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Youâre doing things successful people do
Appreciating how well youâre doing can be tough these days.
So many people are doing amazing things in the world, and the internet makes it super easy to sell this narrative â even when itâs false.
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If you spend your time looking at everyone else, youâll feel bad about yourself.
Instead, youâve got to look for signs of progress in your journey to keep yourself motivated.
Success is not as hard as people make out.
Itâs simply a matter of doing what moves you closer to your objective most of the time.
The only issue is youâll never know when youâll be rewarded for your actions â youâve just got to keep sowing seeds in good faith that one day, youâll get the outcome you want.
This is hard when you donât have clear signs itâs actually going to work.
Thatâs why, in this article, I will show you exactly what to look out for to help you keep faith on your journey to success.
1. Youâve made success a game, not a grind
âLife is a song â sing it. Life is a game â play it. Life is a challenge â meet it. Life is a dream â realize it. Life is a sacrifice â offer it. Life is love â enjoy it.â
â Sai Baba
The highest performers in the world donât grind; they play games.
For example, when Warren Buffett was going from door to door selling chewing gum as a child, he wasnât grinding to make money.
He was playing a game to determine which chewing gum sells best.
He was trying to increase his odds of being successful going forward.
If you want to be successful, youâve got to play the game too.
Are you publishing content to go viral or to learn what resonates with your audience so you can produce more of it?
If the answer is the latter, thereâs no doubt youâll be successful.
The highest performers play games.
They have fun while practicing.
They live by the words of Daniel Coyle: âIf it can be counted, you can turn it into a game.â
It’s about developing themselves into the person who naturally attracts the outcomes they want.
Some of the most successful companies even integrate this game mindset into their applicationsâjust look at Snapchat, for exampleâŚ
As you snap with your friends more often, you create streaks, which become incredibly hard to break psychologically.
The main gist is this:
If you see success as a game, youâll probably be successful.
If you donât stress about the outcome you produce and are more concerned about the feedback from your actions, youâre on the right track.
Read also: 8 habits of people who stay strong even when life gets toughÂ
2. Youâre fully convinced you can succeed
âIn order to succeed, we must first believe that we can.â
â Nikos Kazantzakis
Thereâs a major difference between wanting and knowing.
Wanting, though better than needing, comes from a place of lack.
You’re acknowledging the absence of something, but youâre not desperate for it.
You donât want something you already have â you just have it.
Knowing, on the other hand, is the possession of hope and faith.
You KNOW you have a bigger, brighter future, and youâre acting toward making it a reality.
This is why Florence Shinn once said, âHope looks forward. Faith knows it has already received and acts accordingly.â
Youâre not wishing on a star; youâre making progress.
The reason this is a clear sign youâll be successful is because success is the transformation of oneself from one state to a desired state.
Itâs about becoming the person who naturally receives the things you want.
Identity follows behavior.
As you act in accordance with the person you desire to be, you eventually become the person â itâs just a matter of time.
3. Youâre not hiding what you want
âHonesty is the first chapter in the book of wisdom.â
â Thomas Jefferson
Itâs well known Warren Buffett made it his goal to become a millionaire by 30 years old.
John D Rockefeller also had a financial goal to earn $100,000 in his career, even though he made far more than that.
Elon Musk has said on numerous occasions that he wants to die on Mars â as long as itâs not by crashing into the planet when landing.
Bill Gates used to go around saying, âA computer on every desk in every home.â
Do you notice the pattern?
When you truly want something, you donât hide it.
You donât keep it a secret.
You openly share it.
Benjamin Hardy once said, âHarmonious passion is about living an integrated, rather than a compartmentalized, life.â
He was referring to the fact that individuals with harmonious passion seamlessly blend what theyâre interested in with other aspects of their lives.
Rather than isolating their interests or work from their personal lives, they achieve a balanced integration, which leads to greater overall satisfaction and well-being.
When you hide what you want, itâs usually because youâre compartmentalizing.
This is when different parts of life are kept separate.
Compartmentalizing is dangerous because it can lead to conflict within oneself and stress.
Beyond that, being honest about what you intend to be is a positive sign youâre willing to ask for help â a major key to becoming successful.
When people know what you want, itâs easier for them to support you to get it.
Most people are too proud to ask for help.
They care too much about what others think of them.
But hereâs the catch: theyâre usually the ones who need it the most.
If youâre honest about what you want, itâs a good sign youâll get it â it shows youâre willing to ask for help.
4. Youâve created a crystal clear vision that provokes you
âIt doesnât matter what your vision is. It matters what your vision does.â
â Peter Senge
Regardless of whether a vision is for good or bad, if itâs clear and compelling, it will provoke everything about you.
Take it from me; Iâve been in a cult beforeâŚ
One reason cults are effective at attracting and maintaining followers is that the leader often has a compelling vision that provides a clear sense of purpose, direction, and meaning.
In fact, the vision of the cult I was in was so clear I passed up an opportunity to fulfill my dream of becoming a professional footballer by refusing to return to a pro club that admired me deeply.
Eventually, I quit football altogether.
What does your vision do?
If it:
Shapes your environment
Dictates your relationships
Adjusts your behavior
Influences your decisions
etc
Then, your vision is working.
Your vision is supposed to cause changes in you for you to realize it.
Itâs supposed to make you focus on execution and transformation.
If youâre doing these things, thereâs a good chance youâll be successful.
5. You put in the hours behind closed doors
âPrivate victory always precedes public victory.â
â Stephen Covey
Iâm a major advocate of building in publicâŚ
But those who fully embrace this practice understand thereâs a substantial amount of work that happens behind closed doors.
To build in public, you must learn all the material you want to use in private.
This is the equivalent of going to the gym when everyone else is resting.
The more visits you make, the more resources youâll have to build in public.
Athletes like Kobe Bryant and Cristiano Ronaldo understand this concept exceptionally.
Itâs well documented that they were always the first to arrive at training and the last to leave.
They worked harder than everyone else around them, and it shows.
Theyâve made practice into a game of perfecting their skills.
Success is inevitable when you put in the hours behind closed doors.
When you perfect your craft while no one is looking and frequently build in public to get rapid feedback on how youâre doing, you cannot fail.
Youâre effectively iterating yourself to success.
Yes, there will be ups and downs, but eventually, youâll get there.
6. You keep a second brain
âAlways carry a notebook. And I mean always. The short-term memory only retains information for three minutes; unless it is committed to paper, you can lose an idea forever.â
â Will Self
People often overestimate how good their memory isâŚ
I used to be one of those people.
Rather than writing down ideas I got, Iâd leave it in my head.
By the time I got around to writing the article, most of the points I wanted to touch on were gone â sometimes, I even forgot the title.
I love Benjamin Hardyâs analogy of how the mind works. He said:
âYour mind can be like a well. It takes pumping the well for a while to get the ideas and creativity flowing. However, if you get the well pumping, then all of you have to do is keep it going. You can get to the point where the ideas and insights keep coming coming coming.â
Once your mind gets to the place where ideas and insights are flowing, the onus is on you to record them so you donât forget.
Well, depending on how you look at itâŚ
Matthew McConaughey said, âI never wrote things down to remember; I always wrote things down so I could forget.â
In other words, by recording his thoughts, he can reduce the burden on his brain to remember.
Keeping notes puts value on the thought â this signals to your brain to continue churning out such quality.
If youâre already doing this, thereâs no doubt youâll be successful.
7. You learn from your errors rapidly
âThe more that you read, the more things you will know. The more that you learn, the more places youâll go.â
â Dr. Seuss
Thereâs a famous adage that goes, âLessons are repeated until learned.â
In other words, the speed of your development depends on how quickly you learn.
This is why Alvin Toffler said, âThe illiterate of the 21st century will not be those who cannot read and write, but those who cannot learn, unlearn, and relearn.â
If you can spot an error, learn from it, and implement the lessons rapidly, the only way is up.
This is a clear sign youâre constantly making progress, which almost always guarantees success.
8. You feel fear and do it anyway
âFear is the mother of foresightâ
â Thomas Hardy
Fear is just the lack of knowledge.
If you understand something, you will be less afraid of it.
But the fact nobody knows all means we all have some level of fear instilled in us naturally â even Elon Musk.
For most people, this fear is a crippling roadblock that prevents them from moving forward.
For others, itâs a signal used to navigate the path to their goal.
If you fall into the latter category, youâll be successful.
This is because the path to success is littered with failures.
Many people do their best to avoid this experience out of fear.
But you donât become successful by playing it safe.
As Michael Jordan famously said:
âIâve missed more than 9,000 shots in my career. Iâve lost almost 300 games. Twenty-six times, Iâve been trusted to take the game-winning shot and missed. Iâve failed over and over and over again in my life. And that is why I succeed.â
There will be moments when youâre scared to take the next step.
The fact you do it is a sign youâre destined for great things.
Success is not achieved in the comfort zone, after all.
9. Youâve defined exciting milestones
âCelebrate small victories often. Mourn failures quickly. Do whatâs necessary without fanfare.â
â Chris Brogan
A key component of success is having fun along the way.
You need something to look forward to in the long term, but what keeps you motivated in the short term are the immediate milestones youâve defined for yourself.
These must be exciting and relevant enough to make you WANT to take action.
For example, if your goal is to become a millionaire writing online in 5 years and you have nothing in your pocket right now, making your first dollar is a great milestone.
TLDR: If you have exciting and relevant milestones that make you want to take action, youâre on the right path.
10. You invest big in yourself
âThe greatest investment you can make is in yourself.â
â Warren Buffett.
If you invest heavily in yourself, thereâs no doubt youâll get where you want to go.
Investment makes desires real.
It ties you to the outcome of whatever youâve invested in.
This means a negative outcome for your investment is a negative outcome for you.
In other words, youâre highly incentivized to see it work out.
When you invest heavily in yourself, you’re creating incentives to be successful.
People who only dream about achieving something meaningful invest in distractions.
Investing in yourself means youâre buying into your vision.
If you’re heavily invested in yourself, youâll almost certainly be successfulâyouâll find a way.
This is why Benjamin Franklin said, âFor the best return on your money, pour your purse into your head.â
11. You filter out things that donât move you closer to your goals
âBy prevailing over all obstacles and distractions, one may unfailingly arrive at his chosen goal or destination.â
â Christopher Columbus
One of the hallmarks of success is sacrifice.
You must offer up who you currently are to become who you want to be.
This means dropping out of things that donât align with your desired outcome.
Those who struggle to perform this act never realize their full potential â theyâre in a constant battle with themselves.
People who are successful have no regard for who they currently are. Thereâs no attachment to their existing identity â itâs all about the future.
Theyâre willing to cut off anything instantly once they realize it doesnât align with their objectives.
This is why theyâre successfulâŚ
Theyâve made their lives about achieving what they want and fitted everything else around it in a way that allows them to realize smaller but important milestones in the process (e.g., marriage, family building, etc.).
12. Youâve committed to never stop learning
âAnyone who stops learning is old, whether at twenty or eighty. Anyone who keeps learning stays young.â
â Henry Ford
Everyone whoâs had some exposure to self-improvement work knows learning is a lifetime thing, but what does this actually look like?
Hereâs a perfect exampleâŚ
Some years back, Cristiano Ronaldo uploaded a photo of himself and Canadian psychologist Jordan Peterson to Instagram.
This confused a lot of people, as it didnât make much sense how the two crossed paths.
In an interview with the controversial British Piers Morgan, Jordan Peterson revealed the back story on how they became friends.
He told Piers, âHeâd had some trouble in his life a few months ago and a friend of his sent him some of my videos and he said heâd watched those. Then he read one of my books and found it helpful, he wanted to talk.â
In other words, Ronaldo was seeking answers.
Despite being one of the greatest athletes of all time, he was still looking for solutions to problems.
He hadnât settled on how far heâd come â he still wanted things to improve.
If you see this trait in yourself, thereâs a high chance you will be successful.
Read also: 8 signs you’re genuinely a sharp thinker according to psychology
Final thoughts
As Tony Robbins once said, âSuccess leaves clues.â
If you implement these clues in your life, youâll likely be successful too.
This doesnât mean it will happen overnight, and there will be times when you feel like nothing is happening.
In those moments, take time to reflect.
Look how how far youâve come.
Find peace in the fact that youâre already doing what it takes to be successful, and so
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Contributed by Kurtis Pykes
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