The Truth About Success
The success experts are wrong. Dead wrong.
In their excited frenzy to sell hyped-up books, CDs, seminars, and systems filled with recycled and superficial advice on how to be successful and achieve what you want, those experts are causing others to get it wrong. I know, I was one of them.
That was until I learned the truth about what creates success by interviewing 21 millionaires to find out how and why they did what they did. What I found is that not much of what they did to become successful matches what the experts say you have to do.
Here you’ll find the truth about success, the truth of how ordinary people create extraordinary success. It’s not what I thought it was going to be when I started interviewing the millionaires, and the results may surprise you as well.
Frustration with the Experts’ Advice
I have nothing against the experts personally, as I’m sure their systems for success have worked for themselves and some others. My experience, however, is that their “guaranteed, works-for-everyone, this is the only path to success” formulas are anything but.
Certainly I’m not the only one who ran from one idea to the next trying to find the secret sauce of success and not find it. Once I learned from interviewing the millionaires what creates success, I saw the light.
Finding the Truth About Success Myself
It was while I was trying to validate a hypothesis of “Find your passion, find your success” that I learned the truth about success.
Because I thought the experts were right, I
was sure there was a connection between passion and success. So sure, in fact, that I wanted to interview 21 millionaires to see how they found their passion and then found their success.
There was only one problem with my grand idea.
On the third interview I asked Matt what his passion is.
Here was his answer:
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Huh? How do you become a millionaire and not know what your passion is?
Since I’m a little slow, I also didn’t put it together until later that Matt didn’t have written down goals on his way to becoming a millionaire. His answers about his path to success ruined my hypothesis and sent me on a fact finding mission. In seeking, I found; I found the truth about success.
Here’s what I learned from interviewing 21 millionaires:
- The 4 commonalities they all share
- The missing factor in success, the one the experts don’t talk about – WORK!
- The role of right place, right time
- The myth about goals and vision
Not only do I share what I learned, I also share the fascinating stories of these ‘ordinary’ millionaires - sounds like a contradiction, doesn’t it? Fascinating millionaires, ordinary people? That’s kind of the point. They aren’t flashy people who were born with success written all over them and there was no way they could fail. Rather, each has a unique and engaging story about how and why they did what they did. Anyway, back to what I was saying -
I share what I learned and the millionaires’ stories:
- In the book 21 Questions for 21 Millionaires: How ordinary people create extraordinary success
- In keynote addresses
- Here in the blog
- In Q&A sessions, discussion panels, etc.
If you’re an individual looking for the truth about success, click around, read the blog, and read 21 Questions for 21 Millionaires.
If you’re an organization of entrepreneurs, a franchise support operation, or a professional association (realtors, insurance agents, etc.) looking to provide your group with a unique keynote address based on what I learned from interviewing 21 entrepreneurial millionaires (how and why they did what they did, how the mange their time, how they lead), visit my speaker page.
If you’re a business or organization and would like your employees to work harder and be happier and more successful, consider a truly unique and engaging keynote address.
If you’re a university or college looking to provide resources to your entrepreneurial center or your students in general, visit the college page or buy the book. (that could be an “and” proposition as well – visit the college page AND buy the book)
Who should consider a Q&A session? Roundtables, business groups, mastermind groups, someone looking for answers to their specific questions and believes my in-depth analysis and quick knowledge of these millionaires’ stories could help them.
Everyone and anyone else, buy the book!
