Saying something: Part fifteen
I had an idea to do a little series of posts about things I've learned and applied to my personal and professional life. I'll keep these posts quite short but hope someone reads something they can fit into their own life of they can use to good effect.
Successful people and unsuccessful people
Successful: Welcome change as opportunity and are happy to learn from others and their own failures
Unsuccessful: Gossip, talk behind other's backs and secretly hope they fail
Successful: Work off to do lists, methodically and on the important things first and operate from a transactional perspective (working with others)
Unsuccessful: Are often angry, arrogant, difficult to get along with and self-absorbed without care for others
Successful: Understand that hard work, effort, persistence and discipline are required elements
Unsuccessful: Want things for nothing or no effort, to be gifted success rather than work for it
This is the third and last part of nine elements that differentiate successful and unsuccessful people and I'm interested in your thoughts. What elements make a successful or unsuccessful person - I'm not talking about what success looks like, but what a person does that makes them successful or not.
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I evaluate successful and unsuccessful people based on their professional work, their communication with others, and the results of their life goals. I act by looking at all developments objectively, no matter what. I take responsibility for my failures. After graduating from high school, I participated in theater auditions at the Culture and Arts Center. I was rejected every time. But I never gave up. I persevered. I tried harder. I tried to gain knowledge by talking to experienced people who did this job. I tried to find my weaknesses. I was given a text for the auditions. Some theater actors call this text. My failure was that I had only memorized the text. Actually, who wrote the text? Why did they write this text? What was the political and social situation when the author wrote the text? How did the author see the character in relation to that period, and how did they want to convey that? I should have researched all of this beforehand and worked on my role accordingly. I realized this later. In the final auditions, I researched all the details about the text and prepared for my role that way, and I was selected.
It seems like you have a pretty good approach, keep it up.
I would add that successful always search for improvements while unsuccessful sits on what he has
I bloody hate gossip and talk behind, at work places it's very common
Indeed, that's true; simple accepting what is will never help progression.
Also, I'm with you on the gossip thing, hate it.
Quite similar to what I feel. Very insightful
The funny thing about gossip is how it starts, from what you see to encouraging hearsay and then the full blown gossip. Point is if you don't want to be caught in the gossip trap, try to stay as far away from things that would lead it
that's true, then it will become an hassle
Success can be defined by different people from different angles. There is no point in following others to achieve success. But we can also adopt the methods and paths that other successful people have taken to achieve it in our own lives. Since opportunities do not come to us, we can learn from advanced people so that we can create them. When we follow them and move forward, obstacles and difficulties will inevitably come. We must face them and create systematic answers within ourselves. We can understand that the experiences we gain during these difficult times are essential in moving forward. There are things that can be learned from them after facing failures. What can be the meaning of success if we cannot learn lessons from failures? It is more important to manage the time we always get for productive activities without wasting it. By increasing relationships in a society and always acting in a friendly manner, we can create a society of successful people around us. Through this, we can achieve more productive opportunities.
Has there been a time you set your own course based on what you'd learned from others and how did it turn out for you?
I learned about success largely by studying the biographies of successful people and listening to their conversations. At the age of 27, when I was at a difficult point in my life, reading these biographies strengthened my mind. It did not happen all at once. After studying them for about a year, I applied their plans to my life one by one and implemented them. A big goal was broken down into small parts and implemented accordingly. I felt great joy when these small goals were achieved. When I had thus prepared my good path, I walked according to my plans.
I notice a lot of my friends (and even myself sometimes) want quick results without putting in the effort. It makes me think that building small habits now, like managing my time better and being open to learning from mistakes, might shape the kind of person I’ll become in the future.
The sooner you put aside the quick results ethos the sooner you can work towards long term and sustainable results.
That bit about using a list and hitting the big things first makes sense. My lists only started working when I tied tasks to time blocks and cut half the items, otherwise they turned into a guilt parade. Do you set tomorrow’s top three the night before or do it in the morning?
I typically review my day at the end of it and take a look into the next day and sometimes beyond depending on the mission. I rise early so have a quick look at the day again, think about the big rocks I need to move (the hardest things I have to do) and sip coffee before getting into it. I don't like procrastination so tend to jump into the day and the mission.
That cadence makes sense. I’ve started pairing my top three with time windows and a small note on why each matters, which makes it harder to dodge. When the day throws a curveball, how do you protect those big rocks without getting rigid? Do you cap the rocks to two or three, or just size them so they fit with coffee and all?
The "big rocks" are things that have to be done and are generally difficult for some reason or another and are often not things a person can control; many push them aside for later which means they loom for the whole day.
Curve balls happen, but the big rocks are best seen to first up.
Yep. I try to hit the biggest rock in the first 60 to 90 minutes, with the first tiny action written next to it so I can start without thinking. I keep a small buffer for curveballs and do an end of day review so if a rock slips, it becomes tomorrow’s first rock instead of a shadow all day.
When I was younger, much younger, I found it very difficult to adapt to change and I didn't like things changing, but over time I saw the opportunity in them, which I took advantage of. Also, over time, I realised that it was better to keep that list. Sometimes I keep it in my head, but when there are a lot of things, I write them down in a notebook.
The third point is the only one that has been the same from the beginning: discipline, effort, hard work... since I was a little girl, and sometimes with an excess of responsibility that has led to stress. Today, I control it better by finding time to rest.
Rest? What's that? I figured I'll sleep when I'm dead. Lol.
Right? There's plenty of time for that after we leave here!😂
Bonj Jovi gave me the idea, they made a song about it. Seemed like a good plan.
I use to believe that hard work is all i need to be successful, but then, i think i'm beginning to understand that achieving success is not just about how hard a person works. I may be wrong, but i think hard work without smart work, determination, discipline and a good social skill is futile.
I would like to add that successful people are able to learn, unlearn and re-learn while being happy at it.
I once have a friend that puts in little to no effort in anything they do. If things don't go the way they planned, the complain and cry a river.
I will also like to add that bring successful means standing through hard times. Instead of wallowing in self pity, a successful person would ask themselves - Why is this happening to me? How did i get here? How do i get out of this and What lesson did i learnt from it?
I'm still underdeveloped. Lol.... And I have gotten quite a lot of insight from this post.
Yes, being young means you have a long, long path to tread and much to learn...but time doesn't bring wisdom, it takes more than that.
Being young comes with a lot of mistakes, a whole lot. It gets harder when a person don't have somebody to give them advice and point them in the right direction.
I believe this a hundred percent.
I feel like I embody both some of the positive and negative pieces of that at various times. There are some folks that just get under my skin!
People get under my skin a lot too, many are unworthy of the air they breathe.
I truly appreciate your blogs it always make sense.
Well for me the elements makes a person successful is that they take failures as an opportunity to grow and learn while unsuccessful is that a person is always stacked from where he/she is it's like a person who cant move.
You've raised an important one; those who do not learn from failures will perpetuate failure.
Successful: seeks out and listens to advice from wise people (mentors, books, etc).
Unsuccessful: makes a lot of excuses and blames other people or circumstances for anything and everything that goes wrong (victim mentality).
Yep, that's a good one for sure. Blame is such a negative thing and yet it's surprising to see how many, and who, uses it to deflect responsibility and ownership away from themselves. A worthy addition.
Another good addition, successful people don't shy away from correction. Matter of fact, they are open to it, it assures them that if they apply that tiny change to their life, they would only get better and in the long run, more successful.
I agree, a good addition to the conversation.
Had one more (though you might have mentioned that in one of the other posts, I don't quite recall them all).
Successful: Find methods that work well with their specific character to do a great job.
Unsuccessful: Don't change a thing about their methods even though their not working, or copy the methods of others without reflecting if their suited for themselves.
One I'm not sure about if it's successful, but happy:
Successful: Takes an holistic approach towards work, balancing out several factors that determine their well-being.
Unsuccessful: Focuses on one part, like money or easiness of the job, disregarding the rest.
And another one, that is successful in my eyes, but probably not in our current ecosystem.
Successful: Considers their community and the effects that their actions have on it.
Unsuccessful: Goes for the outcome that benefits themselves above all else, without regard for the effects caused by their actions.
A few good points that I'm glad you've added. I think one of the other posts touched on one of them loosely but it's certainly worth mentioning.
It's incredible how easy and simple these elements are and how impactful they can be...and yet how many ignore them.
It seems like a good portion of society now falls into the 'unsuccessful' group, sometimes displaying all three of your unsuccessful points in the same breath.
"That damned Susie thinks she's sooo smart, I hope she falls flat on her face in front of the boss and if she does, I'm gonna laugh right in her stupid face...if that happens, he'll give the job to me since I'm next in line, don't matter that I've never done it before, I'm a whiz at stuff like that."
I've worked with so many people like that. I'd like to say that it's mostly the younger folk, but nope...all ages, all spoiled, all toxic.
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'allo me lovely.
Oh for sure, the younger folk are guilty but so are older people, those who should know better. People are people right? It's sad because if there's room for bad behaviour there's room for good.
Ah well, some people are just cun...assholes.
Yep, they're cassholes lol...I just laughed at my own joke (kekeke)
Well, I was going to use the C-word that rhymes with punt but decided to class-it-up a little.
I see no reason to class it up that much, this way we can still sneak in the C-word and none the wiser badabing badaboom!
Yeah, I mean it is sometimes the only word to use to perfectly encapsulate the true cuntism of a person.
Change is scary at first. In recent years, leaving my comfort zone terrified me. Fear of the unknown was the main reason I resisted change. In the end, it wasn't as bad as I thought, and it proved to be very beneficial in my personal and professional life.
Best regards!
That's the way, push through the fear because on the other side is often something worth the effort.
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