The Fastest Way to be Successful is to Make Others Successful

Zig Ziglar once said, “You will get all you want in life if you help enough other people get what they want.”

Want to be successful? Stop selling. Start helping. The more success you create for others, the more you create for yourself.

Without a doubt, the best way to achieve success is to provide real value for others. Make others successful. This might seem like an obvious thing to do. But most people obsess over how to be successful instead of thinking about how to provide value for others.

Helping others to be successful benefits you if you don’t hold back. Brian Tracy was right when he said, “Successful people are always looking for opportunities to help others. Unsuccessful people are always asking, ‘What’s in it for me?”

There is nothing more rewarding than helping others to succeed

Our greatest successes in life and career are often found in building products that can solve people’s problems, teaching others how to be better, faster and smarter. Our most lasting and fulfilling achievements are often earned by helping others fulfil theirs.

“It is literally true that you can succeed best and quickest by helping others to succeed,” says Napoleon Hill. When you help others, it opens up a whole new level of possibilities for you.

Sell a service that delivers massive ROI for others and they will recommend you to others and mention your name when they pass on the knowledge they received from you. Write a book that changes someone’s mindset, and they will leave a review or recommend it to their audience or subscribers.

Write the most valuable post of your career and people who read it will share it with their followers. The compound effect of that can be career-changing. A single post, tweet, book or video can become an unstoppable force for your career. Society rewards generosity.

Share what you know with your audience with the sole intention of helping them and give them what they’re looking for (quality content, tools, resources, etc).

Choose to provide value in small doses. Decide to be the person who sees shares something, every day. It could be in a blog post, a video, a podcast, etc. It can anything.

Don’t hold back and when you are ready to sell your followers a service or product, your true fans won’t hesitate to buy your premium service.

You could even start a 100 days challenge this year and share your best work with the world every day and see what happens or what you could learn. Don’t aim for a massive return on your time.

“What I’ve found is this–after people get to posting #200 or beyond, they uniformly report that they’re glad they did it. Give it a try for three or four months and see what happens…” writes Seth Godin.

Don’t even expect to make money from it. Just share the best of what you know. Share yourself boldly into the void. Offer your opinions and perspective. Aim to help someone with the post, even if it’s one person.

You will find your creative voice in the process, get better, find your authentic self, rediscover what you deeply care about, become less anxious about publishing your best content online, learn how to better serve an audience, provide value for others and change your life or career in the process.

The fact is that our greatest successes in life often come from providing immense value for others. This is true in almost every industry. When you focus on helping others succeed your eventual payoff will always be far greater than your investment.

There is a pattern to who succeeds and who doesn’t. Those who build lasting success commit to being useful, providing real value, solving everyday problems and helping others get they want.

Seth Godin adds value to his readers every day, and I’m lucky to be able to read them. Value tends to stay with people.

People remember how you changed their perception, lives or careers for years. At some point, they take action, make a connection, recommend your work to their audience for free. The last action is priceless.

Is there something you do every day or week that builds an asset for you? Something that creates value for others but belongs to you? Something that makes an asset you own more valuable?

Always remember helping is greater than selling. And long-term success hugely depends on your short-term actions. Your creative work is your most persuasive tool — use it to educate, entertain or inform others.