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Don't Get Too Full Of Yourself - How 2 Successful People Never Got Caught Up With Their Success

by ryanbiddulph
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1 trait that virtually all successful people adopt is continually setting up new goals for themselves. They reach a goal and move on to the next one and rarely get caught up with each individual success.

Oprah changed the world with her talk show. She never got caught up in it though and instead of resting on her laurels accepted the new challenge of starting her own TV network.

She could have sat around reading clippings about how wealthy or wonderful she was, yet she's still hungry. During a recent interview Oprah mentioned how after she reaches a goal it's nice, she's happy, but then she moves past that chapter in her life. She was careful to say how each achievement was independent of one another. Adopting that mindset has been a secret to her success.

Look at someone like Bill Gates. For many years the wealthiest dude in the world and now he's devoted his life to helping others, becoming a successful philanthropist. It'd be easy to live off the success he experienced with Microsoft but he moved forward. He ceased day to day responsibilities at MS and moved right into philanthropy.

Again, one phase of his life ended and it was right on to the next one.

Both Oprah and Bill Gates could have become caught up in their success. It's easy to become full of yourself when you are world-renowned and have the means to do whatever the heck you want to do for the remainder of your life without having to think about money.

These 2 titans have a deeper motive, and it has nothing to do with things.

Have you found yourself getting caught up on your successes? How do you get past this feeling?

RB
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  • Profile picture of the author DanielleLynnCopy
    Hi Ryan,

    Excellent post. I was actually dwelling on this the other day.

    In another post a week back, someone had mentioned that a once-successful internet marketer who had been out of the spotlight had recently started posting again in desperate attempts to make money. The reason? This person-who had once earned enough to buy himself a million dollar house-had become complacent and stopped maintaining his IM business. Once the money started to dry up, he realized he had lost his momentum and started to scramble to keep the ball rolling.

    Well, suffices to say, by doing this, he is not working from a position of growth, but one of desperation. Not a fun place to be I'm sure.

    I personally use the goal method as well. Once I had reach a goal, I strive for the next one It keeps things interesting, fresh, and fun.
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  • Profile picture of the author scortillion
    I personally found that if you do not have another goal in place before you finish your current goal you feel lost; that, "Ok, now what?" feeling comes over you.

    I created a short goal that took a week to set down while I put together another long term goal.

    I learned from that to always be thinking what next, not dwelling on it but making sure you know which direction you want to head in when you finish your current goal.
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    • Profile picture of the author PrestonSr
      Originally Posted by scortillion View Post

      I personally found that if you do not have another goal in place before you finish your current goal you feel lost; that, "Ok, now what?" feeling comes over you.

      I created a short goal that took a week to set down while I put together another long term goal.

      I learned from that to always be thinking what next, not dwelling on it but making sure you know which direction you want to head in when you finish your current goal.
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  • Profile picture of the author betterwtveter
    Thanks for the post, I find that once I find something that works and makes money, there is always something else and more that I can share with other. We should never stop searching for more success or more drive to help others succeed.
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    Don't get comfy. Get used to moving forward and setting new goals. The goal eventually becomes reaching the goal, and every moment that you don't work towards it feels like vegetation.
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      Nice post!
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  • Profile picture of the author Mousumi
    Well said Ryan!
    Success itself is a journey and not a destination. You finish a task and then move on to the next.
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  • Profile picture of the author barefut
    One of my first rules of business is to never count your chickens before they hatch. I can remember many times where I projected the business doing well, but when I made it vocal, 100% of the time it failed.

    And even more important now, is not to get arrogant once have have achieved success. I am grateful I was humbled with the last Penguin update, but I fought back, and am back to where I was last year. I am much more careful about thinking I am alone responsible for my success.
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  • Profile picture of the author theory expert
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    It is hard to not get soft and go back to adversity once achieved success. Donald Trump mentioned that as a principle in his "think big kick butt" book. When you have momentum dont stop.

    As far as Oprah she nearly retired into the sunset except that her network was failing, so, she knew she had to help it by being hands on.

    Man the day to day grind is a mess. We all want that holy grail of riding off into the sunset on the beach. It is funny how fast your momentum can have you on top one day and then the next you wake up on the bottom. I don't have any advice on this, all I can do is say do your best we all get burnt out.
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