Seven skills you need to develop if you want to be rich

Seven skills.

  Discipline 

    Success inbusiness and in life is not a sprint it's a marathon your ability to keep putting one foot in front of the other no matter how difficult what the weather is like what the other people are saying or how you feel each day is what will get you to the finish line it doesn't matter what you're trying to achieve if you cannot discipline your actions you're probably not going to get it so what is discipline anyway it's your ability to dig deep within yourself identify your true goal and then act every single day in accordance to that ideal if you want to get in shape it means mastering your nutrition and hitting the gym every single day it doesn't matter if it's snowing outside if you don't feel like it or if there are other distractions which you would rather be doing discipline means you'll take care of the most important tasks relating to your long-term goal before anything else you cannot let a single day pass without closing in the distance between your current reality and your target this might sound easy in theory but it's the number one reason why people fail in life they are unable to discipline themselves to put in the work over extended periods of time how do you develop discipline 1 define what you want to evaluate 2 why you want it 3 eliminate distractions 4 prioritize the most important tasks over everything else 5 track your progress 6 keep yourself accountable discipline and habits although different things work hand-in-hand if you've never tried to self-discipline meaning you've scored yourself with a 1 or a 2 here it's really time for a change we recommend you start with small things so we have a  challenge for you wake up at the same hour every single day and make your bed for 21 days straight 95% of you will fail at this but it's more important than you think the first part will make you discipline your time it's up to you how many hours you wish to sleep per night but you have to wake up at the same hour every day you'll find it more difficult than it seems because it's so easy to oversleep the second part is the first step in organizing your life making your bed every single morning after you wake up will give you a sense of control over your environment now think about what we're asking you to do wake up every single day at the same hour and make your bed this will start creating order in your life and will allow you for other things to come into effect 21 days is a long time to test this but if you manage to pull through you'll find yourself increasing yourself fizzling score by at least one point every successful individual we know or have read about is self disciplined they know what they need to do every day in order to get to where they want to go if you can't even control your time and organize your environment you have no shot at running a large business and it's best to accept that this is not for you and you need to rethink what it is you wish to do with your life .

Emotional Intelligence

People think that IQ is really important if you  want to be rich or successful the truth is having the IQ could be a bonus but it's not what will make you rich high IQs rarely correlate to financial success because money isn't the result of word comprehension math skills abstract and spatial thinking bu instead it has to do with understanding how people work how they think what they want need and how to really understand that information emotional intelligence is far more important in business and in life than your IQ you don't have to be smart in school to be rich the truth is most a students end up working for B+ and C students because while the a students waste their time trying to memorize all the useless information you get in school which doesn't really apply to real life B and C students are spending that time learning about others interacting with them and developing their social skills business and life are not about how able you are to regurgitate information but instead connect the dots in the real world and find ways to build your life on top of that in order to access how strong your EQ is ask yourself how well do you understand people is it easy for you to tell how other people feel what they want in general and what makes them behave the way they do rate your emotional intelligence from 1 to 5 now if you've scored below 3 on this one here's what you can do to enhance it I am  going to break this into a two part process as well the first part has to do with yourself take a piece of paper and start to analyze your own feelings write down how you feel right now what about the last time you were really sad what happened and why were you sad what about happiness try to do this exercise for as many emotions as you can this will help you understand yourself better and get in control of your emotions the second part has to do with other people next time you're having a conversation with someone try to actively listen and understand the other person when they talk be in the present and not listen to the voice in your head which only thinks of what to ask next very few people are able to actively listen instead of just hearing things those who do have a way better shot at working well with people and guess what if you want to be rich you need to work well with others and be in control of your feelings.

 Self Motivation 

Things will get hard in your journey and to be honest you're in this alone yes your family and friends will be around but it's within yourself where you really make the decision to put in that time and effort if you're unable to motivate yourself we've got bad news for you you're not going to make it self motivation is one's ability to overcome obstacles in your mind that tell you you can't do it or why should you even bother self motivation is when you get yourself to put in the work because you want it so bad that nothing will stop you even if everybody around you doubts you your desire to achieve the life you want is so strong that nothing can pull you back from getting it along this list you'll realize how strongly all of the things we mention are interconnected and how together they form a strong net or structure on which you can create progress for yourself people who are lazy in general lack this ability your inability to self motivate will lead to time being wasted it might not seem like much skipping work today but they all add up and snowball into a life of mediocrity here's what you need to do if you want to improve yourself in this regard the first part is to once again dig deep within yourself and find what the perfect life would look like for you let's do this experiment right now in an ideal world where there are no boundaries what would a day in your perfect life be close your eyes and try to visualize it to the very details what does your morning look like where are you who are you with what do you do after your breakfast what does the house you live in look like what do you do in the afternoon what are you wearing what do you feel what do you smell what does that life taste like now what you've just experienced is your life goal this is why you'll put in the work if you do everything right you can make it happen the second part is creating reminders of what that life is like we recommend changing the background of your devices to fit that life we look at them multiple times during the day and every time you'll see it it'll remind you that you need to work harder if you want to get it this is how you motivate yourself when times are hard the goal is bigger than everything and all the hard work will be worth.

Maintaining Focus

 Everything around you has been engineered to distract you we live in a world where attention is the new currency we see a trend among people where it's increasingly hard to maintain focus because every day more and more distractions try to hook you in maintaining focus has to deal with one's aptitude to choose activities which will serve your ultimate goal over activities that feel good in the moment but have little rewards for the long run carpe diem sounds good on paper but it's never led to anyone who's built anything worth mentioning in their lives how focused are you on your journey let's take yesterday or even today if you're watching this later in the day apart from watching this video which actions did you take today which will impact your future breakdown for yourself what you did throughout the day from the moment you woke up to the moment you want to sleep or this moment right now how many of them contributed to your journey how many are just time being wasted we recommend doing this analysis of your day at least once a week in order to determine if your focus is increasing or decreasing over time you'll discover that you're wasting incredible amounts of time on things that add little to no value to your current or future life. 

 Reading 

we've said it before and we will say it again successful people read a lot of books on average they read about 50 books per year while the average person reads about only 1.5 you need to start reading and you need to do it right now reading is better than watching videos or audio books because the brain processes text differently than it does with video or audio when you watch a video the visualization of the information happens on the screen when you read the information is processed within and makes correlations to your internal memories and reality imagine you can absorb the knowledge someone gathered in a lifetime in a single week just by reading a book reading evolves your main asset which is yourself.

  Play The Long Game

Everything you've 

done in life so far has been for the immediate future you studied in school because you had a test the following week you watched all the episodes of friends because it made you feel good in the moment you're eating junk food because that's the more accessible thing for you right now if you wish to be successful in life your mindset needs to change dramatically you need to stop looking for shortcuts for get-rich-quick methods you're not going to like what we tell you about this but it's the truth it will between seven and ten years to change your life being successful requires you to think ahead and take actions now which will have an impact over the long term the quicker you realize there's no other way around it the quicker you can start to take the right types of action ten years might sound like a lot of time where plenty of things can happen but the time will pass either way and without a plan you'll find yourself 10 years later doing the same mistakes but filled was more regret that you didn't take actions sooner we recommend that once you find what your endgame will look like to deconstruct which things that need to happen for you over the next few years which will take you as close to that goal as possible and then focus on getting closer to those things there is no elevator to success you have to take the stairs.

 Continuous Learning 

Rich and successful people never stop learning not only through reading but learning from everything that's around them it's incredible how much you can learn about life just from observing what's happening your success depends on your ability to continuously learn acquire new skills and use those to further yourself the goal is not to know as many things as possible but to understand as many things as you can there's a crucial difference between the two the first one fills your mind with information while the second one allows you to connect dots others might not be able to see the first one will drive you mad while the other one will help you understand the world ask yourself what is the last time you've actually learned something that is of real value which made your life or the life of those around you better this is how you keep track if you're growing or not continuous learning is about improving your current self on a consistent basis this will ultimately lead you to make better decisions and live a more fulfilling life the moment you stop learning you start to die.