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Put differently, what are the different activities you will engage in once you deem yourself successful? Assume that you are successful right now; write down 3-5 things you are doing to prove you are successful. Personally, this has changed a lot for me. There have been little things I\u2019ve adjusted over my lifespan and I would like to share these with you. But first, how do you know that you are successful? What are the activities, what are the actions, what are the results you are producing each day that can verify or confirm to you that you are successful?<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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For me, a long time ago when I started and I hadn\u2019t really done as much as I wanted, I had huge goals, huge dreams, and huge desires. When I was starting, I was told dream big, think way beyond what you\u2019ve ever considered. Therefore, the conversation I\u2019d have back then was about how big of a difference I was going to make, how amazing it was going to be and how big and incredible and awesome it was going to be. It was always big, big, and big!<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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What was funny is that my mouth was running these huge things but my actions weren\u2019t. I just did a little exercise a short while ago; I asked myself if I was to go back and talk to 18-year old me, what would be going on? How would I know? How would I determine what success is in my world? <\/p>\n\n\n\n
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And I can tell you what I used to tell everyone back then, that I was going to create something that would impact millions of lives and I am going to make a million dollars in the process. Nowadays, that\u2019s not even big enough because there\u2019s this whole theme of \u201ca billion dollars.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
<\/p>\n\n\n\n <\/p>\n\n\n\n Today, you walk around and see all these people fired up about touching a billion lives, making billions of dollars. What I observed is that such a measure is an odd thing to use as proof of being successful. It is cool, it is part of success, it is a result of being successful. But, for me, success has changed over time and I will tell you a few things that helped it to change.<\/p>\n\n\n\n <\/p>\n\n\n\n Number one, I remember hearing a story. The story was based at Harvard University. It was a seminary course where people were learning to be pastors or preachers or people who work in the church as clergy. What is interesting is that the people on that course did this study in which they were asked to go across campus and tell the story of the Good Samaritan. <\/p>\n\n\n\n <\/p>\n\n\n\n The story of the Good Samaritan is about someone who is moving on a road and finds someone in need. The Good Samaritan stops and helps that person in need. Other people had simply passed the individual in need without offering any help. In the experiment, the researchers staged a very specific situation which was going to happen. They took an actor dressed as a homeless person and placed him on the stairs of the chapel that the people in the study were going to give a speech at about the Good Samaritan story of stopping and helping someone in need.<\/p>\n\n\n\n <\/p>\n\n\n\n The research was intended to find out how many of the people who were going to work in the church would stop and help the person in need. What they discovered is that one group of people stopped consistently to help the person in need. About 9 out of 10 in this group stopped to help while in the other group only about 1 in 10 stopped and helped the man in need. The rest literally stepped over the \u201chomeless man\u201d in order to get into the chapel and tell the story of the Good Samaritan.<\/p>\n\n\n\n <\/p>\n\n\n\n What would cause one person to stop and help the helpless man while another person stepped over that helpless man? The very reason for that is the same reason which helped me to change the evidence necessary in my life to show when I am successful. It is the one thing that altered my mind from seeking to help a billion people to helping just one person every day if that one person badly needed the message I was delivering.<\/p>\n\n\n\n <\/p>\n\n\n\n What I found in talking to lots of brilliant people around the world in different industries, such as tech, is that they all wanted to transform the lives of billions of people in terms of their finances, health and so on. I watched them every day as they went to work inside a building where they were struggling to get that one idea which would help a billion people. Right outside those buildings were literally homeless people that they walked around every day and ignored or got frustrated with, just to go to work on ideas to help a billion people! Sounds way too familiar, it sounds familiar in my life because I was focused on trying to help all those billions of people but I was failing to help those who were right in front of me.<\/p>\n\n\n\n <\/p>\n\n\n\n In those big tech companies that I was working with, they were literally walking around people who needed their help while talking about projects which were \u201cgoing to help billions of people.\u201d That\u2019s strange! It seems like the antithesis of what it is that they were doing vs. what they were talking about doing. It was like the opposite!<\/p>\n\n\n\n <\/p>\n\n\n\n Back to the Harvard research. The reason why the members of a particular group in that study walked over the person in need is that those individuals were told that they were late. Once they knew that they were running late, behind schedule; even if they knew that they were going to talk about helping a person in need, they felt that going to talk to a big congregation about stopping and helping people in need was more important than stopping to help that one person in need.<\/p>\n\n\n\n <\/p>\n\n\n\n So, the question is, when will you be successful? A follow-up question to that now becomes, are you on schedule, ahead of schedule or behind schedule on your way to becoming successful?<\/p>\n\n\n\n <\/p>\n\n\n\n If you feel that you are currently behind schedule, there\u2019s a chance that you are stepping over the opportunity right in front of you each day because you are in a rush to get to the result. Does that make sense? For me, it was true.<\/p>\n\n\n\n <\/p>\n\n\n\n If I look back, I wonder about the number of times I blew past the opportunity to stop and just help the person in front of me because I was so busy trying to \u201chelp\u201d a million people or a billion people, \u201ctrying to make a difference.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/jairekrobbins.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/Jairek-Robbins-Getting-Back-Into-Your-Groove-8-1024x576.png\")
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