Why, if you take a look at people who were all exposed to the same things in life, do they all have different results? You will find that some of them are now very successful, some of them are mildly successful and some have not experienced any level of success. What is the difference between the person and the result if they were all exposed to the same opportunities? Why does one person have success while the others will never experience that level of accomplishment?
Some people have success while others don’t because the successful one made the simple choice to do the easy things in life while the other found in easy not to do those things. The successful person read those personal development books while it was easy for the other person to not read those books. The successful person did what he was supposed to be doing out of integrity while the other person found it easy to lie a little and cheat. The successful person decided to apply simple practices into his life such as mediation, goal setting and visualization while the other person decided to watch TV. You see, these are all simple things, but yet so easy to not do. The list can go on!
Chances are, the unsuccessful person knows that he should be doing more with his life than what he is doing, but fails to take action and do them. “Not doing the things we know we should do causes us to feel guilty and guilt leads to an erosion of self-confidence. As our self-confidence diminishes, so does the level of our activity. And as our activity diminishes, our results inevitably decline. And as our results suffer, our attitude begins to weaken. And as our attitude begins the slow shift from positive to negative, our self-confidence diminishes even more… and on and on it goes.” -Jim Rohn.
So you see, do what you know you should be doing. It has a greater effect on your results than you truly realize.