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We have all been there at some point in our lives, saying something like, “If only I had [fill in the blank], I’d be so much happier.”
Hey, sometimes we may even get whatever it is we think will make us happy, but what usually ends up happening? We’re psyched for a little while—if at all—and then we find out it wasn’t really enough to make us as happy as we thought it would. There’s always more.
If you are one of the millions of people out there who derive your satisfaction and happiness from how well you’re doing, I can guarantee that you will never be happy.
I know, because I was one of these people who derived a lot of my happiness from my success. When I play golf, for example, I’m not really all that successful. The funny thing is that golf’s important to me, and I’m working on it the best I can, but I find myself stressed out playing golf. Why is that? It’s supposed to be an enjoyable game.
It’s because I want to do well, and if I don’t do well, I’m not happy with myself. It’s the same thing with business and every other part of your life.
About three weeks ago, I played golf. In golf, you play 18 holes. There’s a front nine and a back nine. On the back nine, I played better than I had in 20 years. I thought, “Wow! Who is this guy playing all of a sudden?” Everything I was doing was working.
At the end of it, I was happy, but then right away my mind went into thinking, “This isn’t going to last. You’d better get ready for disappointment because next time it isn’t going to be so easy. It took 20 years to have a round like this.”
Of course, the next time I played, I wasn’t quite as good, and I was not happy again. I thought to myself, “I should just give up this game. It’s really stupid. It’s not good for my back.” I started to make myself crazy.
This is what everybody tends to do. It’s not “the golf.” It’s me.
I’m going to give you a principle that will instantly create happiness in your life…
If you can grow yourself into a person that is bigger than any of your problems, you’ll be a happy person.
If you can grow yourself to the person who is the wizard, a person who succeeds with elegance and joy — you will be a person who is bothered by very little.
If you can be that kind of person who is bigger than any of your challenging moments or roadblocks, and instead, use them to help you learn and grow, then you’ll have the biggest success of life, which is to grow yourself to the best version of yourself — the best version of yourself in business, money, relationships, and your health. If you can grow yourself to that level, you will be successful at anything you do.
Highly successful people are bigger than their problems while unsuccessful people are smaller than their problems.
Highly successful people are bigger than their problems while unsuccessful people are smaller than their problems. Share on XNow, I want you to think about something for a moment…
If you’re still with me, then maybe you can handle what I’ll call the truth for most people. Most people just can’t handle it. However, I believe reading this lesson in the first place puts you into a class of people who can.
I want to ask you a hard question:
What do you really like when life gets hard? What do you do or not do when the going is not so good?
Successful people dig deep and do whatever it takes, and I mean whatever it takes, to succeed.
Successful people make goals and take action when life becomes hard.
They find solutions and put systems into place so they can overcome problems, learn from them, and spend more time on the things that are really important to their life.
What do unsuccessful people do? They do what they always do when it gets hard. They quit, give up, and say, “This business is too hard. This company has this problem. The product has this problem. If I went over there to that other company or business, then I could really succeed.” It’s the old “there is better than here” excuse. In other words, the grass is greener.
But here’s the thing, my friends, like it or not:
If you can’t make it here, you won’t make it there or anywhere else.
It’s not about the other company or business.
It’s about YOU and whether you’re going to be bigger or smaller than any challenge life has to give you — happy and successful, or side-railed by inevitable bumps along the way.
The choice is always yours.
How will you change your approach to happiness?
How has this principle changed your outlook? Let us know in the comments section.
And if you’d like to discover even more ways to harness the power of growing yourself to be the best version of YOU, I’ve got something you’re going to LOVE.
I’ve created an awesome, FREE online training that reveals why the mind works the way it does, and how you can gain control of it. It’s called…
“Don’t Believe A Thought You Think”
I truly believe mastery of your thoughts is the most important skill you can learn. But don’t take my word for it– come decide for yourself!
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