LinkedIn Influencer Jeff Haden published this post originally on LinkedIn about being super successful.
Let’s face it, we all have wins in our life that we can consider successes but is it hard to be extraordinarily successful? Let’s see what you think.
Success it not like a recipe where you mix in the same ingredients in a bowl and everyone comes out with exactly the same product. We know this is not true of baking and it surely not true of success.
Let’s see what you think about these final 5 indicators of amazing success:
5. Prove something to YOURSELF.
What are you seeking to prove? Prove others wrong. Proving you can achieve? The most successful people only aim to prove something to themselves. In doing so their motive for doing what they do best stays pure and uncompetitive. Do your best is at the moral of this asset.
6. Change your mindset from hourly to entrepreneurial.
Studies show that working more than 40 hours a week decreases productivity.
OK …
Successful people work smarter, sure, but they also outwork their competition.
The author Richard North Patterson tells a great story about Robert Kennedy. Kennedy was seeking to indict Teamsters’ head Jimmy Hoffa (who some still believe is hanging out in Argentina with Elvis and Jim Morrison).
One night, Kennedy worked on the Hoffa case until about 2 a.m. On his way home, he passed the Teamsters’ building and saw the lights were still on in Hoffa’s office, so he turned around and went back to work.
There will always be people who are smarter and more talented than we are. Successful people simply want it more. They’re ruthless — especially with themselves.
Most successful people work harder and smarter than most.
7. Money is a responsibility, not a reward.
Successful people don’t see money solely as a personal reward; they see money as a tool to grow a business, reward and develop employees, give back to the community … in short, not just to make their own lives better but to improve the lives of other people, too.
8. Don’t think you are “it”!
In a world of social media, everyone can be their own PR agent. It’s incredibly easy for anyone to blow their own horn and bask in the glow of their insight and accomplishments.
Truly successful people don’t. They accept their success is based on ambition, persistence, and execution … but they also recognize that key mentors, remarkable employees, and a huge dose of luck also played a part.
Exceptionally successful people reap the rewards of humility, asking questions, seeking advice, and especially recognizing and praising others.
9. Live a life of dignity and respect.
Providing employees with higher pay, better benefits, and greater opportunities is certainly important. But no level of pay and benefits can overcome damage to self-esteem and self-worth.
The most important thing successful people provide their employees, customers, vendors — everyone they meet — is dignity.
And so should you … because when you do, everything else follows.
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Much Success!
Have an outstanding day!!
Sara