Saturday, March 24, 2012

The Rich Are Rich Before They Become Rich

Over the years, two of the most outstanding features I have discovered of all highly successful people are that they know what they want to do and they have a burning desire to succeed.

It seems the more successful someone is the more they know what they want to do, and the earlier in life they seem to know it. They are rich and successful in their minds well before the actual event takes place. They see it, feel it and can even taste it, long before it ever happens.

This makes them unique and very much in the minority, as most people seem lost and have little direction. Successful people know their purpose and mission and are singularly focused on achieving these. This applies equally to any field of endeavor in life, not just business, and it is even more apparent in sport.

Lleyton Hewitt, the world number-one tennis player by the age of twenty, did not decide to take up tennis at nineteen. He has been refining his craft since he was five. By the age of twenty he’s a veteran! That’s what it takes, ten to fifteen years of dedication and focus, with no guarantees you will succeed, and most of those years spent in lonely practice sessions out of the limelight, while everybody else is warmly tucked up in bed or out partying and having fun.

There is an Ashanti proverb: ‘One cannot both feast and become rich’. This sums up the point nicely- to achieve something great you must be prepared to make sacrifices. Those who never achieve anything and simply go through life being average are the opposite. They don’t seem to know what they want to do and are confused about their direction.

As such, they don’t have a burning desire to do anything. They seem to flip-flop from one thing to another and as soon as the new thing gets too hard off they go again looking for the easy way out.

Champions in business, life and sport know there is a price to pay for success, and have no doubt about their willingness to pay this price. It is not a difficult choice if you have a burning desire to achieve your goals.

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SOURCE: How to make money out of thin air by Brian Sher

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