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There Are No Limits To Success

March 13, 2014 by Marc Guberti Leave a Comment

The easier road is to make up your own limits. It is easier to say that your boss won’t give you a raise than it is to work more often to eventually get the raise. It is easier to say that you are not qualified to write a blog post every day. The more challenging task is to write the blog post every day and get better results.

It is easier to give ourselves limits and define our boundaries. The problem with setting limitations is that once we start, we get good at it. A 10,000 follower increase becomes the limitation for the year because that’s how much effort will be put into gaining more followers. After a few bad days, the new limitation becomes a 5,000 follower increase for the year. If that goal gets reached, it was a good year for your social network…but it could have been better.

Instead of giving myself limitations, I give myself minimums. Ever since my following count soared, I gave myself a goal to gain over 200,000 followers every year. Although that goal sounds crazy, the rate in which I have been gaining followers will result in 200,000 followers every year (as long as the rate is consistent). I could gain more than 200,000 followers, but that is my minimum.

Limits prevent growth. Setting minimums and striving to exceed those minimums encourages growth.

Filed Under: Mindset, Motivation, Success Tagged With: how to be successful, how to become successful, motivational stories

Intangibles Define Us, Not Statistics

March 11, 2014 by Marc Guberti Leave a Comment

Statistics are there, but they can easily get changed. A blogger who is getting 0 visitors a day can end up getting over 100,000 daily visitors at some point in his career. The person who consistently gains 20 followers every day can suddenly end up gaining 300 followers every day.

The Denver Broncos were favored by a landslide to win the Super Bowl against the Seahawks. That did not happen, and the Broncos lost by a long shot. We commonly think that statistics define the best. However, statistics change. We need to focus more on the intangibles to see who the leaders are.

The intangibles are the persistence, consistency, the desire to be successful, and other traits of well-known leaders. While the statistics say hopeless, the intangibles say success story. When the Patriots chose Tom Brady in the 6th round of the draft, he was a back-up quarterback for his college and ran at pedestrian speeds. No one had any idea what the Patriots saw in Brady. Tom Brady ended up becoming one of the best quarterbacks in the history of the sport. The New England Patriots were not looking at the statistics. They were looking at the intangibles.

Statistics are not enough. Some of the people with good statistics don’t want to put in the long hours to get better. The people who have good intangibles are the ones who catch up to the statistic leaders. The intangibles allow some bloggers to go from 0 visitors to 100,000 daily visitors.

Statistics are important, but the intangibles are more important.

 

Filed Under: Business, Entrepreneur, Motivation Tagged With: how to be successful, inspirational stories, motivational stories

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