If you think about it, everybody should be successful. As successful as they want to be.
But, they aren’t.
Many people are successful, many are moderately successful, and many fail.
Why?
Because success is not natural.
It is really not taught in schools. Sure, bits and pieces are taught here and there. But it is left up to individuals to piece their success together.
I don’t remember a course in high school or college on how to be successful in life.
I took French, which has helped me about zero so far.
No class in life. No class on how important interpersonal relations are. Or how to be better at them. No class in basic financial mastery. Anyway, that is for a different newsletter.
If success were natural, say like breathing, everybody would do it. Some stumble upon success.
I had a cousin who we all felt had the golden touch. Over many years he was in many different businesses, all of which were very successful. Somehow he had the knack for it. He lived out of state, but I wish I could have sat with him to learn his secrets.
Success is not often achieved by following the herd. Success is figuring out how to form the habit of doing what failures won’t do. And doing this consistently over time. And staying in the game long enough to be successful.
It is not about giving up at mile 16 of the marathon. It is staying in the game. It is running and completing the marathon.
So, are you being unnatural these days?
Jeffrey A. Betman, Ph.D. is a psychologist, author, and life coach helping people toward the easy life. For a FREE newsletter ($197 value) on making your life easier and FREE report titled 5 Steps To An Easy Life That You Probably Know, But Don’t Do Yet, go to www.LifeIsEasyCoaching.com/sq
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