The Basis of Success

Success is doing ordinary things extraordinarily well. – Jim Rohn

Sometimes people get confused about how to be successful.

They think it takes something they don’t have, things others were born with.

It’s just not so.

First, success is an individual thing and second it’s a process.

Success is what you decide it be (even if all you do is take on the standards and goals of others).

It’s the day-in/day-out stacking of little wins, useful habits and general stick-to-it-iveness.

Just as Rome wasn’t built in a day, nor is success an event or something reserved for the extraordinary.

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After all, as Mr. Rohn has also said, the difference between ordinary and extraordinary is just that little extra.

Decide what you want to create and get to the day-in/day-out of it; it will work if you do.

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