The Journey To The Top
To get to the top of the mountain in life the first step is realizing that there is no top. There is no finish line. The mountain never ends. Until you realize that it is a constant climb you will never win. The goal with fitness isn’t to get into shape, the goal is building a healthy lifestyle and staying in shape. The goal of developing your mind isn’t to become disciplined it’s to stay disciplined. The goal of being better at work isn’t getting on task, it’s staying on task everyday. Your growth should always be constant. That’s what success is, a constant climb, a constant process of growth and self development. By virtue you get to the top of the mountain when you never stop moving forward. Which means you become successful when you realize that the point of the game is to never stop playing. If you aren’t chasing success this sounds like a burden, but if you are then this is freedom.
Recently I’ve been wondering what makes a successful person successful. What makes them different than the rest of society? what causes them to get up everyday and attack their goals with vigor and enthusiasm? Is it because they have different DNA than the rest of us? Is it because they were told the secret formula? After pondering on this for many weeks, perhaps a month or two I found the answer. They just don’t have a finish line. It’s not that they are better than you or me, it’s that success is playing the game everyday. The top of the mountain is showing up everyday. It’s being consistent right now. Success is not something that comes to them after 30 days of hard work. Success is something that they create in this moment. It’s something that only lasts for a day. They have to go out and create the success everyday. The good news for you and me is that this applies to us. We can be successful right now if we choose to change our actions for our benefit.
I’ve always been success minded. I’ve always wanted to become successful. I used to say “once I get this car I’ll be successful, once I get x amount of clients then I’ll have made it, once I make x per month then I can say I’m successful, and so on.” Truthfully that thinking hurt me. It hurt me because it made me feel like I wasn’t enough right now. But I am enough. I am capable. A car or a certain number in a bank account isn’t responsible for that. It’s me. I am what makes me successful. The truth is, if you believe that you are successful then you will get those goals. Whatever they are, a car, a sum of money, or that job. If you take up the mindset to never stop moving then you will achieve it. See those objects are the payouts of your success. Not the creation of it. The creation of your success starts with you. Once I realized that all my worries faded. They faded because I wasn’t chasing the future. I was chasing after my goals today. That makes all the difference.
Where are you in your life? Do you feel like you’ll never be successful? What do you think your success is? After this blog post I hope you realize the answer is you. You are the answer to your success. It’s not a car, not the money, but you. You are capable of changing everything if your life. It all starts with taking up action today. Because what you do today will effect tomorrow. Who knows, maybe from taking action each day you get that car or that money. But then you will realize what got you there wasn’t the object. It was the fact that you took up action everyday with the willingness to never stop moving forward.
