Bill Gates and Buffett went to a university to give a speech. During the Q&A session, a student asked, “Can I ask, with both of your careers being so successful now, what are the secrets?” Buffett replied: “The answer is straightforward. It all comes down to habits.”
A person’s habits hide their destiny. When you develop routines, they determine who you are. Our lives are the sum of countless patterns.
The following 10 good habits can make you successful in life
1. Go to bed early and get up early
Going to bed early and getting up early is the first step of self-discipline in life. Waking up an hour before starting your daily tasks gives you a full hour that is entirely yours. Doing what you like is so free and enjoyable. One netizen honestly said: “Since I started waking up early, I feel more energetic and am more proactive in my work.”
2. Balance work and rest
After finally getting a holiday, let yourself relax completely and do things that genuinely make you happy. A bow that is always taut, even if made of steel, will lose its elasticity. Similarly, regardless of the brain’s intelligence, prolonged tension and excessive fatigue can lead to a state of numbness. Balancing work and rest, and adjusting appropriately, will make work more efficient.
3. Pay attention to your image
Your only enemy is not time, but inertia. Parents often influence a person’s appearance in youth, but after middle age, someone’s look is determined mainly by themselves. When you cannot present yourself in a good state, it is as if you have been defeated by life, time, work, and family.
4. Regularly declutter
In the face of constantly expanding material desires, what you need is a heart that can calm down. Many things you think are helpful, if left unused for two or three years, are likely to have lost their value and can be considered for disposal. Learn to declutter and return to simplicity; this way, life can become more relaxed and free.
5. Persist in reading
How many people sleep while holding their phones? Try putting down your device and reading a book before bed. If you persist over the long term, you will gain a different version of yourself. Successful people are generally voracious readers.
6. Persist in saving
As you reach middle age, you often feel a sense of loneliness. This is because when you open your eyes, you find that everyone around you relies on you, while the person you want to rely on is simply not there. Persisting in saving allows you to have the confidence to negotiate with life.
7. Learn to control emotions
Life’s troubles arise from having a bad temper. Having a temper hurts others and harms yourself even more. When emotions control you, 80 percent of the decisions you make will be wrong.
8. Praise others
Learning to praise others is a kind of grace, wisdom, and realm.
9. Enjoy solitude
Many people have nothing to do when they have free time; they either binge-watch dramas or play games, sitting until they feel dizzy before sleeping, living in a state of anxiety. How you spend your solitude is how you will spend your life.
10. Maintain an optimistic attitude
A person with a positive mindset can turn an ordinary life into poetry; one with a bad attitude, no matter how affluent their life is, will make their days desolate. Keeping an optimistic heart will always create the possibility of change.
Translated by Joseph Wu and edited by Laura Cozzolino
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