Top 4 working habits of successful people

Top 4 working habits of successful people 

Charles Evans Hughes, former Chief Justice of the United States Supreme Court, said: "Men do not die from overwork. They die from dissipation and worry." 

Good Working Habit #01: Clear Your Desk- Except Those Relating to the Immediate Problem at Hand. 

Roland L. Williams, President of Chicago and North-western Railway, says, "A person with his desk piled high with papers on various matters will find his work much easier and more accurate if he clears that desk of all but the immediate problem on hand. I call this good house-keeping, and it is the number-one step toward efficiency." If you visit the Library of Congress washington, D. C., you will find five words painted on the ceiling—five words written by the poet Pope:

 "Order is Heaven's first law." 

Good Working Habit#02: Follow the sequence

Charles Luckman, the lad who started from the scratch and climbed in twelve years to president of the Pepsodent Company, got a salary of a hundred dollars a year, and made a million dollars besides - that lad declares that he owes much of his success to developing the two abilities that Henry L. Doherty said he found almost impossible to find. Charles Luckman said, “As far back as I remember, I have gotten up at 5 O’clock in the morning because I can think better then than any other time - I can think better then and plan my day, plan to do things in the order of their importance.”

Frank Bettger, one of the America;s most successful insurance salesmen, doesn’t wait until five O’clock in the morning to plan his day. He plans it the night before - sets a goal for himself  - a goal to sell a certain amount of insurance that day. If he fails, that amount is added to the next day - and so on.

Good Working Habit No.3: Be a powerful decision-maker

 When you face a problem, solve it then and there if you have the facts necessary to make a decision. Don't keep putting off decision.

One of my former students, the late H.P. Howell, told me that when he was a member of the board of directors of US Steel, the meetings of the board were often long-drawn-out affairs - many problems were discussed, few decisions were made. The result : each member of the board had to carry home bundles of report to study. 

Finally, Mr. Howell persuaded the board of directors to take up one problem at a time and come to a decision. No procrastination - no putting off. The decision might be to ask for additional facts; it might be to do something or do nothing. But a decision was reached on each problem before passing on to the next. Mr. Howell told me that the results were striking and salutary: the docket was cleared. The calendar was clean. No longer it was necessary for each member to carry home a bundle of reports. No longer was there a worried sense of unresolved problems. 

 

The calendar was clean. No longer was it necessary for each member to carry home a bundle of reports. No longer was there a worried sense of unresolved prob-lems. A good rule, not only for the board of directors of U. S. Steel, but for you and me.

A good rule not only for the board of directors of U.S> Steel, but for you and me.

 

Good Working Habit #04: Learn to Organize, Deputize, and Supervise. 

Many a businessman is driving himself to a premature grave because he has never learned to delegate responsibility to others, insists on doing everything himself. Re-sult: details and confusion overwhelm him. He is driven by a sense of hurry, worry, anxiety, and tension. It is hard to learn to delegate responsibilities. I know. It was hard for me, awfully hard. I also know from experience the disasters that can be caused by delegating authority to the wrong people. But difficult as it is to delegate authority, the executive most do it if he is to avoid worry, tension, and fatigue. The man who builds up a big business, and doesn't learn to organize, deputize, and supervise, usually pops off with heart trouble in his fifties or early sixties—heart trouble caused by tension and worries. Want a specific instance? Look at the death notices in your local paper.