CHAPTER ONE
THE BEACH BUM AND THE MILLIONAIRE
“The only person you are destined to become is the person you decide to be.”
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
I didn’t change who I was as much as I changed what I did.
I knew that for things to be different, I had to do something different.
As I began examining my successes and failures, what I gradually realized was that the very same activities that had rescued me from failure, that had carried me from the failure line up to the survival line, would also rescue me from average and carry me from the survival line to the success line — if I would just keep doing them.
You know what that means? It means you already know how to do everything it takes to make you an outrageous success. That’s how you’ve survived up to this point. And if you can survive, then you can succeed. You don’t need to do some brilliant, impossible thing. You don’t need to learn some insanely difficult skills, or have some genius-level brainstorm of an innovative idea. All you have to do is keep
doing the things that got you this far.
Which is exactly what 99.9 percent of people don’t do.
The things that take you out of failure and up toward survival and success are simple. So simple, in fact, that it’s easy to overlook them. Extremely easy to overlook them. It’s easy to overlook them because when you look at them, they seem insignificant. They’re not big, sweeping things that take huge effort. They’re not heroic or dramatic. Mostly they’re just little things you do every day and that nobody else even notices. They are things that are so simple to do — yet successful people actually do them, while unsuccessful people only look at them and don’t take action.
The truth is, you have complete control over the direction that the rest of your life takes.
Essential Points from Chapter One
* The same activities that take us from failure to survival would also take us from survival to success — if we would just keep doing them.
* You already know how to do everything it would take to make you an outrageous success. All you have to do is keep doing the things that have gotten you this far.
* You have complete control over the direction that the rest of your life takes.
*There is a beach bum and a millionaire inside each one of us. What makes the difference in how things turn out? You do.
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