T. Harv Eker questions whether he was the kind of person who could become wealthy or successful, inspects his then-habits (late nights, partying, inconsistent workdays), and reports that after comparing himself to a written checklist of an "ultimate success" person he scored 0/20 — prompting the decision to work on himself and change habits.
Are you the kind of person that could be wealthy? Are you the kind of person that will be successful in an arena? And I looked at my habits, and I looked at my mindset, and I looked at my character at the time. And to be honest, I said, no, I don't work that much. Okay. I got more. More ideas than putting in hours. I don't actually. I don't have good habits. You know, I'll get up when I get up, and I go on, and I go to sleep at 2, 3 in the morning. And I still was partying in my 20s and going to clubs and bars and dancing in a single. So that. That says all that needs to be said about that. And. And, you know, it was like, Friday, you didn't work because it's almost a weekend. Saturday, you're partying. Saturday night you're like, whatever. Sunday, you're recovering. Monday, you're still recovering. Got a half day of Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, maybe, and then it's back to Friday. It's like, I started thinking about this. I said, you know, you're. You're not the. I started. I wrote down, so what would be the ultimate success robot? Like, if you could paint a person that was a. This is the kind of person. This is the character they would have. This is the habits they would have. This is the beliefs they would have. This is the mindset. What would that look like? And I wrote them all down, and I didn't have any of them. I was, like, completely a zero out of 20. So that was my next thing. I said, you know what? I need to work on me.
