5 Daily Practices To Catapult You Towards Success

When it comes to success, we often wonder what the big idea is. The most common myth about success is that it is a destination. Success is a process. It is what you do every day, not just every blue moon. Here are 5 daily practices that will put you on the fast track to success:

1. Leverage your resources: With the internet alone, millions of people have seemingly unlimited access to various resources. One of the key differences between the mediocre and the successful is the extent to which they use those resources. Using what you already have to maximum advantage puts you in a great position for success even before you have to start the actual work.
2. Put uncommon effort into common tasks: This daily practice transcends all socioeconomic status, races and genders. If you have a task, you can go the extra mile. There are very few people on the extra mile, so your excellence is practically guaranteed to get recognized. Doing what is required is a habit of the mediocre. Doing more than you have to highlights your hunger for excellence.
3. Prepare, Prepare, Prepare: Whatever break you are hoping for in the future, prepare for it now! The only way an opportunity will serve you is if it is paired with preparation. An opportunity given to someone unprepared will only lead to their demise. You have to be mentally prepared for the emotional, physical and mental demands of the opportunity of your dreams. Opportunity waits for no one. Once it is here, you're either ready or not!
4. Sharpen your advantage: Every person has strengths and advantages, things that will set them apart from the masses. It is not enough to have them and let them lay dormant. Unrecognized advantages and unnoticed strengths are nothing. You have to sharpen and develop them to activate the power that they hold to catapult you towards success.
5. Get from the day, not through the day: Every day is a new chance to benefit. Too many people see their days as beatings that they have to endure. They allow themselves to be mastered by their circumstances rather than mastering them. Success is about reclaiming the power that is already within you. When you focus on getting through the day rather than getting from it, you surrender your power. Whether your day is negative or positive, their is always a way to profit. The key is training yourself to notice the opportunity in every difficulty.