How Successful People Think? Change your Thinking

If you want to change your life, you need to change your thinking style first. One simple thought can change your whole life. In this article, I am going to tell about unsuccessful people’s thinking and successful people’s thinking. How successful people think? How you can change your thinking? We will know here. 

But before that you need to know about what is the true meaning of success in life. We have talk about that in previous lecture. If you didn’t read my previous article, I highly recommend you to check my previous article first. 

Let’s get started!

1. Set goals:

Successful people and unsuccessful people both have their desires and dreams.

Unsuccessful people don’t clarify their desire. They don’t know what they want to be in their life. They have a lot of distraction in their mind.  They don’t use vision board. 

But successful people clarify first what they want to be. They set their goal first. 

2. Right direction:

Without direction, you are same as a pilot who want to go somewhere. But he don’t know about the right direction. He didn’t set their direction. So as a result, he is flying here and there. He can’t reach at the destination. 

Successful people clearly know where to go and how to reach there. They already point out their right direction. 

Sometimes, Unsuccessful people set their goal. For example, a person says,

“I want to be CEO of the company.”  But what is the right direction; what is the strategy; what work should he do to achieve his purpose; what is the way, he still don’t know.

As a result, they stop and don’t achieve their dream. 

3. Goal is First priority 

Successful people put their goal in first priority. Every day, they remember their goal, and see how much progress they have achieved; how’s it going and what to do next to go further. So they always remember their goal. 

4. Long term

Unsuccessful people think only for a short period of time like for 6 months and maximum for 2 years. But successful person think for long period, or for entire life. 

5. Think big

Successful people think big. They decide to achieve to big goal.

If you think big, you will get big success but if you think small goal, you achievement will be small.

For example, your goal is to earn $12,000 per month. So as a result, you will get that. But if you set your goal to $1000 per month. You will earn $1000 per month as an achievement. 

6. They don’t wait for certain circumstances

Unsuccessful people do wish for something and then just wait for certain circumstance. They think when their fate provide them a chance or opportunity, then they will do something and achieve their goal.

But successful people don’t do that. They create and find out his own opportunity for achieving their goal. 

7. No Excuses:

Unsuccessful people always try to find out some excuse for doing nothing. They find the ways to not to do something. But successful people find the ways to do something. 

8. Difference between successful people’s thinking and unsuccessful peoples thinking

Sometimes, both people have vision board; both have clear idea about their goals. But their thinking is totally different. Let’s see

Unsuccessful people say these three things and then they stop. They don’t do anything. 

    (1) I have goal; I have to do something, but I don’t know how to do that; I don’t know how to achieve my goal. 

   (2) I don’t have things. I don’t have enough money, resources or opportunities to do something. So I can’t do that. 

    (3) I am not like those successful peoples. 

Successful people say these three things and go further instead of stopping. 

    (1) I have goal and I have to achieve that, but I don’t know how to do that. So my job is to learn first. I need to learn first. 

    (2) I don’t have things, so first my job is to build things. I still have to do that with my limited things. 

    (3) I am not like those successful peoples, so I need to think about how I can become like those. 

So in short, nothing can stop them to do something or achieve their goal. Successful people don’t admit excuses. 

9. Unsuccessful people Blame on their fate/destiny:

Unsuccessful people always blame to their fate. They say, 

“I am not successful, because my fate is bad and those successfully people’s fate is good. They are successful because of their good luck. In this world, only those things happen that is written in fate. And success is not in my fate or destiny.”

And successful people think like this

“I have to write my own fate. And I can do that.”

10. Speed of action:

Work that other person do in years; successful people do that in months. Work that other person complete in months, successful people complete in weeks.

Their action speed is super-fast. They don’t take too much time to think. They take action immediately.

11. Successful people immediately apply those things what they learn

When successful people meet someone, they decide like that, “I have to catch some important point from this person and instantly apply in my life.”

Here is an example. 

There is some seminar coming in upcoming days. And some person is going to give you some valuable information in the seminar.  So see what ordinary peoples will do in that seminar; what their learning style is, let’s see

   (1) Ordinary person might say, “What’s that, I already know all these information. I can tell these all information in more good way than this person who is talking. “

   (2) Some person start to take notes, and fill many pages with so much text. And then, in future, they don’t have time to see it again. 

   (3) Some person instantly try to memorize all important points in their mind. And after that they don’t apply them and forget. 

Here is the way what successful people do. They decide like this, “I have to pick 5 point from this seminars and apply to my life immediately.”

Then, in seminar, they grab one piece of paper. And while listening, they try to catch those actionable point that they can apply to their life immediately.

So they write very few points. And then, they try their best to apply those points in their life as soon as possible. And in just two or three days, they will have applied those points in their life. 

That’s how a successful person go further. 

Final thought

In this article, you learnt what is difference between a successful person and an unsuccessful person; how successful people think and achieve their goal. 

So now it’s your time to change your thinking style, and take action in right direction for achieving your goal. 

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I hope this article will be useful for you. If you have any question, please feel free to ask in comments section. I would love to hear from you. 

“Success is all about action in right direction”