4 key success secrets

I really enjoyed my 6.3 miles this morning.There's nothing like a Sunday morning to go a little longer than usual and get some great thinking time in as the legs just keep doing their thing.

This morning I came up with 4 of the key secrets to success: 

1. Health - you can become a millionaire, lose it all and then get it back again. There are any number of stories of people who've done exactly that. However, you only get one shot at your health. If you lose your health you don't get it back again. I know there are people who have achieved success with poor health, but you owe it to yourself to maintain your health as well as you can. It will make all others steps so much easier.
2. Energy - energy is obviously closely connected with health, the physically fitter you are (whilst keeping healthy) the more energy you will have. Energy is key because your enthusiasm will unlock doors. As Samuel Taylor Coleridge said, "Nothing is as contagious as enthusiasm. It is the real allegory of the myth of Orpheus; it moves stones and charms brutes. It is the genius of sincerity, and truth accomplishes no victories without it."
   
3. Gratitude - being aware of, and thankful for, what you have is crucial for success. If you read anything on the Law of Attraction, it is extremely difficult to generate more, or to change your circumstances for the better, until you appreciate, accept and are grateful for what you have now.
4. Powerful Positive Daily Habits - we are all creatures of habit, some of our habits helping us move towards the life we want, while other habits move us away. Some of those habits are things that we habitually do, and others are our habitual ways of thinking, our beliefs if you like. Replacing negative habits with positive ones lays the tracks for our success. 

My powerful positive daily habit of running at least a mile each day, ticks all of the above boxes. It maintains and even improves my health, it increases my energy every morning, it makes me feel grateful that I am able to run at all, and it is the powerful habit that has helped me create many more powerful habits on the back of it.