Why Most People Will
Never Be Successful
“Success” isn’t just having lots of
money. Many people with lots of
money have horribly unhappy and
radically imbalanced lives.
Success is continuously improving
who you are, how you live, how you
serve, and how you relate.
So why won’t most people be
successful?
Why don’t most people evolve?
The more evolved you become, the
more focused you must be on those
few things which matter most. Yet, as
Jim Rohn has said, “A lot of people
don’t do well simply because they
major in minor things.”
To be successful, you can’t continue
being with low frequency people for
long periods of time.
You can’t continue eating crappy
food, regardless of your spouse’s or
colleague’s food choices.
Your days must consistency be spent
on high quality activities.
The more successful you become —
which is balancing the few essential
things (spiritual, relational, financial,
physical) in your life and removing
everything else — the less you can
justify low quality.
Before you evolve, you can
reasonably spend time with just
about anyone.
You can reasonably eat anything
placed in front of you.
You can reasonably justify activities
and behaviors that are, frankly,
mediocre.
As your vision for yourself expands,
you realize you have to make certain
adjustments. You need to cut-back on
spending all of your money and time
on crap and entertainment. You have
to save more, and invest more in
your education and your future.
The more successful you become, the
less you can justify low quality. The
more focused you must become. The
more consistently your daily
behaviors must be high quality — and
increasingly higher quality.
This isn’t about perfection. It’s
definitely not about being busy all
the time. Actually, the balance of true
success involves what Tim Ferriss
calls “mini-retirements” or regular
sabbaticals.
Yet, if your daily behaviors are
consistently low quality, what do you
expect your life’s output to be?
Your choices must become higher
quality.
Your relationships must become
higher quality.
Every area of your life affects every
other area of your life. Hence the
saying, How you do something is how
you do everything. This is very high
level thinking. It only makes sense
for people who have removed
everything from their lives they hate.
To actually live this principle: your
daily and normal life can only be
filled with those things you highly
value.
When your days are filled with only
those core essentials that mean the
world to you — and you’re succeeding
in those few areas — you absolutely
will dominate in “all” areas of your
life. Because the only things in your
life are the things you highly value.
Everything else has slowly been
weeded-out. You are living
intentionally and congruently. You
have momentum and balance.You’re
being who you truly want to be,
every single day.
To actually do this not only takes
time, but is extremely hard to live in
practice.
Saying “No” to great but irrelevant
opportunities is hard.
Giving up bad habits is hard.
Changing your belief system and
expanding your vision takes courage.
It’s so easy to revert back to small
and mediocre thinking.
However, as you come closer to living
on a daily basis with your values and
ideals, amazing things start to
happen. You’ll feel happier. You’ll be
more present with those you love.
You’ll spend your time better. You’ll
pursue bigger dreams and ambitions.
You’ll be more resilient during
challenges. You’ll live at a higher
frequency. And everything around
you will reflect that.
But to repeat Jim Rohn, “A lot of
people don’t do well simply because
they major in minor things.” Said
another way, most people are caught
in the thick of thin things.
Hence, most people won’t be
successful. Most people won’t evolve
and progress.
But you will. You know it, and you
can feel it. You’ve already begun.
And everyday, you’re taking one step
closer.
Soon enough, you’ll fully commit to
being who you know you can be.
Once you pass that point of no
return, nothing will stop you.