Jul 9, 2018
This is What Separates You from Losing in Life
I truly realized this truth when I got my first job last month. A job that I wanted, a job that allowed me to pursue my goals and achieve a big part of what I wanted when I first started this journey.
Makers win, consumers lose
This job helped me to realize one the biggest truth about success: Makers win, consumers lose.
Because what I’ve been doing for the last 24 months was to make, build, think and create.
I never stopped making new businesses, creating different strategies, and learning from all my failures.
The more you create, the more you learn. Even if these are failures. You still learnt things.
Most of what I created so far failed but it taught me so many valuable things that most startups or companies are willing to pay for.
I am aware that my knowledge is very low compared to big winners and experts, but I have experience and this cannot be deleted or forgotten.
Your odds to win if you only try once are going to be very very very thin. But the more you try, the more your chances to win will increase.
This is the beauty of life. Try until you succeed.
I’ve applied for over 100 jobs before having the one I have now. Only 3 person was interested. But there is only 1 person who gave me a chance to show what I knew.
And this is only for jobs because you can add all the gigs I tried to create and freelance applications I tried to get on Fiverr and Upwork.
I know I’m not right yet, that I need to learn more in order to get one day accepted.
But all these failures allowed me to learn and get me to where I am today.
Thanks to them I am now much closer than ever to my goals.
And this can also be applied to business. The more you try to create businesses, the more you’ll find the best idea and most practical way to make it successful.
This is truly valuable for anybody who’s going to work with you.
So if you truly want to win, make as much as you can. Have a monthly budget to test new ideas, learn and make.
You’ll learn so much over the next months and years that you won’t be able to realize how easy it was when you’ll be where you want to be.
Daily action is the key
No matter what you’re trying to build or follow, what’s going to matter is the long-term work.
When I was studying special effect, I was spending most of my day reading and learning new things. From 6 am to 7 pm, almost non-stop.
While other classmates were playing video games, going through their Facebook feed, or looking for $300 shoes. I was consuming as much as I could about self-awareness, business, patience, lifestyle, success and much more.
Most of my day was used to study what I truly wanted to pursue in life.
And when I was coming back at 7 pm, I was working on my projects to make them alive until midnight.
This was my lifestyle for 6 months until I stopped school in February 2018.
What I want to show you hear is that:
I’ve been learning and practicing what I love every day, non-stop.
From Monday to Sunday, I forced myself to do it when my mind wanted to watch dumb videos on YouTube or look at what people were up too on social media.
Because my goals are clear, my destination is in my mind, I know what I want and will pursue it as long as I live.
From October 2016 until now, I never stopped.
And this is where the magic happens. If you keep learning and testing and making, once the day you will succeed.
But you need to do it every day.
Never lose hope
For me it was clear, success and achieving my goal has always been my only option.
I don’t have any other plan. It must be this way.
And this mindset allowed me to achieve more while everybody thought I was a failure.
90% of what I tried to create failed. I lost tons of money ($2000+ which is a big amount for an 18 years old french student.) Nobody was listening to my goals and actions.
But I’ve never lost hope.
I won’t lie. It was very difficult most of the time.
I had to find myself while rethinking my businesses plans while dealing with school.
Still, I continued without carrying about my failures.
I never thought it was time for me to give up and come back into a normal life. Never.
So if you desire to achieve success, you will have to never lose hope about your dreams. Even if you only fail, lose money and are not trusted by anyone.
Because it’s your life and you’ll only live it once.
Stay focused on your goals, recalibrate them if you need to, take a day off if the pressure is too big, go out if you need to think. But never lose hope because the only person who’s going to support you no matter what is you.
You’re your fan number 1, and if you don’t believe in what you want to achieve than nobody will.
The reality is, You Can Win
You know why? Because:
“People don’t want to work. Because it’s easier to complain.” — Gary Vaynerchuk
It’s easier to be the victim, cry and complain about what we’d like to have or how difficult it is to achieve our dreams.
And this is why you can win. Simply because most people are lazy, you can successfully climb the first steps. There won’t be anybody stopping you from achieving your dreams because the world will be too focused on complaining!
So the right mindset to have in this case is to do the work and don’t complain.
Even if I was mad about losing money or not succeeding, right after I was complaining about it I quickly noticed that nobody was listening.
Which really helped me to change my vision of complaining.
Today I complain less. I still do from time to time because I’m a selfish human who sometimes wants to be noticed and hugged. But most of the time I just continue. I acknowledge my feelings and thoughts and move on to the next milestone because nobody will stop by to ask me if I’m alright.
You can win. But you need to change your mindset first in order to not do the same mistakes as everybody else does.
There is an attitude to have in order to achieve a certain amount of things.
The real question now is: Do you have this attitude? And if not, are you willing to have it?
Because the same way you can’t be fit if you eat snacks and chips all the time, you can’t become successful if you have the attitude of a loser.
And depending on how you are going to live each minute you’re in, success will either be yours or not.
You can win. If you’re truly willing to.
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