There’s no single recipe for success—every individual curates their own path toward their goal. But your attitude towards the goal matters. As Ghana’s first Skeleton Olympian, my ideology was to adopt the growth mindset into my daily routine, so I organically grow into the person I am today. You can do it too.

The first piece of advice that I offer as an athlete motivational speaker is to incorporate positive habits into your life. I’ve listed the top successful habits in 2023 that I think you can benefit from implementing.

1. Organize Your Life

It seems daunting, but start with the smallest things and work up to your goal. Make an everyday routine and try to stick to it, budget your spending and work up a savings plan, or make a diet chart and start eating healthy.

Organizing simplifies your life and also reduces stress and anxiety, making you healthier and, therefore, happier. I organized my life and geared it toward my enthusiasm for sports. The rest, as you know, is history.

2. Make a Workout Routine

Working out keeps you active, but it also keeps your mental health in order and just makes you feel good. As a sportsman, working out— especially strength training—is a necessary part of my routine. Workouts keep you fresh and ready to tackle any problem any day and keep making you stronger. Adopting exercise as a successful habit has no drawback—it will benefit you in every way.

3. Never Stop Learning

Success is not the end point of your life, and you always have the potential to keep learning. As Booker T. Washington says, “Success is to be measured not so much by the position that one has reached in life as by the obstacles which he has overcome while trying to succeed.”

After I achieved my dream of being an athlete representing Africans in the Winter Olympics, I started a movement called Hope of A Billion to represent all Africans who had been stopped from achieving their dreams but never gave up. This willingness to always learn and grow is the same element that makes a successful person stand out.

Let this year be one of positive change. Adopting successful habits in 2023 can help you grow into that winning mindset that helps you power through your life’s journey.

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