Habits of Success

I really liked learning about the 7 habits of highly successful people this week. When I see entrepreneurs, or anyone in general that has become very successful, I often wonder how they made it happen and after learning about these 7 habits I realized that it's because there is an art to success. Success doesn't just happen by chance. As I studied these 7 habits of success I realized that there's several that I need to work on. Especially being someone that is considering pursuing entrepreneurship, it would be necessary that I work on developing those habits because it would require a lot of discipline because being an entrepreneur is not an easy task. 

For me, the two that stood out to me the most were learning to put first things first and sharpening the saw. Putting first things first stood out to me because prioritizing can be difficult with all of the duties we all have. He gave us a way to categorize things by important and urgent, important and non-urgent, not important but urgent, and not important and not urgent. This could be something that would come in very useful not only as an entrepreneur trying to manage and balance many different things but also in everyday life. Learning how to prioritize helps to prevent procrastination and helps to relieve stress as well. Sharpening the saw is another important habit to develop because it involves continually bettering yourself. Sometimes we just go through the motions and before we know it we aren't progressing anymore we are just stuck in a rut. Another common thing that happens is getting so preoccupied with other things that you forget to take care of yourself. By doing self-checks you can check how you are doing mentally, physically, emotionally, and spiritually. The one thing all of the habits have in common is that they require self-discipline and goal setting.