Who Do You Admire?

One of my great passions is to watch talented people perform. It could be sports, like Lionel Messi or Kevin Pietersen or Mohammad Ali. But there's a lot of other sports many of us love.

Maybe it's looking at a Salvador Dali from 3 feet & seeing the scale, skill, time and emotion that has been put into the painting that you can feel right there. Or Diversity pulling off amazing dance moves some gymnasts can’t do, with effortless ease, knowing they’ve practiced 10 hours a day. Or Martin Luther-King. Or Michael Jackson singing like he’s 19 years old at the age of 48.

In business it could be Richard Branson or Bill Gates, or someone whose video you watched just a few minutes ago. You sit there and your jaw drops and you wonder, "How do they do that?!"

Admiring great performers is a blessing and a curse. They inspire you at the Live Event, but when you're home alone in your bedroom-office working away at your craft, the ‘talent-with-ease-legends’ only seem like they were created to mock and tease you.

 “How am I EVER going to be as good as them, and why am I even bothering to try?”

Listen, and listen good

Star performers are not the mould you force yourself into. They're the model to inspire you to be the best YOU, not a second rate version of THEM.

You see them at their best, and only their best, exercising the art they’ve perfected over decades and literally thousands of hours. You don't see how ordinary they are at everything else they do in their life when the make-up and cameras are off.

AND

They're never around to see how extraordinary you are at what you do. Your greatness is always there, waiting to be set free and unleashed on the world.

If 18 months from now you've nailed it and added a few ‘noughts’ to your net worth, you’ll still be the same ‘YOU’ that you are today. The difference will be, you found a way to hone the greatness already there within you, in a new way with some new knowledge.

On that great day, so close for you perhaps, you'll find that even other ‘Legends’ look at you and wonder "how YOU do that?"

It's doesn't seem extraordinary to you, but it sure is to them.

• What "ordinary" thing do you possess that's really extraordinary?
• Who are you, what's your true calling and what do you stand for?

Answer that question and adding some ‘noughts’ to your income might not be as impossible as it seems, my friend.