Millionaire Success Habits: The Gateway to Wealth & Prosperity by Dean Graziosi

For an employee, a growth mindset means taking the business as your own, doing your best and exceeding expectations. People tend to consider these things as foolish; they believe it makes you a “yes-man” for your boss. But what they fail to see is that imbibing a growth mindset isn't as much about what your employer or organization would gain from it as it is about you growing fast.

Whether you're an employee or business owner, decide today to make growth a priority.

Unfortunately, for far too many people, their motivation is their bills. A lot of us get all set for work early in the morning and return late, all just for the bills; there's nothing else driving us. No higher purpose, no vision, nothing. And that's why it's easy to get distracted in the day. It also explains why our lives seem to end after the day's work is over; why we keep negative friends; why we indulge in destructive habits and so on.

Success is all about meeting set targets and that means if you have no target you're pursuing, then you can't succeed. It's just like getting into your car with no destination in mind. You'd waste gas without getting anywhere or accomplishing anything.

Pause for a moment to think about your life and the things you'd like to accomplish. Find a nice piece of paper, write an area of your life — say relationship or money — then below it, write down the things you want to see in that area. For example, if you write romantic relationships, under it, create a vision that appeals to you. Do you want a mutually satisfying relationship with your significant other? What kind of family would you like to raise? Write them all down .Do the same exercise for every other area of life. It may take hours or days to complete, but don't stop until you're done.

By the time you're done, you'll have been clear on what you want out of life. From now, you'll seize to live just for living sake, but every moment of the day, you'd know the reason for doing what you do. You'd become less distracted, more focused and less likely to make mistakes your future self would regret.

Pick a piece of paper to write down anything you want in life. Then below it, write down why you want it. For example, you may want financial freedom because you've been broke before and you don't want to return to that kind of life. Next, ask yourself the “why” behind the first why.

Example: I want financial freedom because I don't want to go broke again. But why don't I want to be broke?

Think about it and answer the question. Let's assume you don't want to be broke again because you were broke as a kid and it forced you to take on jobs you didn't like. Up next, ask the third why.

Always repeat the want, followed by all the why's you've discovered before asking the next why. Do this until you've asked yourself seven times. Make sure it's seven! Not five, not eight, seven.

As you approach and get to number seven, the reasons you begin to give will come right from your heart and that's your true WHY.

There's a hero in you as much as there's a villain in there, but the one you concentrate most on is the one that wins.

Focus on your strengths. All through life, well meaning people have taught us to work on our weaknesses but how far has that advice taken us? For most people, the advice to work on weaknesses has only resulted in frustration. The truth is, you'd never be good at everything.

Focusing on your weaknesses and failing will feed the villain in you which in turn waters down your confidence. Don't let it happen.

How do you identify a limiting belief or negative story you've been clinging to? All it takes is a little soul searching. When you consider starting something new like a business or getting married, what's the first thing you say to yourself? What's that first thought that comes to mind? If it goes something like “marriage is hard, no point trying or I'm not smart enough to grow a business from scratch” then, bingo, you just found the belief holding you back. Follow the trail of that thought, keep searching your soul and you'd find the story that's been keeping you.

Your habits can either make or mar you; they either push you forward or limit you, so choose them wisely.

The things you do daily are what come together to create the future big thing you're seeking. If you're going to have a more impactful career in the future, it's not up to what you do tomorrow, it's what you do today and the day that follows that will eventually add up to create the future you desire.

Create an empowering story for your life. Make sure it's about the goals you want to achieve and it highlights your strengths while saying nothing about your weaknesses.