Modelling successful behavior has always been practised by artists and musicians, but it is only in the last hundred years that this has moved into the areas of business, finance, sports, relationships and even success itself. Choose your heroes and copy them, in as much detail as you can discover. There are a lot of studies now that have analyszd the common behaviour in successful people so a lot of the donkey work has been taken out of this.
The following is a list of common behavior exhibited by highly successful people: If you are modelling behavior then these are the most common attributes.
- 1. Believe success is due to ability and effort.
- 2. Persist when work becomes hard because they know failure is due to lack of effort, which can be overcome by working harder.
- 3. Select moderately difficult goals that have an even chance of success so that they push themselves. If a goals are too easy then you have an empty feeling of success, if they are too hard you will fail too often and be discouraged.
- 4. Look forward to their failures and setbacks as they learn from them and are most challenged in these circumstances.
- 5. Love their work. They are highly committed to it. Their life is their work.
- 6. Recognition and self-fulfillment are high on their list of values.
- 7. Very single minded about their work. They tend to become totally absorbed in it.
- 8. Compulsive goal setters and review their goals daily.
- 9. Quickly identify good opportunities.
- 10. Tend to have a reduced social life.
- 11. Highly competitive in their field.
- 12. Do not contemplate the possibility of failure.
- 13. Quick decision makers.
- 14. Very health conscious.
- 15. Highly creative. Routinely stimulate their creativity by brainstorming and problem solving.
- 16. Ask good questions of themselves like:
- What will make the difference?
- What earns the money?
- What is the best use of my time?
- How can I get this done and enjoy it at the same time?
- What can I do better?
- 17. Dedicated to learning
- 18. Dedicated to serving others. They are very customer focused.
- 19. Very aware that the cycles of progress plateau and drop back periodically, so they don't fight the slumps, they just ride them out.
- 20. Nurture good business relationships with other successful people.
- 21. Accept total responsibility for their lives
- 22. Often have an important life goal that drives them.
- 23. Very preoccupied with their own performance.
- 24. Do a lot of planning.
- 25. Prefer honest feedback
- 26. Struggle through difficult tasks on their own rather than seek help.
- 27. Concentrate on one single most important task at a time.
- 28. Very adaptable. They will easily let go of one solution and consider another.
- 29. Develop a very systematic process of problem solving that they always use.