174: Not Everyone Wants To Be A Billionaire
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Many of us have daydreams about being billionaires. However, not everyone wants to be a billionaire. Does this mean that those people are less ambitious than those who do want to be billionaires?
A quick way to find your answer is to ask yourself some tough questions. The first question you should ask yourself is “What do I want to be?” This answer is simple for yourself. We all have images of what we want in life. Paint that picture for yourself. Get down to every detail of what you want to be in every aspect. Look at finances, health, relationships, and career.
The next question you want to ask yourself is “What steps have I taken to make this a reality?” For many of us, this is a difficult question. Not because we don’t know the answer, but because we know that we haven’t taken the steps necessary to get where we want to be. For me, an example would be in losing weight. My goal is to lose weight to be healthier. When I asked myself that question 6 months ago, it was painful because I realized that I didn’t do anything lasting to get where I envisioned myself.
Understanding why you made these decisions is also important. Ask yourself “Why” until you get beyond the superficial excuses. Understanding the “why” makes it possible to strip away the false excuses we have created for ourselves and make it easier to move forward.
We all start out wanting to be as successful as we can be. However, somewhere along the line, we start settling for less than the best. We start putting in less effort at work, we eat something unhealthy out of convenience, or we watch tv rather than work on a project that we should have completed already. It is always easier to settle because it allows us to get comfortable and stay within a pattern we created for ourselves. The problem with staying within a pattern is that it gets harder and harder to grow into who we wanted to be.
There is a fine line between not wanting to be a billionaire and settling for less. Understand yourself and look at where you truly want to be in life. Don’t sit back and let your success turn into a pipedream. Make your success. Don’t sit back and let failure come to you.
