Vishen Lakhiani argues that hard work alone doesn't guarantee success. What matters is working on the right things and becoming the person you want to be first. He wrote down he wanted to be CEO of Mindvalley, then learned the whole organization and took actions a CEO would take, before the title followed.
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Working so much harder. I should be making more money. Why am I not making more money? And what I've learned to recognize is that you may be working really, really hard, but what you're working on is what really determines how much you will actually make. And Universe will always reward me very fairly. There was a time in my life where I decided that I want to be the CEO of mindvalley. And we do this wonderful thing called the three Most Important Questions, where we answer questions like contribution, experiences and opportunities that one person would like working for the company. And so I wrote down, wrote that down, my three most important questions. What it did was it created a gap in my practical life, because in my practical life, I recognized that to be the CEO of mindvalley, you have to ask yourself, why should you be rewarded that position? And that brings you the awareness of that you are always rewarded where you are right now. And at the same time, what you do is you go, okay, if I want to be rewarded like a CEO of a company, I must become the CEO before I will be rewarded. You need to feel that feeling. You need to take the actions. You need to behave as if you were in a position of CEO of a company. What it did for me is because I had that gap. I recognized to be the CEO of any company, you must have an understanding of the entirety of the organization. That made me very interested in all the other dimensions of the organization. Without any expectation that it will take me three years or 30 years to become the CEO of the company. I didn't have a time expectation. I.
