![]() They still live their life with a lower or middle class mindset. The reason some people are still getting the same mediocre results year after year are often because they simply don’t believe success is possible. The person who truly believes they can make a million dollars this year behaves extremely differently than the person who doesn’t even think that’s possible. ![]() When you truly start believing you can succeed, your life will look a lot different. You’ll probably continue to get the same results you’ve always gotten. If you truly don’t believe you can succeed at a high-level, your routines will reflect that you’ll probably spend more time on entertainment and distractions that consistently putting in hard work. Our beliefs create our routines, which create our life. “The key to becoming world-class in your endeavors is to build your performance around world-class routines.” One of my favorite quotes from best-selling author Darren Hardy is this: Why Some People Are Still Getting the Same Results After Years of Trying to Change Pretty soon, you’ll start seeing upper-class results. Treat yourself like they treat themselves.ĭevelop an upper-class mindset, and you’ll start acting like upper-class. If you want to have consistent discipline to do what you should do, take a lesson from the world’s top performers. Is that your mindset? Is your life based on the world-class mindsets and beliefs of upper class performers? Do you seek out challenges and focus on building your resiliency? Do you invest in yourself, working towards important goals? My instinct is to seek out challenges as opposed to avoiding them.” ![]() When uncomfortable, my instinct is not to avoid confrontations but to become at peace with it. If left to my own devices, I am always looking for more ways to become more and more psychologically impregnable. “Mental resilience is arguably the most critical trait of a world-class performer, and it should be nurtured continuously. In the words of world champion chess player Josh Waitzkin: They hustle, they learn, they work their asses off developing a killer mindset that can handle a high amount of pressure. Many came from nothing, first generation millionaires who earn more than the last 5 generations combined. No, most successful people aren’t distracted by the cheap entertainment. Sure, some of these people inherited their fortune and didn’t earn a penny and have no self-control whatsoever - these people will probably end up broke. The world’s most successful, wealthy, and influential people are extremely disciplined. What I say “upper class,” I’m referring to the kind of people who manage enormous amounts of money, fame, influence, and popularity and consistently make the world a better place with their gifts. I don’t mean the greedy 1% who constantly try to distance themselves from the poor and their problems. When I say “upper class,” I don’t mean those rich snobs who inherited their parents’ money and spend it wrecking cars that cost more than a small house. Many lower and middle class citizens have become jaded and bitter, and they’ve spread this mindset to their children.īut if you want to develop incredible discipline and achieve an upper-class lifestyle, you need to shed the beliefs of the lower and middle class. They were based on small thinking, scarcity, and fear. ![]() Unfortunately, many lessons we learned were negative. These experiences created most of our perspective of how the world works, and taught us our place in it. We learned the specific behaviors, mindsets, actions, and lifestyle of those around us in our same social class. Statistically speaking, most of us grew up in the lower or middle class.
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