How To Get To The Next Level

So many of us want to get to the next level but there is one thing that many of us are not willing to do to get there.

I'm a firm believer that if you want to change your life then you have to change your thinking. There is no way that you can think the same way you have been thinking for years and get to the next level.

Scarcity Mindset vs Abundance Mindset

Scarcity Mindset

There is this notion going around that everything is scarce. This ideology has been perpetuated for as long as I can remember. It is one of the main tools that marketers use to sell you something. They feed you BS and tell you that this is the only time you will be able to get this deal or to be able to have something when it couldn't be farther from the truth. When you are in the scarce mindset you leave yourself vulnerable to any and everything. It leads you to making irrational decisions and taking unnecessary risks. Reevaluate your situation and decide whether you are the one playing the game or the one who is getting played.

Abundance Mindset

The abundance mindset is where our minds should be each and every day. The reality of life is that if something runs out or ends, it will always be replenished. Nature itself teaches us that. The way I see it, everything works on a cycle. Anything that goes away always, and I mean always, come back again. It may not look or sound exactly the same as it did before but trust that it's coming back. You can take a look at our four seasons and see this over and over again.

The same way there is an abundance in nature, this is an abundance in opportunity and success. I don't care what the conditions are or how bad the economy is, there is always an opportunity available. There will never be a time in your life where you don't have an opportunity to do something. If you quit or get fired from your job, guess what, there's a million more out there. If your business feels like it has hit a wall, guess what, there is an opportunity to make it grow even more. If your wife has left you, guess what, there is an opportunity to get her back.

Will each opportunity you take turn into success? Of course not. If that happened then everybody would be successful, but if you increase the amount of opportunities you take then your chances for success goes up. In life I see it constantly, the successful people are always on the go while the complainers never take action, they just whine. Remember to model your life after the successful people.

Complainers

I used to be a complainer and as a matter of fact I think we all were at some point. I would blame every undesirable thing that happened at my job on the people or management. You see, every job I have had I always aimed to be the best at it. I always tried to put up the best numbers and in doing so I had expected to be given a higher position. Any time this didn't happen I would blame others. I would say well this person doesn't like me or this person is their favorite or find some other lame excuse.

What it all boiled down to was that I didn't want it enough.

Now how do I know this? Because if I did I would have never quit without achieving my goal. If I had been dead set on accomplishing the goal I set out, nothing or nobody would have stopped me. Look at the people who move up in your job, they did something to get there whether you think they deserved it or not. They got there whether they did it the ethical way or unethical way, please be ethical with your decisions. They took enough opportunities to gain the success they desired.

Next time you find yourself complaining and blaming others, ask yourself, do you really want what you are trying to get? Are you really giving it everything to obtain the objective or did the person who wanted it more just blow you out the water?

For me I had to realize that I didn't want the corporate life bad enough. I have the skills to thrive within it but I just simply didn't want it as bad as the next person.

Successful People

Successful people are like lions! They are the Kings and Queens of the many jungles, remember there are no shortages, and when they walk into the room you know it. They will slay, devour, and hammer any problem or situation that gets in it's way. These people go so hard that when you see them work it makes you feel like you're not doing anything at all. They blow past all of the competition because they do things that nobody else is willing to do. They are not the most intelligent, they are not the most gifted, and they definitely are not the most qualified. What they are though is the most driven.

In life it is hard to obtain this type of thinking because we are filled with mediocracy. We were taught to be average all of our lives. We are taught to accept the norm.

Ask yourself, when was the last time you truly went over and beyond? And when I say over and beyond I mean doing something that you know nobody has done in your space.

Conclusion

I hope I was able to assist you in changing your thinking to get to the next level.

As I always say, Steemit is therapeutic for me because when I write these posts, I am speaking to myself just as much as I'm speaking to others.

Ask yourself one more time, Do you want it enough???

Till next time Steemians...Steem On!!!