Daily Success Habits - What are YOURS???

[Linda Buquet]

I don't like being tagged and don't take the time to participate in useless banter or meaningless memes. However, I'm proud to have been tagged by Teli Adlam, blogger extraordinaire over at Destination Success to participate in a meme that's circulating the blogosphere. It was originally started by Aaron Potts and named Simply Successful Secrets. We are basically asked to list the top 5-10 things that we do on a daily basis to become or remain successful at what we do - basically create a list of our personal “success habits.” If you track the meme back through Teli's blog you can gain tons of insight from some VERy smart people and also discover some very insightful Internet marketing blogs on the way.

1. GRATITUDE
I'm not nearly as good at giving thanks for all I have as I'd like to be, but I try. Gratitude is at the top of the to-do list in my head and I have so much to be thankful for. I truly believe that what comes around goes around and by giving thanks for what we have, we can attract more of the same.
TIP: Since I'm busy and sometimes forget to give thanks as often as I should, I came up with a new system you may find helpful too. I bought a new watch. Paid more than I normally would. It's my gratitude watch. I vowed when I bought it that every time I looked at my watch it would trigger a reminder in my brain to give thanks. It's working!

2. PAY IT FORWARD
I believe in karma and I know for a fact that the more we give, the more we receive. One of the ways I "pay it forward" is to give free advice every day in my forum and sometimes other forums as well. I give free advice and tips to affiliates to help them achieve success. I help them with problems and answer questions til my carpal screams. I also freely give advice to merchants not only in the forum but via free telephone consults that I offer. Today I spent over an hour with a guy that wanted to start an affiliate program. I have nothing to sell him, no service to offer him, I just gave him TONS of valuable free advice. I do this numerous times per week. How can I afford to give away all the free consulting? I know it comes back around. Maybe not through that person directly, but it does come back around.

3. ORGANIZATION
Even though I'm pretty high tech in most respects, I stay organized primarily through the use of a large day timer. Yep a hard copy, paper day timer. Every day I write my to-do list and every day I try to check off each item as I complete it. Low tech, but works for me!

4. ONLY BLOG about...
I seriously scour the Internet and my feed reader every day trying to find the best news and info I can that I think affiliates, merchants and other reader of my blog would be interested in.
I only blog about things I think are truly helpful to the industry or would be of interest to my readers - even if it's humor. I spend WAY more time researching and blogging than I should and sometimes sincerely question if it's worth it. But I do it anyway, partly because I enjoy helping people and largely because, right or wrong, I'm just addicted.

Hate to say it but those are the only things I can think of that I consistently do every day that help my success. I'm sure there are more, but to be honest for the most part I feel like I'm just shooting from the hip. I have no grand master plan even though I encourage affiliates, my family and everyone else to set goals. If someone needs help I help them. If something needs to be done I try to do it.

GRATITUDE, again... I sure am lucky to be where I'm at and have all I have, considering the fact that I have no goals and sometimes have no clue how I got here. ;-)

OK time to pass the baton and tag some SMART people you can REALLY learn something from! I hate tagging almost as much as I hate being tagged, so I'll just do a couple.

Shawn Collins
Linda Woods
Scott Jangro
Sam Harrelson

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Memes and tagging are a blog thing, but I wanted to come and
share this here at the forum too.

Each of you, regardless of your level of success have tips
you can share that could help inspire others!

WHAT ARE YOUR SUCCESS HABITS???
We'd all love to learn from each of you.

[Dorian]

I get up in the morning and look at everything that has to do with my dreams and goals and then imprint that in my mind for the day.

Then I do a system called Simpleology where I make a list I have to do and go through a process of filtration to only create a list of only the tasks that will move me forward in my business goals.

Exercise first thing in the morning is also a big thing for me and how much of a difference it makes in your day for clarity, creativity, ideas and also not as much stress being at the computer for extended periods of times.

I also take any spare moments to remind myself where I am going and re look at the future I created for myself.

Get inspired, stay motivated and take consistent strategic action!

[Linda Buquet]

All such great points!

Thanks so much for sharing Dorian.

Who's next???

[Oregon Coast Guy]

I have been in the same going-nowhere job for 8 years now, so I'm to the point of not getting easily distracted from my goals.

I take a nice walk in the morning with my wife before going into the office and we talk about our future home and life at the Oregon Coast. That gets me centered for the day.

I go in and get to work on my Romantic Oregon Coast Vacations web site, knowing that each step forward I take is one less day stuck here. One day closer to telling my boss goodbye for good.

[Linda Buquet]

Thanks Tony.

I'm SO THRILLED you guys are jumping into this conversation and sharing.
Helps me feel like I know you so much better.

I am SO with you... I can't wait for you to be able to walk away from the
J.O.B. because I know it's an important goal for you and I know the freedom of walking away.
I did it 4 years ago and never looked back.

[Lisa76]

What a great thread. Linda I couldn't agree more that gratitude and paying it forward are two very important things we should keep in mind. I am thankful everyday that I am able to work from home and do a job that I love.

I've been keeing a gratitude journal (thanks Oprah! LOL) for the last 3 months and every night I write down how I thankful I am for this "Internet thing" that has now awarded me the opportunity to work for myself. So many people drag themselves out of bed every morning and dread going to the J.O.B. I can't WAIT to get up and sometimes wind up at my computer before my eyes are fully open.

My family and friends thought I was crazy 8 years ago when I started receiving these "random checks" as they called it and I believe they thought it was only temporary. So glad to have proved them wrong.

And Tony you will get there! Just hang in there.

[Oregon Coast Guy]

Hi, Lisa!

Oh, I'll get there alright. I have never been so sure of anything in my life since I got onboard Site Build It.

Best thing is, I'm having a total blast and the hours go by so fast now.

[Lisa76]

and THAT's so important. You're having fun and I think that's a key component that's often forgotten. It should never feel like a job.

[Oregon Coast Guy]

Absolutely. The fact that it is so much fun provides me a go-get-em attitude which makes my day fly by.

My next goal is getting a couple of my Adsense checks together, purchasing a laptop and beginning to work on my site from the local coffee shop down the street. Sipping coffee, watching people, working my site and making money. Holy cow! The only thing better would be doing all that with the Oregon beaches outside! haha.

[Lisa76]

It's funny that you mention that 'cause that's where I am right now....Starbucks! LOL This has always been my dream. The only thing that's missing is the beach you speak of. Lucky duck. The only water view I have is the dirty puddles from the rain we got last night. LOL