Everybody knows a few Jealous Johnny’s who can’t be happy for anyone’s success and always have a snotty, negative comment to make.
Those are the people who don’t ever succeed.
The people who DON’T ever get ahead in life.
The people that totally sabotage themselves with literally ALL of their negative behavior.
They see an extremely successful person and they instantly THINK:
“What an asshole!”
“I can’t believe that girls like him!”
“What a prick!”
“I could do that if I wanted to!“.
Those people should simply be ignored.
Those armchair critics can stay in loser town with ALL of the OTHER Negative Nancy’s.
You, on the other hand, are MUCH MORE “smarter” than that.
You know that when you see someone who has an enviable life that he probably did SOMETHING to obtain his good fortune.
You know that if you can put together the puzzle of what he actually did, learn from all of his successes and mistakes, then you MIGHT be able to obtain a similar fortune.
And when you study the lives of MANY different enviable men, you can let all of their combined advice, teachings and mishaps inform you of what it actually TAKES to become successful.
You can let ALL of that envy motivate you.
There is absolutely NO TIME for any negativity when you are way TOO BUSY becoming something MUCH BETTER.
If you treat successful people as teachers and YOU as the student, then there is actually MUCH and plenty for YOU to learn.
If you treat successful people as the butt of your complaints & endless whining, then there is absolutely NOTHING to learn and therefore, NOTHING to gain.
When someone produces a twinge of jealousy in you think NOT:
“How the hell did that asshole do that? What a lucky bastard!“.
Instead, think to yourself:
“How can I do that?”
and then immediately start putting together the puzzle.
What one man can do, another man can also do.
All you need to do is reverse engineer that SUCCESS.
Figure out what they actually REALLY did and then immediately go out and emulate it.
It does NOT take creativity to be successful.
Most people are NOT all that creative.
What it does actually REALLY take, is recognizing an opportunity whenever it presents itself.
Next time you are jealous or envious do NOT think negatively about what an a-hole the winner is.
Instead, think to yourself how YOU can manage to accomplish the EXACT SAME THING.
Visualize yourself doing the EXACT SAME THING.
Learn absolutely EVERYTHING that you can about the winners process… so that YOU can eventually emulate or modify the process and create some SUCCESS for yourself.
One thing that you do NOT ever need to do is re-invent the wheel.
The wheel is already here and it’s a great invention – it is only your job to determine how you can emulate someone who is ALREADY making money from the wheel.
“But I don’t want to be a copycat!”
Yes, you actually do.
You THINK that YOU are the only person in the world to ever actually hold a job?
You are the only person in the world to work in an office or a factory?
There are millions billions who trade their time for money.
People who work at “jobs” are literally THE #1 BIGGEST copycats in the whole ENTIRE world.
Everyone who you currently see or KNOW is already a copycat.
Why not copy SUCCESS instead of mediocrity?
It truly does NOT take more work or thought to run a, say, successful internet business than it does to punch in a time card every Monday through Friday.
When I went into business for myself I did NOT ever re-invent the wheel.
I did what hundreds, probably thousands, of other people already do.
I studied their methods.
Day and night I studied.
I learned and I decided what would work best for me and my current strengths.
The only thing hard about going into business for yourself is actually being DEDICATED.
If you can simply dedicate yourself, just like you dedicate yourself to your 9-5 jive, then YOU can REALLY start to accomplish SOMETHING.
Maybe you won’t actually become rich, but there is ONE thing that is infinitely more important than material wealth – TIME.
The time and freedom to enjoy life as you actually wish is the most precious thing in the world.
All it takes is some REAL actual desire.
Find the method you want to copy, find one that meshes with your strengths and sensibilities and get to copying.
You can copy my step by step Blog Money Blueprint System method or you can copy any method you want.
Damn near ANYTHING that you want to copy can be found online.
If you cannot find a method on the internet there is a little known secret that Entrepreneurs have been using for centuries…
This secret is called….
ASKING QUESTIONS.
Find someone who does what you want to do and THEN… go ask them questions.
Take them to lunch or for a beer and THEN… go pick their brain.
Most people are happy to talk about their business and themselves.
All you have to do is pick their brain.
A tiny little nugget of seemingly throw-away information could prove to be absolutely invaluable to YOU.
Instead of being Jealous of Johnny you can pick Winner Johnny’s brain and find out what he did to build what he has built.
You may find out that YOU were jealous for absolutely NO REASON.
You may find out that MOST entrepreneurs are NOT super smart geniuses, they are just regular people who decided to follow and copy the method of other tried and true pros.
Heck, you may come to find out that YOU can do the EXACT SAME THING.
Until next time.
Your man,
-Elijah “The Realist”
