See how many apply to you:
1. You find happiness in the success of
others.
Great business teams win because
their most talented members are
willing to sacrifice to make others
happy. Great teams are made up of
employees who help one another,
know their roles, set aside personal
goals, and value team success over
everything else.
Where does that attitude come from?
You.
Every successful person answers the
question, "Can you make the choice
that your happiness will come from
the success of others?" with a
resounding "Yes!"

2. You relentlessly seek new
experiences.
Novelty seeking — getting bored
easily and throwing yourself into
new pursuits or activities is often
linked to gambling, drug abuse,
attention deficit disorder, and
leaping out of perfectly good
airplanes without a parachute.
But according to Dr. Robert
Cloninger, "Novelty seeking is one of
the traits that keeps you healthy and
happy and fosters personality growth
as you age ... If you combine
adventurousness and curiosity with
persistence and a sense that it's not
all about you, then you get the
creativity that benefits society as a
whole."
As Cloninger says, "To succeed, you
want to be able to regulate your
impulses while also having the
imagination to see what the future
would be like if you tried something
new."
Sounds like every successful person I
know.
So go ahead. Embrace your inner
novelty seeker. You'll be healthier,
you'll have more friends, and you'll
be generally more satisfied with life.

3. You don't think work-life balance —
you just think life.
Symbolic work-life boundaries are
almost impossible to maintain. Why?
You are your business. Your business
is your life, just like your life is your
business — which is also true for
family, friends, and interests — so
there is no separation because all
those things make you who you are.
Incredibly successful people find
ways to include family instead of
ways to exclude work. They find
ways to include interests, hobbies,
passions, and personal values in
their daily business lives. If you
can't, you're not living — you're just
working.

4. You're incredibly empathetic.
Unless you create something entirely
new — which is really hard to do —
your business or profession is based
on fulfilling an existing need or
solving a problem.
It's impossible to identify a need or a
problem without the ability to put
yourself in another person's shoes.
That's the mark of a successful
businessperson.
But exceptionally successful leaders
go a step further, regularly putting
themselves in the shoes of their
employees. (Here's what that looks
like in practice. )
Success isn't a line trending upwards.
Success is a circle, because no matter
how high your business— and your
ego — soars, success still comes back
to your employees.

5. You have something to prove — to
yourself.
Many people have a burning desire
to prove other people wrong. That's a
great motivator.
Incredibly successful people are
driven by something deeper and
more personal. True drive,
commitment, and dedication spring
from a desire to prove something to
the most important person of all.
You.

6. You ignore the 40-hour-workweek
hype.
Studies show that working more than
40 hours a week decreases
productivity.
OK ...
Successful people work smarter, sure,
but they also outwork their
competition. (Every successful
entrepreneur I know who reads those
stories probably thinks, "Cool.
Hopefully my competitors will
believe that crap."
The author Richard North Patterson
tells a great story about Robert
Kennedy. Kennedy was seeking to
indict Teamsters head Jimmy Hoffa
(who some still believe is hanging out
in Argentina with Elvis and Jim
Morrison).
One night, Kennedy worked on the
Hoffa case until about 2 a.m. On his
way home, he passed the Teamsters
building and saw the lights were still
on in Hoffa's office, so he turned
around and went back to work.
There will always be people who are
smarter and more talented than we
are. Successful people simply want it
more. They're ruthless — especially
with themselves.
In short, they work smarter ... and
they also work harder. That's the real
secret of their success.

7. You see money as a responsibility,
not a reward.
Many entrepreneurial cautionary
tales involve buying 17 cars, loading
up on pricey antiques, importing
Christmas trees, and spending
$40,000 a year for a personal
masseuse. (Wait — maybe that's just
Adelphia founder John Rigas .)
Successful people don't see money
solely as a personal reward; they see
money as a way to grow a business,
reward and develop employees, give
back to the community ... in short,
not just to make their own lives
better but to improve the lives of
other people, too.
And, most important, they do so
without fanfare, because the true
reward is always in the act, not the
recognition.

8. You don't think you're special.
In a world of social media, everyone
can be their own PR agent. It's
incredibly easy for anyone to blow
their own horn and bask in the glow
of their insight and accomplishments.
Truly successful people don't. They
accept their success is based on
ambition, persistence, and execution
... but they also recognize that key
mentors, remarkable employees , and
a huge dose of luck also played a
part.
Exceptionally successful people reap
the rewards of humility, asking
questions, seeking advice, and
especially recognizing and praising
others because ...

9. You realize that success is fleeting,
but dignity and respect last forever.
Providing employees with higher
pay, better benefits, and greater
opportunities is certainly important.
But no level of pay and benefits can
overcome damage to self-esteem and
self-worth. ( Here's a heartbreaking
story that illustrates the point. )
The most important thing successful
people provide their employees,
customers, vendors — everyone they
meet — is dignity.
And so should you ... because when
you do, everything else follows.

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