It’s hard to think differently and be able to dream new dreams. We’d all like to be visionary thinkers like Bezos, Buffett and Branson (the Three B’s of Bold Thinking) and achieve great things.
But most of us aren’t bold visionaries. (I’m definitely not.)
And that’s OK, because while you and I might never come up with the next big thing, we can decide to think differently from other people — and in the process, achieve differently from other people.
Here are five things people think that ruin their chances for success.. and more importantly how you can think differently:
1.”I never get the right opportunities.”
Hey, join the (very large) club. No matter how it looks from the outside, no one is given opportunities they don’t deserve. Opportunities are earned. (And even if someone else did get an opportunity you feel you deserved, you can’t change that fact, so why dwell on it?)
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That’s rarely true. Talents typically reveal themselves only in hindsight. Success is never assured; it only looks that way after it is achieved.
Sure, other people may have skills you don’t have (at least not yet), but you have skills other people don’t have. You don’t need a gift. You just need yourself — and a willingness to put in a tremendous amount of hard work, effort and perseverance — because that is where talent comes from.
Never think about what you don’t have. Focus on what you do have — and more importantly, what you are willing to do that others are not.
That is your true gift — and it’s a gift we’ve all been given.
You just have to use it.
