Aren't us humans wonderful things?
What motivates me might stress you out.
How I juggle lots of things at once might put you into a tailspin because you only want to focus on one thing at a time.
How that my preferred method of learning by reading makes your eyes glaze over as you prefer to learn by listening.
I've seen it a few times this week.
I'm all inspired because I'm doing my thing my way - yet the other person can't believe that I could even be thinking about doing things that way!
That's why (and, yes - I have said it many times before), 'one size' NEVER fits all when leading a happy and successful life is concerned!
Just because someone tells you what works for them - doesn't necessarily work for you.
Thinking about it - that's probably how I ended up writing about this stuff for a living.
I spent so many years trying to fit my life around what I was told I SHOULD be doing that nothing seemed to work at all.
Sound familiar?
Ever had the feeling that, even though you are trying your hardest NOT to be YOU - you still feel that it's not going according to plan?
That's what sometimes bothers me about a lot of the successful people I see on the Internet.
I've seen many Internet marketers try to turn themselves into self-improvement experts recently.
And, they believe that because they got successful selling information using their talents - they know that there is an opportunity to earn something from people like YOU who might be interested in how they motivated themselves to do it.
Now - I'm not getting on my high horse here - some of what they teach CAN be helpful, but it is doing no favors whatsoever to most of the people who look up to the guru as an expert.
But WE know, don't we...that YOU are not THEM!
- YOU know that you don't have their particular reason for motivation.
- YOU know that you don't have the same particular skill at doing something like they do.
- YOU know that you don't want to work in the same way as they do.
It's not all gloom and doom, however.
YOU do know the best ways in which YOU work, and what inspires YOU.
And...yes, you DO have some wonderful talents hidden behind that disbelieving face of yours!
What I'm really saying is - make sure that you 'follow' someone for the right reasons.
Yes - you CAN learn from ANY successful person.
But - just because someone is successful at selling how-to information - doesn't mean that they are the best person to MENTOR you in how to make more of YOUR life.
It's easy to get caught up in the hype - but remember that if you spent some time looking at what ALREADY motivates you, and what you do well - then you will be halfway there.
I purposely go out of my way to tell you that 'MY' way isn't THE way for YOU.
Any 'guru' who tells you otherwise is a fool, in my opinion.
YOUR success will be achieved from a huge combination of different elements that you will (hopefully) pick up along the way from many different people - and it WILL be unique to YOU.
And...I bet that you know most of it already.
Plus - you don't need to try and change yourself because someone you respect tells you to.
You just need someone like me to give you a kick occasionally to remind you to make more of what you DO have!
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