To ask you how did you become successful?

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I’m not going to define ‘success’ - if you consider yourself to be successful then you probably are!

Basically, I was watching the pre match coverage before the rugby World Cup final and they were discussing what the team would likely do to prepare. Their diet, pre match rituals. They were interviewing a sports psychologist.

I started to wonder about applying this philosophy to meet life goals.

So, let’s say my goal was to earn a million pounds in the next five years (it isn’t, but I’m using this as an example) then my biggest asset to achieve this is my brain. So if I was to work on my confidence levels, always get enough sleep and exercise, eat the right sorts of foods, as well as to figure out the main ‘game plan’ to achieve this, this should help to hit those goals, right?

I’m probably not explaining this very well!
So easier to ask - what do successful people have in common? Are they all very confident? Hardworking? Have a certain mindset? Have you read a book that changed the course of your life or met someone you wanted to emulate?

HigherFurtherFasterBaby well done you, that is very impressive and you deserve to be very proud of yourself.i bet your mh has improved a lot too.

I think dh and I are successful in that we took a big risk in giving up two stable careers to start up our own business after dh retrained at night school. We went from 2 steady incomes to nothing concrete but through hard work and risk taking, and support from my parents, we are doing well.

We now have a few employees and business is good. It’s been tough at times but so worth it. We are not earning much more than in our previous careers but it is our money and we can choose when to work to a point. This means tat our work life balance is so much better and has been good for dc to have us around.