How Successful People Achieve Their Goals

There are habits and behaviours that sets successful people apart from others, these attributes are clearly responsible for their achievements overtime, we will look at few of them here:


1. Planning and Timely Actions
Planning and timely action both plays an important role in achieving major goals. Successful CEOs and professionals – architects, engineers and project managers for example – have developed strong planning skills and timely action approaches. When working toward annual goals, it is always helpful to plan 1-3 actions per time to be accomplished on timely basis. Avoid procrastination as much as possible.

2. Self-Discipline
The possession of self discipline enables you to choose, and then persevere with actions, thoughts and behavior, which lead to improvement and success. It also gives you the power and inner strength to overcome addictions, procrastination and laziness and helps to follow through whatever you are trying to achieve until it becomes very successful.

3. Frugal Living
In reality, wealthy people are the most conscious when it comes to spending, they spend on things that gives them a form of value back or returns, whether in the now or in the future. This is the main reason why the money keeps coming back. They also focus more on needs than wants. Living frugally is one of the surest ways of achieving your goals and aspirations. It gives you the opportunity to filter out unnecessary things that makes you loose money and helps you create a system of return.

4. Skills Acquisition
Skill is a key used in opening doors of fortune. As water is very essential to human life; so is skill needed in the life of every serious minded human being. Skills can do a lot of great work in the life of every living soul. Lack of skills is a major cause of corruption. The importance of skill acquisition includes self employment, diverse job opportunities, employment generation, effective function, and crime reduction.

Bill Gates, Elon Musk, Zuckerberg and the rest got to where they are today because they've acquired certain skills and were able to nuture and turn these skills into a cash cow. Your degree is definitely not enough, you need to develop or learn a skill that you can then use to create solution to various life's challenges and get rewarded for it.

5. Seek Expert Help
Disappointments and challenges are part of the picture when you work on challenging goals. Fortunately, many other successful people have sought outside inspiration to get through tough times. Always reach out to those who are already successful in your field or niche. They always have the answers to most challenges based on their own journey and personal experience.

6. Networking
Always be on the look out for Networking in your field or industry, there are people in your industry who are ready to show you the ropes only if you are willing to network. Those who are ahead of you can help you bridge that gap that separates you from your desired destination or goals.

ictjobber:
By working smart

Gravity56:
I think a lot of nairalanders are jobless

Cutehector:
Networking is key. All these nairaland girls will never have sense.