Over the last few Success Saturdays, I’ve shared a number of perspectives on success and what the truly successful do to make it. Like Yin and Yang there is always a negative to a positive, an opposite to everything and it got me wondering what unsuccessful people do, that sabotages there life.
I found this list on KrantCents. It’s a good one. I liked how he contrasted a successful trait with an unsuccessful one. The list is pretty compelling.
Living on their own/Living at home with parents
Positive/Negative
Take responsibility/Blame others
They learn from their mistakes/They repeat mistakes
They try and fail, but keep trying/When they fail, they give up
They are persistent/They give up too soon
Optimistic/Pessimistic
Focused/Easily distracted
Goal oriented/No goals
Confident/Insecure
They make quick decisions/Slow decisions and change them
Success is internalized/Failure is internalized
They plan for the future/No plan
Calculated risks/Risk averse
Curious and eager to learn/Indifferent to learning
They go after what they want/They think it will come to them
They work hard and smart/They complain about their circumstances
Have a network of people/No reliable network
Work on improving themselves/Tolerate their shortcomings
Creative problem-solver/See themselves as limited
Self reliant/No initiative
Not impulsive/Impulsive
No wasted time/Wastes time constantly
Independent/Dependent
Persistent/Give up
Imagination (anything is possible)/Accepting of existence/reality
Self understanding/Not aware of strengths/weaknesses
Vision/No vision Passion/No passion
Dreams/No dreams
Plan/No Plan
Specific knowledge/training/ Untrained/unskilled
Will not take no for an answer/They feel they do not deserve yes
Ambition/No ambition
Motivated/Not motivated
They know how to get things done/Do not accomplish much
They look for solutions to problems/They do not even look
Courage of convictions/Fearful
Enthusiastic/Hate what they are doing
Supportive/Out for themselves
Encouraging/Discouraging
Little or no debt/Debt is a way of life
Givers/Takers
Upbeat, happy/Bitter, unhappy
Think about what they can do/Think about what they cannot do
In control of their lives/Waiting for someone else to bail them out
They look for things to do/They wait to be told what to do
Better use of time/Wastes time
Doers/Dreamers or do nothing
Hang with other rich people/Hang around with other losers
I don’t suspect anyone is perfect in all of these, but to the extent we can avoid them as much as possible, we can accomplish a lot.
How well do you stack up?