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Welcome to Because Life Isn’t a Dress Rehearsal, a blog written by life and business coach Kathy Santini, owner of Arbutus Coaching. This blog contains coaching tips and advice to help you become the most self actualized, effective person you can be, both personally and professionally. If you’re serious about “growing your possibilities,” and transforming your life, then you’re in the right place. My goal in writing this blog is to help you create a life that is easier, bigger, richer and more rewarding than the life you’re living now. So let’s get started shall we, because life isn’t a dress rehearsal and time’s a wastin’.

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Seven Traits Successful People Share Part Three

By arbutuscoaching | December 8, 2009

This is the third of a three part series on the seven traits successful people share. To view the previous posts, visit Arbutus Coaching’s blog,  http://www.arbutuscoaching.com/blog 

5. Get Outside Your Comfort Zone
Consistent action will get you to the top, but the guaranteed fastest way to accelerate your results is to do something that is outside your comfort zone. Successful people realize this. They decide what they want and then take action towards it even if it scares them. Of course the problem is that going outside your comfort zone is, well, uncomfortable. Since unsuccessful people steer clear of discomfort they avoid stretching themselves and then wonder why they fail to create the lives they want. Here’s the bottom line. Everything you have today lies within your comfort zone; if you want more than you have now, you must go beyond your comfort zone and do something different.

6) Be a Lifelong Student
Many unsuccessful people are closed to suggestions and new ideas. Their know-it-all attitude dooms them to repeat the same mistakes over and over. After all, how can you grow beyond where you are now without listening to feedback and new ideas? Great achievers like Tiger Woods and Michael Dell have a passion for implementing new ideas and approaches. They value learning and spend many hours reading, working with coaches and studying the work of masters in their field. If you wish to be more successful you too must become a master in your field.

7) Develop Persistence
On the journey of life we all encounter adversity, failure, misfortune and pain. The question is not whether you will experience problems and setbacks. You will. The crucial question is, how will you respond to these challenges when they arise? When things get tough, unsuccessful people allow obstacles and failures to stop them in their tracks. They complain, get discouraged and quit, abandoning their initial goals to pursue something easier. Successful people stay committed to their goals.

To summarize, successful people do things that unsuccessful people won’t or don’t do.

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