You're Too Selfish To Become Successful
You may think successful people are selfish, but they’re not. They literally cannot afford to be. They have far too many responsibilities. They only seem selfish because they’re not doing what YOU want them to do, and you’re not successful because all you do is what YOU want to do.
People who are highly successful in their careers are constantly doing things other people want them to do. Think about it.
Successful vocal artists have album deadlines they must meet, music videos they must shoot, concerts they must perform at, photo shoots they must do, interviews they must do…
Successful business owners have (a lot of) expenses they must pay, advertisements they must see and approve of, meetings they must attend, strategies they must come up with…
Successful athletes have trainings they must go to, interviews they must do, games they must play in, commercials they must do for sponsors…
Successful doctors have patients they must see, conferences they must attend, licenses they must get renewed, medical journals they must read…
You get the idea. They’re constantly doing things for other people. Sure they benefit from these things, but they’re still things they have to do whether they feel like it or not. They don’t get to pick where. They don’t get to pick how. And they definitely don’t get to pick when they do them. Sometimes they do have a little choice, but for the most part, they have very little say. The people who they’re doing these things for have more say.
And then there’s your ass.
You claim you want to be a successful preacher or singer or architect or environmentalist or whatever the hell you want to do.
But you can’t even get to work on time because you stayed out last night playing.
You don’t even reply to emails or texts because you “don’t feel like it.”
You still haven’t gone to the grocery store because you “aren’t in the mood.”
You didn’t read that one article because it was “too long” and you “didn’t feel like it.”
You didn’t study for that exam because that TV show was on and you’d rather live tweet it.
Simple little shit you refuse to do for the simple fact you don’t want to. That’s what it boils down to. Essentially, you’re doing what you want to do…and where has that gotten you? Nowhere special. That’s why you’ll never make it to the top. You’re selfish as hell.
Nobody’s going to trust you to do a 54 city tour if they can’t trust you to text them back because you didn’t feel like it.
Nobody’s going to trust you to run a five star hotel if they can’t trust you to read those chapters for class because you didn’t feel like it.
A medical board won’t trust you to operate on a person’s lungs at 3am if you haven’t cleaned your car in three months because you “didn’t feel like it.”
And don’t hit me with the “I was busy” bullshit. You make time for what you want to do–and it’s funny you always have time to do what you want to do, but never have time to do what somebody else wants you to do.
Once you have that discipline to do little things you don’t want to do, you’ll eventually have the discipline to do big things you don’t want to do. And important people will trust you to do those big things. Right now, nobody important trusts you to do those big things.
All you’ve shown is you’re good at doing what you want to do, when you want to, and how you want to.
Ain’t no way in hell somebody’s going to let you star in a movie with a $45,000,000 budget when that’s your attitude. You may not even show up to rehearsals, or even worse, you may not even memorize your lines.
So what’s the solution? You must start doing shit you don’t feel like doing. Study for that exam instead of live tweeting Love & Hip Hop. Respond to that text instead of ignoring it so you can play that video game. Read that book about your career choice instead of scrolling through Instagram and getting nothing done.
You think these successful doctors and lawyers and politicians and scientists and journalists ALWAYS feel like doing everything you see them doing?
And that’s why you know who they are, but they don’t even know your parents had you.
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