If you really want to bring success into your life, you should cultivate yourself just as you’d cultivate a garden for the best yield.

The attributes here are shared by successful people everywhere, but they don’t happen by accident or luck. They originate in habits, built a day at a time.

Remember: If you live your life as most people do, you will get what most people get. If you settle, you will get a settled life. If you give yourself your best, every day, your best will give back to you.

Some important attributes are as follow:

• Perceptions of life

Life is full of perceptionsSome has positive and some undauntedly have negative. Perceptions are virtual reality so its always good to taste the truth and have the reality in mind..

• Attitude

Positive thinking is a mental attitude that chooses to think about success, instead of failure, and about progress, instead of stagnation. It is an optimistic state of mind that visualizes what you want, not what you do not want, and focuses on thoughts, words and images that are conductive to growth, expansion and success.

• The individuals passion

Being passionate is important in life, but it also can be difficult to deal with. Just like with all good things, too much of it can be damaging. However, passionate people, overall, do live happier and better lives than the average individual.

• Willpower and determination

To achieve lofty goals, we need to have a combination of willpower and determination. Willpower is the motivation to apply free will in our lives.Determination is our ability to try our best to keep on doing something even if it is very challenging to do so.

• Consistency

We all have our own individual skill sets and our limitations, and we tend to perform accordingly. For example, if you have been consistently scoring 60% in your exams, you are consistent with your scores.If you deliver beyond that expected average,you feela sense of pride and accomplishment. If you score lower than your average expected score, however, you not only feel that you have under-performed, but people around you begin to question that decline as well.

• Time management

Time management refers to the way that you organize and plan how long you spend on specific activities. It may seem counter-intuitive to dedicate precious time to learning about time management, instead of using it to get on with your work, but the benefits are enormous:

• Keeping calm in all situations

Many of the world’s greatest achievers, including entrepreneurs, athletes and artists, could not have reachedtheir level of success without learning how to stay extremely calm under pressure. They have the ability to develop and maintain a particular state of psychological readiness, a mental preparedness they summon on demand.

• Reaching out to people

Reaching out to people is an art form. The way in which a person can walk into a room of people with a natural ability to join in with any group of people. I am like that. You can put me in any environment of people and I can reach out to anyone and I thrive on people, whether as an individual or as a group. But Ive been like that since childhood and when I look back at my life I am a peoples person and a mans man.

• Ability to maintain good relations and developing new friends

We tend to make friends with people we cross paths with regularly: people we go to school with, work with, or live close to. The more we see someone, the more likely the chance is of a friendship developing. So look at the places you frequent as you start your search for potential friends.

• Ability to change as per the circumstances- Change management

When you are inspired you have the ability and mindset to be an inspiration. Just the same is the opposite, when you give inspiration you yourself have been inspired to do so. With inspiration brings belief and with belief, anything is possible. With unlimited possibilities brings unlimited ways to change your circumstances.

11 Successful People And Their Unique Habits

• Benjamin Franklin

Benjamin Franklin is one of the most successful and well-known men in history, being not only known as a politician but also as a printer, inventor, scientist, and much more. One notable habit of his was to rise very early each day before he started work. He would wake up at 5 a.m., bathe, review his business for the day, and have breakfast. This way he would be fully focused by 8 a.m. and would be able to work without getting distracted.

• Evan Williams

Evan Williams, founder of Blogger and Twitter, keeps his mind sharp by making sure his body gets a workout. Every day he takes some time off in the middle of the day to go work out at the gym, and when he returns, his energy level is higher and he is able to focus more easily on his work.

• Arianna Huffington

Arianna Huffington, President and Editor-in-Chief of The Huffington Post, practices yoga and meditation each day to help her keep stress levels down and increase mindfulness in her life. When people dont have as much stress in their life and they are more aware of their own feelings and needs, they are happier and healthier. Happy, healthy people can provide their best work to the companies that employ them or to the companies they own.

• Randy Garutti

Randy Garutti, CEO of the Shake Shack franchise, attributes his success to the habit of focusing on one thing at a time and being present. No one can do everything at once, so it is better to give your whole focus to one task at a time. Otherwise youll spread yourself out over numerous tasks and not be able to give as much time and energy to any of them as you could if you gave yourself more room to focus.

• Barack Obama

Among the many successful habits that Obama practices, one of the most significant is making it a point to have breakfast with his daughters and the first lady, help his daughters get ready for school, and have dinner with his family again in the evening. Like Obama, successful people are careful to strike a good work-life balance, working hard but also making sure to prioritize spending time with family.

• Stephen King

The Famous Fiction Writer Stephen King makes a habit of keeping his work space arranged the same way every day. He sits down to work at around the same time every day and in the same chair, has a glass of water, keeps his papers arranged in the same way each day, and listens to the same music. This is his way of getting himself ready to focus on working, and when you are focused on your work, you are bound to succeed.

• Franz Kafka

Another famous fiction writer, Franz Kafka spent his days as an insurance agent but always made time to feed his creative urge. He would start writing at 10:30 p.m. and keep going into the early hours of the morning. His day job was very stressful and busy, but creative writing was his release. No matter how busy your day job, everyone should nurture their passions when they have time in order to stay motivated. And who knows perhaps your passion will be your calling.

• David Zinczenko

David Zinczenko, Editor-in-Chief of Mens Health magazine, practices the habit of keeping healthy snacks and drinks around his office. This way he stays energized and wont experience a sugar crash later in the day from eating unhealthy foods. Plus, when he already has snacks stocked, he doesnt have to leave the office while he is working just to waste time buying food.

• Cindy Ratzlaff
  

Cindy Ratzlaff, a consultant, speaker and author, comes up with a success goal each day and writes it on her white board in her office. Its then in front of her all day to remind her to ask herself before each action if the action will serve her chosen goal. Keeping focused on a goal brings purpose to each choice she makes, eliminating time-wasters and distractions.

• Albert Einstein

Albert Einstein, theoretical physicist, philosopher and author, enjoyed taking the time to go for long walks on the beach or gazing at the ceiling during the workweek so that he could listen to what was going on in his mind. By spending some time in solitude, you can reach deep within yourself and focus on the thoughts in your head.