, and I would tell them, "Hey that's my car right there". And they thought, "Again? "You're crazy, what are you talking about? "That's not your car." And I said, "That's my car." "No you drive the Hatchback." "No no no, that is my car." Every single time I see the
RX8, I was acting as if. I wasn't lying, I wasn't lying to anybody. I was conditioning myself. I was acting as if the result
has already been accomplished. So I act and talk in a way
that hey, you know what? It's mine, it's mine already. It's done, it's a done deal. So acting as if. See, most people, they wait
until that they see the result and then they say, "Oh yeah, Dan", they feel that they deserve it. No, first you have to believe
that you deserve it first before the result would come along, it's the other way around. Habit number six, successful people are willing to pay the price. So it's one thing to dream,
it's one thing to believe, but at the end of the day, you
have to do something, right? You have to be willing to pay
the price, and in this case, because it's simply a car,
it's quite easy to calculate. So I found out exactly
and precisely how much it's going to cost, this car, right? And I thought to myself,
"Okay, it's going to cost me "this much down payment, it's
going to cost me this much "in monthly payment." Okay, so what I needed
to do was I need to focus on generate enough income to pay for that, and I was willing to pay the price. So when my friends, when
they were going to pubs, when they were partying, when
they were just wasting time, I was working. I was just working, day in, day out, long hours every single day. No break, no time off. I was just focused because I
was willing to pay the price. So one of the questions that
you have to ask yourself is what price are you
willing to pay for success? What are you willing to give up? What are you willing to sacrifice? Because there's always a trade off, there's always a trade off. Habit number seven, successful
people feel the fear and they do it anyway. See, a lot of people, they
think that successful people have no fears. Of course we have fears. Of course we have doubts. Of course we're afraid to
make a decision sometimes. We're human beings. The difference is we don't
let the fears stop us. We don't let the feat dictate what we are or what we're not going to do. We feel the fear, you feel
the fear, but we do it anyway. I remember I had to pick up the phone, I had to call business owners. I had to cold call and get clients. Was I afraid? You bet. Was I nervous? You bet. Do I like those rejections? No, of course not. Of course not, but I feel
the fear and I do it anyway. I do it anyway, I do it anyway. Just keep at it, keep at
it and you keep at it. Habit number eight, successful
people seek mentorship. You see, unsuccessful people very often, they have a big ego and
please listen to me. Your ego is not your amigo. Your ego is not your friend. Your ego will destroy you. See, when I was doing it my way, right? I let my pride, my ego stop
me from seeking mentorship until I found my first mentor. Now, that may or may not be
the answer for everybody, I'm just telling you that
was the answer for me. Finding my mentor,
finding that first mentor changed my life, it turned my life around, seeking mentorship. I don't have all the answers. I don't know everything. There's no way someone knows everything, and the more you learn,
the more you realize how little that you know. So my mentor was giving me
the mindset and the skill set that I needed to achieve
my goals, to buy that RX8. Does that mean I don't have failures? Of course I have failures. But "Success is going
from failure to failure "without losing enthusiasm",
Winston Churchill. So habit number nine, successful
people have enthusiasm. You notice, high income
people, they have high energy. Low income people, they have low energy. They can't get anything done. They're not productive. They cannot make it happen. They lack the vitality, the energy, right? The enthusiasm, the stamina
to make things happen. Then how are you going
to accomplish anything if you don't approach anything with passion and enthusiasm, right? You may not be the best at it right now, but if you are enthusiastic
and you believe and you're passionate,
incredibly passionate about what you do, you're
going to make it happen. So that's a very very key habit that kind of makes everything work, and that leads to the last habit
and that's habit number 10. Successful people commit
to constant improvement. You see, after I did all
these things, I act as if, I pay the price, I seek
mentorship, I kept going and finally I got the
car and I was so excited. I went to the dealership and by that time, I had already test drove
the car multiple times. I knew exactly what I
was getting myself into and I walk into the dealership
and the car salesman was telling me he has
never sold a car this fast. We got the paperwork done. I drove the car off the dealership and what's fascinating is, and
I thought, and I was excited. It was great, right? And I was driving the car, right? Off the parking lot,
and you know how I felt? Peace. I felt that I've seen this, I've experienced this many many times. I felt that, just like, you know what? This is my car, because I
visualized it so many times. I was actually incredibly calm. This is how it's supposed
to be and it's great. It's like a deja vu, that kind of feeling because I've seen it in
my mind so many times, I acted as if. I knew, I knew it's
mine, and when it's mine, okay it's mine. What's the big deal, right? And then, I set the next goal, right? I want to get the next car. And I know, at the time I
thought car was my thing. I'm not interested in
those things anymore. At the time, I thought I'll
get the next car, the next car, the Mercedes, the Audi
R8 and on and on and on, and the Bentley and all
those things, right? So successful people seek mentorship. They also never stop improving. It's always about becoming better, becoming a better version of yourself. If you want to be healthier,
what do you need to do? You will study nutrition, you
will study fitness, right? If you want to be a good
cook, you will learn recipes. You will learn from other chefs. You will brainstorm ideas. It's no different. If you want to be successful, you have to make that a
subject that you study. It has to be something
that you take seriously. It is something that
you put some effort in. So comment below and
share with me which one of these successful habits that
you are going to implement. Maybe you won't implement
all of them at once, but what is that one habit that
you want to implement today? Comment below and let me know.
