I used to look at successful people and think I was different from them.
I wasn’t as clever as them.
…motivated as them.
…talented as them.
They had a great life, money, and freedom to do what they wanted…
But that was for people like them.
Not people like me.
I was different.
I thought that even if I tried really hard, it still probably wouldn’t be enough…
Because I wasn’t enough.
So it made sense to not even bother in the first place.
But then I realised something that changed everything…
I was simply telling myself a story.
A lovely little story to keep me from pushing myself.
It was much easier to tell myself I was different, than it was to admit I had what it took to be successful.
Admitting I had what it took to be successful meant:
I had to make changes…
I had to challenge myself…
…and I had to work on myself and my future ever single.
And that seemed scary.
But I realised I needed to just try, and find out, once and for all.
…and see if I was ‘different’.
I decided to re-write that story, and tell myself that I could be successful.
I told myself I had no excuses, and if ‘they’ had it; then so could I.
Have you ever felt like this?
Different from others?
Telling yourself a story that you’re not good enough?
Somehow incapable of the same levels of success others have?
Well, let me tell you something…
I used to think I was different.
and I WAS!
I’m very different, but not in the way I thought.
Actually, I had talents, skills and abilities I never knew I had.
After admitting I had what it takes, stopping telling myself stories, and really starting to challenge myself?
I started to catch up with the ‘successful ones’ and even overtake some too.
So, if you think you’re different?
Maybe you are!
But for all the right reasons.
Believe me when I say this…
Those successful people you look at?
You don’t have what it takes to become like them.
You have what it takes to become someone a million times better.
