HOW FAR CAN YOU GO TO SUCCEED
For every level in life, there is a price attached, for every
great man and woman who is successful today has paid a price to attain the success of wealth, influence, Fame, or Power
Success is not cheap; remember nothing good comes easy, you
need a change of level and desire success so badly, you need to stop wishing and start doing, “If wishing
were horse baggers will play polo” for
anyone to become successful in life, there are things you must avoid.
There are 7 things that can make you a successful failure in
life
- Procrastination
- Self -Pity
- Indiscipline
- Lack of persistence
- Lack of Planning
- Fear of
Failure
- Wanting a quick way out
There are lots more, such as Excuses, Refusal to Learn from
past mistakes, inability to overcome distractions, and failure to take
responsibility, but I will be discussing the 7 above
Procrastination: thing that distinguishes successful individuals from many others
is their ability to avoid procrastination. It is an important capability that
helps them to keep their productivity at a constant high level.
When
it comes to procrastination, there are two types of challenges. The first
problem many people are confronted with is that they simply cannot get started.
They procrastinate for hours because they try to keep putting something off.
The second problem may arise as soon as people are confronted with difficulties
or problems. The occurrence of these kinds of challenges leads many people to
procrastinate instead of working toward solving the problem. Always pushing
what you are supposed to do today to tomorrow will make it difficult for anyone
to succeed. Make a plan and be strict with yourself, you plan to save up, THEN SAVE, you plan to buy a pair of
shoes, THEN SAVE UP AND GET IT, you
plan to apply for a Job opportunity, GO
AHEAD AND GET YOUR CV, many at times we have let a good opportunity pass us
by because we keep saying to ourselves “I
WILL DO IT TOMORROW” what if tomorrow never comes?
Self-pity: self-pity is most common among youths all over the world, I
have a friend who once said to me, I don’t deserve this, I deserve better, am not
supposed to be in this mess, am not made to suffer, and so on and so forth, but
for one day never did anything to change the narrative surrounding his
predicament, I tell you of a truth no one ever gets what they deserve, they got
what they deserve only when they worked for it when they made up their mind to
change their situation, then the universe had to dance the tune of their
beating drum, stop pitying yourself and braze up like a lion and do what you
have to do.
Indiscipline: Success requires discipline. As such, exerting self-control over
you is a central requirement for being successful. If you lack self-discipline,
you’re more likely to give up too quickly when problems arise. Similarly, a
lack of discipline makes you more likely to give in to short-term temptations
that lead you nowhere. If you’re undisciplined, you see no reason in making sacrifices today in order to prosper
tomorrow.
However,
if you’re disciplined, avoiding temptations and distractions will be much
easier for you. Self-control helps you be focused on the aims you pursue, even
if that means temporal sacrifice, suffering, and abstaining from temptations. In
fact, you will see these temptations and distractions as what they truly are:
Obstacles on the road to success.
How to overcome a lack of self-discipline?
The
big problem with self-discipline is that it needs to be developed. Most people
falsely assume some are born with it and others are not. It’s a fatal belief. In
actuality, laziness and a lack of inner strength are two major factors that
prevent many from developing self-discipline. But how should we ever develop
discipline, if we continue to avoid doing difficult things which require us to
be persistent, strong-willed, and determined?
Work
on developing and increasing your self-discipline gradually. You can
develop more self-discipline for instance by:
- Increasing
your stress tolerance levels.
- Meditating.
- Removing
distractions.
- Breaking bad
habits.
- Postponing
unbeneficial behaviors.
- Making plans and
rewarding yourself for accomplishing your goals.
- Tolerating a
higher level of emotional discomfort.
- Exercising
regularly.
Lack of persistence:
What is persistence: the
act of continuing in an opinion or course of action in spite of
difficulty or opposition?
You can be talented and intelligent. But if you don’t
combine these two with persistence, you’ll fail eventually. A lack of
persistence is a great obstacle to success. There are so many incredibly
talented and gifted people who fail time and time again because they rely too
much on their talents. They are not willing to persist until they’ve completely
mastered what they’re doing. Instead, they quit when the going gets tough. If
you think that a lack of persistence is causing your failures, find ways to
stop giving up too quickly. While it’s certainly true that persisting when
you’re stuck at a dead end will lead you nowhere, persistence is all about
finding new approaches and making adjustments. Persist when you’re confronted
with difficulties and problems. Continue fighting for the accomplishment of
your dreams, even if it’s uncomfortable. And just because you’re stuck in a
dead end does not mean that there are no other ways to reach your goals.
Lack of Planning: “there is a saying if you don’t plan to
fail you will fail to plan” If you don’t have a proper
plan, you are less likely to succeed in life. It doesn’t matter if the plan is
imperfect or if things are not going to work out exactly as planned. All that
matters is that you have a plan. It will help you to steer all your actions in
one direction. Without a clear plan, you’ll most likely go left, right,
forwards, and backward, but you’ll never come closer to your goals. The
importance of planning is supported by scientific research which
highlighted that entrepreneurs are less likely to fail if they created a plan.
Develop
attainable, measurable, specific, and time-bound plans. Carefully think things
through before you start pursuing a specific goal. Create plans on what to do
next and how to respond when confronted with problems. Update your plans
regularly and make adjustments if necessary.
Fear of Failure: Being afraid of failure paralyzes us. It makes us reluctant
to seize rewarding opportunities. We fear failure, which is why we don’t even
try. But isn’t that the greatest failure of all? Isn’t not trying worse than
failing?
“Only those who dare to fail greatly can ever achieve greatly.”
Robert F. Kennedy
I will give us an instance of Michael Faraday, who gave us
electricity, he tried 99 times and failed each and every god-forsaking time,
but he pushed himself to try one more time and did not mind if he failed or
not. Don’t be afraid to fail. Be afraid
of not having the courage to try. It’s important to realize that the fear of
failure is a major obstacle on the road to success. By overcoming it you can
take an important step in the right direction. Progress can only be
accomplished by taking one step after the other. It doesn’t matter if you slip
here and there. All that matters is that you get back up and continue walking.
Don’t see failure as something that is designed to punish you.
Instead, use the lessons you’ve learned from all your failures to pursue your
dreams with even greater determination.
Wanting a quick way out:
A
great number of people dream of accomplishing the greatest things. They set
themselves incredibly challenging goals, but are quickly intimidated once they
realize how high the mountain they’re standing in front rises into the sky.
Consequently, they quickly become discouraged because of a lack of results.
These are the people that (figuratively) hike for an hour, only to realize that
the distance to the mountaintop hasn’t become shorter, which is why they give
up.
There’s
no problem with aiming high and dreaming big. In some cases, you might be
setting yourself up for a long and hard fall by aiming too high. But in
general, it will encourage you to try hard and to strive for greatness. The real
problem lies in aiming high without considering the dedication, effort and work
it takes each day to come anywhere close to your goals. In line with this
thinking, it’s a massive problem if we shoot for the stars, without thinking
about developing a proper means of transportation that will get us there.
It’s a
human tendency to seek instant results. For this reason, break your goals down
to avoid becoming discouraged too quickly. If you set major and minor
milestones on your path to the mountaintop, you keep your motivation at a high
level during the whole journey.
BONUS POINT LASTLY
NOT
MAKING PROFITABLE PARTNERSHIP
One of the major problems most individuals face when
struggling with life, is a lack of profitable partnerships, and not having people
around them that can make them grow or enforce their growth, there is a saying,
“if you are poor and among five 5 and
successful people, over time you will be the sixth rich person, and also if you
are rich and in the company of 5 poor people, you may end up being the sixth
poor person. So, therefore, friends you make today will determine the kind of
opportunities that will come your way, even the bible said
Proverbs 13:20 MSG Translation “Become wise by
walking with the wise; hang out with fools and watch your life fall to pieces.”
Proverbs 13:20 TPT Translation
If you want to grow in wisdom, spend time with the
wise. Walk with the wicked and you’ll eventually become just like them.
“Show
me your friend and I will tell you who you are”
“Success is made up of 1% dreams and
99% hard work” (Tony Elumelu)
To read about Tony Elumelu Success story click the link https://tonyelumelu.com/success-is-made-up-of-1-dreams-and-99-hard-work
Everybody can become a millionaire or multi-millionaire, but
it depends on what he or she is ready to do for achieving his goal. Below are
the short stories of 5 successful African young entrepreneurs whose examples can
drive a sense of purpose into many young entrepreneurs and motivate them to strive
for greater achievements.
What
are the most common reasons making people give up on the very beginning of
starting or at the later stages of growing their businesses?
“I don’t have the capital”
“Nobody wants to give me capital”
“The banks have turned me down many times”
Lack of capital is perhaps the most important reason why
entrepreneurs around the world give up on starting a business. Many passionate
people – including Africans – don’t have enough courage to realize their
business ideas, and projects and make their dreams come true just because they don’t
have capital. But the lack of capital is not a real “serial killer of
business dreams”. Many startup founders might ask why or disagree.
As the
experience of many billionaires shows, lack of capital is to a great extent just
a convenient excuse. Moreover, capital is not the most necessary element of
success. Capital is even abundant in the present-day world. People don’t just
know how to get it.
Second, sometimes happens that the business idea itself is
not worth the capital. It’s a rare thing, but if the product or service is not
relevant to the customers they will not spend their money on it. Third, success
doesn’t depend only on the business idea but on the businessman himself. If he
is forced to run a business, is afraid to do that, or faces any other difficulties,
becoming successful might be a problem.
Successful people
learn not to compromise when it comes to making their lives better, you don’t
have the capital to start a business, reach out to people and show them your
business idea, or better still save up and get it done.
There are
different types of success, I will highlight them below, but we are not going
to be discussing them
Inner Success. ...
Physical Success. ...
Family or marital Success. ...
Career Success. ...
Material Success. ...
Academic Success. ...
Financial Success. ...
It depends on the
type of success you want to achieve, but majorly in all phase of life, everyone
wants the financial type of success everybody wants to be financially free, but
not everyone has the courage to go beyond their capacity to achieve their
dreams of becoming successful, below you
will read about some Africans who went the extra mile to become successful in
their businesses
These success stories prove that it is possible to raise
capital even during tough and challenging times. If all these young people
could find capital in Africa, you can do it as well.
Patrick Ngowi (33,
Tanzania): This young entrepreneur
believes that if opportunity knocks, answer. He once said: “It was a business
on the side, nothing serious, but I loved the fact that I was making money and
I was becoming a bit independent.The
very foundation of the little success I’ve achieved was formed during those
years. I learned about profit and loss, about margins, about marketing and
hiring the right people – I learned so many things at that stage”.
Patrick Ngowi is a Tanzanian business celebrity who
started as an entrepreneur at the tender age of 15. In the beginning, he earned
money on the side during high school, but later he became a founder and
chairman of the Helvetic Group of Companies. Today, this is the fastest-growing
network of renewable energy companies in East Africa. Ngowi is also a chairman
of the United Nations Global Compact in Tanzania. Patrick Ngowi is also a board
member and advisor to several local companies in Tanzania, Kenya, and Uganda.
When he was 18, Patrick Ngowi got engaged in trading cell phones as he
discovered that cell phones in Asia were cheaper to buy than in Tanzania. The
young entrepreneur bought cheap models from Chinese manufacturers and sold them
to Tanzania’s gadget enthusiasts at much higher prices. This first start-up
gave Ngowi a $150,000 profit. Patrick Ngowi founded Helvetic Solar when he was
22 to provide renewable energy solutions for clients in Tanzania, and the United
States, making $8 million in revenues. In 2013, Helvetic Solar was awarded the
Fastest Growing and Number One in Tanzania’s Top 100 Mid-Sized Companies
Survey.
As it
is widely known, a lack of electricity is one of the most important questions
on the agenda of many African governments. As for Tanzania, its electric power
grid meets only 10% of the population’s electricity needs. The problem is that
the lack of electricity makes a negative impact on most companies, government
agencies, and wealthy families that depend on electrical generators. What Ngowi
was doing when selling low-cost cell phones and traveling back and forth from
China to Tanzania was learning about solar panels and renewable energy. Ngowi
realized that this was a new business opportunity that was knocking on his door,
so he decided to answer. Therefore, he founded Helvetic Solar Contractors, to
help his country manage the energy crisis. This little start-up was transformed
into the Helvetic Group. Ngowi’s company has installed 6,000 rooftop solar
systems. He also founded similar companies in Kenya, Uganda, Rwanda, and
Burundi.
Helvetic Group is known to partner with The Climate Reality Project to make renewable energy solutions more affordable and accessible for as many
Tanzanians as possible. Ngowi’s non-profit social initiative, Light For Life
Foundation, is known to provide free solar power to women living in the
villages of Tanzania providing better access to clean renewable energy. This
story sounds like Patrick Ngowi was just lucky to notice easy ways to make
money but his journey to success wasn’t an easy one. To start selling
China-made cell phones, he took a loan
of $1,800 from his mother, and one of
his close friends sponsored his travel to China. (Profitable partnership, if your
cycles of friends are not better than you, then you are in for a long journey
to success) Patrick Ngowi has been featured by Forbes as one of “10
Young African Millionaires to Watch”.
“ His
success story did not start in one day, he started finding a means to change
his life at the age of 15, and now he is 35 years old, that a very long year of persistence
and an undying desire to change his financial story around
Lorna
Rutto (28, Kenya) a young African
businesswoman possesses all the needed entrepreneurial skills she gained during
her career in the waste recycling business. In 2010, she quit her job at the bank to
start a waste recycling business. She built a big company, called
EcoPost that is engaged in collecting and recycling waste plastic into
aesthetic, durable, and environmentally friendly fencing posts. This idea is
aimed at the conservation of forests by replacing timber with alternative materials.
Lorna Rutto managed to get financial support from international and local
investors and non-governmental organizations.In
2010, Lorna applied for and won a $6,000 SEED Award and used it to start her
business. Also, she won a grant award of $12,700 from the Enablis Energy
Globe-Safaricom Foundation. Another business plan competition she took part in was
organized by the Cartier Women’s Initiative. In this competition, she received
a prize award of about $12,000. Attracting investments is a great way to grow a
business. Some of the biggest investments Lorna Rutto’s business attracted were
an equity investment from the Blue Haven Initiative and the Opus Foundation
amounting to $500,000. This money was used to purchase the necessary advanced
recycling equipment.
The
reason why many end up not becoming successful in life is that they believe so
much in salary, they believe in working to get paid, not ever thinking if they
could be the one to employ people and pay them, they enjoy being employed to be
paid, Lorna had to quit her job to pursue her dreams
with the money she has been saving through working for her employer it’s now
time she worked for herself, and she became successful.
Salary is a modern slavery
Salary slavery or slave wages refers to a person's dependence on wages (or a salary) for their livelihood, especially when wages are low, treatment and conditions are poor, and there are few chances of upward mobility
It is a choice.
For those who just want to survive, retire and live on pension and children support, a paid job is ok.
But if you love your independence and you wish to make a mark then you have to start your own business. The earlier the better.
How many people got rich through paid employment?
Starting your own business is also not that easy:
You must have the right business idea.
You must have the resources to execute the idea. (human, material, financial, etc)
You must know how to deal with the Nigeria factor – infrastructural problems
make your choice. will end the whole slavery talk here, we discuss it next time, but note no one gets rich by working for someone else, if want real success, build on your business idea.
Jason Njoku (38, Nigeria) Jason Chukwuma Njoku is one of Nigeria’s top celebrities in the
world of e-commerce. Jason Njoku is the co-founder of IrokoTV, a mobile
entertainment, and internet TV platform. It is hugely popular in Nigeria for
its extensive catalog of African ‘Nollywood’ movies. This company was co-founded in
2010, with a $150,000-investment from Njoku’s friend Sebastian Gotter. (another profitable partnership, there are
some kind of relationships you need to key into, no one is asking you not to be
friends with your poor friends, but try to create a partnership for yourself )As
of today, Iroko Partners is known to be the world’s largest company that
distributes African entertainment around the world. As the co-founder of Iroko
Partners and IrokoTV, Jason Njoku’s principle is simple: "I am trying to make
people happy”. Njoku’s struggle in the early days of his business was
not as funny and glamorous as it might seem to be. In 2010, Njoku started on YouTube
before he built a successful world-known entertainment empire. It has brought
many challenges. What Njoku told himself: “I make more mistakes than I make good choices. My only
saving grace is that the choices that I make are better and more significant
After the unsuccessful attempts at YouTube business in the United Kingdom in 2010, Jason returned to Nigeria. He established close relationships with local film producers and founded a startup, IrokoTV.
Today, Njoku is a venture capitalist who is obsessed with funding local entrepreneurs. The young African entrepreneur once said: “I want to help young entrepreneurs build the next IrokoTV”. By the way, IrokoTV was described by Forbes Magazine as the ‘Netflix of Africa’ which became its second name. What a great success through partnership with good friends
And lastly
Anna Phosa (South Africa)
Anna
Phosa is often called a ‘celebrity pig farmer’ as she is one of Africa’s most
successful pig farmers. Similar to many other businessmen, her career journey
wasn’t that easy as at the beginning she struggled to raise capital to start
and grow the business.
In 2004, Anna Phosa founded her first pig farm
in Soweto with $100 which was her own contribution. At first, her farm counted
only 4 small pigs, but after 4 years, she was contracted by Pick ‘n Pay, the
South African supermarket chain. According to the contract, the supplier had to
sell 10 pigs per week. This was kind of a breakthrough, and soon the request
grew to 20 pigs per week. After 2 years, Anna Phosa signed one more contract
for five years with Pick ‘n Pay to supply 100 pigs per week. It was an R25
million deal (this amount equaled $1.9 million). This contract allowed Anna to
raise capital from ABSA Bank and USAID and buy a 350-hectare farm property. At
the moment, the farm rears around 5,000 pigs employing about 20 staff.
While
many young entrepreneurs trying to start a business turned to banks and ended up
disappointed, Anna Phosa managed to start her business without the financial help
of banks. The point is that banks mostly tend to focus on more or less mature
businesses. Many businessmen don’t understand, but a bank loan is just one of
many options for entrepreneurs to raise capital. This is actually not the
best option. The problem is that too many unqualified businessmen ask banks for
loans.
IS
SUCCESS FOR EVERY ONE OF US
* Yes anyone
can be successful but not everyone will
* Success has
a different meaning for each and every one of us
Anyone Can Be ‘Successful’, but
Not Everyone Will
The Problem with Opportunity
One of the fundamental tenets of today’s society is that
anyone can become successful. No matter your background, race, or where you’re
from you can be a success. Want to be an entrepreneur? Of course, you can do
it! Want to become a prolific and well-known writer? Sure, go for it! If you
browse the internet long enough, you see these kinds of messages everywhere.
In essence, they boil to down this: if I can do it
anyone can do it. On the surface, this seems to make sense. What marks one
person out as destined for success, while another languishes in mediocrity?
While it’s true that, given the opportunity, most of us
could become successful entrepreneurs, this line of thinking misses one key
point. Everyone can’t be a successful entrepreneur.
Everyone cannot find a Fortune 500 company. Everyone
cannot become a successful lawyer. Sure any of us can make it, but not all of
us. This is a key distinction that a lot of commentators miss, particularly
those who preach the virtues of a lifestyle of self-sufficiency.
If we take a step back and imagine a society where
almost everyone is an entrepreneur. It’s hard to see how this society would
function. Who would collect our trash? Who would work in supermarkets,
factories, and all the other jobs that are deemed to be unfulfilling and boring?
Straight away you can see the essence of the problem. No
society can ever be 100% equal. A society full of entrepreneurs would fall
apart at the seams without anyone there to do the jobs that are fundamental for
any society to function.
For some, success means becoming a Doctor and saving
people’s lives, for others it means working for you, while others may consider
championing environmental causes as a successful career. Success comes in many
flavors, it’s not solely limited to working for yourself and earning a cheque
online.
The idea that anyone can make it is seductive. It’s
similar to the American Dream, where anyone can come to America and make
it despite where they come from. It’s seductive because we see the success
stories such as the Warner Brothers who came from Poland and founded
one of the most well-known media companies on the planet and ask ourselves
what’s stopping us from doing the same. (Don’t mind me; I watch too many movies lol)
Set success on your terms. Most of us recognize that
we’ll never run as fast as Usain Bolt, or swim as fast as Michael Phelps.
Likewise, it’s unlikely we’ll be the next Bill Gates or Elon Musk. However,
that shouldn’t stop us from striving for success.
Trying
to be the best version of ourselves is a better measure of success than
devoting yourself to matching someone else’s definition of success. If you
can look back at your life and say you achieved what you set out to, isn’t that
enough? success
is for anyone who knows their
purpose in life
Everyone can be successful you just need to
find the area in which you want to succeed
Success Has a Different Meaning for Everyone
Just because you’re not there yet, doesn’t mean you’ll never get there
When
I was younger, I used to have this idea of what it meant to be successful. I
used to think that it was a salary, a career, a house, a car, and a family. I used
to frame my success based on what grown-ups told me that it meant.
Then when I grew up, I realized that success can take
the form of whatever a person chooses it to be — that it’s not one
all-encompassing definition. Success is defined by one’s own standards.
Similar to my old beliefs, many people do
strive for that version of success — To make a lot of money, have a good job, a
big house, a fancy car, and a family. And in no way is that necessarily wrong or
weird. As a matter of fact, that tends to be the norm.
Go to school, go to college, graduate, get
a job, meet “the one”, buy a house, get married, have kids, and there you have
it. You did it. You checked off every single box.
But, not everyone wants those checkboxes.
Not everyone thinks that checking off those boxes is the definition of success.
Not everyone wants a “traditional” life. And again, in no way is this mindset necessarily
wrong or weird either. It’s just different.
Success has a different meaning for
everyone.
Just because you’re
not in the same phase of life as your friend or sibling or colleague, the
person you follow on social media, or the person on television doesn’t mean
that you’re behind in life.
Just because you’re not there yet, doesn’t mean you’ll never get there. And just because you haven’t
reached a certain goal at a certain age by a certain time doesn’t mean that
you’re unsuccessful. Just because one person defines success a certain way
doesn’t mean that you need to follow suit.
Success comes in many different shapes and
forms.
Start recognizing the small accomplishments first.
And no, I don’t mean that you should pat yourself on the back because
you didn’t curse off the person who stole your cab (though I do commend for you
for that). I mean, start setting smaller, attainable goals that will ultimately
lead you to your bigger goals.
Go to bed at a decent hour.
Wake up earlier.
Exercise at least once a week.
Cut back on drinking.
Eat fruits and vegetables.
These small things can be building blocks towards becoming the person
that you want to be. And once you start seeing progress there, then you can
start transitioning over to other areas of your life where you want to see the
most progress. As the saying goes, “Rome wasn’t built in a day.”
Create
your own definition of success.
As mentioned earlier, success is not an all-encompassing definition
that everyone must abide by. You can create your own definition of success that
is specifically built for you. Your own victories are for yourself, not for
others. Be proud of the things that you’ve accomplished and are still working
to accomplish. After all, life is a marathon, not a sprint. You don’t go from 0
to 100 overnight.
Life
is a series of decisions that we make on a daily basis.
Be cognizant of the decisions that you are making each day. If you
intend on running 10 miles tomorrow morning, then don’t go off on a bender
tonight. Make purposeful, intentional choices that will lead you to where you
want to be. If you drift off course, then straighten it out. All of the
decisions you make eventually do add up and they will have an impact on your
goals.
Strive
to become the best version of YOURSELF
Figure out what makes you tick. Discover what sets your heart ablaze.
Find what brings you the most joy and happiness. These things are what make you
who you are. Don’t let anybody, not even yourself, change that. Strive to
become the best version of yourself because that is who the world deserves to
see — that is what you deserve to see.
“Today you are you, that is truer than true. There is no one
alive who is youer than you.” — Dr. Suess
WHAT ARE THE
CONSEQUENCES OF SUCCESS
You might be wondering by the term consequences of success,
yeah, remember I said for every new level there is always greater challenges,
so it is with success, be it good or bad there are always consequences for
everything we do in life, be it you succeed or you fail, there are consequences
for success and consequences for failure
Consequences of Success:
1. Your
relationships change.
Not
all of them, but the ones that you thought were solid might not be as sure as
you think. There are people I counted as close friends who distanced themselves
as I experienced new opportunities. I acknowledge that it could be me -- maybe
I've changed -- but I've tried to stay humble and focused.
Changing
relationships is a part of the cycle of life. Some friends will come and go.
Some friends will reveal they're true colors. Some friends will envy your
success. You can't control how other people interact and think about you, but
you can control who you allow being in your life. Surround yourself with people
who will cheer for you no matter what. People who will laugh and cry with you
-- people who will help you without expecting anything in return.
2. There's a
constant pull for your time.
As you grow, so will your circle
of influence. Many more people will be in your world and want some of your
time. They will send social media messages, emails, and even texts. If you are
like me, you want to help whenever you can and in whatever way you can. It's
very hard to say "no.''
Success means more responsibility.
It means more people want to be a part of your world. People will see what
you're doing, and they'll have questions they aren't shy about asking. Just
because they try to connect or ask doesn't mean you have to give up your time.
It's your job to stay focused and in control. If you don't, you'll get off
track.
3. You
battle extreme highs and lows.
There's an assumption that once
you reach a certain metric that everything will be peaches and cream, all the
time. It could be a certain money goal or place in your life, but even at that
level, you will still experience lows. That's the reality of life. You will
have times when you feel like you're on cloud nine and times when you don't
even want to get out of bed, thinking about all that you have to do. Learn
yourself. Learn your moods and how to address what you're feeling. Be the
master of your emotions.
4. You have
to work even harder.
Success
doesn't mean you can coast. It means you might have more responsibility, and
that means working harder. Success isn't an end destination -- it's a constant
journey to be the best version of you. Work even harder to create more freedom
and make an impact in the lives of others.
I
don't want this post didn't come off sounding too whiny. It's been a blessing
to live this life. I'm writing this post from my hotel room in Panama City,
Panama. I've been here training at a company and have gotten paid well to do
it. I love getting to do this for a living. It's been great, but it has also
been eye-opening. Get ready for success and what will follow. The more prepared
you are, the more you can handle unexpected moments.
More success requires more hard work
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