17 Weird Things The Most Successful People Do Differently
- Pick fights to test others’ resolve in their own beliefs.
- Isolate yourself to reenergize.
- Purposefully offend others to get their attention.
- Be hyper self-critical of your own standards and choices.
- Put out your message. Don’t ask for permission.
- Repeat mistakes until you learn the lesson.
- Seek out rejection to lose the fear of it.
- Ignore consensus, when your data proves otherwise.
- Help others and expect nothing in return.
- When you can’t win, quit. Not everything’s worth putting in the extra effort.
- Don’t spend the time of things that don’t matter to you. You don’t need to meet anybody’s expectations.
- Don’t show off your talents immediately. It can be both fun and helpful to play possum from time to time.
- Stop caring about what others think of you.
- Challenge and sabotage yourself. Don’t get too comfortable, instead, get better every day.
- Only do the things, that have a huge payout or that you’re exceptionally good at. Outsource everything else.
- Map out your plans. Set three smart goals that you want to achieve within the next year and map out all the steps you need to take. You can adjust as you go. But making a real plan ahead of time will help you stay on track, seeing the big picture.
- Underestimate demand for your products and services. Then start working on marketing on validation.
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Do You Need to Implement Everything On This List?
First of all, you don’t need to do anything, you don’t want.
For example, I hate fighting and I can’t imagine that I will pick up fights with random people, just to get their attention.
I also don’t like to offend people. I’m very straight-forward and like to say, what I think, but there’s a huge difference between saying what you think and purposefully offending people.
So no, you don’t have to do everything on this list.
I know for sure, that offending people and picking fights, won’t make me happier or have better relationships, so I won’t do it. Know your values and act accordingly.
Action Items – Do This Once To Be More Successful
- Decide on a time each day or each week to isolate yourself and reenergize.
- Let your family know to make sure, they won’t interrupt your alone-time.
- Make a list of 10 things, that are „common beliefs“, but you don’t believe in – and why
- Define five values to live by. TK Include List of Values.
- Write your own definition of each of these values and how you want to incorporate this into your life.
- No matter, if you have a business or not. You should define your personal brand, which includes your brand message. Head over to TK Include Blog Post to define your personal brand.
- Read everything about Jia Jiangs „Rejection Therapy“, where he set out to a „100 Days of Rejection Challenge“ https://www.rejectiontherapy.com/100-days-of-rejection-therapy and watch the corresponding TED Talk to see what he learned on the way.
- Make a list of the different areas of your life: Family, Business, Health…
- Rate the importance of each area for your life on a scale of 1 to 10 – 1 being not important at all, 10 being the most important part of your life.
- Track how you spend your time for at least one week. TK include time tracking spreadsheet.
- Evaluate your time tracking results. Do they match your priorities? If not, find ways to change that. For example, if you’re family is really important for you, but you only spend 1-2 hours a day with them, write down 10 ideas, how to spend more quality time with your family.
- Examine, how well you do in each area of your life on a scale of 1-10.
- For each area, list 10 habits, you could adapt, that would improve your life.
- Every month, choose one new habit to adapt. Start with the area that’s most important for you and/or needs the most improvement.
- Set up a habit tracker.
- Get back to your time tracker. Mark the things, that only you can do. This includes family time – obviously – and the rare things, that you are either exceptionally good at or that you really love doing.
- List 10 things, you did the past week, that you can outsource. Then research ways to outsource each one.
- Set three smart goals for the next year. Imagine yourself one year from now. Which goals can you set today, that would make you really happy, if you accomplished them one year from now?
- Map out each goal. What are all the steps you need to take? What do you need to accomplish within the next 6 months? Within the next 3? Within the next month? The next week? Today?
- For each goal, write down 10 habits, that would help you accomplish it.
- Choose one habit for each goal.
- Make a plan to implement them within the next 3 months.
Habits to Adapt to Become Successful
Every Day
- Aim to fail at something every day. In the evening, write down, what you failed today and what you learned from it.
- Seek out chances to be rejected.
- Help one person every day. Don’t expect anything in return. Take note of every act of kindness.
- Log, how you spend your time.
- Track your habit of the month. You can track more if you want but only focus on one, that you NEED to accomplish.
- Write down three things, you did today, that you had to do, but aren’t good at and / or don’t enjoy.
Every Week
- Respect your alone-time and use it to re-energize. Things you could do are: go on a walk, journal.
- Examine if and how you lived up to your values during the past week.
- Evaluate, how you spent your time over the week.
- Find ways to improve for the next week.
- Make a fool of yourself at least once a week. Stop caring what other people think about you. Usually, they don’t think about you at all. Nobody cares.
- Examine, how well you did with your current habit. Write down 10 reasons, why you want to do it. Write down 10 ways to be better at it.
- Find one thing to stop doing or outsource. Then outsource it.
Which Habits of The Most Successful People Will You Adapt?
Here you have ‚em: 17 weird things, that successful people do differently.
You don’t have to adapt all of them to become successful today.
Actually, I’m certain, that many people are successful without doing any of these things.
However, I always feel like studying and mimicing successful people is a great way to increase your odds of success.
So, which ones will you adapt?
What do you already do?
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