You will find two kinds of super-achievers:
1) Those who become world-class in a particular field, breaking all records, doing what no one else has ever done,
2) Those who succeed at every objective they set out to achieve, including being an awesome human being.
You may have dreamt at one time or another of being one kind, or the other: A Steve Jobs who invented the iMac and the iPhone and irreversibly transformed six industries, as dysfunctional as he might have been, or a Richard Branson, who created 300 companies, has his own private island, is out to make a difference in the world, while making life a blast for everyone he touches.
You never imagined you could be like either of them. Yes, you can! In your own way, in your own world.
Are You the Next Super-Achiever?
A super-achiever is in the Top 1%, of every size, shape and color. Gandhi was a shy, awkward young Indian who studied law in London only to get thrown out of a train in South Africa. Fifty years later, Gandhi brought down the British Empire. Helen Keller became deaf and blind shortly after her birth, only to end up humanity’s greatest spokesperson.
Super-Achievers are color blind. When I was born, Black people “knew their place” in American society. Now Black people lead in sports and in all the performing arts, as well as taking the highest office in the land. Malcolm X was thrown in jail for robbery, and through his insolence went into Solitary Confinement. In such a condition, Elijah Muhammad reached out to him, transforming him into a modern-day prophet who made the Black Muslims a household word.
Age is no problem. Colonel Sanders began his global chain of chicken stores with a simple recipe after he passed 65 as a retirement activity. Swami A.C. Bhakti Vedanta came to America in his 60’s with less than $100 in his pocket. He made the Krishna People stars of a whole new generation of Americans, and went on to build dozens of temples throughout the world.
Do Achievers Believe In Walls?
The primary difference between you and me and the greatest super-achievers is that they know that walls are never really “out there,” they lie only in our heads. They consider walls a self-defeating concept which they refuse to entertain, whereas you and me all too often believe in the walls, that they are in any way real.
Walls are unexamined, unconscious beliefs. I don’t have what it takes to succeed. I don’t deserve to be totally happy. I am not enough to make a difference in the real world. There isn’t enough love to go around in the world. I better look out there for approval. If someone continually doles out heavy criticism, then they must surely care about me and wish me the best.
Louis Gossett, Jr. played against Richard Gere in An Officer and a Gentleman, winning an Oscar for Best Supporting Actor. When interviewed by the press, Louis, speaking for people of color, remarked that when he read the screenplay, he didn’t think of a Black drill sergeant, just a drill sergeant. Louis happened to be a Black actor, and committed to morphing into the best drill sergeant the public ever saw.
Achiever Personality: Choose to Be YOU!
What super-achievers have in common is the inclination to be their own best friend, to make the most of what they have. They are far too busy to spend time bemoaning their fate or agonizing over their limitations. Grandma Moses was widely acknowledged as a great painter at 100 years of age!
Super-achievers root shamelessly for themselves. When the Presidential race comes, they will vote for themselves, even if not a single other person joins them. When Muhammad Ali prepped to be the greatest heavyweight boxer the world has ever known, he psyched out his competition and the press by constantly maintaining that he was the greatest. It all seemed so vain… until he won!
The inspirational movie classic, The Right Stuff, had Scott Carpenter as the wannabe among the original team of Mercury astronauts. Scott had a silly joke that he would tell his wife and drinking buddies: “Who is the greatest pilot you ever did see? ...You’re looking at him.” By the end of the movie, long after Alan Shepard and John Glenn’s highly publicized flights, Scott actually became the last Mercury astronaut, flying further and faster than any pilot who ever lived.
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Befriend Your Mind
Super-achievers appreciate their minds as powerful instruments that they can master. Their minds are a survival tool whose function is to keep them in the game. They recognize the mind is quite literal and thinks only in pictures. They respect their minds and refuse to dump garbage on them.
As the infamous computer saying puts it, “Garbage in… garbage out.”
The Law of Command reminds us, “Say only what you want. If you don’t want it, don’t say it.” You may say to yourself, “I hate my job. I can’t stand it. If I go in one more day, I think I will die.” This is an open invitation to your mind to make you desperately sick with the latest flu epidemic. That way, you may die in bed, but not at work!
Super-achievers continually choose between comfort and power. High-performance requires a willingness to think and act outside the box, to go way beyond your comfort zone. You can rewire your brain to associate pleasure with breakthrough success and pain with monotonous regularity. Tony Robbins pioneered the way with Neuro-Linguistic Programming, and the recent science of neuroplasticity has sanctioned it scientifically.
Mobilize Your Mind
While super-achievers genuinely like themselves and others, they never become self-satisfied. They are highly disciplined and totally committed to continuous and never-ending improvement. No less than George Lucas of Star War’s fame was chosen to give a Special Academy Award to Akira Kurosawa, who opened the entire world to Samurai movies with Rashomon. Lucas acknowledged Kurosawa, then in his last years, for never resting in his laurels, but continuously advancing the craft of filmmaking.
Knowing that the mind will always give you what you say you want, super-achievers put their brains to work by programming them, by continuously conditioning them. They will do whatever it takes to develop the mindset of a winner. They will not only continually exercise to keep physically in shape, they will also maintain an inner practice of observing their thoughts to gradually calm down the monkey mind.
Super-achievers make it their business to put passion and purpose together. They realize that we all have a mission, a vision and a message to offer the world, and they place a premium on discovering what that is. For many people, it may mean taking a year off after college and traveling around the world. They don’t take their talents and fascinations for granted. They are no strangers to books like Richard Bolles’ What Color Is Your Parachute?
Be a Super-Achiever in Your Own World
A great rabbi once advised his disciple, “You are not called to be Moses. You are called to be David. So be the best David you possibly can.” Your goal in the fall of your life can be to triumphantly say to yourself and your loved ones, “I am the man / woman I have always wanted to be.” Perhaps that is what Frank Sinatra meant when he sang, “I did it my way!”
Open yourself to endless possibilities by reminding yourself daily - “I am the man / woman I have always wanted to be.”
You can be a super-achiever in your own world. That may or may not be THE BIG WORLD “out there.” We all drop stones into the pond and create ripples. Before long, they reach the other side. You can be in any condition in life, from a beautiful coed in a prestigious school to an aging exec temporarily laid up in a hospital bed. It doesn’t matter. You still have a job to do… to be 100%, even 1000%, YOU!
You are inherently divine, even when you vehemently deny it. This is what all those mystical traditions have been telling us since the dawn of history. Yes, you’re an animal, you’re a human, but you are also divine. As Dr. Deepak Chopra put it, divinity is hardwired into our brains.
You know that you can be mean, selfish and petty. So what? God can be mean, selfish and petty… when He is expressing Himself through you. Yet nothing you think, say or do can erase His glory in you. So get to work forgiving yourself and lighting up your own world, the world He gave you to transform.
To Be An Achiever Compromise No More!
Sometimes we all need someone to handhold us or spank us in order to switch gears. Marissa Peer is Great Britain’s greatest therapist, treating royalty, billionaires, Olympic athletes and movie stars. Out of this experience, she developed astounding insights and a rapid means of transformation and profound inner change. Marissa decided to distill her best insights, and put it all in an easily digestible form.
For example, Marissa found that what drives the 1% who don’t succeed in every area of their life, for example, a rock star who is wretched with his relationships, is the feeling “I am not enough… I better continually prove myself to the public, or they will see through my act and discover I am a total sham.”
Marissa helps these talented people to discover that they really are beautiful inside, but they have been haunted by a vast store of negative energy and images from childhood. She makes the therapeutic injunction at the right time and place, reminding them, “YOU ARE ENOUGH.” You are magnificent just as you are.
When everyone actually gets this, their lives start coming together in magical ways. Check her out and see for yourself… by clicking on the image below.
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