10 Success Habits You Need to Adopt
Some people think it takes a certain amount of time to develop a habit, but I think it boils down to repetition—if you do something over and over and over again, it becomes second nature.
So, heading into the new year, I encourage you to adopt what I call "success habits." Ways of thinking and acting and doing that you can integrate into your everyday routine and achieve more success without even having to think about it. These habits can help you become unconsciously competent.
10 Habits for Success
- Plan your day: 2:58
- Be an active listener: 4:27
- Follow the process: 5:37
- Leverage coaching: 6:31
- Stay in touch: 7:48
- Know your numbers: 9:24
- Be more proactive: 11:06
- Stay healthy—mind and body: 13:05
- Share your time and energy: 13:48
- Act on things: 15:15
Partial Transcript:
Hi, I'm Mark Richardson. Welcome to remodeling mastery. Remodeling mastery is a podcast series that's really designed to help you think and reflect on your business, not just do your business. What I try to do is pick topics that I think are especially relevant, relevant given the times or the marketplace, but also ones that I think, as I talk to many different businesses out there, ones that people really focus on.
Today, I'm going to be talking about a topic that I've touched on over the last five to 10 years several times. However, I think it's especially important as we move into 2025 and that's the topic of success habits. Now as you think about those two words, success is something that you need to define for yourself. It's not one size fits all. Success could be related to a level of growth. Success could be a level of transition and balance. Success could be a level just in general, just seeing better returns from your time and energy. But the second part of this is also habits. You know, years ago, people used to think that it takes 30 days to develop a habit, but now, I think they've realized that it's really not about the amount of time. It's about the amount of repetition. So as you listen to some of these success habits I'm going to be talking about today, don't just think about them. Okay, I can have this in place in the next 15 to 30 days. Think about a more if I can do it over and over on a daily basis, if I can think about it, reflect on a daily basis that will become habits. You know, there's so many habits in your life, in our life, that we just don't even think about. You know, when you get up in the morning and you do your little morning routine, and you brush your teeth, you don't really think about putting this piece of plastic in your mouth. You actually just do it. And what happens, and what's so cool about successful habits is it allows your mind to just kind of wander and think about other things while you're doing these habits. You know, there's been said, you know, if there are four levels of mastery, and I think when you really understand level four mastery, and that's where the real success habit comes in, that's where you become unconsciously competent. You don't have to think about it. It becomes kind of an involuntary muscle. So with all that being said, I've come up with 10 success habits, and there's certainly many others that you could integrate in. But I encourage you jot down these habits. Think about how you can integrate them into your routine moving forward, and I think you're going to see a lot more success.
Okay, number one is planning. Now, planning is something this time of the year that people tend to do quite a lot of I would encourage though, adjust kind of your thinking when it comes to planning, planning is something at a minimum you need to plan your day. Norman Vincent field said, plan your day today, every day, then work your plan. Now. A plan is not a to do list. A plan is a blueprint for your day. It involves not only all the activities that you want to try to accomplish, but the amount of time that's available for their completion. And if you learn how to do a daily plan in detail, then you're going to see a lot more success. So just by spending what I encourage in my art of time mastery, 40 minutes a day, 30 minutes a day, making that plan, then working your plan, you're going to be shocked. You're going to get a dividend of an hour or two a day that, quite frankly, is just vaporized on you because you don't have a really, really concrete plan. Think about about it like a remodeling project. Can you imagine, for example, if you were building a deck or renovating a kitchen, if you didn't have a detailed plan, a detailed schedule, a budget to be able to do that, that's how you stay on track, but that's how you see a level of success. So number one, again, is plan. Plan your day, every day. Then work your plan.
Okay? Number two on my list is listen. Now, this sounds almost condescending and patronizing, but we don't active listen enough. You know, I oftentimes, you know, really will spend having conversations with folks that I work with. I'll literally listen for for 90% of the time of the conversation, and at the end of the conversations, oftentimes the folks that I'm working with said, Wow, this has been a great conversation. Yeah, it's been a great conversation because I know how to ask really, really good questions, and those questions then lead to me just sitting back and absorbing and letting it listen. Now, your clients out there today, if you actively listen to them, they will tell you nine times out of 10 what their pain points are, what their reasons are, what in fact, their opportunities for joy in their life is. But you've gotta turn up that dial and really actively listen. And don't just be listening with the idea that you're preparing for something to say and speak about
Number three on my success habits are, follow the process, trust the process. Don't corrupt your process. When I talk to the most successful people, sometimes they're not even sure exactly what the process is, either in terms of lead generation or in terms of taking a sales process. But when I really ask them to walk me through, it, is there, the process is there. So I encourage everyone should have a process in sales. I have a nine step sales process, but there's many out there, so just follow the process. Don't corrupt the process. That will become something your level four mastery, unconsciously competent at, and you won't necessarily skip elements within the process. And I think it's a real way to be more successful as you move into the new year...
