Tom Corley is the author of Rich Habits – The Daily Success Habits of Wealthy Individuals. He is also a dynamic and empowering speaker.
You know you have found the main purpose in your life when you know you’re going to do it for the rest of your life until you die, no matter how much money you make.
Goal is different than purpose. Purpose is something that reaches deep down inside of you, those roots go very deep and you can´t pull yourself out of it, even if you try.
While doing research for his Rich Habits study, he found that the self-made millionaires had at least three streams of revenue. 65% of the wealthy in his study had three or more revenue streams and 45% had four or more. Develop revenue streams by taking action.
Pursuing success is about overcoming a mountain of mistakes and failure. The more mistakes and failures that you have, the higher your mountain is and greater your success.
Being successful is not about the event. It’s about growing into the person you need to be in order for success to visit you.
By the time you are successful, it doesn’t really matter if you lose all your money the next day because the person that you became doesn’t evaporate with the money. So you can take what you know and apply it to something else and try again.
Avalanche of Success Event: When you pursue things and nothing happens, you get depressed, but because you are passionate about it, you keep at it and eventually something happens. This refuels you, you fail some more and then something happens. It’s a cycle. Eventually you will figure out what not to do and figure out what to do.
Success is very shy, hiding around a corner behind all your failures and mistakes and it only shows its face when it realizes you are never going to quit.
Have persistence and passion for something.
Take action, passion bubbles up, you become enthusiastic and then there´s no turning off the switch and you keep at it.
If you are doubting yourself and you quit, that wasn’t your main purpose in life.
Every six months pursue some new initiative that has the potential to earn money and has some creativity in it. Creativity keeps the brain active.
Find something that puts you in a positive emotional state.
When you succeed everybody becomes a cheerleader for you. They stop questioning you, they stop challenging you because success is the ultimate proof that are on the right track.
Look for a creative pursuit. When people are engaged in a creative pursuit that is when they are truly happy.
The brain loves novelty.
If you are interested in writing, start a blog and start writing every day. Your goal should be to post one blog article every day. You should write about things that you read or research. You start developing an expertise in an area and you become a leader in the industry.
Practice, practice, practice.
With a large extent in writing, your success is outside your control. The only control you have is the ability to persist every day in trying to get publicity for your book. Selling a million copies will eventually come!
Your book only needs to be good enough.
Writing a book is like the first start in tennis, the rest of the match is about publicity.
There is a correlation between the number of books you sell and the number of speaking engagements you get.
Forced focus depletes your energy. Unforced focus is when you don’t utilize a great deal of glucose and oxygen in the brain because it is something that you enjoy doing and the brain, when it likes doing something, gathers all it resources to do that one thing.
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