The Recipe For Success

“Enough courage to get started + enough sense to focus on something you’re naturally suited for + enough persistence to stay in the game long enough to catch a few lucky breaks + a lot of hard work. There’s your recipe.” - James Clear

Enough courage to put your ass on the line. Enough courage to look like a fool to your friends and family. Enough courage to stay up all night. Lose sleep and friends over it. Enough courage that takes you away from cowardice and recklessness at the same time. The right amount of courage, in the middle of being a coward and reckless.

Enough persistence to keep your ass on the line. Time matters. Going years just focused and doing the work with no rewards. It takes just as much courage to get started as it does to stay there. When the days are long. When you wake up exhausted and you go back to the work in front of you. No, we aren’t talking about the unhealthy and toxic behavior of being a workaholic. However, when you first start something, Tim Grover asks, “what price are you willing to pay?”

Giving yourself enough time to do the thing. Doing it long enough that you might get a break, get discovered or make the right connection. Way too often, you give up too quick. You can’t ride the dip, the proper way. Success is not a straight line. It’s the worst roller coaster ride you’ll ever take. It’s emotionally and physically expensive. And at times, financially expensive.

Oh, and hard work. Lots and lots of hard work ahead of you so that you can stack up all your attempts on top of each other. That is what success is. For a business. A couple. Or yourself. Stacking up the days you show up. Just like this blog, headed towards a full year of daily releases.

Success will look different for each of us. But the recipe more times than not, will contain the same fundamental ingredients.

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Thought Provoking Questions : Where can you use this recipe in your life?

Daily I write and release a daily meditation. A quick read. Sharing wisdom and asking thought-provoking questions. Influenced by the obstacles, success and failures in my life and of others. Using history, books, current events, philosophy, and ancient wisdom. These writings are actionable, thought-provoking, designed to make your life better. 

These writings are not to push a way of thinking on the reader or to force you into a certain philosophy or methodology. Rather to give you practical and real ways to handle life. This is an added tool. My writing is simply a discussion, a discourse, with all the material I read, watch, hear and consume.