Success is built in boring and mundane tasks that get repeated so much that we become really good. Success is no accident.
When I speak to young people today I often get a sense that they need to be successful immediately. Our mindset has been rewired to believe that success is glamorous and easy.
Success is hard to obtain. Or at least it should be. Nothing worth achieving should come quickly or without some sacrifice or effort. If it comes too easily – it probably isn’t being done right.
Our ability to get whatever we desire on our phones with a matter of a few clicks and a credit card has made us think that we can get the same from our lives. The truth is that everything we work for gains its value from two things:
1. The goal setting that starts the dream in the first place.
2. The work to actually get there. And this is the boring part.
Most people do not see the hours, days, weeks, months, and even years it takes to make a person a success. It happens over time. Not fast. Not easy.
We tend to see the results. That can often be narrowed down to a few seconds on a tik tok video or instagram reel. But that isn’t the whole story.
Success is a road or a path that we take when we decide we want to improve. The journey is what builds us into a successful person. It sounds cheesy, but ask anyone who wants more out of life and they will tell you – setting the goal is the first step. Doing the dark and dirty work to improve is the second.
Remember that true success is forged in a person’s unrelenting narrow focus of a goal and the work to achieve that goal. It’s in those dark, boring, repetitive moments that a person can become a success. And many times they don’t reach their ultimate goal – at least not right away. The Beatles took a long time to become a successful band. They had to fail a lot first.
How do you define success?
What things do you do to reach your goals?
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