There is a lot out there written about success. People tell you to try this out, use this hack or buy this course because it will make you successful. The truth is messy, unpopular, and something we often don't want to hear. That's exactly why we need to hear it - because the popular, sugarcoated examples aren't leading us to success. Here are the 5 not so popular, but effective, ways success works:
1. Consistency trumps everything. It's not about hustling 24/7 and it never was, no matter what Gary Vaynerchuck says. Consistency trumps everything when it come to success. If you keep yourself long enough in the game, you will eventually succeed by the sheer probability of success. If you keep doing the right things, eventually success will find you. But the truth is that you have to keep doing it day in and day out. Nobody, succeeded overnight. It takes a lot of years of consistent work to achieve success and that is the truth.
2. Create a goal but work the process. Goals are easy to create. You sit down, think about your life and create a goal. But what happens after the goal is created is what counts. Everyone out there has dreams, and most people have goals but only a handful make their goals a reality. That's because goals by themselves are useless - they need to be followed by a process on which you work daily. If you want to be an entrepreneur - Start working on your business every single day for 1 hour. If you want a six-pack - Hit the gym every single day. If you want to author a book - Start writing 1 page a day. Ever single goal has to be backed by process or else, it's just daydreaming. When you work the process, the goal will take care of itself.
3. Track yourself like you're a one-man company. We do what we track. We improve what we measure. So start treating yourself as a company. Do you have reports, trackers, and quarterly reviews? Because how else are you going to succeed? When we commit, we double down on our decisions and made it work, one way or another. In order to know what we committed to, we need to track ourselves. The numbers don't lie so if you track them, you know exactly where you are on the path to success.
4. The more successful you get, the harder you need to work. This is the one thing that perception misses out on when we see a rich and successful person. We think once they succeed, that life becomes this problem free paradise of vacations on beaches. In fact, life just gets harder. The more success we have the bigger our responsibility, the bigger our problems, and the more we have to work. People who succeed, usually work harder now than they did before they became successful but their perception of "hard" changed. It's like when you start going to the gym and you see a ripped guy over there pushing himself to the limits. He feels the same pain as you do since he is pushing his utmost limits but he simply got used to the pain. Now, it's just a part of the process.
The truth about success is getting watered down over and over again. But if we truly want success then we need to take action towards our big ambitions and goal.
