Summary

This article provides six steps for achieving success, emphasizing the importance of sleep, balance between body and mind, ambition, side hustles, networking, and communication with one's line manager.

Abstract

The article offers advice for becoming successful, suggesting six steps that have worked for the author. The steps include getting enough sleep, maintaining a balance between physical health and mental well-being, having ambition, pursuing side projects, networking with successful individuals, and communicating career aspirations to one's line manager. The author emphasizes the importance of learning from failures, taking risks, and working hard to achieve one's goals.

Opinions

The author believes that getting enough sleep is essential for success, as it allows the brain to organize and store important information.
The author emphasizes the importance of finding balance between physical health and mental well-being, suggesting that a healthy body can help one enjoy success and make faster decisions.
The author advises readers to have ambition and to view work as an investment in their future, rather than focusing solely on their current paycheck.
The author encourages readers to pursue side projects, as they can lead to new opportunities and help one build a diverse skill set.
The author highlights the importance of networking, suggesting that building relationships with successful individuals can open doors and provide valuable learning opportunities.
The author recommends communicating career aspirations to one's line manager, as this can help one be seen as a valuable employee and potential leader.
The author acknowledges that success can be influenced by factors such as family background and social class, but suggests that networking and working hard can help overcome these obstacles.
The author criticizes the lack of evidence or references in similar articles and encourages readers to seek out information that is based on data and research.

How to become a Forbes under 30 too — in 6 steps #24

Today I’m going to share you some steps that may help you, become successful. It did work for me and I’m sure it will do the same for you. Keep in mind that won’t be a surprise once you become a self made millionaire.

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Sleep well

Be very attentive to this point, sleeping less than your body needs, won’t help much, because is during your sleep that your brain is organising, summarising and storing all important and relevant information that you have.

Having this habit will put you right on the top and you may see, somehow, your performance is way higher than usual when you’re multitasking.

2. Body and mind

Truly seek for balance between body and mind. Once you get where you dream about (be successful), won’t do any good have a body that can’t party or not in a really good shape (eat well and unleash your full potential).

Keep learning and moving forward, you mind need more information and knowledge to be able to process and take faster decisions as you go. Those can make you a faster decision maker, meaning that, you can process more information and move straight to the spot.

3. Wish for more

The work you’re doing today will payback later, you’ll become better day by day, even when you’re doing something that you don’t love much, however, take the learning — it will enrich you. Don’t mind much about your paycheck, you’re investing on your future, money will follow.

4. Always, always keep side hustles

You’ll have learning, joy and some of your side projects may fail. It’s a journey … so, embrace it, get it done, and move to the next. Take the learning and move to the next.

Keep in mind that we never know the size of the success a side project can drive, it mean that, today … you may be building the next generation of products or the top line of it.

5. Get to know people from everywhere

This is one of the best parts, even if you’re a shy person. Have you time to talk, listen, learn and spend some time with people that you see as successful. This sharing will save you years, will open some doors, and will get you straight to the top.

Try to remember, we get better jobs from persons/groups that we are related to, once you have a rich network, the sky will be the limit for you.

6. Be clear about your aspirations with your line manager

Whoever is the person that you reports to, let he/she knows since the day 1 that you’re not afraid of work and keep clear that you are going to bust your ass off to get where you want to be. This will put you ahead of anyone else, because now, your line manager is going to have you as an important and supportive person, he/she will prepare you as the next line of leadership.

I thank you if you read this far. I would like to let you know that this kind of content is quite common in here, I don’t really know why.

Point is … there are 0 evidences, 0 references aside of a person saying things that can’t be proven and most probably, can’t be done either.

Is well know that, depending on the country and social class what you were born, you may not have a real change in your life.

As per the graph above from Bivens et al. (2015), we can see that productivity has increased from $746 in 1970 to nearly $1200 in 2007 (variation of +$454)— no need to say you/me/we work more, however, note that wage has been stuck and decreasing since then. From $746 to $612 (variation of -$134).

Yes! Work more for less

Another very important information, is related to intergenerational incoming. It does means what have you inherited from your family.

If you still reading, I will assume that you started from scratch too and is looking for a way out of this situation. So … follow me, I’m looking for it too :).

Goal of this article is help people like you to not spend time reading something without reference or any data for audit. Most of the persons that are financially successful came from, already financially successful families and networks.

Were we stand, we may only be able to improve through better networking (together … never alone as has been taught since you’re a little child) instead of the 6 points mentioned above (they’re made up from others stories)

Have a positive impact in your networks by sharing this story. Thanks in advance for your claps and comments bellow.

Bivens J., Mishel L.(2015) Understanding the Historic Divergence Between Productivity and a Typical Worker’s Pay. https://www.epi.org/publication/understanding-the-historic-divergence-between-productivity-and-a-typical-workers-pay-why-it-matters-and-why-its-real/