Success is a Choice

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I published my breakdown of Success is a Choice, by John C. Maxwell today, and if you’re subscribed to my other newsletter, The Reading Life, you’d have the preview in your inbox right now.

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The main takeaway of Dr. Maxwell Maltz's classic book, Psycho-Cybernetics is that it's literally impossible for anyone to outperform their self-image, to achieve anything greater than they believe themselves deserving of achieving. This is exactly what John C. Maxwell is driving at here as well.

Your expectations determine your reality, and we see what we expect to see.

If you believe yourself incapable of negotiating a deal any larger than $10,000, that's exactly the level you'll remain stuck at. Try to close business for, say, $25,000 or $100,000 and you'll self-sabotage, and otherwise subconsciously create the conditions for your own failure.

You don't believe that you can do it, and you don't expect that it will ever happen, so why take the actions that would cause anything different to happen?

Moreover, as Maxwell reminds us, this is a habit of mind, developed through repetition, that can become a defining "script" that we keep running, eventually causing us to resign ourselves to staying at our previous level.

Of course, no one is seriously suggesting that you can "believe" your way into becoming a top 1% expert in your field by next week, or that you'll automagically 10X your income by "expecting" it to happen. But if you don't expect it to happen, it won't, no matter how long you're willing to wait.

The good news, however, is that beliefs are malleable. We can choose them for ourselves, and we can adopt different ones if our current beliefs aren't serving us or taking us where we want to go.

Again, this is a habit of mind. We become what we think about most of the time, so it makes sense that, should you wish to create different (and better) results in your life, you should spend most of your time thinking about how exactly you're going to make that happen.

And, crucially, believing that it's possible with consistent effort over a long enough period of time.

I mean, what's the alternative?

What else could you believe about yourself that's better?

If you can choose what to believe - and choose what to reinforce through repetition - why would you choose to believe anything other than the most empowering beliefs you can find?

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You know what, today was good - but it wasn’t glamorous or anything. I didn’t do anything wild and exciting, didn’t have any massive victories. Just made steady progress on work that was important to me, and had some fun doing it.

The daily life of an entrepreneur. Nothing special - but it’s everything :)

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Matt Karamazov

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