Last week I told you how to succeed.
It sounds simple. But it’s not easy.
It was an email I sent yesterday about why people are successful. How to be successful.
Just pay me £100 a month and you’ll be successful.
Jokes.
It was all about Rule 1: Know what you want.
And my suggestion was to spend more time thinking about what you want.
Be specific.
Be clear.
Write it out.
Write out 100 things you want.
Write it out like you already have it.
“I have three properties, all paid off with no mortgage, in England, Italy and New Zealand that I can visit anytime and rent out or share if I so choose, that I go to at least once a year.”
In my experience, most people don’t have what they want, simply because they haven’t written out what they want.
And then – here’s the hard part – when you have a list of 10 things, 100 things… cross out all but ONE of the goals.
Have ONE goal.
Have ONE thing that you want.
That IS difficult. I know it is.
But think of it like this.
If you could have one thing, and accomplish ONE thing, that would make all your other wants, goals, desires, needs and problems easier to deal with or faster or even, disappear (or irrelevant), what would that goal be?
That is the goal you should be working towards.
That’s the #1 thing you need to work on and follow and aim for.
Everything else, is a distraction until you get that goal.
The mistake people make, is having a goal of running 10 marathons. And then trying to run 10 marathons at once.
It sounds crazy when you put it like that.
But I see SO many people try it.
“I’m an entrepreneur, content creator, product maker, influencer, community leader, cafe owner and author.”
How many of those things have you completed? How many are done?
“Well, none of them. But I’m working on all of them.”
Ok, well…don’t. Work on ONE of them at once.
It’s tough, I know.
But entrepreneurs don’t starve. They drown.
Success is directly proportional to how many things you say NO to.
Yes, you will be judged and yes people will ridicule you and YES you will fail at the ONE thing you’re working on (and wouldn’t it have been nice to have a fallback activity or goal, so you can say “actually I was focused on this instead”).
Other people will tell you that your goal is wrong and that you’re thinking too small.
Or that you’re thinking too big and you’re being unrealistic.
Or that you could do so much more.
Or that they wouldn’t want that, so you shouldn’t want that.
Great. Let them.
Let them think and say and do all that.
See where they are in 1 year. 10 years.
Because I’ll guarantee you that if you follow this advice, you won’t need to listen to them anymore.
So, do you know what you want and is it the #1 thing you could work towards?