The newly renamed Step­case Life­hack has put up a great arti­cle suc­cinctly describ­ing 50 habits that you can start to make your­self more suc­cess­ful and — I think — happy.

Great advice, sim­ply explained. Fol­low these and you can’t fail but improve your gen­eral well-being and pro­duc­tiv­ity. Words of wis­dom abound in Fifty Habits of Highly Suc­cess­ful Peo­ple.

These are some I strive to live by every day:

7. They rarely com­plain (waste of energy). All com­plain­ing does is put the com­plainer in a neg­a­tive and unpro­duc­tive state.

8. They don’t blame (what’s the point?). They take com­plete respon­si­bil­ity for their actions and out­comes (or lack thereof).

12. They are ambi­tious; they want amaz­ing — and why shouldn’t they? They con­sciously choose to live their best life rather than spend­ing it on auto-pilot.

13. They have clar­ity and cer­tainty about what they want (and don’t want) for their life. They actu­ally visu­alise and plan their best real­ity while oth­ers are merely spec­ta­tors of life.

25. They have a plan for their life and they work method­i­cally at turn­ing that plan into a real­ity. Their life is not a clumsy series of unplanned events and outcomes.

27. While many peo­ple are plea­sure junkies and avoid pain and dis­com­fort at all costs, suc­cess­ful peo­ple under­stand the value and ben­e­fits of work­ing through the tough stuff that most would avoid.

28. They have iden­ti­fied their core val­ues (what is impor­tant to them) and they do their best to live a life which is reflec­tive of those values.

30. They under­stand the impor­tance of dis­ci­pline and self-control. They are strong. They are happy to take the road less travelled.

31. They are secure. They do not derive their sense of worth of self from what they own, who they know, where they live or what they look like.

41. They don’t need con­stant approval.

45. They have an off switch. They know how to relax, enjoy what they have in their life and to have fun.