It has suddenly dawned on me. The secret to success is continual and constant learning and improvement! I may have heard something similar said a thousand times during my life but only now has it become solid and concrete, like I can feel it in my hands. Over the past few months I have been learning as much as I can about making money online, but all that information would be useless without getting my head right.
I have started looking at successful people again ( I used to read a ton of biographies). And whether they’re mere millionaires or multi-billionaires they all have one thing in common: Constant learning and improvement. They don’t become billionaires and then stop learning. Every single one of them continue to learn, they read books, listen to audiobooks, attend seminars and trade shows, take classes, and whatever it takes to stay motivated and informed.
Back when I was relatively successful and making $15,000+ per month I was constantly learning without consciously realizing what I was doing. I always had several books on the go and they were all on successful people, business, investing, positive thinking, spirituality and art. None of them were about doom, gloom, politics, geo-politics, or conspiracies.
Without realizing it at the time, my income started heading south when I stopped reading the right things and when I stopped continually improving my business. When I lost 90% of my income and started using up all of my investments to live and pay the mortgage I did more of the things that ruined my business rather than the things that made it successful. I became more involved in politics and conspiracies rather putting my big boy pants on fixing my financial problems.
Not even being forced to move out of my house helped me to see my mistake. I couldn’t afford to pay the mortgage so I rented my house out and moved back in with my mother. It still took another couple of years for me to hit rock bottom and say Enough is Enough!!
So, a couple of months on after rock bottom and not a lot has changed on the surface. I’m still living with my mother and am still broke as F. But below the surface everything has changed. Every single day I am learning more, I’m continually improving on all levels, I’m reading uplifting books everyday, I’m thinking right, I’m exercising, I have tons more energy, I’m setting goals, and I’m motivated!
I wish I could have seen how I was responsible for my failure back then. I couldn’t connect the dots. I didn’t realize how I had became successful and I couldn’t see how my actions ruined my business. It’s only now, over these past few days of honestly looking back have I been able to see what really happened and why.
Constant learning and improvement is the ONLY way to succeed in any area of life. I haven’t been able to find one single successful man or woman who stops improving and stays a success! They all learn, improve and adapt. Those who stop will eventually fail. We need to keep the foot firmly on the accelerator. Show no mercy: learn, improve, grow, learn more, improve more, grow more..
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