There are certain habits and mindsets that science has proven to linked with success.
Keep reading for tips that are scientifically proven to increase your career effectiveness and success.
Expand Your Network
Study after study shows that having a large network made up of unconnected people builds your chances of success.
Additionally, you need to put yourself out there and meet as many new people as possible from various walks of life.
Doing so will open you up to a wide variety of potentially life-changing opportunities.
Use the “Zeigarnik Effect”
According to the Zeigarnik Effect, unfinished projects and tasks tend to stay in your thoughts more than finished ones.
If you have a project you’ve been procrastinating on, simply take the first step toward completing it and you will be more likely to finish it on time. Doing so is essential to success.
Delay Gratification
Try and make delayed gratification part of your everyday life.
Practice self control in small and big situations, as opposed to electing to take the easy route.
Try Out a Power Pose
Many successful people will tell you about the benefits of body language.
By using a power pose in the way you communicate with others, you simply give off the vibe of being successful.
People notice this, and will want to do more business with you.
It can also be extremely useful to deliver better job interviews and be better at pubic speaking & presentations.
Make Decisions in the Morning
Successful people are constantly faced with decisions.
Making them at all times of the day can lead to what is known as “decision fatigue.”
To help prevent falling into this trap, try and schedule all of your important decision making in the morning. By doing this at the beginning of the day, you know exactly how to tackle your goals going forward.
Aim For Happiness
For most of us, we simply have the order backward by believing that success equals happiness.
However, it turns out we just need to reverse our thinking to achieve both.
In other words, we need to be happy in order to succeed.
Think of Progress as a Reward
To be successful, you need to start thinking of progress as the reward for your efforts, rather than a paycheck or benefits.
By doing this, you begin to focus more on where you’re going.
In fact, according to science, money is not what people look at when determining success. Instead, success is based off of the triumphs and achievements they can associate with a person.
Identity and Use Your Strengths at Work
If you want to succeed professionally, only trying to fix your weaknesses will not benefit you enough.
You need to use your strengths as leverage to ensure you succeed.
Keep Learning to Stay Competitive
With many amazing online education and learning websites at your disposal to help your develop your skills, you can make sure you have a leg up on the competition now.
Ask for Advice
The failure of many employees to ask for advice keeps them from learning new and valuable skills/information every day at work.
Don’t Wait for Formal Performance Reviews
Getting good feedback from relevant people can be very useful.
It can be especially important when it comes to the workplace, as feedback can help you grow and thrive in your field, increasing your value to employers.
Unfortunately, however, most people do not give and receive feedback often enough. Often it might be limited to just an annual evaluation with your boss.
Become Better at Learning from Your Mistakes
Everyone makes mistakes but how we view them and deal with them, determines a lot about how well we learn and succeed.
