8 Power Habits Of Great Leaders and Business Icons

If you’re frequent on social media, you might have noticed a common meme where a man
standing on a podium asks a crowd,” Who wants change?” Everyone raises their hands. Then he
asks,” Who wants to change?” No one raises their hand. The reason for that is people are not
willing to change their habits easily. But whether we like it or not, success in all endeavors,
especially entrepreneurship, depends on habits. Let’s have a peek at 8 of the most common
power habits of great leaders and business icons.

1. Be a believer: If success is compared with the human body, belief would be its skeleton.
Our belief’s act as our power source for our motivation and values through the hurdles
and rough patches on the road to success. Find a cause or ideology that resonates with
you and dedicate yourself. When we demonstrate strong belief in our values, people are
influenced positively.
2. To muse or not to muse: While having an inspiration is all fine and dandy, waiting for
one while doing nothing is not. Inspiration is very fickle and to wait for it is not the best
of ideas. Instead, start actualizing your dreams and inspiration will find its way to you,
guaranteed!
3. No guts, no glory: Time to wake up from the vivid fantasy where everything will
magically be OK. Life is hard, business is harder and failure is inevitable. Failure is part of
the package to success. We learn when we fail and that’s how we get better.
4. Time to bring out the thinking hat: Behind every success story, there was a well laid
plan. So, plan ahead or get ready to stay mediocre. Think your strategies, set up back up
plans, make provisions for unknown factors that might set you back. Give your endeavor
a structure and your work is half done!
5. Simple is elegant: One common mistake we’re prone to making is overcomplicating
things, plans and conversations for a “wow” factor. Stop! It actually has a reverse effect
and promotes disinterest. Make everything plain and simple in layman’s terms; easy to
understand is easy to sell.
6. Forgive and Forget: Success is a long road, and many things and people will be
problematic and irrational. Learn from these situations, forgive the cause of your woes
and move on. Staying hung up on the past is bad when you’re moving forward.
7. Time and Routine: The most common pitfall for most entrepreneurs is lack of routine
and time management. Face it; entrepreneurship has no fixed time but if you don’t have
 a routine you can never organize things into place. Allot particular timeslots in your day
for important things so that even your chaos has order.
8. ABC: Always Be Closing is the key to the massive success of the best leaders and
businessmen out there. Be persistent, be patient and stick to the plan when negotiating
and dealing in any kind of situation.

Now that we’ve had peek, let’s get working on them. Shall we? Live long and succeed!