DON’T TREAT SUCCESS LIKE AN OPTION

Treating success as an option is one of the major reasons why more people do not create it for themselves—and why most people don’t even get close to living up to their full potential.

There are far too many “cute” sayings that seem to dismiss the importance of success, like “Success is a journey, not a destination.” Please!

When terrible economic contractions occur like the Covid Pandemic we are in right now (not to mention the inevitable recession that will certainly follow), everyone quickly realizes they can’t eat or make house payments with cute little sayings.

The economic events of the past several years should have made it obvious how badly we all underestimated the importance of success—and how essential it actually is to our survival. It is not enough just to play the game; it is vital that you learn to win at it. Winning— over and over again—at everything in which you involve yourself ensures that you will be able to further expand. And it guarantees that both you and your ideas will survive into the future.

Success is equally important to a person’s sense of self. It promotes confidence, imagination, and a sense of security and emphasizes the significance of contributing. People who are unable to provide for their families and their future put themselves and their families at risk. People who are not successful can’t buy goods and services.

This can cause an economy to slow down and taxes to diminish, which will then negatively impact funds for schools, hospitals, and public services. About this time, some will say, “But success is not everything,” and of course, it isn’t everything. Yet I always wonder what point people are trying to make with this statement.

Ask yourself how close you are to your full capability. You might not like the answer very much. If you don’t consider it your duty to live up to your potential, then you simply won’t. If it doesn’t become an ethical issue for you, then you won’t feel obligated and driven to fulfil your capacity. People don’t approach the creation of success as a must-have obligation, do-or-die mission, got to-have-it mentality. They then spend the rest of their lives making excuses for why they didn’t get it. And that is what happens when you consider success to be an alternative rather than an obligation.