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I've been multiple successful businesses in my life.

It wasn't just a one hit wonder, I think private.

A reason is the way I approach things the way I think that happens that I've built up.

So let's get into it.

The first habit is to take ownership of your life, take responsibility and stop blaming other people.

Just accept that everything is under your control.

If something's not going right, stop blaming people.

Stop attacking other people.

Stop pointing fingers.

You know the way to think about this is that you are the CEO of your own life CEOs.

I have no one to blame except for themselves.

There's no one to go to, and that's really the way to think about your life as well.

I think a lot of people like to just point their fingers at someone and say, Well, I failed because it was my parent's fault.

They didn't put me into the right school or my teacher didn't teach me the right thing or it was my friend who got me onto drugs.

It was my boss who wouldn't give me some promotion.

That's why I'm stuck in the rut.

And when you say that, it makes you feel good about yourself and you can just rest there thinking while your superior you were perfect and there was that other person's fault.

But in the end, you understand everything is truly under your control.

You know, if your parents didn't raise your right, then it was your responsibility to make sure that you were raised properly.

Go get the education or whatever it is that you need to go find the mentor.

If the teacher did, then teacher the right thing, Go make sure you'd learn to write things.

If your boss didn't give you a promotion, tried to find out why I tried to communicate.

Gather feedback on the same page and make sure that you get promotion on the next cycle, or figure out whether it is that you need to be doing maybe street shops if you have to.

But The key to understand is that you need to take ultimate responsibility for everything that's happening in your life if anyone's going to be responsible is going to be you.

I had this experience in grad school where we were working on the team project.

People were starting to cry because the team dynamics weren't going very well.

But for my own work, I was doing great on the individual level and I was thinking, Well, I'm not gonna be responsible for any of these other people if the project fails, is going to be that person's fault Where that person's fault, they didn't do their work.

But at least me I got my stuff done.

But Indian.

I had to understand that the success of the entire project was also my own responsibility because I had every ability to influence the direction of that project.

I could influence the team dynamics.

I could have helped motivate other people to do more.

There was definitely more that I could have done instead of just focusing on my own individual portion.

So this is about understanding that you need to expand your own influence, expand what you believe is to be under your domain of control and to make sure that whatever you're involved in succeeds, even if it involves doing something above and beyond was normally assigned to you on the individual level.

So that's step number one.

Take ownership, take responsibility of your life and blame nobody but yourself.

Tip number two is to learn to accept failure.

You may have noticed that I'm a pretty humble guy, and I'm not afraid to look like an idiot, and I'm not very showy.

I'm not going around demonstrated how successful I am, and I think that that is a key tray of being a successful person is not playing the game where you have to keep your appearances up because s soon as you start playing that game and you need to make sure that you're always appearing successful then it's not possible for you to start making mistakes anymore.

And making mistakes is a key part of success.

It's oftentimes you may need to fail 10 times, maybe even 100 times, but you only need one success to make it all worth well.

And so that's why it's important to not be afraid of failure to be ready to fail, and we have failed to understand that those are expensive lessons that you are learning from so that you don't make the same mistakes again as you go forward.

You're only getting better each time.

And really, the main points to stay humble, be ready to get thrown into the third a few times.

And you know, as soon as you start going around thinking that you're better than everybody else, you start walking around with really good looking clothes, and then you get thrown in the air.

You're not going to be able to recover from a failure like that.

But if you were to go around like a normal person and get through in there a few times and people know that you're not a superhuman person, you're not acting like you're better than everybody else.

Then you'll be able to easily recover from failures like that.

Brush it off, learn from your mistakes and continue pushing forward until you reach some success.

The third point is to think about where you're spending your time at 8 p.m. Every evening, because when you do at this time, would determine where you will be in 10 years, most of the daytime.

You're generally working on tasks that need to be done immediately or in the near future.

But I think that that evening time is when you start planning about your future.

In reality, we don't have that much time and the short amount of time that we do have We need to use wisely.

And the key to remember is you don't actually need that much time to get something done.

You have your to put four hours of good work, a P M.

To midnight in the day.

Every single day on some task is going to get you places.

So if you're to spend that time playing video games or watching TV and movies with us, find that's great.

But you can expect that that's going to be your future as well.

Not much is going to change.

If you just spend that time focusing on your day job and doing additional work.

Then, yeah, maybe you're going to get promotion over time because you're going to be putting in that much additional work.

If you wanted to spend that time researching trips, then you might be going on the trip sometime soon.

so think about what you're doing that eight PM every evening.

And make sure that aligns with the goals that you've set out for yourself.

Tip number four is Success is often a lonely road.

I know you want to go hang out with your friends, go chatting on Facebook, go to the movies, go join all those events and parties, go to the meet ups.

That's all great, and you should do those things if you want to.

But you should understand that now all those people are going to be on the road to success most of those people on the road to being average people because that's the average person that you're hanging out with.

Some of your greatest accomplishments will be done alone.

Sometimes there's just no room for anybody else except you.

When your interview at the company, you don't go there with all your friends.

It's just you, and you need to get used to that now.

That's not to say that getting along with other people and teamwork and maybe co founding companies with other people, your friends is not a bad thing.

I mean, those are great.

You can do that, too.

and that's another path that you can take.

But I think it's important to also remember that many aspects of success are going to be done surely by your own individual power.

And you need to get used to that.

Sometimes I see some people who just won't eat lunch alone.

They'll go around with their friends.

They gotta go eat with each other everywhere they go and what happens is they don't get to me.

Other people, they lose out on those connections that could have had they just stay with same friends the whole time.

But sometimes it's just really difficult to find the table where everyone can sit down together.

Other times I'll see how groups of friends just hanging around each other, and they're just waiting for each other to get something done and they can't get much done.

And sometimes I'll see groups of friends just doing really silly things, like they'll start walking around together in the rain.

Other.

If you take a look at each person individually, they probably would not have walked around in the rain alone on their own, You know, they say that groups of friends act very similar, so If you have a bunch of friends for a really fat and like to overeat, then chances are over time that's gonna happen to you, too.

So you want to be careful about that.

Tip Number five is to remember that the last 10% of a project is often the hardest.

Most people never finished, and so what I like to keep in mind is to try to finish the projects that I begin.

You know, it's very easy to quit and just know that every time you're quitting, you're doing what everybody else is doing.

Very few people are able to take something to completion.

But remember, it's that last 10% that really brings a project home that gets you that impact.

And you need to remember the budget.

Enough time and research is to finish a project.

Tip number six is internal motivation.

You know, I did well in school, but the funny thing is, my parents never pushed me very hard at all.

Any of this.

They let me play video games as long as I wanted to.

I would spend eight hours a day playing video games sometimes, and over time it was through my own understanding, my own internal motivation that I was able to learn.

Okay, I need to be studying.

I need to be working hard.

Maybe I need to watch what I eat.

Stop eating junk food.

Exercise more.

You know, all of these things is by being internally motivated.

So if you find that you're doing something only because your parents are telling you to do something or because you think someone's expecting it to do something, that's really not a great motivation.

To be doing something you need to try to understand for yourself why you need to do something, and that's going to help you do your best work.

Tip number seven.

The last point is to continuously learn.

You know, I think a lot of people learn what they learn in college four years, and they expect that amount to get them through the rest of their lives.

And I think that's why many people don't go as far as there should be going for me.

What I learned in college was only the basic bare fundamentals and many things that I did later on, like starting my own business is I was really only able to accomplish because I continue to teach myself new things.

New programming languages, new technologies, new software design systems, new frameworks.

And after a while you'll find that you're gonna have to start learning other things, too, like how to invest.

And that's going to get you to that next step up.

Even in your job, you might find that a lot of what you need to do is going to be data or metrics related.

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