What Success Will Cost You
There's a great saying, "If success was easy, everybody would be doing it.
" How true that is! It's also true that each and every person was born to succeed, not fail.
So why do so many fail to succeed? Success has its price and, from the onset, the price is clear.
People know the expected price to attain the dreams they have.
Many people feel that the price is too high.
What these people don't understand is that the cost of failure, of choosing to live life below the level of your talents, aspirations, and dreams is a lifelong debt with compounded interest that never goes away.
But failure doesn't advertise its prices and that's how so many people get sucked in.
Success, at the end of the day, is worth all the hard work, diligence, education, experience and trial and error you have to go through to get it.
There is no shortcut to success.
Detours happen but sideroads tend to be long, winding and will run you in circles if you let them.
Why spend forty years in the wilderness when you can arm yourself with faith, passion and persistence and go straight to the Promised Land? "There is nothing new under the sun.
" You do not have to reinvent the wheel to be ultra-successful.
You just have to find a new and compelling way to use it.
Thomas Edison wasn't the first to create the light bulb but he was the first to make the light bulb commercially useful.
Charles Darrow isn't the true creator of Monopoly but he was the first to make the game portable and sell it to stores and distributors in large quantities.
Contrary to popular belief, you don't have to be a superstar to succeed.
You need a superstar's mentality to hang tough long enough until success finally arrives at your doorstep.
Like anything else, success is a process.
It takes the time it takes and anyone selling you instant gratification, no work or effort necessary and all you have to do is "believe" is selling you a lie that has the ability to ruin your life...
if you let it.
To be successful, you need three things: 1) Know what you want 2) Believe that you'll get it 3) Wake up everyday, positive, passionate, purposeful and in a planning mode, working hard every day with the end goal always in mind, open and flexible to the changes of life.
That's it.
If you do that, there's a 100% certainty you'll succeed.
If you do anything else, expect to get as much out of it as you perspired into it.
The choice is yours.
" How true that is! It's also true that each and every person was born to succeed, not fail.
So why do so many fail to succeed? Success has its price and, from the onset, the price is clear.
People know the expected price to attain the dreams they have.
Many people feel that the price is too high.
What these people don't understand is that the cost of failure, of choosing to live life below the level of your talents, aspirations, and dreams is a lifelong debt with compounded interest that never goes away.
But failure doesn't advertise its prices and that's how so many people get sucked in.
Success, at the end of the day, is worth all the hard work, diligence, education, experience and trial and error you have to go through to get it.
There is no shortcut to success.
Detours happen but sideroads tend to be long, winding and will run you in circles if you let them.
Why spend forty years in the wilderness when you can arm yourself with faith, passion and persistence and go straight to the Promised Land? "There is nothing new under the sun.
" You do not have to reinvent the wheel to be ultra-successful.
You just have to find a new and compelling way to use it.
Thomas Edison wasn't the first to create the light bulb but he was the first to make the light bulb commercially useful.
Charles Darrow isn't the true creator of Monopoly but he was the first to make the game portable and sell it to stores and distributors in large quantities.
Contrary to popular belief, you don't have to be a superstar to succeed.
You need a superstar's mentality to hang tough long enough until success finally arrives at your doorstep.
Like anything else, success is a process.
It takes the time it takes and anyone selling you instant gratification, no work or effort necessary and all you have to do is "believe" is selling you a lie that has the ability to ruin your life...
if you let it.
To be successful, you need three things: 1) Know what you want 2) Believe that you'll get it 3) Wake up everyday, positive, passionate, purposeful and in a planning mode, working hard every day with the end goal always in mind, open and flexible to the changes of life.
That's it.
If you do that, there's a 100% certainty you'll succeed.
If you do anything else, expect to get as much out of it as you perspired into it.
The choice is yours.
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