Today we're talking about five important principles that are rich and successful people used to create their success and how you can use them in your own life.
Number One:
The rich make decisions quickly and change them slowly. Have you ever been in this scenario? let's say you go to a fast food restaurant and there's a bit of a line so it takes a few minutes to get to the front and after 10 minutes of wait time, the person in front of you still can't decide what they want to order?
A big difference between highly successful people and the average person is that most people tend to make decisions slowly and change them quickly. In other words, the majority of people are indecisive and uncertain about their decisions. Which makes it difficult to stick to one decision for the long term. The rich and successful tend to make decisions quickly and with certainty and commit to them. See, many people have many ideas of what they can potentially do. A business or even a personal project, but can't decide which one to do first. Which leads them to waste precious time just making up their mind, and when they finally make a decision to start that project, they quickly get discouraged and change their mind. High achievers on the other hand, quickly choose an option that feels right to them or with the least amount of resistance and stick to it until it works or until it doesn't.
Number Two:
The perfect execution, so you've thought of a great business idea or a new project and you've decided that this is the one idea you will execute? yet you still haven't done it?
You still working out the details on how you will execute, but it's been months or even years. You've read the books taken the courses and planned it over in your head but still haven't really taken action yet?
See, most people only make it to the planning stage. They get excited about an idea and start reading, studying and planning all the different ways they can make it happen and they continue learning and starting and planning until they find themselves too overwhelmed with all the options and all the information they've taken. At the end their idea never comes to life but have you ever noticed that at rates that many successful people have is that they execute right away, sometimes without even being ready.
A lesson that we can learn from highly successful people is that sometimes it is better to get started and make mistakes and modify, rather than having a perfect plan. Think about if Steve Jobs decided to make the iPhone absolutely perfect before launching it. We wouldn't have an iPhone today they made the first iPhone then. They looked at what was working and what they can do better. Then the iPhone 3G came along then the iPhone 4 then the iPhone five and the six and so on.
As you start a new project, a new business or even a new habit, the experiences that we end up having are much different than we originally expected. Our perfect plan ends up going out the window anyway. It’s faster to get started, make mistakes fix them and modify your approach along the way rather than get stuck in the planning process. As the saying goes "perfection is paralysis". As you get started on your project you will get real feedback that you can use to calibrate to your process and make it better something that you don't get by just sitting and planning. Now I'm not saying that you shouldn't study, learn or plan.
The problem is that many people use the learning and planning process as a way to delay execution. In a way, planning too much is creating an excuse to not get started. The longer we take to execute the more time we have to think about how things can go wrong. This creates insecurity and our own mind creating the perfection trap. So to counteract this and avoid this perfection trap, there are a few things that we can do one fully commit to. Achieving your outcome, this means that you will not accept any other possibility. You will only be attached to your outcome not the process of achieving it. A mistake that many people make is getting attached to the plan more than the outcome even when the plan isn't working.
Be stubborn about your destination, not the map when you focus on the destination, not the map it becomes. Easier to throw away the map if it isn't working and try something else to learn only what you need to get started. If you're starting a business and if it's only you, you don't need to learn how to create a positive employee culture or learn all the corporate tax joxer's if you're just getting started.
You need to learn two things. How to sell your product and how to fulfill your orders. As soon as you know how to get started you get started.
Learn and modify as your business or project grows. You begin taking feedback and using it to better your process. As Raid Hoffman said if you're not embarrassed by the first version of your product, you launched too late. As you expand your business or your project, you study and learn the next thing you need. Question is, what can you do this week to get started on your next project.
Number Three:
Advertise something. Interesting between the rich and the average person is that most people have negative feelings about promoting themselves and selling while the rich and successful feel pride to sell and promote themselves and their vision.
Think about having something great that can change humanity, that can change other people's lives whether it is an amazing product, new technology, music, art your sense of humor, a skill or an experience that you have that can be useful to others. See, we all have unique skills experiences and ideas that can change other people's lives but the ones that promote themselves their ideas and their products are the ones who actually make an impact. Think about this, you could be a great artist but if nobody sees your paintings no one will be inspired by your talent. You could have a great life story or experience that can help others push through what you already went through but if you don't tell your story others can't use you as their source of strength. If you still feel negative about promotion themselves think about it this way there are people out there that need you need your skills. Your story, your ideas to change their lives. It would be selfish not to promote what you have to offer to the world
Number Four:
Take care of yourse. lf all rich and successful people have something in common, it's their success in wealth. It's a side effect of who they are. It's like the story of the goose who laid the golden eggs. If you don't take care of the goose you don't have the golden eggs. You are the cause of your own success and if you don't take care of yourself, it might be difficult to create a truly successful life. Most successful people make an effort to take care of three core parts of life.
1. Physical health and fitness is a major part of anyone's life if you're not healthy you won't be able to be as effective as if you were. Healthy fit and full of energy and even if you produce great results and success. What is the point of great success and wealth when you are not healthy enough?
2. Personal life. If you pay attention virtually all rich and successful people focus part of their time to developing themselves in many areas of their life. They are constantly learning new skills that can help them in both their business life as well as their personal life. They know that they can always get better at something and their pursuit of becoming a better man or woman is never-ending.
3. Emotional growth. This is something that not many people talk about but high performers are also humans with feelings and securities and emotions. They all focus on developing their mindset and their emotional well-being. They understand that they need to develop their confidence and work on it as a skill as well as protecting it. Do you understand that without taking care of our emotional well-being we cannot create a truly successful and happy life?
Number Five:
Don't apologize for wanting to be rich. Most of us were conditioned to feel uncomfortable when talking about money or being rich but in reality what is wrong with being rich are wanting to have money? Most people spend their lives working for money anyway, so what is it so wrong about wanting more of it?
The rich don't apologize for wanting to be rich and successful they know what they want and they will work to get it.
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