AVERAGE is a FAILING Formula - Do You Agree?
Dev Gadhvi
Founder - Passionpreneur Movement | Mission - Transform 1 Billion Lives | Twice Best Selling Author | From Slums to a Multi-Millionaire | 40 under 40 Times | Feat. Forbes India, BusinessOutlook
Do you believe you are living the best of your life?
Do you believe you have everything that you dream of?
Do you believe you are providing the best life to your family?
Who are we kidding - There are billions of people living an average life, assuming they have the best
Hard reality – We got average schooling, average salary, average house, average social life, average car, average Job, average performance, average health = AVERAGE LIFE
You want a great physic? – Average workouts will not get you great results. Go out there and take massive action with persistence!
You want to grow your business? – Average amount of prospecting and closing business with not make your business grow substantially!
You want loads of money? – Average salary won’t be enough!
You want to be a sales champ? – Average no. of calls and meetings will not help!
Let me ask you this:
Do you recall a star performer at your work?
Did you admire the way the star performer worked?
Did you ever wonder - What makes them a champion?
Successful people are no different than anyone else. But there is one thing common in all – They have decided not to do anything average. They realized early in the game that average is not going to get them anywhere and decided to do more than what it takes to be successful – “TAKE MASSIVE ACTION”
4 categories of people:
- Losers – People who always see negative in everything and put least or no effort
- Comforters - People who get comfortable at work and put minimum efforts to stay afloat
- Averagers - People who do what they are suppose to do. Sometimes creating small success
- Winners - People who take massive action. Create great success very often. Looked upon by others as an extraordinary human
Which is the dangerous category to be in?
Averagers indeed – Why? Because it is very hard to identify and realize that you are not working upto your potential and yet you continue to convince yourself that you are doing good. But in reality it is just hurting you. Indeed you never ever want to be in the first and second category. When the economy gets difficult and people are cut off from their jobs or business….it’s the losers, comforters and averagers who are in danger zone because the winners would have stacked up wealth for themselves and will bear the shock!
Reason why people fall for average?
Everyone has a dream to live a better life – earn loads of money, good house, wonderful family life, and more. But the reality is only 20-30% people get ahead of the game and get what they dream of and rest 70-80% people fall in the trap of living an average life worrying about the mortgage, worrying about saving for the rainy day.
You may have been brought up in an average family (financially) with average education and company of average thinkers so when you started to get small successes, you became comfortable and decide to take it easy (including me). I know this is not intentional but people get comfortable with life and stop growing. They don’t want to take risk. They don’t invest in improving on their skills. They don’t put massive effort to create success for themselves. Who pays the price? The whole family
As Grant Cardone says – “Treat your success as your duty, obligation and responsibility”. Make success as an ethical thing. Be successful for your family who is counting on you!
How do I move from category 2 or 3 to 4?
"If you want something that you never had, you got to do what you never did"
Realization - Acknowledge and realize that you are not putting-in efforts up-to your potential and just living an average life. 50% of people fail to realize this!
Take Massive Action – If you are in sales and you are suppose to reach out to 50 people in a day to generate 2 meetings then reach out to 150 or 200 people because everyone is doing 50. If you are suppose to do X at work, do 2X, 3X or 5X level of activities to create success
Stay motivated – Keep reminding yourself that you will not settle with anything less than great. Watch motivation videos, write your goals down everyday, talk to people who are successful!
Develop Skills – Continue to develop the skills required to get the job done. Be the best and let everyone admire your knowledge and skills to kill!
Do you want an average life for your family?
Do you feel that you have reached the optimum level of your performance in professional as well as personal life?
NO – Then realize that “AVERAGE is a FAILING Formula!”
“You need to be at the top because it’s the average and bottom that is over-crowded”
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100% committed to success – Dev G
Inspired by Grant Cardone!
Procurement I MBA and MCIPS degree I Develop category, create scouring strategies, project management I Generate highest savings, Global procurement award, setting procurement shared services including start-ups.
8 年great article and good reminder. Thanks Dev!
Expanding horizons...
8 年Awesome write up Dev. Great and meaningful insights
Partner @ Frederick Fox | Helping Top Billers Win Big | Building Elite Recruiting Teams and Delivering for Clients
8 年Average in it's original definition meant 'damaged goods'. It referred to goods being shipped.
Regional Manager - South Asia
8 年Brilliantly put, just what was needed to kickstart a sleepy Monday evening...