Day 2: Find yourself and Build your mindset for success
Today I am going to share with you a great speech from a well-known businessman that will help you to look and find what you love (passion) and also help you to build your mindset.
It is a very important speech that will help you build a successful business online. Without passions and the right mindset, you are already set for failure.
I am pretty sure you have started with the training here at Wealthy Affiliate and you are very excited about the idea of building a full-time income with your laptop.
The first step here at Wealthy Affiliate is to fill up your goal and the time that you will spend to reach your goals.
Over the years I have seen people saying they want to make $5,000 per month and spend 4 hours per day until they reach their goals.
It sounds very good to make $5,000 per month just with your laptop.
Roope Kiuttu made $5,000 in a Week.
You will find a lot of success stories here at Wealthy Affiliate.
But what you have to learn from those success stories is that they did not happen overnight.
Success is a process that needs focus and hard work,
Whatever your goal is it only going to happen if you do what you love (passion) and work to achieve it.
Some people are saying they want to make $5,000 per month spending 4 hours per day here at Wealthy Affiliate.
But when you follow up with them the next day to help.
They have already given up or they did not take any action.
Kyle said: “You could read and watch the training until you are blue in the face, but if you never take action on it you won't achieve any success”.
Which is true! No action no game…
I realized people who are signing up with Wealthy Affiliate come from different backgrounds.
I have seen people sign up with Wealthy Affiliate today and upgrade to premium membership the next day and stick to the training as a super clue because they find themselves here.
Some upgrade to the premium membership after weeks or months and give up the next month.
The reason beyond is they find it hard to write.
Once you say it is hard.
Then you mind showdown.
Poor people say I can not do that and I do not have time to do that. It is easy to say I can not do that, I do not have time or it is hard.
When you say that your mind also says your wish is my command.
Then you are set for failure…
Successful people always say how can I do that. A question open your mind to many possibilities.
But a statement closes a mind.
When you said it is hard, I can not do this and your mind showdown and you become what you say…
Take a minute to imagine a successful person you deeply respect.
Think of that person at the start of his or her career, working on a product or service that will eventually make it big.
Regardless of whom you have chosen, chances are the person in question had a passion and success-oriented mindset from the outset.
This is a new journey for many people you will face some challenges.
You will feel overwhelmed and depressed sometimes when you do not see results.
That is why you will need to love what you do and build your mindset for success.
Do you know Steve Jobs?
I am very sure everyone knows who is Steve Jobs. I found his career fascinating and his speech at the Standford graduation will help you a lot to find yourself, what you love and also succeed with your goals.
Despite all the financial and artistic successes of Steve Jobs. He rose above his struggle to become one of the world’s most successful innovators and businessmen.
When you read Steve Jobs's story you will find that Steve Jobs's success did not occur in a linear trajectory.
Rather, he struggled and succeeded only to struggle and succeed again.
Steve Jobs was adopted.
But during the adaptation process, his birth parents' condition is for Steve Jobs to attend college down the line.
As a boy, Steve Jobs and his adopted father worked on electronics in the garage.
His father showed him how to take apart and reconstruct electronics, a hobby that instilled confidence, tenacity and mechanical prowess in Steve Jobs.
At the age of 10, Steve Jobs find his love (passion) in electronics.
To honour Steve Jobs's birth parents' condition they enrolled him at Reed College and after 6 months Steve Jobs dropped out.
He said: He did not want to spend any more of his parents' money on his education.
He could not see the value in it and he had no idea what he wanted to do with his life and no idea how college was going to help him figure it out.
He slept on the floor of friends’ rooms and return Coke bottles for the 5 cent deposits to survive and buy food.
Steve Jobs could walk the 7 miles across town every Sunday night to get one good meal a week at the Hare Krishna temple.
Steve Jobs would attend drop-in classes in calligraphy, which he thought would have no bearing in his life, but he attended nonetheless out of interest.
Little did he know at the time that this would be the pre-set for the customizable fonts and spacing for the iconic Macintosh computer.
Steve Jobs said it was the first computer with beautiful typography.
If he had never dropped in on that single college course, the Mac would have never had multiple typefaces or proportionally spaced fonts and since windows just copied the Mac.
No personal computer would likely have them.
Steve Jobs started a company in his garage with a friend, where eventually, ten years down the line, it would be worth over $2 billion.
While Jobs was a persuasive and charismatic director for Apple, he was getting into power struggles frequently.
Then he was fired from his role as head of the Macintosh division by Apple's board of directors, and five months later, Steve Jobs left the company.
The focus on his entire adult life was gone and He was devastating. Steve Jobs did not know what to do for a few months.
He felt that he had let the previous generation of entrepreneurs down and that he had dropped the baton as it was being passed to him.
He was a very public failure and He even thought about running away from the Valley.
But something slowly began to dawn on him and realized he still love what he does. The turn of events at Apple had not changed that one bit.
He was rejected but he still loves what he does. He started a company called NeXT and another one called Pixar.
Pixar went on to create the world’s first computer-animated film, Toy Story and is now the most successful animation studio in the world.
Disney had agreed to purchase Pixar in an all-stock transaction worth 7.4 billion dollars. Steve Jobs became The Walt Disney Company's largest single shareholder owning 7% of the company's stock.
A few years NeXT, the company that Steve Jobs had started with 7 million dollars was sold to Apple for 429 million to integrate its technologies into Apple's operating system and Steve Jobs return to Apple as CEO.
As you can see successful people do not work for the money they work for their dream and do what they love.
During Steve Jobs's speech at the Standford graduation.
This is what I have learned.
You can also learn something to help you find what you love, build your mindset and definitively build a successful business online.
1. Connecting the dots.
According to Wikipedia connecting the dots can be used as a metaphor to illustrate an ability (or inability) to associate one idea with another, to find the "big picture", or salient feature, in a mass of data.
Steve Jobs said: "You can't connect the dots looking forward; you can only connect them looking backwards. So you have to trust that the dots will somehow connect in your future. You have to trust in something - your gut, destiny, life, karma, whatever”.
What I have learned from connecting the dots is if you try to predict your future you will fail.
The future is unpredictable.
All you need is to have a starting point and believe in yourself. Look in the past, learn from your experience and use those experiences or learnings from each activity to build something meaningful.
Steve Jobs used his experience in calligraphy to create great text styles on the Macintosh. He said “If I had never dropped in on that single college course, the Mac would have never had multiple typefaces or proportionally spaced fonts and since windows just copied the Mac. No personal computer would likely have them”.
Believe in yourself and everything will unfold…
2. Love and Loss
Steve Jobs said he was lucky he found what he loved (electronics) to do early in life. He and his friend started Apple in his parents' garage.
They worked hard, and in 10 years, Apple had grown from just the two of them in a garage into a $2 billion company with over 4,000 employees.
Then Steve Jobs got fired from Apple…
He lost everything and it was devastating.
But he still loves what he does. He started a company called NeXT and another one called Pixar.
Pixar went on to create the world’s first computer-animated film, Toy Story and is now the most successful animation studio in the world.
Disney had agreed to purchase Pixar in an all-stock transaction worth 7.4 billion dollars.
A few years NeXT, the company that Steve Jobs had started with 7 million dollars was sold to Apple for 429 million to integrate its technologies into Apple's operating system.
Steve Jobs said: It turned out that getting fired from Apple was the best thing that could have ever happened to him.
Otherwise, it would not create two successful companies and become The Walt Disney Company's largest single shareholder owning 7% of the company's stock.
Sometimes life is going to hit you in the head with a brick.
Do not lose faith.
The only thing that kept Steve Jobs going was he loves what he does.
3. Death
In 2003 Steve Jobs was diagnosed with cancer. He knew is going to die. He said every morning he looked in the mirror and asked.
If today were the last day of my life would I want to do what I am about to do today? Whenever the answer is no for too many days in a row.
He has to change something
Steve Jobs said: “Remembering that I'll be dead soon is the most important tool I've ever encountered to help me make the big choices in life.
Because almost everything - all external expectations, all pride, all fear of embarrassment or failure - these things just fall away in the face of death, leaving only what is truly important.
Remembering that you are going to die is the best way to know to avoid the trap of thinking you have something to lose.
You are already naked. There is no reason not to follow your heart.
Your time is limited, so don't waste it living someone else's life.
Don't be trapped by dogma - which is living with the results of other people's thinking.
Don't let the noise of others' opinions drown out your own inner voice. And most important, have the courage to follow your heart and intuition.
Conclusion
Being successful is a process and if you follow what you love you will achieve your goals no matter what.
Believe in yourself and the few steps that you take to reach your goals. Remember your passion will make room for you.
To achieve your goals or your dream you have to build your mindset. I will advise reading to like:
- The 4-hour Workweek: Escape the 9 to 5 by Timothy Ferriss
- Rich Dad Poor Dad by Robert Kiyosaki
- Think and Grow Rich by Napoleon Hill
Find what you love and if you have not found it yet keep looking and do not settle. Now I want to turn it over to you: what do you think about Steve Jobs's success? Or maybe there’s
something I missed.
Let me know by leaving a comment below
Recent Comments
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Very true words here, Franck! We should make decisions as if it is the last day of our life, because it just might be! We are NOT guaranteed the next!
Jeff