Most people don’t have what it takes to become successful. It’s easier to skip the gym, go to an average job, eat out, hang out with friends, and retire.

But success requires discipline. It requires risk, facing your fears, and endless amounts of disappointment.

But if you make it through it all you can be successful, inspire others and change the world.

5 Tough Truths If You Want To Become Successful

1. You Must Have a Vision That Motivates You | 5 Tough Truths

Without a clear vision, success is impossible. You need to know what you’re trying to achieve so you can make a plan to make it happen. Arnold Schwarzenegger talks about having a vision as the number one rule for success in his epic commencement speech.

Define your vision. Are you going to work remotely and travel the world? Start a charity? Become the CEO of a fitness company?

Your vision must be crystal clear. Once you find your vision, remind yourself every single day what you are striving for. Your vision will become your purpose, your drive, allowing to go above and beyond. Your hunger will spur you to go further and think bigger than others.

The strength of your vision is a predictor of the likelihood of your success.

2. You Can’t Be Afraid of Failure | 5 Tough Truths

Average is easy as you don’t risk failing often, or ever. But it ’s a boring way to go through life.

Once you commit to becoming successful, failure is inevitable. I left a corporate, high paying job for entrepreneurship in 2017 and can tell you first hand, failure isn’t optional. It’s part of the process to become the ultimate version of yourself.

As Winston Churchill said, “Success is not final, failure is not fatal. It is the courage to continue that counts.”

Remember, the most successful people in the world were the ones that failed the most. As long as you keep going and learn from your failures, success is inevitable. But if you quit, failure is guaranteed.

3. You Must Be Consistent and Persistent | 5 Tough Truths

As the great Napoleon Hill said, “Patience, persistence, and perspiration make an unbeatable combination for success.”

Success isn’t a one-time thing. It’s all the little things you do over and over again that eventually lead to “overnight success.” You must become relentless in your approach to success.

Whether that’s waking up at 3 am, staying up late, hitting the phones or attending endless amounts of events and seminars. Success requires you to stay diligent and not take your foot off the gas.

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4. You Must Create Strong Habits and Have The Discipline To Stick To Them | 5 Tough Truths

Willpower doesn’t work. It’s a muscle and like all muscles, it will fail at times. Instead of relying on willpower, create why-power. Think about why you’re doing what you’re doing.

Then create habits and rituals that you can do on a daily basis that will set you up for success. Instead of leaving anything to chance or willpower, build in success rituals to make it effortless to succeed.

5. You Must Take Calculated Risks | 5 Tough Truths

Going out and pursuing your dreams take a strong person. It takes someone who isn’t afraid to take risks when necessary. Playing it safe never creates a big and successful life.

You have to get out of your comfort zone and do things you don’t want to do for maximum success.

Final Thoughts

At the end of the day, success is a privilege, not a given just because you want it. If you have a big dream or vision you can do it but it won’t be easy.

Once you create a compelling vision, it’s up to you and only you to make it happen. You’ll have plenty of naysayers along the way. Let them talk, it doesn’t concern you.

Remember, critics, don’t get statues. If you want to be great I challenge you to go out and pursue your biggest, wildest dreams.

You only get one life. Go out there and make each day count. And don’t forget, make sure you enjoy the process as much as the result.

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Denzel Washington was flunking out of college, with no idea what he was going to do with his life. When one day while sitting in his mother’s beauty parlor, a random lady in the salon sitting under a hair dryer cried out for a pen, because a prophecy, a vision for the future had overcome her.

She told Denzel, “Boy, you are going to travel the world and speak to millions of people.” Denzel was perplexed, he was flunking out of college and his life was directionless.

No one in the salon that day believed that Denzel would go on to become one of the most recognisable faces in the world.

It wasn’t all plain sailing for Denzel Washington, along the way he learned that if you aren’t prepared to dream big and fail big you will never achieve your version of success.

Don’t Be Afraid to Fail Big, To Dream Big – Denzel Washington

Full Transcript | Speaker: Denzel Washington

I was flunking out of college, I had a 1.7 grade point average, I hope non of you can relate.

I had a 1.7 grade point average, I was sitting in my mother’s beauty shop, they still call it beauty shop now?

What they call it now? Yeah, I was sitting in the beauty parlor. I was sitting in my mother’s beauty parlor and I’m looking in the mirror, and I see behind me this woman under the dryer and every time she looked up, every time I looked up, she was looking at me, just looking me in the eye.

I didn’t know who she was, she said “Somebody get me a pen, get me a pencil, I have a prophecy.”

March 27, 1975, she said. “Boy, you are going to travel the world and speak to millions of people.” Now mind you, I was flunked out of college, I’m thinking about going the army, I didn’t know what I was going to do and she’s telling me I’m going to travel the world and speak to millions of people.

Well, I have travelled the world and I have spoke to millions of people.

That’s not the most important thing, the success that I had, the most important thing is that, what she taught me, and what she told me that day has stayed with me since.

I’ve been protected, I’ve been directed, I’ve been corrected.

Fail BIG. That’s right. Fail big.

You only live once, so do what you feel passionate about, take chances, professionally don’t be afraid to fail.

There’s an old IQ test that was nine dots and you had to draw five lines with a pencil within these nine dots without lifting the pencil. The only way to do it, was to go outside the box.

So don’t be afraid to go outside the box. Don’t be afraid to think outside the box.

Don’t be afraid to fail big, to dream big. But remember, dreams, without goals are just dreams.

They ultimately fuel disappointment. So have dreams, but have goals, life goals, yearly goals, monthly goals, daily goals.

I try to give myself a goal every day. Understand that to achieve these goals you must apply discipline and consistency. You have to work at it every day. You have to plan every day. You’ve heard the saying “We don’t plan to fail, we fail to plan.”

Hard work works. Working really hard is what successful people do. In this text, tweet, twerk world that you’ve grown up in, remember just because you’re doing a lot more doesn’t mean you’re getting a lot more done. Remember just because you’re doing a lot more doesn’t mean you’re getting a lot more done. Don’t confuse movement with progress. My mother told me, she said “Yeah because you can  run in place all the time and never get anywhere.”

Continue to strive, continue to have goals, continue to progress and anything you want good, you can have. Claim it, work hard to get it, when you get it reach back, pull someone else up. Each one teach one.

Don’t just aspire to make a living. Aspire to make a difference.

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That’s cool! Having multiple interests means your life is not boring. You’re a versatile person with a wide area of common knowledge.

But is versatility actually.. good?

It also means you’re all over the place. You get interested in yoga, for example, so you start practicing Yin, Ashtanga, Integral yoga, yoga Nidra, and any other kind the Internet serves you.

You want to start meditating, so you pick a different guided meditation on YouTube every single day, and you don’t really manage to calm your mind with any of them.

Then you start reading a couple of books at the same time. You’re interested in all of them, but you can’t fully connect with them, because you’re torn between two stories.

This is called multitasking, and it’s not as efficient as you might’ve thought.

When it comes to personal growth, in particular, it’s not efficient at all.

Sounds strange right? Well read on to find out how only doing one thing can bring you success.

Why Doing Only One Thing Can Bring You Mega Success

Why Multitasking Doesn’t Work | Do One Thing To Be Successful

The answer to that question is pretty simple: your brain is not built for it.

Scientific research from 2011 proved that for a fact. The researchers found that multitasking puts people under cognitive load, which disturbs their performance.

As you increase the number of things you’re trying to do at the same time, you create bottlenecks that inhibit your ability to make decision.

Now, you might be thinking: I’m not multitasking if I’m focused on Yin yoga today and Ashtanga tomorrow.

Well maybe you’re not doing this at the same time, but you’re still creating confusion in your mind.

Multitasking makes you feel and look very productive. You’re trying new things and you’re working on different tasks in the same period of time.

You feel like you’re the most efficient version of yourself when you multitask. Prioritizing takes a great deal of effort and time. It doesn’t make you feel as important as multitasking does.

But being focused on a single thing is the only way to achieve huge results. Do one thing to be successful.

Take as much time as you need to define your goal, your purpose, your mission in life.

Then go after it like your life depends on it, dedicate your entire life to your mission and I gaurantee success.

Why Focus Works | Do One Thing To Be Successful

When you’re focused on a single thing, you reach a state of flow.

I’m not saying you should sacrifice your entire life for one cause. There are several aspects of your life: family, career, studies, social life, personal progress and so on.

But If you try to cover several tasks in all of these aspects, then you have a problem.

If, for example, you aren’t focused on a clear career path, you’ll just jump from one job to another without finding your sense of purpose in any position. The same thing happens with college studies, and it’s exactly why so many students fail to graduate – they juggle between different courses and they don’t find their focus.

When you find one thing you want to improve in a particular aspect of life, it demands dedication.

If you’re willing to invest that effort, you will succeed.

Plus, making a commitment to a single thing prevents the feeling of being overwhelmed. If you’re trying to learn how to play the piano and you listen to Rachmaninoff playing, you’ll be overwhelmed. There’s no doubt about it.

But you keep showing up because your focus is on the finish line, the end goal so you don’t notice the obstacles your stepping over because your vision is so clear.

Investing tons of time on the instrument, day after day, you’ll notice great progress and the goal will be getting closer. But if you’re trying to learn how to play the piano, the violin, and the cello all at once and you try to achieve a very high level, you’ll be overwhelmed to a degree that makes you give up on everything.

Follow The Greats | Do One Thing To Be Successful

We don’t see Michael Phelps making attempts in running, pole vault, and gymnastics. If he tried doing all those things, I bet he’d be better than average in all of them, die to his dedication and athletic ability.

But would he be the best in human history in all of those? NO. He would never have become the swimmer that he is today.

How did he get there? Focus! He found his real calling and invested every ounce of effort he had into ONE THING.

Did he love every day of training? No, some he hated, but he focused on his outcome so intensely that he barely noticed. His powerful focus took him from strength to strength.

Simplify Your Life and Grow from There | Do One Thing To Be Successful

Find your center! One partner. One career. One book at a time. One project at a time. One type of practice. One type of meditation. A single focus.

That’s the foundational point that leads to mega growth. Believe in what you want so intensely it has no choice but to manifest itself!

Find your one thing and give it everything.

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