6 secrets of successful people

Why do some people manage to become a world-renowned businessmen and leaders to change the world around, and the other and can not move, despite the hard work? The reason for this is often overlooked.

Successful businessmen try to invest your time in something that will provide them with new knowledge, creative solutions and energy in the future. At first, their success may not be visible, but in the end, thanks to long-term investment, they reach unprecedented heights.

As a result, embedded time brings excellent profits, so you can call it profitable. On the chart clearly shows the dependence of the results from the way in which we spend your time.

For example, Warren Buffett, though, and owns companies with hundreds of thousands of employees, are not absorbed in the work entirely. According to him, 80% of his working hours he devotes to reading and meditation. Spent this time gives him the knowledge needed to make good decisions and successful business.

The best profit comes from investment in knowledge.

Benjamin Franklin, politician, inventor, writer.

Successful people stick to good habits, which should take over. Here are some effective tips to help you organize your time so that it will bring you profit in the long run.

1. Keep a diary

A diary are many successful people, albeit sometimes not in the traditional sense of the word.

For example, Benjamin Franklin each morning asking himself: "What good must I do today?" And every evening ends with a question: "What's good today I? Made "Steve Jobs, standing in front of a mirror, was interested in the following:" If today were the last day of my life, I would do what I was going to to do? "

Economist and consultant on management, Peter Drucker, deciding, writing down their expectations in this regard, and a few months later compared them with what actually happened. And Oprah Winfrey his every day begins with gratitude journaling, writing there are five things for which she is grateful to life.

Albert Einstein left behind more than 80 000 pages of various records. Second US President John Adams kept a diary all his life, the amount of which exceeds 50 pieces.

Writing down your thoughts, plans and events of life, you become more alert and focused, develop metamyshlenie and learn to make the right decisions.

2. Take breaks for sleep

"All or hour and a half break for sleep has on the ability to acquire information such as positive effect as a full eight hours of sleep, "- says an expert on studying sleep Sarah Coppersmith (Sara Mednick). Scientists have found that people who study in the morning, 30% better than the control tests carried out in the evening if they were doing an hour break to sleep during the day.

This habit stuck Albert EinsteinThomas Edison, Winston Churchill, John F. Kennedy, Ronald Reagan, John D. Rockefeller, and many other prominent personalities. For example, Leonardo da Vinci practiced polyphasic sleep, dividing it into lots of ten-minute intervals. Napoleon preferred to take a nap before each battle. The famous actor Arnold Schwarzenegger daily arrange a quiet hour in the afternoon.

Modern science confirms the benefits of this habit. Day break for sleep not only increases productivityAmerica, It's Time for Your Nap. But also develop creativeSleep inspires insight. thinking.

Perhaps, therefore, Salvador Dali and Edgar Allan Poe used this method to cause gipnagogiyu - a state between sleep and wakefulness, which has helped them to become more creative.

3. You walk for at least 15 minutes a day

Successful people are necessarily withdrawn at his scheduled time on sports. Walking can also be a great exercise.

Charles Darwin walked twice a day, at noon and 16.00. Beethoven in the afternoon went for a long walk and took with him a pencil and a music paper in case its the inspiration. Charles Dickens took a brisk pace of more than 10 kilometers a day, that helped him not to burn out work. Steve Jobs went on foot when in front of him waiting for an important call.

Value Only those ideas that have emerged during the walk.

Friedrich Nietzsche, the famous philosopher.

Other famous personalities who have known long-term benefit walking- Aristotle, Mahatma Gandhi, Jack Dorsey, Tory Burch, Howard Schultz, Oliver Sacks, and Winston Churchill.

This habit should definitely adopt. After all, scientists have confirmedStanford study finds walking improves creativity. That walks invigorate, refresh head, enhance creativity and even prolong life. according to a studyHow Only 15 Minutes of Walking Can Change Everything. Which lasted 12 years, among people over 65 years old who walked 15 minutes a day, the mortality rate was below 22%.

4. read More

Regardless of the circumstances of life, each of us has access to books - loved educational resource Bill Gates, The richest man in the world. It is economical and extremely effective way to increase their knowledge about anything.

Winston Churchill, a few hours a day reading the biographical, historical, philosophical and economic works. Theodore Roosevelt had read a book a day, when he was busy, and two or three books in days off work.

Mark Cuban is reading more than three hours a day. Billionaire David Rubenstein read six books a week. Elon Musk in his youth had read two books every day. A CEO Disney, Bob Iger for reading wakes up at 4:30 every morning. And the list is long.

Reading improves memory, increases the level of empathy and reduces stress, helping us to achieve our goals.

5. Find a friend with the same interests

According to the writer Joshua Shenk, creativity is driven by communicate with others. In his book "The Power of Two» (Powers Of Two), he spoke about the prominent duo who work together to reach great heights. For example, John Lennon and Paul McCartney, Marie and Pierre Curie, Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak.

Psychologists Daniel Kahneman and Amos Tversky on long walks together developed a new theory of behavioral economics, which earned Kahneman the Nobel Prize.

Tolkien and Lewis to give each other read his sketches and Monday evening spent together in the pub. Scientists Francis Crick and James Watson often communicated and dinner together and then opened DNA structure together with Maurice Wilkinson.

And Theodore Roosevelt was the so-called tennis Cabinet, whose members played together in tennis and discussed political issues.

The experience of many prominent people shows that the communication with other people helps to look at things from another point of view, and even create something totally new.

6. Do not be afraid to experiment

Each of us makes mistakes, regardless of the level of erudition or possession of the important qualities of character. Think of them as an experience that will come in handy in the future.

Success depends on the number of experiments carried out by you. A win is worth all the failed attempts.

Thomas Edison had more than 50,000 failed experiments before he invented the alkaline battery. And in order to create the perfect incandescent bulb it took more than 9000 attempts. However, towards the end of life on account of Edison it was about 1100 patents.

Conduct experiments can be not only in practice. For example, Einstein saw them in your mind that helped him to develop his brilliant scientific theory. And in the diaries of Thomas Edison and Leonardo da Vinci, in addition to records, there are more mental maps and various sketches.

Experiments help you develop good habits. Producer and writer Shonda Rhimes has decided to get rid of workaholism and pronounced introversion, agreeing to everything that frightened her before. This experiment was called "the year I told everyone" yes "," with a story about where she He spoke at the TED.

Philosopher and poet Ralph Waldo Emerson is the author of a remarkable phrase: "The whole life - is a continuous experiment. The more experiments you take, the better. "

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To achieve these goals, you need to properly manage their time. If you dedicate it to what will bring you benefit in the future, you can achieve success.