Some people spend decades figuring things out and wishing they would’ve found the answers sooner! And because we’re here to help, we’re going to tell you the 15 truths about success you really wish someone told you sooner!
The most expensive cost in life is the unseen price you pay for the information you don’t have! We paid the price, and now we’re sharing the truths about success so that you don’t have to.
So without further ado, discover the 15 Truths about Success You Really Wish Someone Told You Sooner.
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Truth #1 – You will make it, it’s just that it will take longer than you expect
The truth about success is that it takes a while.
If you start at the very bottom, it will take you even longer because you have to fight your way to even get to the start line.
Fortunately, success isn’t a competition, it’s an outcome you get for running your own race.
As long as you keep putting one foot in front of the other, eventually, you will cross the finish line!
Anything you’re obsessed with comes into the realm of reality if you go non-stop after it for 10 years. But in an age of instant gratification, most people waste 10 years looking for the shortcut instead of actually building.
If you zoom out: Most people fail not because of competition, but because they gave up when things got hard or they were taking too long.
Change your time horizons and commit.
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Truth #2 – That thing you’re trying to avoid, you can’t. You have to go through it
Your fears are the best indicator of your weaknesses!
We’re scared of things we’re not good at and one can minimize fear through preparation!
Most of the time you postpone starting because you don’t know how to make the entire thing happen.
Life rewards those who start and figure things out along the way.
Think of it like this: You’re on the road to success but it’s night-time and you’re in the driver’s seat of your life.
You don’t need to see the entirety of the road to your destination to make the trip.
Just by having your headlights on and seeing 30 meters ahead, you are able to safely navigate the journey.
All your progress is the result of doing things we don’t want to do, but know we should do!
The quicker you process this truth about success and accept it as fact, the sooner you’ll be able to level up in life.
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Truth #3 – You can do it all yourself up to a point, then it’s about the quality of the people around you
You can brute force your way to 1 million dollars – maybe a little bit more, but at some point, you will be capped by the number of hours in a day and your ability to leverage your own attention and skills.
Here’s how you become a category leader and escape competition:
- You outwork everybody
- You outsmart everybody
- You hire the best talent and let them help you
One of them will make you a decent living.
Two of them will make you a mainstream success.
All 3 will make you “uncompetable-with”
As you transition from individual to team, your job switches from product and sales to getting the best people and giving them the best tools for the job.
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Truth #4 – Nobody will work as hard as you do and if you stop it will go downhill
Everyone lives with this illusion that somehow you will hire a CEO that replaces you, you’ll pay a fraction of what they’re able to generate for you and you’ll be able to ride into the sunset. We’re here to break that fantasy for you.
In the game of life, the only person who really cares about your success is yourself – and maybe your mom did in the early days.
Assume that the moment you give them the wheel, performance will drop by 50%!
It won’t happen overnight, but it will happen.
They lack the vision of the dots, the expertise to generate new dots, and the ability to force dots to connect in the future.
They can never go as fast as you do or innovate the way you do.
Other people are a decimal multiplier of your own efforts!
If you are at a 1 and you hire someone, together you will be at a 1.2.
If you were at a 10 effort-wise, hire someone who’s a 0.2, and your effort drops to a 5 thinking they’ll supplement the difference, you will end up at a 6 – results wise, and now you’re also responsible for and have to manage this person.
The best you can hope for will only be able to match your hunger!
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Truth #5 – The fewer people who know about your goals the better. You don’t need advice, you need guidance!
Your goals are outside of your current reality – that’s what makes you wanna strive for them.
The problem is, the people next to you are unable to see into that unknown because they lack an understanding of the variables you play with.
Their advice is limited, inapplicable, and almost always a waste of time.
Intelligence is measured by the speed with which you learn!
The cost of moving slowly is learning slowly.
The more you stop to listen to others the less progress you’re actually making.
Instead of advice, seek confirmation on the path. Check your compass to make sure you keep heading north.
The truth about success is that the most value you will draw from others is when they keep you focused on the path instead of them suggesting alternatives.
There are no shortcuts to any place worth going!
And more often than not, you need reminding not to be taught!
A good guide keeps you posted on your progress, forces you to keep pace, and motivates you when you feel like quitting.
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Truth #6 – Win the day before 11:59 AM, then everything else is accelerated progress
Done work is done work.
Between where you are and where you need to be, there’s a bunch of work that needs to be done.
How fast you get there depends on your ability to go through your real to-do list.
The most successful people we know treat mornings and afternoons as separate blocks of time.
You get the most important things done before 12 so you know you’ve paid your dues for that day.
What you do in the afternoon is an acceleration toward your goal. Most people do not even do 1 productive thing per day that gets them closer to their desired life.
That’s the difference between being busy and being productive!
Productive implies you’re closer to the goal than you were before you started, everything else is part of the red queen’s race. Where you keep running just so you can stay in place.
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Truth #7 – A partner who sees the same vision as you is an asset
A partner with a different objective than you is a liability towards the achievement of your goal – because you have 2 people pulling in different directions and even with all the effort you deploy, none of you will get what they want.
The biggest indicator that a couple will not get divorced is having a common vision for their life together!
Building a family and building toward success in life are both incredibly difficult tasks, it is best if they do not conflict with the other.
Your partner will have the largest emotional impact on your success in life!
They will be there for you at your best and at your worst. They are tasked with helping you get back up and providing safety and comfort for you to regroup.
On the flip side, because of their proximity to your emotions and other vulnerabilities, they are the ones able to inflict the most damage.
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Truth # 8 – Don’t expect the world to give you flowers & stop secretly wishing they did. When you arrive, they’ll know
You heard them say: Be so good they can’t ignore you!
The problem is, people want praise and standing ovations without the act. They’ve got it backward.
Keep putting on a good show and in time people will notice. If you’re really good, they will notice fast.
You will be tempted to say that they don’t get it when in reality you’re not that good YET.
The truth about success is that when you actually arrive, the award is no longer important because the achievement is real and you know it.
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Every failure or NO is a test of how badly you want this
What if I told you that everything you’ve ever wanted out of life was at the end of 20 NOs or failures?
How happy would you be to get another one out of the way? Because you would know you’re actually closer to the goal.
You would embrace them, you would hunt NOs and Failures just so you could get to the goal faster.
Life actually runs that way, it’s just you don’t really know how many of these you have to push through.
For some it’s 2 or 3, for others, it’s 15 to 20.
If you’re smart, with every one of them you learn. You spend time analyzing and implementing changes.
Changed behavior is the only proof of intelligence!
So it’s just a matter of improving and trying as many variations as you can until one eventually works.
The great thing about success and money is that you only need to get it right once!
And once you do, you’ll crave it, but more on that at number 15 on this list.
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Don’t underestimate the compounding value of small actions & knowledge over long periods of time
Warren Buffett is the richest investor in the world because he’s 92 years old and started investing when he was 11.
Sure, in time he got wiser and his growth accelerated through superior decision-making, but most people neglect the fact that he’s had over 80 years of compounding work in his favor.
If you’re smart, the more decisions you make the better you get at making decisions.
- The more money you make, the better you get at making money.
- The more you learn, the smarter the plays you are able to make.
Consistency beats intensity over medium and long periods of time,
In the same way, education beats beauty over the same time period.
Freedom is on the other side of discipline!
People think finding the plan is the hard part.. when in reality most plans will get you there if you just stick to them.
In fact, you have a commitment and discipline problem. It’s not the strategy that’s holding you back!
Train yourself to do it in the rain so it’s easy to do it in the sunshine!
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Once your fridge is full and your hunger goes away, you will stop hunting
And when you stop hunting others come and hunt in your territory, because they’re still hungry.
At first, you don’t care because you still have enough food in the fridge to last you a while, but in time the game slowly changes and you’ve been out for a while.
Coming back you realize you’re no longer as fast as you were before – that the game has gotten a lot more difficult, and there are other players who’ve grown strong based on the vacuum you created when you left.
Your mind slowly re-adjusts to this reality and the voices inside your head tell you that it’s ok to settle for less.
At this point, you have a choice to make:
- You accept you’re no longer the dominant force and live off opportunity scraps for however long these might last
- You take a cold shower and go beast mode – bigger and stronger than ever before.
Speaking of choices and decisions:
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You will make 2 or 3 decisions during the year that alter the future
It is true that small actions lead to big results over extended periods of time. But a couple of times per year you will have the opportunity to make a leap.
The truth is that in some years it might not happen at all and in others, you’ll get 2 or 3 chances to leap toward success.
You prepare your entire year for that moment when you have to make the right call, the same way a boxer trains for half a year for a belt fight.
This is why consistency in training is so important, because the last thing you want is the opportunity to present itself and for you to not be able to take advantage of it.
There’s a reason they call them: once-in-a-lifetime opportunities.
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Meetings & learning are fun, but progress is made through reality-altering effort
We hate meetings. They’re a massive waste of time.
Since the business has evolved we find ourselves more often talking about what needs to be done, than actually doing the work.
At the end of the day, somebody has to pick up the boulter from here and move it over there.
The truth about success is that it implies effort. Talking doesn’t take much effort.
This is why those who are successful are much better at actually moving the boulder than talking about the boulder altogether.
You only need 2 skills to find success in life:
- The ability to build
- The ability to sell
All your employees should be able to do one or the other for you, otherwise, you’re just wasting time.
Do not allow others to bother those building or selling for you unless they are able to accelerate their processes.
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You will wish you had started and done it sooner
The sooner you start the faster you learn. The faster you learn the faster you earn.
Information is time sensitive. Use it before everyone else has it and its value diminishes!
The truth about success is that the sooner you start the more compounding your decisions you can take advantage of.
The reason why others are miles ahead of where you are is because they took action while you were waiting for the timing to be right.
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Success is addictive because it tastes just as good as you imagine it will – and then that feeling goes away
Once you win the game you want to play again.
People see you win, they give you praise, and you’re able to provide for those you love and this feeling gets ingrained in you.
You thirst for it. You want more.
But because of the law of diminishing returns, the second time you do it at the same level doesn’t feel the same, so you have to up the dose.
Like a video game, you want to tackle higher-level boss fights and level up along the way.
Pretty soon you realize you’re playing a vertically infinite game and everything below you no longer gives you the thrills they once used to.
At this point, you either commit to becoming a player of games – by which you forever climb because you like the game so much.
Or live out of a position of gratitude where you realize you’ve actually climbed higher than the old you thought possible and wake up to the idea that you’ve already won.
Or at least that’s what we’re dealing with right now.
Most of these lessons will not click on you until you experience them firsthand, but it’s the hard truths we wish we were aware of earlier because it would’ve made the journey a bit more predictable than it has been.
Bonus
All success boils down to impulse control
As you keep climbing there will be a fight between the rational and the emotional.
Your mind will tell you to keep grinding, keep your head down, and stay focused.
Your emotions will tell you to show the world just how bright you shine, and how well you’re doing and convince you that you should reward yourself for getting this far.
Impulse control pushes the emotion aside and does what’s right for you in the long term over the short term.
You don’t need stuff, you need to never have to worry about stuff again.
You don’t need their applause, you need to make sure you and your loved ones never have to suffer again.
The culture has lied to you and convinced you to want all the things that studies have proven to not impact our general happiness or well-being.
Would you rather win the game or sacrifice it to win the round? Control yourself and you will control your destiny!
Now that you know the truth about success, you’re well-equipped to deal with it once you’re there. Just make sure you apply this knowledge, otherwise, it’s just useless info. See you next time!
