Success Is A State Of Mind - A Little Story About Success

bypoorhouse

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10 years ago

The Story Begins

When I was about fifteen I met a dude who would become one of my best friends growing up, for the sake of privacy we'll call him Billy. We were both skateboarders and probably would have never hung out otherwise.

I was from a lower middle class family and Billy was a trust fund kid. He always had the coolest clothes and newest kicks. I always HATED kids like this, but he was super fun to skate with.

As we got older, we both dropped out of high school. I got a job working at a shop, learning the ropes and training to be a mechanic. Billy played, skating all night, sleeping all day.

I always looked at Billy as a go nowhere kinda guy, he didn't care about money, it was just some object that was always there and acted like it would never go away. I figured he would just milk his trust fund and his parents for the rest of his life.

Dark Days

When Billy was about 23 his dad came to him, frustrated, and disheartened, he said " I'm gonna give what's left of your trust fund and then I have to walk away".

He gave him just over 10,000 dollars. So, what do you think Billy did with that money? I mean this is a story about success, right? Although I did give it a sub-title of Dark Days, so guess he didn't invest in to a million dollar company and live happily ever after. No, me and Billy partied that money away in less than a month!

We bought drugs, booze, and anything shiny. By the end of the month he had pawned anything of value and sat in his empty apartment, dead broke. After that Billy wasn't the same, his drug use got crazier, every time I saw him he wanted to borrow money or bum a smoke.

Over time our friendship dwindled, I took a job at a shop out of town and me and Billy didn't talk for several years.

Holy Crap! Are You Kidding Me

After being away a few years, I decided to visit the old neighborhood. I had contacted Billy on Facebook and told him I would be in town. He gave me an address to a telemarketing company he worked at. After hanging out for a minute I realized he didn't work here, he owned the company!

He had started a telemarketing company from his couch and within a year expanded it in to 5 office buildings, employing almost 200 telemarketers. He brought home 1.2 million dollars his first year!

This was to much for my little brain to handle! How did this guy who had no concept of money, who blew through an entire trust fund before he was 24, build a multimillion dollar company from the ground up in less than a year.

Coming To A Realization

This plagued me for years. I had worked my butt off and struggled for every dollar I made. He hadn't changed at all, He still bought anything shiny, he still spent more in a day than a lot of us will see in a month. Then it hit me, it's his point of view of money! He was raised in abundance and his mind was programed to receive abundance.

The mind is a powerful thing we project things in to the world that either help or hinder us. I believe that a simple shift in thought process can mean a world of difference. There is something in all of us that either prohibits us from success or lets us soak it all in.

I would like to do a little social test. I'm asking everyone who reads this post to set aside 5 minutes every day, to take an honest look at yourselves, your goals, your aspirations both financial and personal. Now I want you to look at these things as if they are completely normal to have in your life, in the same way that food and water are normal in your life.

I know it may sound crazy and probably very difficult, but my theory is, if you do this enough times it will just become normal. I will try this with you and post my results and feelings 1 month from now. So, expect a post on Feb. 27th 2014

Let me know how it works out for you, periodically. The goal being, one year from now we all get together as the successful people we want to be.