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Formula for Success
You begin by asking great questions.
The new coach is probably a rookie mentor…you might get a good one but what I really want you to have is a first class, accomplished one on one mentor. The mentor, gives you the hard answers. You follow directions, and DO IT.
Mentors don’t BS you into the notion that success is easy.
Mentors can certainly stop a LOT of the tribulations you would have faced to vanish right before your eyes, but no mentor can take away the work of transition. Mentors are like amazing parents. They see you for who you are and they do their best to direct your behavior. But they can’t do it for you.
The parent’s job is not to make your world easy, but to direct YOU to be SUCCESSFULLY INDEPENDENT. Every great parent’s job is to work themselves out of a full time parenting job.
The brilliant coach, the amazing mentor, has already been down the roads you’re walking and the one thing they know that you need to know is that you are going to have WORK to make a TRANSITION that matters.
The next thing they know that you don’t is that EVERYTHING takes LONGER than you initially guess it will. It takes more hours in a day and more days in a week and more years to significantly succeed than you would think.
Why?
The average Joe has no education or experience as it pertains to success, achievement or building wealth.
Wisdom of what worked 50 years ago, sometimes has great value. But just as often, sadly, what was enlightened knowledge is antiquated.
One thing that has not changed is perceptions of how others view successful people.
Most people look at wealthy/successful people and think that they “have it easy.”
This is why the wealthy often look at those kinds of attitudes with great disdain.
MOST (not all) of the successes I know started with nothing or next to nothing. They worked hard. They have no place for the lazy, the slothful, the free riders. Successful people know they aren’t only paying their taxes but those of the neighbors as well.
Success is about character, resources to make a difference in your life as well as others.
The average successful person has worked hard mostly because being a failure was not a lot of fun. Being a failure or living the life of a failure waiting to be a success, can be downright painful.
