The Single Commonality In All Successful People

There isn’t a single day that goes by where someone asks me “so Mark you’ve interviewed a ton of successful people, what's the one thing they all have common?”

No it’s not mindfulness meditation or one bulletproof morning routine but a formula built from hardship that uniquely works for each individual and life’s vision.

With that being said, the only actual commonality is not how many vegetables one can fit in a green juice but the willingness to put in all the marbles, work their face off in the areas of life they care about and outwork everyone.

When I first heard this answer I wanted to immediately dismiss it for it’s simplicity and even potential toxic interpretation of "working your face off."

Here’s the thing, luck, focus, environment, desire are all important factors but absolutely nothing in this world is more guaranteed than showing up every single day and taking as many shots as you can at your one true goal. Nothing. Anyone who says otherwise doesn’t want you to work hard and buy a quick pill fix.

“Mental toughness is showing up everyday and doing the same thing.” - Donald Suxho, World Renowned Olympian (Ep.148)

Now, the game isn’t about sitting down every day and doing the same thing all the time like a robot or someone who stays up every night and doesn't sleep.

You’ve heard of the saying “trust the process” I think that’s important but sometimes you need to disrupt your own process and change what you thought you knew what the right thing is to do.

Nobody finds that out unless they have the willingness to show up every single day and swing and swing and swing and swing until they fail repeatedly and learn something new and use that data to upgrade their process and get better.

Now I know what you’re saying, what about that guy who won the $300 million dollar lottery? Or that person who got a ton of money in funding in Silicon Valley and now has a billion dollar company? First off, we both only see one narrow angle of a person’s life not the entirety of it and if they really love themselves or lose sleep at night.

Let me tell you one thing for sure, I believe what makes someone successful or not is if they truly proved it to themselves. When I was a young teenager I became financially self-made very fast but never viewed myself as successful. I LOVED what I did and it never felt like work and had an unbelievably high profit margin but I didn’t prove putting in the price for greatness.

I didn’t bleed my face out. I didn’t give up my free time working on ideas. That feeling of success is created when you go from someone who wasn’t capable of doing something to working your guts to transform into the person that can do those things.

I could tell you that you have self-worth innately inside of you and trust me that’s certainly true but there’s no way you will actually believe that about yourself.

I'm not here to define what a "successful person" means to you, nobody can except for yourself. For you success can mean financial freedom, reaching a level of global impact, living off in a log cabin in the middle of the woods for the rest of your life.

No matter what you identify as your target, you will never truly reach it in your soul (even if you gain it externally) if you don't show up and try to make something happen every 24 hours.

"Every action you take is a vote for the type of person you wish to become in the future." - James Clear, NYT Bestselling Author of Atomic Habits Ep. 202

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