One thing that is common among every successful person I know. They want it more than anybody else. Most people want it...up to a point...up until the point that it really starts to hurt. The ones who are successful-- they just want it so much they seem to will success into existence.
That doesn't mean they work 24 hours a day. They just have an extra gear--no. That's not enough. They have ten extra gears. When everybody else quits, they are just getting started. They end up doing more than most people could ever dream possible because they've developed those gears over time--when everybody else decided it was too hard to even try.
And you can see it in them. It emanates through them. You can see a fire in their souls that burns brighter every day. They are hungry for success--and they are willing to suffer to get it. When people tell them what to do--they don't say "wow that is hard". They say "cool. How do I make that happen?" and then they do it.
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