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I've been a lurker for quite a while, but have been trying to contribute a little more to the conversations when I feel like I have some value to add. This is partly a rant, but in the end, I want to believe that I'm not alone. Maybe there is someone else out there who is just getting started or who is new and can relate. This is also partly just some things I had on my mind that I wanted to throw out there.
Today, while at work, I listened to this podcast by the MFCEO Project (6 minutes):
Don't Be a Success Zombie
A Success Zombie is someone who goes out there and listens to every podcast, reads every book, listens to every motivational speaker, and attends every single conference. Those people acquire all of this knowledge, but don't take any action toward creating anything. At the end, I felt like he reached through the computer and punched me square in the face:
I have to publicly admit that I am a success zombie and I fear waking up one day and regretting all the things I didn't do.
I spend so much time reading blogs, which gives me ideas for books to read.
I listen to podcasts, which motivate me and inspire me. I watch youtube videos to learn.
"Oh, you want to actually commit to something?" -- Remember that article that you haven't read for the last 2 months? It's suddenly really interesting!
"Now, you want to start something?" -- That book over there is whispering your name.
"Check out this guy on Youtube. He's awesome." -- Here's two more books you should read.
"Ok, when I'm done reading this book, I'm really going to get started." -- Wait, let me finish watching this YouTube series.
"That edX course you haven't touched in 3 months?" -- Let's start that again and not finish it.
It's the constant quick fix of an adrenaline rush of the learning loop. I believe in myself and I see all the possibilities, but yet, I sit here and dream of a better life. I imagine how I want to do so many great things for the world, but it's the little voice in the back of my head that says, "you can't do that," or "you're too late, there's too much competition," or "it's not going to work for you." It's frustrating. It's an aimless loop of self-doubt and avoiding failure.
I truly believe The Millionaire Fastlane and this forum is one of the greatest resources the internet has ever seen, and that includes the brilliant minds who give so much time to providing amazing content here. I want to subscribe to the INSIDERS forum, but it's almost like I don't feel worthy of it. Please, whatever you do, don't be like me. Get out there and get started. Make a decision, commit to something, and make it work.
Today, while at work, I listened to this podcast by the MFCEO Project (6 minutes):
Don't Be a Success Zombie
A Success Zombie is someone who goes out there and listens to every podcast, reads every book, listens to every motivational speaker, and attends every single conference. Those people acquire all of this knowledge, but don't take any action toward creating anything. At the end, I felt like he reached through the computer and punched me square in the face:
"Go out right now, don't go onto somebody else's podcast, don't go on F*cking Instagram, don't go on Facebook, go out right now, make a phone call, make an email, go meet somebody, work on a project, complete something that is going to F*cking move you forward. Because life is not about 100% learning. I could sit you in front of every success person on the face of the earth that has ever existed. Tony Robbins, Dale Carnegie, Napoleon Hill. You could take all the great business leaders in the last 100 years, put them in this room, let them talk 24 hours a day, and you could learn everything they could teach you, but unless you go out and you F*cking execute on a daily basis, you're never going to accomplish anything and nobody is going to remember your F*cking name when you're dead."
I have to publicly admit that I am a success zombie and I fear waking up one day and regretting all the things I didn't do.
I spend so much time reading blogs, which gives me ideas for books to read.
I listen to podcasts, which motivate me and inspire me. I watch youtube videos to learn.
"Oh, you want to actually commit to something?" -- Remember that article that you haven't read for the last 2 months? It's suddenly really interesting!
"Now, you want to start something?" -- That book over there is whispering your name.
"Check out this guy on Youtube. He's awesome." -- Here's two more books you should read.
"Ok, when I'm done reading this book, I'm really going to get started." -- Wait, let me finish watching this YouTube series.
"That edX course you haven't touched in 3 months?" -- Let's start that again and not finish it.
It's the constant quick fix of an adrenaline rush of the learning loop. I believe in myself and I see all the possibilities, but yet, I sit here and dream of a better life. I imagine how I want to do so many great things for the world, but it's the little voice in the back of my head that says, "you can't do that," or "you're too late, there's too much competition," or "it's not going to work for you." It's frustrating. It's an aimless loop of self-doubt and avoiding failure.
I truly believe The Millionaire Fastlane and this forum is one of the greatest resources the internet has ever seen, and that includes the brilliant minds who give so much time to providing amazing content here. I want to subscribe to the INSIDERS forum, but it's almost like I don't feel worthy of it. Please, whatever you do, don't be like me. Get out there and get started. Make a decision, commit to something, and make it work.
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