Transform Your Career: Adopt the Habits of Successful Assistants

Over the years, I’ve read hundreds of books. There are just so many to read that I don’t make it a practice to reread very many books. Instead, I’ll be thinking about a topic and a book title will jump into my head. I’ll pull the book off my shelf and re-read all my notes and highlights from the book.

Recently I pulled down You Are a Badass at Making Money by Jen Sincero. I just love her books because if I ever need to be reminded that to stand in my power, she’s great at that!

What caught my attention this time is her list of the most common habits of successful people.

Successful people:

• Take risks
• Stick to their deadlines
• Set good boundaries
• Give back
• Work smart
• Go to the spiritual gym (read self-help books, exercise, meditate, work with mastermind groups, etc.)
• Delegate
• Constantly learn
• Stay disciplined
• Focus
• Practice patience
• Surround themselves with ass kickers
• Talk about ideas, not other people
• Get back up instead of give up
• Show up on time
• Know what’s going on around them
• Know what’s going on with their money

After reading this list many times through, I started evaluating myself on what I’m good at and where I could stand to get better. (Practicing patience and knowing what’s going on with my money are the two that need the most work in case you were curious!)

Which of these are you really good at? Which needs some work? And which are you just terrible at?

Think about how amazing your life and career would be if you spent just one month learning about all the ways you could improve in each area and then asking yourself the focusing question from The ONE Thing about what you’ve learned: What’s the one thing I can do to become the type of assistant who takes risks? who sticks to their deadlines? who sets good boundaries? etc.

What’s just one tiny habit you could create in each area that would be the first domino to knock down all the bigger dominos?

Look, this is an awesome list of topics for your team to be discussing at team meetings! What are we doing as a team to take risks? to stick to our deadlines? to set good boundaries?

What about your spouse or your kids? What do each of these mean to them and to your family as a group?

Remember, your life and what you do with it is in your hands…Who will you choose to be?