- In this video I'm gonna share with you
10 habits of successful people
that are gonna help you succeed in entrepreneurship,
business, and life.
Hey guys, I'm James Sinclair.
I'm a UK entrepreneur.
I've built tons of businesses, turned millions of pounds,
employed thousands of people,
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Hey guys, I really wanna make this video
because I don't know if you've ever wondered
why some people are so much more successful
than other people?
And I think it comes down to some certain traits
and habits and personalities, if you like,
and I wanna share them with you in this video,
so you can emulate them, copy them, mimic them, model them.
Let's go.
Number one.
The successful people that you meet in life
always think with the outcome that they want.
They think, in effect, with the end in mind.
So they start a business,
they know what the business looks like when it's finished.
They go for education,
they know what they wanna get out of education.
They know what they wanna get out of their relationships,
and in their life.
You've got to be able to think with the end in mind.
What does the end result look like?
Where does your destination finish?
Then you can work a journey plan to get there.
That is the number one trait of successful people,
that I've discovered.
Number two.
When it comes down to the biggest trait that I've discovered
that entrepreneurs, successful people do,
people that are really good in relationships,
is they take blame for the things that go wrong.
Whereas most human beings will blame everyone else.
They'll blame the economy,
they'll blame the market conditions,
they'll blame their staff.
Really?
If you wanna take responsibility for getting stuff done
the only person that you can blame, is you.
When things don't go right for me, I blame myself,
not anyone else,
and that is a real key trait and personality
of successful people.
Point number three is that your mind is always active,
it's always thinking about success,
it's always on to the next thing.
See my mind never ever stops.
I'll go to a restaurant,
I'm sitting in the restaurant thinking,
how much money does this place make?
How can they could do that better?
How could they do this better?
How could they improve things by 10%?
Always looking for one percent improvements.
Your mind never relaxes and stops.
It's a curse for successful people,
but it does show that someone is gonna be successful.
Point number four is
you sacrifice personal gain for the greater gain.
Now what does that mean?
Well I'll tell you.
You see, when I've built my businesses,
in the early days I didn't pay myself a salary,
so I could employ other people.
That was a personal gain that I sacrificed
for the greater gain.
It's a clear trait of successful people,
because they think about the end in mind,
because they have that active mind,
they know that they have to personally sacrifice
for the greater gain of the business.
All successful people have done that at some point
in their life.
Point number five is, you have the ability
to build a team around you
and get people to follow you, on your vision and journey.
This is what great people always seem to do,
whether it's in politics, education, charities,
business, entrepreneurship,
there's a leader that's able to pull people with them
to get more stuff done.
You cannot have this "I'm a one man army" mindset.
You've got to build an army of people that follow you,
that believe in you, that will help get things done.
Point number six,
in the face of adversity, you never give up.
Now let me tell you a real fact
about business and entrepreneurship.
You're on a knife's edge between success and failure
for many, many years.
Most people give up because they're sane.
Steve Jobs said it, he said, "most people give up
"in business because they're sane."
Need a bit of insanity around you to keep going,
when it seems like everything's going wrong.
Let me give you a little story about JK Rowling,
the lady that created Harry Potter.
18 publishers said no,
when she got to the 19th, she finally got through.
She's now one of the richest authors in the world.
In fact, she is the richest author in the world.
It's an amazing story of how most people just give up,
and if you keep going,
you've got a really powerful vision,
with a good end in mind, you'll get through.
That's why you must have passion and resilience,
for the thing that you do, to get through.
Point number seven is you have natural commercial awareness.
Your DNA makes you naturally commercially aware.
Especially this is important for entrepreneurship,
but even if you're a leader of business, or a charity,
or in entrepreneurship,
where we really discuss on our video.
But if you can really understand commercial awareness
and you've naturally got it, you know.
The kid that's selling sweets at school
and he's put in some profit.
No one's taught him how to do that,
he's just worked out how to do that.
It's a natural DNA thing
that's gonna help you soar to success.
Point number eight is, you continue to learn.
You're not the smartest person in the room.
If you are the smartest person in the room
then how are you gonna develop?
See, we always say here,
when I'm teaching at one of my seminars,
always say, "Look, if you wanna earn more
"you've got to learn more."
If you wanna out-earn me, you've gotta out-learn me.
Don't be the person
that thinks they're the smartest know-it-all,
because most successful people are like sponges
that continue to learn.
Point number nine is, you're a finisher.
You add to get things done, you get it over the line.
It's what successful people do.
Most people don't get things finished,
they get things 70% done, 80% done, sometimes even 99% done,
just leave that 1% not finished.
You're gonna get things done,
you've gotta be the implementer,
People that are implementers then get people to follow them,
because they know that they're a finisher.
Are you a finisher?
Point number ten in this video,
and it's the big one ladies and gents,
that's gonna wrap it up,
is the ability to think bigger.
I think this is the single most important reason
why some people are successful,
and other people are not.
If you can think bigger, you'll be surrounding yourself
in a much smaller circle of people,
because most people just don't think big enough.
Thinking bigger gives you a distinct advantage
over the masses.
If you say "I want to be prime minister,
"or president of the United States of America",
less people have that aspiration,
so you're competing with less people.
Maybe some bigger fish are competing for it,
but still less fish.
What I always try and tell people to do is, think bigger
and surround yourself by the biggest possible players
that you can,
because that will push your thinking
to think bigger, act bigger and do bigger
and that is the single way to drive success forward.
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