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Every Successful Person I Know Cultivate These Habits
Picking them up can help you flip the odds of success too
Your habits can flip your life in an instant.
You can go from broke to making money simply by changing your financial habits. You can go from being obese to having the most attractive body by taking control of your eating and exercise habits.
Several studies like this, this, this, and this show that you can change your life by tweaking your habits.
The key is being able to identify which habits are congruent with who you want to become and doing everything to cultivate those and make them your own.
Here are seven habits that I have found to be common among the most successful people I know.
Habit 1: Taking a long term view of life
To build a happy and successful life, you don’t only have to focus on meeting your immediate needs. You also need to continually make choices and decisions that put your future in good shape.
It’s natural to want to see immediate results, to see that your efforts are paying off. However, some of the most significant outcomes — the things you truly want to achieve in your life and career — take time, sometimes much longer than you…
