Disruptors

RANT: Why Success Should NOT be Your Goal (This is Better) [Business, mindset, entrepreneur, disruptors]

Nov 11, 2020

Focus on being valuable and useful instead of just being successful. Define your own version of success and progress towards a worthy goal. Balance self-interest and selflessness for sustainable success. Provide value and engage with your audience to build support.

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Quick takeaways

Success is achieved by being valuable and useful to others, not just by personal achievements and wins.

People are attracted to those who hustle and grind for success, but it's important to learn from them while maintaining balance and repelling those who seek success without putting in the work.

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Focus on being valuable and useful, not just successful

The podcast episode emphasizes the importance of shifting the focus from being solely successful to being valuable and useful. It argues that people don't care about individual success but do care about being helped and served. By focusing on providing value and solving problems for others, one paradoxically becomes more successful. The host shares his own experience of initially prioritizing personal success and realizing the limited impact and alienation it caused. He suggests the balance between being selfish and selfless, emphasizing the importance of serving and adding value to others while also taking care of oneself and making profit. The episode concludes that being valuable and useful is a common definition of success.

Introduction

2min

The Problem with Focusing on Success and the Importance of Being Valuable

3min

Rethinking Success and Adding Value

2min

The Value of Being Useful and the Importance of Balance

12min

The Importance of Value and Audience Support

2min

It’s wrong to focus on success if you want to be successful. Today, Rob shares his definition of success, what it means to be successful and what you need to focus on and achieve to get there. Success is made up of many different parts and in this episode of the Disruptive Entrepreneur, Rob details exactly how to get there.

KEY TAKEAWAYS

You should not focus on being successful, you should focus on being valuable and useful because people don't care if you're successful, people don't care about your wins, people do care if you help them, they do care if you serve them, they do care if you're useful to them and they do care if you create value for them.
Focusing on success attracts people who want to be successful but at no cost of work. Balance and repel the people who hustle and grind to be successful but don’t miss out on learning from them.
If you make your definition of success, only the people who can relate specifically to that thing are going to relate and resonate with you. That’s why you should focus less on being successful but on progressing towards a worthy goal.
Focus on profit, focus on sales, focus on marketing, focus on growth, focus on creating a great product and service that's useful to people and going out there and promoting it and selling it shamelessly consistently and you this is when you will be successful.
Always market yourself. You should go out there and project and tell the world who you are and what you're offering or going to achieve. You should promise people to only give them the best of you and make it happen. Stop focusing on being successful and start focusing on achieving your goals.
Set goals in your life and try to do everything in your capability to achieve them. Do not stop until you’ve achieved your goals and then go on to set bigger goals and overtime, people will start to notice your success.
You have to work hard enough not to have to work hard because the problem with focusing on success is it’s selfish. The more value you add to others, the more value you will get in your own life, you will be wealthier, you will be more supported and people will want to help you.

BEST MOMENTS

“It is wrong to focus on being successful if you want to be successful.”

“If you don't promote yourself, no one else is going to promote you.”

“Happiness is progress towards a worthy goal.”

“You can't give from an empty cup.”

“Maximum growth is on the paradoxical border of equal and complementary opposites.”

[Business, mindset, entrepreneur, disruptors]

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ABOUT THE HOST

Rob Moore is an author of 9 business books, 5 UK bestsellers, holds 3 world records for public speaking, entrepreneur, property investor, and property educator. Author of the global bestseller “Life Leverage” Host of UK’s No.1 business podcast “Disruptors”

“If you don't risk anything, you risk everything”

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