I’ll be sharing what I think separates people who achieve temporary success from those who build something lasting and sustainable.
There’s a divide and I’m gonna be who sheds light on it. Both are successful, but which one will serve you best?
Not everybody wants to be around for a while. Sometimes a temp’s all you needed to get to the next level.
Maybe you need something that lasts though. You might be looking to start a career and need to make it last much longer.
Well we’re gonna break it down and get to what separates the two.
What I Think Separates people who achieve temporary success from those who build something lasting and sustainable
The separation that appears between the two is where “luck” becomes a factor. There’s genuine moments when something fluky happens and the results are unexplainable for the most part. But the lasting success is something that can be broken down and measured to a science. There’s habits and principles that can be referenced and applied to other concepts. That’s what sticks.
Where do you place most of your attention—on meaningful ideas or on distractions that don’t move your life forward?
This here is a question on understanding if you’re a true creative or not.
Not only that but also finding out if there’s changes and adjustments that need to be made in order to get where you’re trying to go.
This isn’t as cut and dry of a choice as most would probably like to believe it is.
Especially when you’re young and are still learning about what the world has to offer.
Meaningful ideas is the same situation as how the saying goes “beauty’s in the eye of the beholder.”
You determine what’s meaningful, and that definition shapes as you get different interests and opinions on these ideas that get introduced.
Eventually they become distractions that continue to cloud your vision as you lose value in what’s being presented.
You get to where you can identify whatever as a distraction when you also gain clarity on what it takes to succeed by your standards.
Are your conversations centered around ideas and possibilities, or around people, drama, and surface-level events?
This is yet another meaningful question to ask yourself when choosing to create with an agenda.
That agenda would be trying to inspire and motivate the people around you.
Your conversations don’t always have to be profound and innovative all the time, but if you’re trying to build something with that theme, you have to keep a majority of your discussions rooted in that.
I’d argue that’s the line between entertainment and enlightenment.
That’s not to say you couldn’t receive the opposite benefit in relation to the other, but it’s helpful to understand your roots in this case.
When faced with challenges, do you focus on solving the problem—or on complaining about circumstances that don’t matter?
We got another introspective question that serves the ideology of becoming an entrepreneur. At the least address a victim mentality that doesn’t help many people. I tend to do both at this point in time of life, but it’s a sliding scale for better understanding. If I’m focusing on one side of the scenario, I’ll apply maybe 30% of my time doing the problem solving part and 70 with complaining, or it’ll be flipped.
I’m actually comfortable with this line of thinking personally because my goals call for having both present in my life. The luxury gets to be in choosing how much time I spend focusing on my response to these situations.
How often do you pause to reflect on your own experiences to extract lessons and deeper understanding?
I reflect on my own experiences every day. My work calls for it. What I do sometimes calls for me to share stories that happened in my life personally to validate where I’m going in the future. Eventually it’s gonna be the same for you too if you’re not following that format. It happens one way or another. You reflect on past experiences when you go to job interviews. Review game or competition footage from a prior event. To some effect your past becomes an asset because it becomes a reference to justify the way you’re gonna be moving going forward.
Final thoughts
So what separates those that have temporary success from the ones with lasting is:
- ”luck” in where others capitalize off something that already happened
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- actions that could be broken down to a science in where you perform in certain areas and can expect a result
Again, there’s nothing exactly wrong with one way or the other, but lasting success can run it up for generations. It relies less on what others do to experience success that we all would like to have.