By the Ocean
Cloudy 73 Degrees
4:22 a.m.
The gurus always make it seem like there’s something you’re missing on your journey to success and…should you get it…everything will be different.
And guess what it is they have to sell you? They have the ONE thing you need that can change everything for you!
What a happy coincidence! It’s your lucky day!
The problem is, those guys aren’t around 12 or 24 months later. Look at them now. The video wizard is now selling spirituality. The marketing genius is riding the A.I. wave. The guy who used to be all about fitness is now selling that you can be a YouTube celebrity in just 10 minutes a day!
The biggest challenge with these guys is that they’re really good at making it seem like success is an event and not a process.
But it’s not an event. It is very much a process. It goes on. It evolves.
Because building a successful business isn’t just about what you do, it’s about who you become.
You’re not “becoming someone else” on this journey, you’re just becoming you. The problem is that most of us are starting at a place where our brainwashing and conditioning have made the REAL VERSION of who we are rather difficult to bring to the surface.
- We’ve been told that certain things we do are “going to hold us back.”
- We’ve been trained (through punishments, disapproving glances, even pure emotional manipulation) that asking all of those questions we have really isn’t appropriate.
- We’ve been shown a way of life where people are rewarded for not speaking their mind, not living to the beat of their own drum, not going against the flow of “how we do things around here.”
So most of us enter the world of business being about 10% of our true selves. And then we wonder why success does not immediately rain down from above.
“I’m talented! I have what it takes. Look at that joker over there who is making millions. I’m ten times smarter than he is.” (I’ve said all these things!)
If you want to get paid what you’re worth, the only way to do that is to FULLY SHOW UP so that being can get paid.
The work isn’t to find the thing you’re missing, it’s to bring out the stuff you’ve been hiding.
But that’s scary. That could lead to a situation the Matrix has told you is a fate worse than death:
Some people won’t like you when you do this…and they might actually say it out loud!
This is actually the only way to succeed. You must stand for something important enough to overcome the inertia present in the average human (it’s a lot!) so that they take a step towards you or they take a step away from you.
Without polarization, you have no attraction. Without attraction you have no prospects. Without prospects you have no chance at service. Without the opportunity to serve, you GET NO MONEY.
Money is the natural byproduct of adding value to the world in a form that is more important to someone than money. It’s a very simple thing we’re trying to do.
But the only being who is capable of this is the REAL YOU.
Is that who is showing up? Or are you hiding? Only you know the answer.