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You might as well do something you like or are good at or fascinated with. Then work hard doing something cool in contrast to doing that which you hate.
The guy says, “Kevin, I want to make a million dollars.” (His definition of success.)
You Need a Clear Picture of Success
Even in 2019 dollars, a million is a lot of counting.
Like “one trillion” or “one billion” the number “one million” is really tough to quantify in most people’s brains.
It’s like saying, “The rain forest was beautiful.”
I have no references by which to match that up with. But that will change soon as well…
Let’s put “one million” which is certainly an important number in accumulating wealth and generating financial and relationships success, into perspective.
If it takes one minute to count to 100, it will take you 10,000 minutes to COUNT to a million. 10,000 minutes.
There are 10,000 minutes in a 7 day week and if you don’t sleep or eat and count straight through from right now ’til one week from right now, you’ll reach one million.
A million … is a lot.
Here’s another way to put it into perspective.
The average household in the USA has an income of about $75,000. If your household does $100,000 in income this year, you are in the top 10%.
Let’s go with $75,000 for the moment.
A million dollars is 15 YEARS of income. That’s FIFTEEN YEARS. To me, 15 years is a pretty long time. But what most people don’t think about is that earning $75,000 per year is REALLY taking home (KEEPING) about $5,000. Over 15 years that’s yet another magical $75,000 number which is one year of income for your retirement.
That’s about what most people who earn $75,000 KEEP … one year’s worth of earnings for when they retire.
Now, imagine you earn a million bucks and then go blow it. Nothing much is gained by acquring a million dollars if one only keeps $5,000?
Money, being the common exchange of quantifiable energy for the last two millennia is the instrument we use to measure some aspects of success. (The other two are time & love/sex.)
Your AVERAGE successful person doesn’t go out on the boat and party on the weekend. They did that when they had a job. Today they are choosing between success and failure.
Nothing wrong with partying on the boat, but there is a time and place for everything.
Rule of thumb: Party when you have earned it.
To bring in a million dollars (not keep, but gross) requires 15 years for the average family in the U.S. That’s normal in the USA.
They’ll keep $75,000 on average.
It’s hard to KEEP anything and KEEP is a big part of the Success Equation.
Your mentor, your coach knows this and your mentor worked a lot harder for a lot longer than you will to get your first million in the bank.
I know my mentor had to shake his head and watch me struggle before I SERIOUSLY did what I was told to do. And then I just blindly followed his advice because it got old questioning the advice and then failing.
That … was stupid.
Your coach tells you to do X and then you have to do a lot of stuff you’ve never done before.
None of it is seriously brutally difficult, but success in life is work.
Failing in life is work as well. Quite often it requires more effort to fail than succeed.
The catch?
The effort to fail is all effort that no matter how taxing, is familiar. The effort to succeed is unfamiliar.
