by john@johnhagerman.com |
How do you create the kind of success you want in your business, your career, and your life? It’s a question most of us spend a lifetime trying to figure out, yet we never seem to be satisfied with the answers we find. The answer to the question actually is very simple, but we don’t really want to hear that. Too frequently, if we’re honest, the question we actually want answered is, what’s the easy way to success? The steps to success are simple, but that doesn’t mean they’re easy. And as human beings, we love to make even simple things much harder than they need to be. Let’s look at 5 steps to success and try to figure out how to keep them simple. Step one, have an unstoppable purpose. An unstoppable purpose is about the kind of world you want to create and not about how much money or how many possessions you can accumulate. So how do you know if your purpose is unstoppable? Your purpose is unstoppable if it is a purpose focused on making a positive difference in the world, and, it’s a purpose that everything else takes a backseat to. In other words, you’re willing to give up everything else in the world to fulfill your purpose in life. Ghandi defeated the British empire with an unstoppable purpose. He stood for non-violent attainment of dignity and self-determination for the Indian people. He would not be stopped. If you knocked him down, he got back up. If you locked him up, he would continue the protest from prison and immediately return to his protests...
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