Everyone has a past. That’s just the truth. Everyone has a past, everyone makes mistakes, and everyone has failed. The truth is that achieving success isn’t about avoiding mistakes, it’s about what you do with your failures.
Look back. Think about someone who told you you weren’t going to be successful in life. Maybe it was a friend, your school bully, a coworker, or your boss. Even if the person who told you you would fail was a family member, close friend, or parent, you can prove them wrong.
But you probably won’t prove them wrong if that’s your main focus. Success is the best revenge, but successful people don’t focus on the people who tried to hold them back.
Why Is Success The Best Revenge
A lot of people have said that success is the best revenge, but why? What is it about success that’s better than other kinds of revenge, or direct revenge?
For one thing, when you achieve success it’s all about you. You reap the benefits of your own success, whether that’s financial independence, opportunities to build wealth, true friends, or simply finding the best version of yourself.
Success is about you. Revenge is about the people who hurt you. Who would you rather focus on?
Most successful people are a lot more focused on themselves and achieving their dreams than on seeking revenge. But successful people also say that proving their naysayers wrong was the best revenge they could have gotten.
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Give Yourself Freedom From Seeking Revenge
Not everyone manages to give themselves freedom from wanting revenge. While revenge can be a source of motivation in some cases, success is the best revenge because it proves that you freed yourself from other people’s expectations and learned how to succeed on your own.
Think about how much energy is bound up in wanting revenge, in wanting to prove people wrong. Now think about what you could do with all of that energy, what you could achieve if you weren’t focused on proving people wrong.
Success is the best revenge, but you get success by giving yourself the freedom not to care about what other people think.
“The Best Revenge Is Massive Success” -Frank Sinatra, How To Reframe To Achieve Success
If you’re focused on finding the best revenge and getting people back for past wrongs, you probably won’t be able to be terribly successful. Here are some of the benefits of focusing on yourself and on success, whatever that means to you.
Figure Out Who You Really Are
One of the biggest reasons people want revenge is that someone challenge who they thought they were. Maybe someone close to you even changed your perception of you who you are.
One of the main benefits of focusing on your own success instead of revenge is that you give yourself a chance to find out who you are, without the doubt and without the pressure to get revenge.
Maybe success means something different to you than you thought, or your standards for financial success are different from your naysayers.
Once you know who you are and what you want, it’s a lot easier to stay focused.
Figuring out who you are isn’t just about having a strong sense of self. It’s also about knowing what gives you confidence, what makes you feel like you’ve achieved something, and what you want from your life.
Quiet Achievement and Self Motivation
Once you know who you are, it’s a lot easier to reach success. There are a couple of reasons for that. For one thing, you’re more likely to be internally motivated. Your motivation comes from wanting to reach your goals, proving someone wrong is just a side benefit of reaching those goals.
It also makes it a lot easier to have lots of quiet achievements. If you’re focused on your own goals in life it’s easier to put in long hours and reach successes without needing other people to tell you you’ve made an achievement.
Let people around you wonder how you do it. Your own goals and motivation are the best revenge you could possibly get.
Victory Is Better After Failure
Think about how many failures most successful people have before they succeeded. How did they do it? How did they keep going after so many previous failures?
It’s simple. Victory feels better after failure. Success makes for great revenge but believing you can reach success even after setbacks also just feels good.
Most people don’t have an easy path to their most important goals. But you can see the satisfaction and confidence who put in the hard work to succeed.
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How To Become A Massive Success
Once you know who you are, are self-motivated, and have reframed your focus to achieve success, you still need to know how to get there.
These tips will help no matter what kind of success you’re looking for. A lot of these things are focused on getting financial freedom because that’s a stable foundation for most kinds of success. But, we know that there’s a lot more to success than just making more money than other people.
If you’re ready to be successful, here’s how you can make it happen.
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Learn How You Define Success
Knowing your personal definition of success is the first step toward making yourself a massive success. For some people, financial independence is the main goal of success. Building wealth and living in luxury may be other signs of success for money-motivated people.
But your idea of success may be something completely different. You may find satisfaction in life working a job that helps people. Or your idea of success might be learning how to be a better best friend, or getting free of debt and living simply.
Maybe you’re less concerned with money, but you want power. You want to be someone who influences others, or maybe success is being your own boss and owning your own business. Maybe you just want to be able to spend more time at home with your family, more time doing the things you love.
One truth of almost all kinds of success is that you’re going to have to work hard to get there. But looking forward and focusing on the kind of success you want in life will help you get there.
Set Financial Goals
No matter what kind of success you’re looking for, taking care of your finances is part of how you get there. Money is important for stability, even if having money isn’t your primary goal. That’s why it’s important to set financial goals and work to accomplish those goals.
Here are some important ways to build financial stability so you can accomplish everything you want to.
Create A Reasonable Budget
Money holds a lot of people back. It shouldn’t hold you back.
Start by creating a reasonable budget for the money you have right now. It’s okay to plan on having more money in the future, if you have a plan for how to get there, but having a good budget right now will help you accomplish a lot more.
Consider things like your basic needs, food, shelter and water, or groceries, rent, and utilities, in your budget. Try to have some money for emergencies, and maintain your focus by budgeting for things you like and enjoy.
Even if you’re living on a slim budget right now, you deserve to set aside at least a little money to take care of yourself. After all, you’re the only person who can make your success happen, and you need to have the mental and physical strength to do it.
So it’s not ‘reasonable’ to invest everything into starting a business, but it is reasonable to set aside a little each month to start a business, and a little on comforts to help you get there.
Make A Savings Plan
Having a clear budget is a good first step, but you also need to have a plan to start saving for the future if you want long-term stability. Saving for emergencies, big purchases, and for your goals is incredibly important.
Successful people consistently say that saving for the future is one of the biggest things they did differently and that helped them achieve their goals.
Your savings plan should be part of your budget, but it’s also its own piece. For instance, saving for emergencies should be separate for saving for a mortgage or to start your own business. That way when emergencies happen they don’t come at the risk of future failure.
Having saving set aside is also one of the biggest ways you can make sure you can support your goals.
Ideally, you should have enough savings for several months of expenses before you start spending money on things designed to build wealth or meet other important goals.
If you can, paying down your debt should be part of your savings plan. Once you don’t have debt payments you have to worry about your money is much more flexible and it’s a lot easier to save money.
Invest For A Better Future
Investing money consistently is one of the biggest things that separates successful people from everyone else. Of all the people who’ve achieved big things in their lives, most were invested in the markets and had found ways to create passive income for themselves at some point.
Why is investing money consistently so important?
Because your investments give you consistency and passive income so you have the freedom to task risks and get through failure. One of the big differences between success and failure is how many times you’re willing to fail, and how you recover from failure.
Low-risk investments into things like index funds are a great option when you’re getting started. Eventually, you may want to choose your investments individually to support a specific company or social message, but when you’re looking to fund retirement, create stability, or get a nest egg it’s better to choose lower-risk investments.
The Power Of Positive Thinking And Self Discipline
Earning success is as much about your mindset and how hard you’re willing to work as it is about finance. Even if your goals are financial it’s important to have the right mindset to help you get there.
A lot of people talk about the power of positive thinking like positive thinking alone will help you be successful. That isn’t true, you can think positively all day long, but without action, you won’t achieve your goals.
But positive thinking combined with self-discipline, and as a motivation for self-discipline, can be incredibly powerful.
Here’s why positive thinking combined with self-discipline is such a powerful thing.
Positive Thinking Feels Better Than Negativity
A lot of the power of positive thinking is just that it feels better than being negative or constantly focusing on getting revenge. Being positive helps you feel good and have positive reasons to motivate and work hard to achieve your goals.
Feeling better might not seem like a huge benefit, but it really is. When you feel good it’s easier to be confident and to make decisions based on the best available information instead of out of fear or guilt.
It’s also a lot easier to take reasonable risks and work for goals that might seem impossible to others if you’re thinking positively. It might be a long time and take a lot of work to reach your goals, but you’ll be a lot more willing to put in the work if you’re thinking positively.
So how do you start thinking positively?
- Focus on success instead of failure
- Try to find good things in any situation
- Don’t listen to your naysayers and people who don’t believe in you
- Pay attention to when you feel good
- Look for positive thoughts that are more convincing for you
- Keep a gratitude journal
- Focus on the moment instead of the past or the future
There are a lot of ways to develop a more positive mindset, but that quick list is a great way to get started.
Learn What You’re Truly Capable Of
One of the biggest advantages of thinking positively and developing self-motivation is that you can learn what you’re truly capable of.
Positive thinking is actually key here because it’s hard to be at your best if you’re constantly second-guessing your own decisions or doubting you’ll be able to succeed.
Positive thinking gives you the room to actually perform at your best, which will teach you what you can really do.
Knowing what you’re truly capable of also makes it a lot easier to make good decisions and plan your day and your future well.
If you know what you’re capable of you’ll know what you can reasonably accomplish in a day, a week, and month, and a year, for instance. You’ll also know what you’re strengths and weaknesses are, and how you can play to your strengths and overcome your weaknesses.
As you build success, knowing what you’re capable of will also help you evaluate what the people around you are capable of so you can position them for their own success and yours.
Life Is About Learning
One of the things you should embrace on your path to success is that life is about learning. Why does this play into positive thinking and self-discipline? Because if you can approach learning positively you’re a lot more likely to take advantage of new information as it’s presented to you.
It’s also an important part of thinking positively because if you can recognize that you are always going to be learning and always need to learn more, it’s less discouraging to realize that you need to learn something new to meet your goals.
Learning is also an important part of self-discipline. Having the disciple not only to work hard, but to learn hard, and to seek out opportunities to learn new information or techniques to apply to your own goals, will help you succeed faster.
Remember, learning from your failures is one of the best ways you can turn those failures into future success. Learning from your success is one of the best ways to prevent future failures.
That’s why learning never stops, every moment is an opportunity for learning, and an opportunity to learn how to achieve your version of success.
Prove People Wrong Without Trying To
Success might be the best revenge, but being successful isn’t about getting revenge or proving your naysayers wrong. Being successful is about finding your happiness, doing what gives you satisfaction and helps you enjoy your life.
It’s easy to focus on revenge and on past hurts, but you need to do more than that if you really want to be successful.
Success is the best revenge, but you also need to remember that only bad people are definite by revenge and hate.
Successful people focus on themselves, the people they love, and what they can give the world. If you have that, and you’re determined and willing to put in the work, success, and revenge, will come on their own.
Don’t doubt yourself. You can do this.
Final Thoughts on Success is the Best Revenge
While success is the best revenge, I wouldn’t spend your energy trying to hurt another person in this world.
Instead, just focus on moving forward and dealing with your own life and you’ll get there.
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