What are the biggest enemies of success?
There is only one.
Every successful person I’ve ever met has given me the same advice packaged different ways:
Optimism is the key to success.
However, I happen to know that there’s a second part to that story.
My best friend growing up was the happiest person in the world. I would rank him in the top 1% of happy people on planet earth. Nothing can get to him.
Cloudy day? “Perfect sweater weather”.
Wrecked the car? “Finally I can get that new Honda I’ve had my eye on.”
Optimism at its finest.
But… why wasn’t he successful?
If optimism is the variable for success, why aren’t people who have unlimited amounts of it able to succeed in life?
Here’s the
second part of the old adage:
Optimism is the key to success, yet complacency is the enemy.
It’s complacency that makes you deaf to criticism.
It’s complacency that makes you prideful of what you already have.
It’s complacency that stops you from working hard.
It’s complacency that gives you permission to stay where you are.
It’s complacency that makes you lazy… that gives you license to blame external factors instead of yourself.
Pull from both sides of the spectrum; be infinitely happy with where you are, but infinitely hungry for what’s to come.
Time will become your best friend, and thank goodness for that because time will continue even without your permission, and if you’ve stayed in the pocket, you will become successful.
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