A short motivational talk by Brian Tracy outlining four core habits of highly successful people: (1) develop a strong positive self-concept, (2) act consistently with that self-concept, (3) deliberately step outside comfort zones to raise potential, and (4) practice positive thinking and a clear self-ideal. Tracy argues the self-concept (formed early) acts as a mental operating system that predicts performance and that changing thought patterns leads to greater achievement. The talk closes with a call-to-action asking viewers to comment about how they stepped out of their comfort zone.
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Hello, I'm Brian Tracy and today I want to talk to you about four must know habits of all highly successful people. The whole secret of personal success is to find out what your calling is and what then do that. The great question for success is what are the habits of successful people? Why is it that some people have positive thinking patterns while others do not? What determines your self concept for success? The way you think, feel and see yourself. Many successful people have been interviewed over the years and asked the question what do you think about most of the time? Their answers are simple and consistent and yet so profound that they can be life changing. In short, the habits of successful people revolve around positive thinking. They think about what they want and how to get it. Most of the time, successful people have all concluded one way or the other, that your self concept and your mind is programmed from early childhood. Your self concept plays a decisive role in almost everything that you think, feel and accomplish as an adult. By learning these four habits of successful people, you too will become a successful person. First, all successful people have a great self concept. Your self concept is the master program of your subconscious computer. It acts as your mental operating system. Every thought, feeling, emotion, experience and decision that you have ever had is permanently recorded on this mental hard drive. Once recorded, these impressions then influence the way you think, feel and behave. From that point onward. Your self concept precedes and predicts your levels of effectiveness in every area of your life. Your self concept explains why the mental laws have such an inordinate effect on your personality. Second, successful people are consistent. Once your self concept in a particular area is formed, you always act in a manner consistent with it. You may have extraordinary ability in a particular area, but if your self concept is poor in that area, you will always perform below your true potential. The habits of successful people are to have positive thinking and positive self concepts in all areas of their lives. You have a self concept for how well you speak in public. You have a self concept for how popular you are. You have a self concept for what kind of a spouse or partner you are. You have a self concept for what kind of a parent you are. You have a self concept for how well you perform in each sport or physical activity. You have a self concept for how organized or how disorganized you are. You have a self concept for how well you manage your time and how productive you are. You have a self concept for your ability to read, write and do mathematics in your business and career. You have a self concept for every aspect of your financial life through Positive thinking. You have a self concept for how much you earn and how hard you have to work to earn that amount of money. You have a self concept for how rapidly you are promoted and how much your earnings increase year by year. Third, successful people step out of their comfort zones. Whatever your self concept, your habit of thinking with regard to money or any other area of performance will become your comfort zone. Your comfort zone then becomes your greatest single obstacle to improved performance. Once you get into a comfort zone in any area, you will strive and struggle unconsciously to remain in that comfort zone, even though it may be vastly below what you are truly capable of achieving in that area. The key to achieving your full potential and developing the same habits of successful people is for you to raise your self concept through positive thinking patterns. It is for you to develop new habits of positive thinking about what is putting possible for you. The way that you accomplish vastly more on the outside is by changing your thoughts and feelings about your potential in that area on the inside. Finally, all successful people are positive thinkers. Your self concept is your self ideal. This is the ideal image or picture you have of yourself as if you were already the very best person you could possibly be. Your self ideal and self concept is made up of your wishes and hopes and dreams and goals and fantasies about your perfect future and life combined with the qualities and virtues that you admire most in yourself and in other people. Your self ideal and self concept is a composite through positive thinking of the very best person you could imagine yourself being living the very best life you could possibly live. High performing, successful, happy people have very clear self ideals. They have clear ideals of what they like and respect and admire. They have clear ideals about the virtues and values and attributes of the superior men and women that they want to emulate. The most successful people have an uplifting, inspiring vision of what a truly excellent person looks like and how he or she behaves within their self concept. You are a remarkable person possessed of incredible untapped potentials and abilities. Whatever you have accomplished in life so far is only a shadow of what is truly possible for you. There are virtually no limits on what you can do or be and have, except for the limits that you impose on yourself with your own thinking. By following these four steps and by taking complete control of the development of your self concept through positive thinking, you lay the foundation for the development that will enable you to accomplish more in the next few years than the average person accomplishes in a lifetime. Before we wrap up, I'd like to leave you with a thought to share with your friends and followers. Self actualization and self fulfillment result when you feel that you are becoming everything that you are capable of becoming, that you are fulfilling your full potential now. I'd love to hear from you. So my question today is this. What have you done today that steps out of your comfort zone and helps you to grow more and more towards your full potential? Leave a comment below and I'll be sure to follow up with you. Thanks for watching. And remember, if you want to change your future, take action. And take action now. If you enjoyed this video and feel it was valuable in teaching you about habits of highly successful people, subscribe to my channel like this video and share this video with your friends. Don't forget to click the button on the screen for a free gift. Thanks again for watching.
