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7 Habits That Will Help You Achieve Significant Success

For expats as for everyone it is important to develop habits that will help you in your life. Here are seven habits that will help you to achieve significant success.

1. Be accountable for your words

If you tell someone about your plans, follow through on them. And remember the main rule: less talk, more action.

2. Keep a daily journal

Write down at least one sentence a day. Keeping a diary will help you gather your thoughts, relieve stress and track your progress.

3. Never lie

Lies breed lies. Over time, you will get tangled up in this web yourself, covering up your own deception.

4. Make time for close friends

A friend of mine works with very successful musicians. He once told me, ‘You can have all the money in the world, but if you trade your friends for it, you will never be happy.’

Everyone needs to communicate with people who accept them for who they are and make them happy. Cherish such friends and don’t neglect them.

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5. Don’t give up on your hobby

Your hobby may one day become something big. If you really enjoy it, improve your skills. So that many years later, you won’t say to everyone you meet with sadness in your eyes: ‘When I was young, I dreamed of becoming a guitarist.’

6. Exercise

Join a gym, practise yoga, run, ride a bike. Anything. The main thing is to be physically active. A person who struggles to climb a flight of stairs is not sexy.

7. Surround yourself with people who have already achieved what you dream of

If you don’t like how your life is going, take a close look at the people you spend a lot of time with. Chances are they just complain but don’t take action. Our environment has a huge impact on our behaviour.

Bonus – habit Specify your goals

One of the most instructive things I have done is to decide to make a plan for my life. I planned absolutely everything I wanted to achieve in the next three months, just like marketing companies do.

Moving Abroad Checklist

Initial Considerations

Will your partner be travelling with you?

If so, what will they be giving up in your present home and will they be able to continue with their career in your new home? You will need to check whether a separate visa is required for your partner to work or if your visa gives that right. If they are unable to work you will need to decide on the effect on your finances and what alternatives are available to give a fulfilling life (home business, training, voluntary work).

Are you taking family with you?

Moving with family raises many exciting opportunities, but also can create challenges. The HSBC Expat Explorer survey indicates that expat kids can take six months to settle in to their new country (see article). Getting young or even older children to prepare to move and leave their friends and family behind can be a challenge and should be thought through.

The options for education is another area that needs to be thought through.

Moving your child to a new country with a different education system can be a great opportunity to broaden their experience, but if they are close to key exams the timing can make this inadvisable. If you do take your family with you, it is important to decide between joining the local school system or choosing an international school.

Where will you be living?

Whether you will be living in a house or apartment, furnished or unfurnished, these decisions will affect what you need to take with you. The time you are planning to live overseas will also affect whether you should leave your property at home empty, rent it out or sell it. See the article Sell, Store or Ship.