Evening fellow fastlaners,
ever since I was a young kid, I've always been interested in people and to be exact, what's the difference between someone incredibly successful like let's say Dwayne Johnson, Andy Frisella or Tony Robbins to a normal Joe Blow on the street who lives a mediocre life with a 9-5 he hates, fat wife, 2 kids and is a pessimist on life? This is a very common thing I see with older individuals, they just have no life. It's like they're a living zombie. Am I the only one who sees that?
If you ask these people why they're not successful, it's always some lame excuse like I wasn't lucky or bad parents etc. Which by the way, are just excuses to justify their lack of achievements. Or they use a cloud and say that "it doesn't matter" when it clearly mattered to them at some point.
Mark Cuban said it perfectly in one interview: "Lack of brains, lack of effort". Whereas Andy Frisella says that there are 3 things that helped him: do the work, do it over time and learn from your mistakes. You do these 3 things and you'll be incredibly successful.
For you who are already very successful entrepreneurs, what is the main reason in your opinion on why people fail or stay mediocre?
NOTE: There is nothing wrong with being average, the world needs those people as well. We need people to join our systems. We need people to work at Walmart or someone who's gonna wash my Lambo. And that's ok.
From my experience(even though I've been in the game for 2 years and aren't anywhere near where I want to be), I can see success or failure patterns relatively quickly. Here are some of them:
Successful traits:
1. Incredible discipline doing the work NO matter how they feel. Of course, discipline doing the right thing aka the right habits.
2. Always learns new things, never stops learning. Has an open mind. This is something that never ceases to amaze me with bigger companies.
3. Tries new things, even if they're uncomfortable as hell. Things like cold calling, running long distances, workouts in the rain, asks a very hot girl out on a date when all the other guys don't have the guts.
4. Never gives up. Even if something doesn't work for the 1000th time, they find a way to make it happen.
5. Invests way more than what they consume. Of course, everybody consumes. Point is, you want to get to a point where you're so wealthy that spending money on a $400k car is nothing to you when you got $15m in the bank. They put their business or their thing over everything else.
6. Spends his/her time around other like minded people. One of the most important things a person can do.
Failure traits:
1. Bad social circle. Probably the biggest reason why people never make it. We're told to be "realistic" and live like everybody else.
2. Procrastination. That's a BIG ONE! Done it myself many times in the past.
3. Gives up after a little bit of effort. That persons sends only 10 emails and says it doesn't work or goes to the gym once and says the gym is not for me...
4. Closed mind. Never reads or educates himself/herself on new things.
5. Consumes more than what they make. The pretenders. We call them $30k or $40k millionaires. Someone who makes $50k-$60k a year and pretends he has a $60k-$70k lifestyle. Pretty common.
6. Stays in her/his comfort zone because it's not for "me".
Any other that come to your mind?
EDIT:
Succes trait => Invests their time because they understand the power of compounding their skills and knowledge.
Failure trait => Wastes time on useless shit.
ever since I was a young kid, I've always been interested in people and to be exact, what's the difference between someone incredibly successful like let's say Dwayne Johnson, Andy Frisella or Tony Robbins to a normal Joe Blow on the street who lives a mediocre life with a 9-5 he hates, fat wife, 2 kids and is a pessimist on life? This is a very common thing I see with older individuals, they just have no life. It's like they're a living zombie. Am I the only one who sees that?
If you ask these people why they're not successful, it's always some lame excuse like I wasn't lucky or bad parents etc. Which by the way, are just excuses to justify their lack of achievements. Or they use a cloud and say that "it doesn't matter" when it clearly mattered to them at some point.
Mark Cuban said it perfectly in one interview: "Lack of brains, lack of effort". Whereas Andy Frisella says that there are 3 things that helped him: do the work, do it over time and learn from your mistakes. You do these 3 things and you'll be incredibly successful.
For you who are already very successful entrepreneurs, what is the main reason in your opinion on why people fail or stay mediocre?
NOTE: There is nothing wrong with being average, the world needs those people as well. We need people to join our systems. We need people to work at Walmart or someone who's gonna wash my Lambo. And that's ok.
From my experience(even though I've been in the game for 2 years and aren't anywhere near where I want to be), I can see success or failure patterns relatively quickly. Here are some of them:
Successful traits:
1. Incredible discipline doing the work NO matter how they feel. Of course, discipline doing the right thing aka the right habits.
2. Always learns new things, never stops learning. Has an open mind. This is something that never ceases to amaze me with bigger companies.
3. Tries new things, even if they're uncomfortable as hell. Things like cold calling, running long distances, workouts in the rain, asks a very hot girl out on a date when all the other guys don't have the guts.
4. Never gives up. Even if something doesn't work for the 1000th time, they find a way to make it happen.
5. Invests way more than what they consume. Of course, everybody consumes. Point is, you want to get to a point where you're so wealthy that spending money on a $400k car is nothing to you when you got $15m in the bank. They put their business or their thing over everything else.
6. Spends his/her time around other like minded people. One of the most important things a person can do.
Failure traits:
1. Bad social circle. Probably the biggest reason why people never make it. We're told to be "realistic" and live like everybody else.
2. Procrastination. That's a BIG ONE! Done it myself many times in the past.
3. Gives up after a little bit of effort. That persons sends only 10 emails and says it doesn't work or goes to the gym once and says the gym is not for me...
4. Closed mind. Never reads or educates himself/herself on new things.
5. Consumes more than what they make. The pretenders. We call them $30k or $40k millionaires. Someone who makes $50k-$60k a year and pretends he has a $60k-$70k lifestyle. Pretty common.
6. Stays in her/his comfort zone because it's not for "me".
Any other that come to your mind?
EDIT:
Succes trait => Invests their time because they understand the power of compounding their skills and knowledge.
Failure trait => Wastes time on useless shit.
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