Success is not something you get. It is something you attract by the person you become.
— Jim Rohn
Have you ever heard successful people who say, "Strip me of all the wealth and bank accounts and companies I have today, and give me a few short years, and I would have recovered it"? It is not ego—far from it. It is a knowing.
Haven't you heard stories of people who regained their wealth and status after losing it all to some bad decision? What do you think is the reason for that? Is it that wealth is just so easy to come by? If so, why do we have more people trying to be wealthy in this world than we have people who are actually wealthy?
There's the famous saying that 10% of people in this world control 90% of the wealth of this world, while the remaining 90% of people battle for the remaining 10% of wealth. So you see? It's not easy to just come by wealth. Nobody comes by wealth or success. You can see the print on the wall boldly, because when truly wealthy people lose the wealth they have, they can very easily regain it two times over.
Do you ever wonder why? It is because wealth (and success) is not something you have. It is something you are. It is not something you get. It is something you become.
You can learn and practice specific principles so much that they become second nature to you, and they become you! Such that, you can't help but be the person who attracts the fruits of the principles.
Jim Rohn would often say that success is not something you get. It is something you attract by the person you become. This is the principle that stands solidly behind the wealthy. The ones who lose their wealth and gain it back. The ones whose wealth constantly grow daily. They have mastered the principle of becoming.
The difference between the top 10% and the remaining 90% is that the former focuses on becoming, while the latter focuses on getting. It is a mistake we all keep making. We think of the things we want to get, the things we need to have, the results, the success, the relationships, the network, the bank account, the certificates, you name it. We dwell too intensely on the fruit rather than the tree. We don’t pay attention to the people we are becoming.
The implication of that is, we will always get the fruits handed to us by those who have become the tree. And after we exhaust the fruit, we will go back to serving the tree so we can get more fruit.
Hey! How about we become the tree?! It’s not that hard?! Okay, maybe a little. But we can do hard things! How about we shift our focus from what we can get to what we can become? How about we change our paradigm and start asking the questions that will drive us to the top 10%?
Instead of asking, What am I getting, ask, Who am I becoming?
Instead of asking, What's the end result, ask, Who do I turn out to be?
Instead of focusing on the goal at the end, focus on the tiny habits that show up as a result of heading towards that goal.
Change your perspective. If you're in it for what you will get, when you get it, you will inevitably come back to that class because it will finish. But if you're in it for what you become, you would have grown, regardless of how that project turns out.
It is easy to miss out on the tiny and major learning moments if your eyes is only on the ball. However, if you are paying attention to the person you're becoming, it will be hard to miss out on the learnings that will help you become. You would have stretched and become the tree, regardless of whether you got the fruit right there and then.
Because the thing with well-watered trees is that the fruits will come. And they will come forever. And if in a season, all the fruits are taken off the tree—like a person who had truly become wealthy loses his wealth, within a short while, the fruits will grow again, again, and forever.
Focus on getting, and you will be a temporal sensation.
Focus on becoming, and you will be a generational legacy.
To your becoming,
Your Coach,
Abiola Okunsanya,
Handzinspired.
Woww!!!
This was an awesome read
Thank you for sharing
Thank you, sir! 👏🏾💯