4020: 9 Success Factors For Personal Growth - Achieve Your Best Life by Brian Tracy on Growth And Success

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[00:01:18] [SPEAKER_00] 9 Success Factors for Personal Growth Achieve Your Best Life by Brian Tracy of BrianTracy.com There are nine success factors you must know in order to start moving forward in life. Each one of these success factors has been proven to be critical to the achievement of the best life possible for any given person.

[00:01:44] [SPEAKER_00] By systematically implementing one or more success factors into your life. You can put your foot on the accelerator of your own career and achieve the best life for yourself. Number one, education. The first of the nine success factors is education. In our society, the highest paid people are those who know more than the average. They know more of the critical facts, ideas, and information than the average person in their field.

[00:02:13] [SPEAKER_00] As a result, they can make a more valuable contribution to a knowledge-based society and live the best life possible. They are valued more, respected more, and ultimately paid more money and promoted more often. The rule is that to earn more, you must learn more. If you want to increase your level of income and achieve the best life for yourself, you must increase your level of intellectual capital and thereby the value of the knowledge component of what you are doing.

[00:02:43] [SPEAKER_00] Number two, skill. The second of the nine success factors that you can use to achieve the best life possible is simply skill. Your level of ability in your field will determine the quality and quantity of your results. The better you get at what you do, the easier it is for you to start moving forward to get a particular level of results. As you increase your skill through study and experience,

[00:03:08] [SPEAKER_00] you get better and better at doing the small things that increase the speed and predictability of your results. Number three, contacts. The third success factor for moving forward and achieving the best life is by developing an ever-widening circle of contacts. You'll find that every major change in your life is accompanied by a person or persons who either opens or closes doors for you.

[00:03:35] [SPEAKER_00] The possibility of the best life for you will be determined by the number of people who know you and like you and who are willing to help you. In order to broaden your network of contacts, you must network continually at every opportunity. There seems to be a direct relationship between the number of people you know and how successful you are. Number four, money.

[00:03:59] [SPEAKER_00] Having money in the bank gives you greater freedom and the ability to take advantage of opportunities when they come along. If you're broke or in debt, you have very few options open to you. One of the most important things I ever learned in life is that you are only as free as your options. If you have no options, you have no freedom. If you're stuck in a dead-end job that you cannot leave because you have no money set aside, you have to put a brake on your potential.

[00:04:27] [SPEAKER_00] You're locked in place and have no option for moving forward. You can end up spinning your wheels and losing months and years of your time by the very fact that you have no choice but to accept whatever is being handed to you. Number five, good work habits. The fifth of the success factors that enables you to get far more done in a shorter period of time is simply good work habits.

[00:04:52] [SPEAKER_00] Your ability to increase your ROTI or return on time invested can enable you to accomplish vastly more in a shorter period of time than another person who is disorganized and sloppy. Developing good work habits requires that you think before acting. You make a list and set priorities on the list before you begin. Good work habits require that you consider the likely consequences, positive or negative, of what you are doing.

[00:05:22] [SPEAKER_00] Number six, positive mental attitude. The sixth success factor for your professional career and life to reduce the amount of time that it takes you to achieve your goals is by developing a positive mental attitude. A positive mental attitude is very much a decision that you make. Remember, you become what you do. If you engage in the same activities that positive, confident, optimistic people engage in,

[00:05:48] [SPEAKER_00] you will eventually become one of them and live your best life possible. Anyone can remain positive when things are going well. It's your ability to look for the good in every situation that allow you to start moving forward in life. Number seven, positive image. The seventh of the success factors you can incorporate into your lifestyle and one that can help you achieve the best life for yourself is the development of a positive image.

[00:06:14] [SPEAKER_00] People judge you by the way you look on the outside, by the way you appear. The fact is that you judge everyone else by the way they look on the outside as well. Taking time to present an attractive image in your person, your clothing, your grooming, and your accessories can have an inordinate impact on the doors that open for you and the people who are willing to help you start moving forward in your life. Number eight, creativity.

[00:06:43] [SPEAKER_00] Creativity is another wonderful way to start moving forward in life and to increase the speed at which you achieve your goals. Creativity is something that requires that you continually look for better, faster, easier, cheaper ways to get the job done. Remember, one good idea is all you need to start a fortune. And number nine, character. Perhaps the most important of the success factors to accelerating your life is your character.

[00:07:12] [SPEAKER_00] Self-discipline combined with honesty will open countless doors for you. Trust is the foundation of all relationships. When people know you and believe in you and are convinced that they can trust you to keep your word and do what you say you will do, they will feel that they're far more likely to get the things they want through you, to get the things they want faster, sooner, easier, and with greater certainty.

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[00:09:28] [SPEAKER_00] Thank you to Brian. I'm not sure if this was done on purpose, but it almost felt like these nine traits were sort of in order, where if you work on the earlier ones, they end up helping with the later ones. And also when you think about age, the earlier ones are things we start working on pretty much when we're born. So for example, education. That starts immediately and lasts, well, forever in some way, but formally maybe until 18, sometimes earlier,

[00:09:58] [SPEAKER_00] often to 22 or 24 and beyond. For me, I'm constantly having to learn about changes in the podcast industry, for example. Most of the podcasts I listen to are actually about the podcast industry. And that's my way of continuing to learn. And as we continue to learn, we're hopefully working on things actually in practice, not just in theory. So we develop the skills as well, which was another one that Brian mentioned. Those to me are the earlier stages.

[00:10:27] [SPEAKER_00] That then can lead to more contacts, hopefully more money. And we can develop good work habits in the meantime. And as we make gains there, it's more likely that we'll develop more of a positive attitude and positive image, especially if we spent a good amount of time working on the foundational skills and education piece. Creativity can come in here. And last, we can really refine our character. So I think the order here makes sense.

[00:10:55] [SPEAKER_00] And hopefully numbers six and seven, positive mental attitude and positive image, are things we can work on together here on this show to continue developing that with a nice positive article like this one every day. And then hopefully it affects our character in a good way as well. I know it's helped me, so hopefully it's doing the same for you. And with that, thank you for being here. Have a great rest of your day. And I'll catch you tomorrow for the Wednesday show, where your optimal life awaits.