32 Signs You Are Going To Be Highly Successful In Life

You are a successful person and you have all it takes to be successful if you have these thirty-two qualities. Use this knowledge to your own advantage.

Signs you are going to be highly successful

People define success in different ways. To some, being successful is about becoming one of the wealthiest people in the world. To others, it’s about being known and popular. Whatever your definition of success is, I will be showing you some signs that you have a star of being successful in your lifetime.

If you have these qualities and attributes, you are going to be highly successful. If you lack any, you have to work on yourself to develop it/them so as to bring out the success in you.

1. You can easily adapt to change

Being successful requires you to have tough skin in any situation you find yourself. Life will not stay in the same spot to wait for you, change is constant. Therefore, to be successful in this ever-changing world, you need to be able to adapt quickly to change when it comes.

These changes can come in different forms. It could be a change in weather or climate, jobs, policies, needs and income, and so on. You are likely to be very successful if you can adapt well to these changes.

2. You can take risks and plan ahead

Peter Drucker once linked one’s ability to manage change effectively to be successful. Being able to plan ahead based on what is currently available is what managing change is all about.

Life is full of uncertainties. No one knows the exact outcome, we can only predict based on the information we have. To be able to forge ahead and achieve success, you have to be willing to take risks, especially calculated risks.

3. You are time conscious

Time is money, and money is time. While time may or may not directly put money into your pocket, successful people know the importance of saving time.

You don’t want to waste time on things that do not add value to you or other people. Spending time on such things is equivalent to wasting money on things that will not benefit you.

Because of this, successful people are more likely to keep to time and avoid being late for important events.

4. You are open to learning new things

Being open to learning new things is one of the signs that you are going to be successful. It equips you with the needed knowledge to succeed in any area of your interest.

People who think they cannot learn new things doubt their capabilities. They limit themselves by thinking they “cannot”. Successful people are not only humble enough to learn new things, but they also believe that no matter how difficult it can be to learn something new, they can.

5. You understand and value relationships

Relationships are the only things more powerful than money. Relationships can get you opportunities and access that money cannot afford. Look at some of the most successful people you know, you can see how they invest in relationships through their network.

Unsuccessful people throw relationships away. Successful people build quality relationships. Unsuccessful people are picky about the kind of people to help. Successful people help as much as they can because they value what that relationship can help them achieve.

6. You find yourself among successful people

Birds of the same feathers flock together. Like attracts like. If you constantly find yourself among people who are doing successfully in their expertise, there is a chance you are doing something right. Keep grinding, you are on your way to being as successful as you dreamed of.

7. You see competition, not enemies

Competition should not only be known as that undesirable aspect of work that makes you have sleepless nights. It should also be remembered as one of the most cataclysmic ingredients for growth, development, and innovation.

Instead of turning competitions into enmity, successful people see them as opportunities to improve their lives and productivity.

8. You are willing to help others

Because of their value for relationships, successful people are willing to help other people achieve their dreams to become successful too.

No doubt! Helping other people might cost you time, money, and other resources, but successful people believe that the journey of becoming successful requires making people around you successful as well. We rise by lifting others.

9. You forgive easily

There are two people you need to forgive: yourself for your past wrongs and poor choices, and other people who had wronged you. You forgive these two people so that it doesn’t affect your mind today.

Unforgiveness eats up the soul and negatively affects your productive life. Forgiveness lightens your heart and makes you think clearly and productively. Successful people would rather forgive and move on peacefully than hold anything against you or themselves.

10. You are not ashamed of little beginnings

Successful people realize the importance of trusting the process and are determined to stay focused on their goals. Successful value their little beginning because they know that is not where they will end up.

Many people are unwilling to start small. They want to have one big bang overnight but successful people are not ashamed to start small. They realize that they don’t need to have everything before they start.

11. You see problems as opportunities

Think of the pandemic. When problems occur, they usually affect different people. Everyone needs a solution but not everyone acts to find that solution.

A majority of people wallow in the problem complaining, but successful people go in search of the solution, and can thus, harness that opportunity to become more useful and successful.

12. You do like making excuses or complaints

Successful people make things happen when others are busy making excuses. Adhering to a habit of making excuses is a red flag that one is not likely going to be successful in life.

Excuses may sound appealing and convincing when carefully planned but getting pardoned or exonerated does not bring success to your table. You have to man up and face your challenges without making excuses for them in order to succeed.

13. You discuss ideas not gossip about people

Instead of gossiping about people, successful people spend more time discussing ideas. They consider talking about someone else in a negative way time-wasting. Instead, they would study people to learn lessons from what they are doing right or wrong.

Aside from time-wasting, talking about people negatively can also strain your relationship with them. As a successful person, you need to invest in quality relationships, not destroy them.

14. You are self-motivated

No one is going to motivate you better than you motivate yourself. The harsh truth is that no one cares about you. They have more important things to think of. This is not to mean that you should look out for other people too but to realize that you cannot bank on other people’s motivation to be successful, not even your parents. You are going to have to do it yourself.

15. You take challenges as opportunities to grow

What is one sign that you are going to be highly successful? You take challenges as opportunities to grow. Challenges can come as low sales, losses, poor conversions, difficulties, competition, low visibility, lack of money, and so on. Instead of allowing these to discourage them, successful people focus on rising above them, thus, as opportunities to grow.

16. You listen more than you speak

When you speak, you only give; when you listen, you give and receive. Many people think the most powerful person is always the one speaking but that is not true. You not only learn more by listening more, you can also influence more when you listen more.

17. You learn from your mistakes

Everyone makes mistakes but successful people do not repeat the same mistake countless times. When you make the same mistake more than once, it is a sign that you didn’t learn the first time. Successful people learn quickly from their own mistakes as well as those of others, and this makes them get better every day.

18. You learn to trust people

Trust is an important commodity for having successful and meaningful interactions with people. You not only need to build trust with people by acting in honesty but also have to learn to trust people.

Many businesses and partnerships today require you to trust someone you have never dealt with before. There is always a first time for everything. That is why successful people trust other people after looking at the potential of a meaningful relationship with them.

19. You understand what education is and what it’s not

Education is a lifetime process of acquiring knowledge and applying it to improving the world. It is not just about bagging a degree or certifications.

Your primary goal of going to a university should be to learn how to succeed, certificate should be secondary. Bag all the degrees in the world without contributing anything meaningful to it, all your degrees will be equivalent to nothing. But if you are successful at what you do, they will give you honorary doctorates without you reading a single line of books.

20. You don’t give up on your dreams

Most people allow themselves to get to the point when they consider giving up on their dreams. Successful people experience that too. But rather than give up, successful people strive to get better every passing day.

21. You keep good company

The kind of company you keep affects the quality of your life and how far you can go. Successful people realize the importance of surrounding themselves with people who will have a positive impact in their lives, or whose actions will motivate them and inspire them to succeed.

Avoid hanging around people that make you feel bad for wanting to succeed, or who would make you feel comfortable in mediocrity.

22. You feel confident about yourself

With confidence, a small cat can defeat the lion. Self-confidence is about believing in your capability to succeed. You might not be where you want yet but you have all it takes to succeed. Self-confidence keeps you focused on your potential and keeps in check anything that stands in your way of actualizing it.

23. You train yourself to recognize and maximize opportunities

Opportunities come every time but they are only visible to those with a prepared mind. Successful people think ahead of their goals and what they want to achieve, such that when the opportunity shows up, they know how to jump right into it. By deciding early on your plans, you can train yourself to recognize and maximize opportunities without wasting time.

24. You care less about what others think of you

Whether positive or negative, successful people don’t live for the comments of others. Be the best definition of yourself because no matter how well you perform, people will always have something negative to say.

Living your life merely based on what others think about you will make you unhappy, depressed, and unsatisfied. Gen. Olusegun Obasanjo (3rd Democratic President of Nigeria) once said “If you expect good from everybody, even the ones that you have done good to, you would be the unhappiest person in the world“.

25. You understand the pain of others

Empathy and compassion are two important ingredients for success because they help you see and understand other people’s perspectives. Being able to understand what people are going through gives you the opportunity to get insightful ideas to meet their needs. Keep in view, that being successful comes from providing value or meeting a need.

26. You are passionate about what you do

Whether you are doing a lucrative job or not, successful people are passionate about what they do. They may not see any promise in sight but they know that they just have to passionately keep doing what they do to achieve success.

Because of how much they like to pursue their passion, successful people usually establish themselves along the lines of their passions to give them strength to push through challenging times.

27. You respect and learn from those above you

First, you are open to learning. Next, you recognize and respect those ahead of you in the hierarchy of your pursuits, whether it is in terms of age, educational achievements, or business. When you respect those above you with a genuine desire to learn from them, success naturally flows down to you, and they are also more willing to help you succeed as well.

28. You are creative with what you have

Creativity is a function of discovery of the value of what you have at your disposal. It is the bedrock of all inventions and innovation, and successful people get creative with whatever they have around them. Even the cheap and free things that most people look down on can be turned into great assets by successful people.

29. You are multifaceted

Success is a holistic achievement. It is not enough to only focus on only one aspect of your capabilities. You need to discover and re-discover yourself to understand all your capabilities because doing so makes you more likely to be successful than someone who limits himself to the only thing life forces him to do.

30. You persevere through hard times

Hard times are temporary but they teach you some of life’s greatest lessons about success. They open your mind to the possibilities if you are perseverent enough to face them without giving in. If you have the mindset of perseverance, you will definitely find success sooner or later.

31. You don’t compare yourself with others

How do you compare yourself with others? Is there a gold standard for comparison? Comparing yourself with other people reduces your self-worth and puts it at a level lower than theirs. Hence, successful people compare themselves to themselves but admire and learn from people who are ahead of them. They don’t copy, compare, or imitate.

32. You believe in yourself

Last but not least, successful people believe in themselves. They don’t need anyone to help them believe in themselves. You believe that you can make it. You believe that you are a successful person, and you are willing to do what it takes to achieve that success because you can.

Final words

Successful people do not have two heads or brains. They do not have anything more than other people except these attributes discussed in this post.

Success is a combination of many different things. Some people think they cannot achieve success without having much money, but you have seen that money is not the primary thing required to achieve success. The above qualities are what you need to build into yourself.

Whether or not you have all the thirty-two traits above or not, do whatever you want with this knowledge. See you at the very top.

I am a medical doctor, a seasoned writer and passionate blogger. Thanks to many years of trials, failure, and near successes. I am the founder of Knowseeker and our content are geared towards enlightening and making you a better and happier audience.

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