Successful People Have...

My kids were watching YouTube the other day. They like this channel called BrightSide. The nerd in me loves it. They teach a lot of random things with dumb animations. Some are good and informative and others are just interesting things.

Well, my kids were in a spiral watching one after another. They finally landed on one called What Millionaires Do In The Mornings (or something like that). He talked about his own journey from going to walking up the last minute and running off to work and decided he would do 30 days of walking up 2 hours earlier to improve.

We have probably all heard some version of the miracle morning and how good it is. I don’t want to talk about just the morning. I want to talk about habits.

Successful people have developed the habit of doing things unsuccessful people don’t do

That was a note I wrote from a Mega Camp years ago that has stuck with me.

The whole idea of that video is it is hard to have the habit of waking up early and doing things that highly benefit us - exercise, meditate, read, journal, etc.

Successful people have the habit, unsuccessful people either don’t do it or it isn’t a habit yet.

When I say habit, I mean HABIT. Like, if you go to the office on a Sunday to grab something. You set your stuff down. Immediately pull out your phone to make your first call of the day because you are so used to prospect as your first thing even though that is not why you were there.

With my 3rd son (yes, I have lots of kids - 4 crazy boys and then 1 little baby girl), people were always surprised at how little he was when he could hold a bottle by himself. Well, it was because it was a habit. Whenever I would give him a bottle, I would put his hands on it as if he were holding it and then I would hold his hands. He got the habit of holding his bottle while he ate. So as soon as his little arms were strong enough, he was holding his bottle by himself. #dadhack

What habits do you have (that are good)? I know people that the second they look at their phone they open up social media. Or the ones that the first thing they do in the morning is check their email. These aren't helpful. But the people that feel weird if they haven't talked to multiple people before 10:00 am, those people have a habit worth building.

I forced him into that habit. You might look to find someone to hang around to force a habit into you. Or you might need to look at finding an accountability partner or coach to help you with that.

Start by defining the habits you will do to be successful.

What are the habits you need to develop that will cause you to be successful? Are you willing to stick with them long enough to engrain them in? Is there one habit that would make everything other thing easy to do?