This is a short Brian Tracy monologue (YouTube) about developing work habits that lead to success. The speaker emphasizes two foundational qualities—focus and concentration—plus the habit of task completion, and recommends visualization/self‑programming to turn desired behaviors into automatic habits. The video ends with a viewer call-to-action (comments, subscribe, free gift).
Good Habits Worth Three Things Hard working and Successful People do differently. You can develop any habit of thought or behavior that you consider desirable or necessary. Brian Tracy Successful people maintain good habits that go hand in hand with success in every area of endeavor. There is nothing that will bring you to the attention of your superiors faster than developing a reputation or for being a hard working and dependable worker. How you work determines the quality and quantity of your rewards. Your ability to develop good habits for work determines how much you can earn, how effective you are and how much you are respected in your organization and how much real satisfaction you get out of your job. Unfortunately, most people are poor workers. They are unorganized, unfocused and easily distracted. They work at about 50% of their capacity. Sadly enough, they don't even seem to know how to work any differently. Even if they wanted to, it's like speaking a foreign language. They wouldn't know how to do it without first being taught to achieve success in every area of your life. Develop the habits of highly successful and hard working people to begin with, the foundations of good work habits can be summarized in two words, focus and concentration. Focus requires clarity concerning the desired results and the relative priority of each step that you need to take to achieve those results. When you think of focus, think of a photographer adjusting his lens to keep the key subject sharp in the center of the picture. To become a truly hard working individual at work, you must continually adjust your lens to be sure that that what you are working on is the most important thing you could be doing at that moment to achieve your most important goal. Successful people understand that the worst waste of time is doing something very well that you shouldn't do at all. Successful people concentrate their energies. Concentration requires the ability to stay with a task until it is 100% complete. Successful people understand that they must work in a straight line and to get them from where they are to where they want to go without diversion or distraction. If you want to accomplish your goals, you must be sure that everything you do is taking you in that direction and develop the good habits to get you there. This decision alone will dramatically increase the quality and quantity of what you get done each day and soon enough you will become one of the most successful people you know. There are several benefits from learning how to concentrate. First, important task completion is a source of energy, enthusiasm and self esteem. On the other hand, failure to complete important tasks or to complete them only partially is not only a major source of stress, but it depletes your enthusiasm and self esteem when you complete an important task, you experience a surge of energy and well being. But when you work on an unimportant task, even if you complete it in a timely fashion, you get no feeling of satisfaction or personal reward at all. Disciplining yourself to concentrate on a job until it is finished gives you a feeling of confidence, competence and mastery. It develops you into a hard working person and gives you an experience of self control so that you feel you are in charge of your own destiny. The Habit of Task Completion Developing good habits for a successful career include the habit of task completion. Being able to complete your tasks and finish what you start is an essential part of character building. You cannot imagine a fully mature, fully functioning person who is unable to finish what they begin. The development of this habit is the key to long term success. You can accelerate the process of becoming a highly productive person by by regularly visualizing yourself as focused and channeled towards high achievement. See yourself as one of the most highly efficient and hard working successful people you know. Feed your subconscious mind with this picture until it is accepted as a command. Remember, the person you see is the person you will be. Your subconscious cannot tell the difference between a real experience and one that you vividly imagine. If you create an imaginary picture of yourself performing as a hard working individual, you your subconscious mind reacts exactly as if that is what you were actually doing at that moment. Each time as you replay this image of yourself performing at your best, your subconscious mind records it exactly as if it were happening again. Then it adjusts your words, actions and behavior so that your actions on the outside are consistent with the picture you have created on the inside. Each time you remember an occasion where you were performing at your best with confidence, your mind imprints it into your self concept. The more often that you see yourself as the very best that you can possibly be, the more rapidly this becomes your automatic behavior. You program yourself by feeding your mind with positive pictures, either images that you create or repeat pictures of previous peak performance experiences. Now we'd love to hear from you. So our question today is what good habits are you going to develop? What bad ones are you going to let go of? Leave a comment below and we'll be sure to follow up with you. Thanks for watching and as Brian says, if you want to change your future, take action and take action now.
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