For the want of a better description, the world is made up of two different types of people. ‘Successful people’ and ‘normal people’. 96% are the ‘normal’ while 4% are ‘successful’.

If we firstly understand that a person’s results are a direct result of their actions then it’s fair to assume that 96% of us take very different courses of action in our lives than the other 4% based on their results.

In fact many successful people simply say that if you want to become wealthy all you have to do is the exact opposite to what is considered normal.

The problem is that what is considered normal behaviour is defined by a large group of individuals. Individuals by definition are in fact different. If that’s the case, how can ‘normal’ be the same for every individual? This may seem complex but successful people understand that what’s normal for one person will not necessarily be normal for another. This means that an implied social normal is nothing more than a ‘standard’ for people to follow if they don’t have the drive or the will to be successful.

People who follow the normal standard will generally get a tertiary education, get a job, buy a house, buy a car, have 2.4 children, eventually pay off their debts, retire, live off a pension or super fund then die.

For people who want to be successful this standard is simply not suitable so they do the exact opposite.

Generally the education model they use is not tertiary or academic but involves life skills. They will make their money work for them first then buy the house of their dreams. Travelling and life great experiences happen while their young and their investments continue to grow allowing them to experience life throughout their life, instead of at the end of their life.

A truly successful person will get to the end of their life considering what they have done to be normal and what everybody else has done to be strange therefore, abnormal.

Therefore, if you wish to be successful it’s obvious that you have do the opposite of what the vast majority of people consider normal and make that normal for you.

Bye for now

Tim

Most people at some point in their life will step out of their comfort zone and try something new to see if they can succeed. I’m not just talking about financial success but anything like a new sport or a hobby or something. What most people don’t realise is when give up after a few failed attempts, is that they were only one or two attempts from outstanding success.

If they had only got up and kept trying until they succeeded they would have realised what it feels like to succeed at something outside their comfort zone. There is no better feeling than to succeed at something you never thought you could possibly do. This is the single best method to build self confidence.

Your ability to be successful will be directly proportional to you willingness to keep trying. All successful people have to overcome failure along the way. A failure is not a failure unless you quit after it. If you try again then a failure is only a lesson on what not do. You can’t work out what you should do unless you know what not to do. Some of the most profound lessons in your life will come from failure.

A very important lesson I have learned from failure is that ‘no’ is not knockback, ‘no’ is feedback. You have to develop the ability to view all setbacks in this way. If a particular action achieves a negative result then don’t quit simply change the action and result will change.

The only I can absolutely guarantee is that if you are focused on the result and you keep trying and don’t ever give up, eventually you will get there.

All you have to do is apply this principal to every aspect of your life and the first time you succeed you will find the result such a boost to your self confidence that it will change your life forever.

Bye for now

Tim