What Self-Made Millionaires Do That Most People Don't: 52 Ways to Create Your Own Success

by Ann Marie Sabath

Make sure that you have more “you owe me” in the universe than “I owe you” favors in return. Your generosity to help others will give you the con...

Your Own Success: Pay It Forward

As you see, you can pay it forward by

giving to others in many ways.

It can be as small a deed ...

or paying for a stranger's meal for t...

The size of the gesture is irrelevant. What is important is to do it without expe...

A brain trust refers to a group of individuals who are asked to provide counsel for achieving a specific goal or giving advice for solving challenging situations.

Being positive is a learned choice. It is an attitude.

Negative people often see unpleasant situations as unsolvable.

Those with positive attitudes, however, see the same stressful situations...

Rather than moping about what they have been confronted with, positive people consider alternate solutions for h...

Positive people are “challenge-solvers” while negative people interpret stressful ...

Being positive expends less energy than b...

Self-made millionaires are definitely po...

Geoffrey James explains that your attitude defines and delimits your level of success.

“If you have an upbeat attitude, you'll achieve at least some level of success. If you have a lousy attitude,” Geoffrey writes, “you'll see obstacles

as threats and annoyances. If you have a positive attitude, you'll see obstacles as i...

What I know for certain is that being happy is a mindset.

It is a choice. It is how you allow yourself to react to things.

although it is only “human” to react to what is going on in your envir...

happy have the confidence not to allow people or situations to negatively...

People who are content with themselves also have a positiv...

“The noblest art in the world is making others happy.”

A happy person's positive emotions are contagious, which makes others want to be around them.

“Unhappy” people, on the other hand, often interpret people or situations as making them experience feeling sad, an...

What they do not recognize is that the unhappiness stems from how they choose to react to the situation ra...

If the employee, however, would learn to take his manager's constructive criticism professionally rather than personally, the emotion of unhappiness would not be part of the workplace equation.

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“Luck is believing you're lucky.”1 Could a positive attitude be an essential trait of “lucky” people?

People with positive attitudes use

their creativity to work to their benefit.

Successful people create their own success.

Maintain a positive “I will do it” mindset.

Stop wishing and devise a plan to make it—whatever you want—happen!

I have always believed that the worst disease in the world is not cancer, is not Alzheimer's, is not heart failure—or any other of the diseases we often hear about. I truly believe that the worst disease in the world is the lack of self-esteem.

Do whatever it takes to make it happen

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Your Own Success: Be Grateful

In his book The 7 Core Skills of Everyday

Happiness, author Scott Wilhite says

that being grateful and displaying happiness are the single greatest skills that you can have in your life. His favorite 10 words are “You can't be...

Besides being happy, studies have proven that people who display their gratefulness are positive people. They focus on what they have rather than what they are lacking. They display their appreciation to others for even the smallest...

Individuals who are appreciative have a passion for life. They start their day with an attitude of gratitude. Though it is easy to take a good life for gra...

interviewed for this book shared that they make a point of reminding themselves for what...

This attitude of gratitude is put into practice throughout the day by thanking a team member for a job well done, expressing appreciation to a customer for his business, displaying appreciation for a complaint, paying a compliment to another, and thanking a family member for not using a cell phone during dinner. By accentuating the positive through these acts of gratitude, the environment of these individuals becomes a more ...

Being grateful is in contrast to expending energy on what ...

Successful people accentuate what they do have and what is working. They do not allow themselves to experience resentment when...

There is a spiritual law of life that says “What you focus on tends to grow.” When you focus on being grateful for what you have, what you are thankful for tends to grow.

This law of nature is called the law of abundance.