THE PRICE OF SUCCESS
I normally tell guys who are broke that how do they expect not to be broke when they sleep twelve hours a day? And how do you sleep nine to twelve hours a night when you have nothing in your bank account?
Many guys lose their jobs and say they’re broke because they have no job. And they don’t know what to do to make money.
The reason you’re broke is because you have no valuable skill and you lack a business mindset. You’re not valuable. So pick a valuable skill and master it and you will attract money. Money follows mastery. It’s an exchange of value. Become valuable if you want money.
People now call me and pay me to speak to me.
But money comes from work done. You have to put in the time. You have to separate yourself from the pack if you want to elevate yourself.
You can’t sleep like everyone and live like everyone and watch garbage on TV and expect to get ahead, my G.
At one time, a young author with two books under his name approached me. He told me he wanted me to mentor him so that he can also write a bestseller.
I told him I could. “It depends on how badly you want it,” I told him.
He looked at me in the eye and said, “I want it so bad, man.”
“Great.” I said, believing him.
“You’re talking to the right guy.”
In our first meeting, which he paid for, I asked him about his schedule.
I asked him what time he gets up, his morning routine etc.
Then I told him Stephen King’s rejection story. How King got so many rejection letters from publishets until he had to get a big nail to pin them on the wall.
Then I told him how I wrote seven novels in obscurity until I published UNPLUGGED.
I told him how I would wake up at 3am to write. Year after year. How I did book launches every year.
How I toiled like an animal. For years. Waking up in the dead of the night to chase a dream.
I observed outcome independence and never got discouraged by dismal results.
I knew that success comes slowly, then Suddenly.
I believed in the power of compounding efforts.
Doubts lingered in my mind sometimes. But I often snuffed them out. Quickly.
I believed my time would come between the 7th and 9th year.
I was willing to do whatever it took.
My time came on the 5th year.
“You have to be crazy,” I told him.
‘None of those great authors live normal lives.”
I told him “You have to be obsessed about producing amazing work.”
Only your obsessions can become your possessions, I told him.
You have to become a beast. To differentiate yourself from the pack will require sacrifice and a degree of madness.
I told him about Michael Jackson whose prodigious body of work is hardly known. People only know about 30% of his work. 70% of his songs weren’t hits. He toiled like a beast.
The young author considered whether he was willing to pay the price and decided he couldn’t.
Many people want success. Until they know the price of success.
Are you willing to pay the price of success?
What is the price you are willing to pay?
Before the sacrifice is heavy, don’t expect anything significant.
Get UNPLUGGED.