Successful People are Happy

My number one tip to business owners and sales and marketing professionals that are trying to grow their business and have a life is this – Successful People are Happy!  It seems obvious that successful people are happy because they enjoy the money, free time, and flexibility that comes with that success.  However, the real point is you aren’t going to be happy if you aren’t happy in your work.  Let’s face it – if you aren’t happy in your work, then you aren’t happy.

In one of my favorite films, The Shawshank Redemption, Red (Morgan Freeman) comments on the walls of the prison to explain to his inmates what it means to be institutionalized, "These walls are funny.  First you hate ’em, then you get used to ’em. Enough time passes, you get so you depend on them."  What are the walls in your business?   What’s keeping you from being successful because you’ve become so accustomed to what you used to struggle with that now you practically depend on it?  Just ask the question.  Don’t worry about the answer as that will come.  You can’t fool yourself.  Eventually, you’ll break out of that prison and start achieving the success that was meant for you.

Well, Red also comments in the movie, when finally is ready to break out of his dead-end parole job – "Get busy livin’ or get busy dying."  All it takes is a decision to be happy – to be successful.  You can even debate which comes first, because the truth is they both come at the same time.

  

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