 When you're young, you're tempted to think you have all the time in the world. But this is not true. Superachievers in the world today have learned that taking advantage of their youth to imbibe certain habits is often the best way to build a successful life. Without good habits, which you must deliberately teach yourself, you may never be able to move your life in the positive direction you want it. As failing in life requires that you do nothing, succeeding in life requires that you must be intentional about the habits that lead to success. In this video, I will be sharing with you habits you must teach yourself early as a young person so you can become a highly successful person now and in the future. Do like this video and subscribe to this channel to watch other interesting videos like this. 1. Teach yourself to be disciplined Your life is shaped by self-discipline Harry S. Truman said and I quote, In reading the Lives of Great Men, I found that the first victory they won was over themselves. Self-discipline with all of them came first. The National Research Institute in Oklahoma in a 2007 study revealed that moral degradation amongst the entire sphere of humans in the U.S. today is caused by indiscipline. See, nobody becomes anything without self-discipline. And there are very few who are willing to pay the price of self-discipline to succeed. Garrett Player, one of the most successful international golfers of all time, lost count of how many times someone said to him, I'll give anything if I could hit a golf ball like you. After one particularly grueling day on the links, player couldn't resist correcting the person. No, you wouldn't. You'd give anything to hit a game of golf like me. If it were easy, player then listed the things one would have to do to achieve his level of play. You've got to get up at five o'clock in the morning, go out and hit a thousand golf balls, walk up to the clubhouse to put a bandage on your hand where it started bleeding, then go and hit another thousand golf balls. That's what it takes to hit a golf ball like me. Listen, discipline is doing what you have to do when you have to do it to the extent that you have to do it no matter how you feel. When you teach yourself to be disciplined, you steal yourself against all the challenges you'll find on the road to success. 2. Teach yourself to work hard In her best-selling memoir From a First Lady, Michelle Obama wrote, My father taught me three things, work hard, laugh often, and keep your word. I was particularly touched when I read this part. How hard you work will determine how much you succeed. The lazy man will always be a servant to the diligent man. Former Prime Minister of Britain, Margaret Tatcher, said and I quote, I did not know anyone who has got to the top without hard work. That is the recipe. It will not always get you to the top, but it should get you pretty near. When Les Brown was young, he always wanted to be a DJ. Although he was poor, he would work some odd job. Do in the day and practice dicks jockeying at night. He got a job as a janitor in a radio station, yet he continued to work hard at night to practice being a DJ. One night, the official DJ of the radio station was not available. The manager asked if Les Brown could handle the spot for him that evening. Eagerly, Les Brown responded, yes. Remembering his nights of hard work, recalling his years of practice, remembering the periods when he almost gave up but didn't, Les Brown gave his best to work that night. The manager and listeners were so impressed, Les Brown was retained. That launched him into success. Hard work is doing much more while others are doing little. Hard work is staying up at work while others are loafing. Hard work is finding a better way to get something done where others prefer average. When you teach yourself to work hard, you prepare yourself to be ready for what success demands, because success demands hard work. 3. Teach yourself to build good interpersonal skills The level of your success is often determined by your ability to handle people. His book titled, The Leader in You, Dyl Kineji shared the story of Charles Schwab. Charles Schwab was paid a salary of a million dollars a year in the steel business. He was paid this huge salary primarily because of his ability to handle people. One day at noontime, Schwab was walking through one of the steel meals when he came across a group of men smoking directly under a sign that said, No smoking. Instead of telling these men, can't you read? Charles Schwab's chatted with the men in a friendly way and never said a word about the fact that they were smoking under a no smoking sign. Finally, he handed them some cigars and said, I'd appreciated boys if you'd smoke this outside. That was all he said. Those men knew that he knew they had broken a rule and they admired him because he hadn't called them down. He had been such a good sport with them that they, in turn, wanted to be good sports with him. Pabilis Cyrus, the Roman playwright, wrote, We are interested in others when they are interested in us. No matter how strong or independent you are, relationships, good relationships are requisite to become unsuccessful. Your network determines your net worth, somebody said. Listen, people don't care how much you know until they know how much you care. Your ability to relate well with people can skyrocket your success in a short time. Your success in life is highly dependent on your ability to manage people because you will always have to relate with people. You must learn to handle people, teach yourself to handle people, and you would have taught yourself how to grow your success in life. Four, teach yourself to always go the extra mile. Listen to this. When you surprise people with more than they expect, they often surprise you with more than you expect. When you go the extra mile for people, every time, they will soon learn to go the extra mile for you. Someone said, If you are willing to do more than you are paid to do, eventually you will be paid to do more than you do. If you do only what you are told to do and never creatively go the extra mile to achieve an above par result, you have not done anything differently from what the average person will do. An average person does what is expected of him. An excellent person does much more than is expected of him. And that is why excellent people will always be paid more than average people. Author of the Success Principles, Jack Kingfield wrote, If you want to excel at what you do, really become a howling success in school, business or life, do more than is required, always giving something extra, something that is not expected, a business that goes the extra mile earns respect, loyalty and referrals of its customers. He further wrote that when Mike Foster ran a computer store, he never let anyone walk out of the store with a box of components. He delivered the computer, printer, models and other components and spent two hours setting up the system, getting it to work perfectly and then providing training on how to use it. Mike's store dominated the Death Smith County, Texas computer industry. When Harve Ecker sold a piece of exercise equipment, he will deliver it, set it up and then train the person on how to correctly use the machinery. Harve's company grew so fast that he went from zero to millinear in only two years. If you learn to go the extra mile for people and especially clients, you will earn an outstanding reputation and that is one of your invaluable assets. Conclusion? Are these the only success habits you can teach yourself in your 20s? No, but you can use these four strategies to build a stepping stone to your greatness.