7. Focus on Long-Term Goals: The wealthy tend to have a long-term perspective. They set ambitious, measurable goals and work steadily toward them, understanding that success is a marathon, not a sprint.

8. Embrace Change: Successful people are adaptable an...

It’s easier for our brains to process concrete and immediate outcomes rather than abstract and future things. So the short-term effort easily dominates the long-term upside in our minds— behavioral scientists call this present bias.

When you are time-pressured, you see time as a precious and scarce resource. This triggers a stress response, which can improve motivation in the short term, but often at the expense of morale in the long term. And an unhappy worker is a less productive worker. With lower product...