What to do to be successful

"If you consistently put unhealthy foods in your body, your body will become unhealthy. You body is a natural system governed by principles.
If you don’t pay the price to develop your mind with consistent learning, your mind will become dull and unclear. Your mind is a natural system governed by principles.
The law of the harvest is always in effect. What you plant, you must harvest. Furthermore, what you plant consistently over time eventually yields a compounded or exponential harvest."
Benjamin Hardy

This morning I was looking for a quote I read that didn't make sense at the time,but after reading and pondering it for a few days it hit me on the head, with a brick!.. and I can't find it now or remember the trail I was on when I read it. From memory paraphrasing: Successful people get successful by doing the things that no one wants to do. (a glimmer is emerging; it was from a Life Insurance company training talk, how I got there I'm not sure) Loosely interpreting, the author used the example that No One likes cold calling for sales leads. The successful insurance salesperson is the one who makes this into the number one thing they do. HA - makes sense... however, they don't think every morning "okay I'm going to do that thing I don't want to do" ... they take their ego out of the picture and don't think about what makes them feel bad, like the many rejections they'll get all day. They maybe say to themselves each morning that they are going to give 50 households the opportunity to purchase this benefit for their family and if even one person a week listens to them it is worth it. (This is not sales training by Jeanne, it is an illustration only)

There are a hundred directions I can go with this... but back to today's quote: we reap what we sow, which is the same as the above illustration in different words.

Thinking about where I want to go, what I want to do and who I want to be ... there is not so far between here and there. What lies in the way is a story I've made up in my mind about what I can and can not do. All I really have to do is that which I don't want to do; the hard thing, the obstacle in my way, the impossible, the thing that some people are genetically predisposed to do but I can't ... the excuses that I manufacture to stay in the comfort zone of wanting but not challenging my status quo to make the leap... the addiction of continuing the habits of my thinking that circle me around but keep me away from what it takes to be whatever my gut and heart tell me are "successful". The thing is we are in our own way, and we know how to get out of it, we just think its too hard.

The Wizard of Oz could say; no one can give it to you, its in you already, all you need to do is trust and follow that yellow brick road on your own quest ... or something could call us to dive down a rabbit hole like Alice and trust that we can grow or shrink or somehow deal with whatever adventures show up. And if we are waiting for the golden path or the inviting rabbit hole to show up... well hey (picture slap on the head) they are already there, in that niggling thing in the back of our head that we are making excuses for not doing and will lead us into the uncomfortable territory of finding out how much more we can be!

Cheers

Jeanne

About Benjamin Hardy

”Success isn’t that difficult; it merely involves taking twenty steps in a singular direction. Most people take one step in twenty directions. If you want a different life, you must be a different person.” –Benjamin Hardy

 Hardy earned a Bachelor of Science degree in Psychology in 2013 from Brigham Young University. In 2018, he graduated from Clemson University with the Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) degree in Industrial and Organizational Psychology.

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MEET BENJAMIN HARDY, PHD

Hello and welcome!

In February of 2018, my wife Lauren and I adopted our oldest three kids from the foster system after a long, painful, and miraculous court battle. One month after the adoption, Lauren got pregnant with twins who were born in December.

So in 2018, we went from officially having 0 kids to having 5!

I’m an organizational psychologist and bestselling author of Willpower Doesn’t Work.

My work is viewed by millions of people monthly and featured on Forbes, Fortune, CNBC, Cheddar, Big Think, and many others. I am a regular contributor to Inc. and Psychology Today.

From 2015 to 2018, I grew my email list to nearly 400,000 people (without paid advertising) as the #1 writer in the world on Medium.com.

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