Today, we revisit a long-lost episode of the Saturday Morning Hustle podcast that had technical difficulties and was never posted but it’s a good, concise discussion episode you don’t want to miss. Let’s talk about something that is a universal idea, but people get the wrong impression about it. A lot of people say they want success. They say they have to hustle. They say they have to grind. But do they really have what it takes to be successful at what they’re trying to build? Do they have the patience, the forethought, the talent, and will they really hustle and grind, or do they think it’s something easy like they see on TV?
First of all, you have to have some sort of talent, knowledge, or education to actually try to address yourself as someone people should be paying attention to on a topic. It has to be authentic to you. You have to bring something new to the market—something interesting, unique, or different about yourself and how you do what you do—something people can connect to.
It doesn’t matter if you’re trying to be an entrepreneur, have a startup, a self-brand or you want to be an artist, a musician, an athlete, a social media influencer, a public speaker, whatever it is you’re building for yourself. The worst thing you can do, and everyone is looking for, is overnight success. There’s no such thing as an overnight sensation, and I guarantee you this: there’s no such thing as someone getting something easy and then keeping it for long.
Everyone wants immediate success. They have a vision in their head: “I’m going to start this business. I’m going to put my name on the door. I’m going to launch my website, and 30 seconds later, the phone is ringing, orders are pouring in, and I’m rich.”
Guess what? The world doesn’t work like that. If you want a business that creates profit, is successful, and can create actual economic value for you now and in the future—a real business that your family can live off of, maybe even your children and grandchildren—then you’re going to have to build it. Somebody can’t just hand it to you.
If you want real success, it’s not just hustle and grind. It’s not just showing up on Saturday and Sunday, first one in, last one out, etc. It’s all of that. But it’s also knowing, understanding and having the experience of building it from the ground up, from starting with nothing, then crafting a business plan, an outline, a strategy, putting it into place, implementing it, working it, letting the market push back, react to it as competitors push back on you and making your adjustments.
Business is 100% about making adjustments. Technology changes, and consumers change. Marketing changes. Competitors show up. Competitors leave the market. Regulations change. These things happen all the time. If you can’t adapt and move on, then you sit around claiming, “This isn’t fair. Why are they picking on me?” You’ve already lost.
Knowing how you built it will allow you to adapt when the time comes and the time will come. That’s the difference between people who have a vision for starting a business, creating a self-brand, being the best… and that’s the vision of how it happens because you have talent or you have something inside of you that tells you can versus putting in the work, building the foundation, working out every day, showing up every day, reading, listening, letting other people teach you, let other people mentor you, watching other people success and adapting it to you and then understanding it’s not about your vision. It’s not about how you want to do it. It’s about how you can take what you have: your skills, talent, and ability to hustle and grind and make it work in the situation that the universe has provided for you because you don’t have control over it. You don’t have control over the market, your competition, or any of these things.
So if you say you want it, if you’re building something, if you really want to create success, it’s about something other than the vision in your head. It’s about how you can take the potential of that vision in your head, put it in the real world, adapt and react to how the real world reacts to you and move forward. Please avoid getting stuck on the idea of doing it your way and having it happen immediately. Instead, focus on building it slowly and steadily. That’s how you create success. Good luck!
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