The Villain Within
pick up on their positive success habits. In contrast, you can be around someone else for a few minutes and feel drained. That person is an energy drainer that is sucking away your positive energy! And soon enough you’re picking up their bad habits and negative attitudes and adding them to your own life” When it comes to strangers and first encounters, create the habit of identifying quickly if they’re chargers or drainers. For example, ask someone, “How’s your day going?” You’ll be able to tell a lot from their response. If they say, “It’s great, fantastic, or good,” that is a quick sign they are a energy charger who you want to strike up a conversation with and get to know. Pay attention to how they act, the habits they have, and even their work ethic. On the other hand, if a person responds, “Having another rough day, man. I can’t wait for this week to be over,” you may want to just nod and walk the other way. Your energy is too valuable to have it drained away by someone else. Keep that in mind when someone asks you the same ques- tion: “Hey, Dean, how are you doing?” Why not make it a habit like Joel did, and learn to say, “Fantastic!” or “Never been bet- ter,” or something close to that? It’s truly a subtle but powerful success habit. This law of human nature is very simple: If you want finan- cial success, you must surround yourself with financially suc- cessful people. If you want to be an entrepreneur and start your own company, socialize with other entrepreneurs and other people who have started their own companies. Want to be in better shape? You get the idea. How do you develop your inner circle? You must make it a habit to expand your social circle and deliberately include suc- cessful, career-oriented people and business owners. Maybe you are saying, “I don’t have any successful friends.” That is the case more often than not, so start one step at a time. Read a lot of books about success or listen to podcasts and audiobooks while you work out. Go where successful people are likely to be, like meet-up groups and masterminds. You can start with the success habits 30-day challenge at www.thebetterlife.com.
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