Here’s a text list with these tendencies in one-to-one relationship. Green is what I’m doing right more often than not. Yellow is what I’m doing wrong more often than not.
Successful people: | Unsuccessful people: |
Compliment | Criticize |
Forgive others | Hold a grudge |
Accept responsibility for their failures | Blame others for their failures |
Keep a journal | Say they keep a journal but don’t |
Want others to succeed | Secretly hope others fail |
Keep a “to-be” list | Don’t know what they want to be |
Set goals and develop life plans | Never set goals |
Continuously learn | Think they know it all |
Operate from a tranformational perspective | Operate from a transactional perspective |
Keep a to-do / project list | Fly by the seat of their pants |
Embrace change | Fear change |
Exude joy | Exude anger |
Share information and data | Hoard information and data |
Talk about ideas | Talk about people |
Read every day | Watch TV every day |
Give other people credit for their victories | Take all the credit of their victories |
Have a sense of gratitude | Have a sense of entitlement |
Successful people keep a journal. Time I resumed the practice. I’ve been keeping a journal on paper, but that’s fallen behind. It’s really the act of journalling over the existence of a journal itself that’s valuable to a person’s development.
Not all my entries will be public view. I’ll continue to work in a paper journal sometimes, especially when artifacts are involved, like movie tickets and photos. But this blog will do for now.
Apropos nothing, here’s a list of CSS color names, which I needed for coloring in the above list.