Achievers are top dancers who live by regular patterns

When is the last time you went to a disco dance? Did you dance or you are one of those that waste valuable space in there by sitting and perpetually doing arm curl-up exercises using a glass of beer from table to mouth and back the whole night?

Dancing is a hobby that would benefit us to consider a lot more seriously than we do.

It is about continuous movement in line with the beat. I am talking about rhythm. A lot of disco music will start gently and rise to the climax (oh I hope that is what they still call it!). I mean the peak part of a beautiful song that sends dancers gyrating as vigorously as they can in an attempt to keep in sync with the rising beat to an almost maddening crescendo.

Of course, some are more successful in this synchrony than others. Yes, I see you smiling knowingly as you conjure up the vision of that dancer whose movements seemed to be in response to any music other than the one playing when you last went dancing.

Dancing in well-coordinated movements is done the same way that success is achieved.

If you can dance to a beat, you are in good stead for success. Yes, it is that simple. While dancing is about a pattern of movement in sync and harmony to a tune determined and played by someone else, success is about productive habits, namely a pattern of actions in harmony with an environment determined and created by someone else.

Here is what you need to get a good grasp of movement – pattern–sync-harmony as well as habit-actions-pattern–harmony.

Rhythmic dancing results in the wonderous enjoyment of musical creations. Productive habits result in consistent achievement of goals in a sustainable and bankable manner. Success.

If you can identify and muster the discipline to master productive habits, you are a winner. Guaranteed.

Habit is about structures and systems. It is setting clear boundaries around the values that you espouse as a leader or leadership aspirant. It is about limiting oneself to only deliberately decided productive choices. You want to keep yourself zero-grazing only around the options that lead to your desired end-goals.

Developing productive habits means you do not have to ask yourself what to do. Well, that is a great question but if you have to pose it to yourself every day, you end up nowhere. By the time it arrives, it is too late to ask yourself what you are going to do.

Being in the habit of taking productive actions means waking up already knowing what you are going to do. It means living your life within the confines of success-inducing activities.

With that, you get out of bed running because you are clear about where you are going.

Once you commit to productivity, any wasteful activities are off the table.

You never engage in unproductive activities like snoozing the alarm clock, calling in sick, postponing opportunity-rich activities, posting unhelpful pictures on Facebook, Instagram and Whatsapp, complaining endlessly about the director, weather, maid, your spouse and traffic, among others.

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The power of habit within a given set of productive systems lies in the act of repeating the same actions over and over again. It is about vibrating at the same frequency with the realities that you desire in your personal and professional life.

When you consistently do this, you are in harmony with achievement and something has got to give. You do not need favours or intervention from any quarter. It is a case of like terms attracting. That is it. No ‘buts’. No ‘what ifs’.

This is the universal law of attraction.

Take a look at the results you are getting in your career, business, relationships and life. Then take a look at your ‘rhythm’.

Now take a close and honest look at the rhythm of your actions and what that looks like over a few weeks. Are your actions dancing in sync, harmony and alignment with the beat of the success that you seek?