The Challenge
The same holds true for any person who created wealth and abundance. Did they succeed because they were special, gifted, or got lucky? Or was it because they were willing to roll up their sleeves and take the right actions? And do it over and over, even when they hit obstacles. Why am I sharing this? Because the success habits I’ve de- scribed don’t work unless you work them. The difference be- tween those who take advantage of them and those who just think about taking advantage of them is that the former exhibit grit. To me, grit is stick-to-itiveness. It’s persistence. It’s being willing to go the extra mile to get what you want. How badly do you want that next level of life? Do you get depressed knowing there’s more that you can accomplish, yet haven’t? The good news is that you don’t have to “settle.” Not anoth- er day. You don’t have to go through life asking, “What if?” You don’t have to fret and fume about your unrealized potential. You can have everything you want and deserve, but to achieve it, you can’t give in to the naysayers. And it won’t hap- pen by just hoping it will. As the Nike saying goes, it’s time to “Just Do It.” COUNTER THE CRITICS Those who achieve the most are the ones who push through obstacles, even when no one else believes in them. They do what it takes to steadily put these success habits in place, and if some- thing doesn’t go exactly as they planned, they don’t get discour- aged or give up. If you look at businesses that have had massive breakthroughs, most of them at one point were on the brink of failure, if not bankruptcy, and most founders of these businesses were told their ideas would never work. You see, critics are judgmental types of people that success- ful people make a habit of ignoring. Critics are often pessimists who gave up on their dreams; their bitterness causes them to
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