Why you have to master the mundane to master success in every area of life
The secret to extraordinary success lies in the day-to-day.
Look at them, the famous, the stars, the successful entrepreneurs, and the leading thinkers.
But also see the people with happy, long-term relationships, the exemplary parents and the sporty men and women from your neighborhood. What do they all have in common?
A rich parental home? Above-average luck? Are they perhaps even geniuses?
None of this is true. These are fairy tales that we tell ourselves to explain why they are the ones who have everything we want. There is only one thing unique about these successful people: they have been doing for a long time what each of us can do to achieve extraordinary success. Only that they do and most others don’t.
When we realize how important our small everyday decisions are and act upon them, we can be extraordinary ourselves. No, we not only can, but we also will.
The myth of overnight success
When the media writes about stars and other high flyers, they like to draw the picture of a meteoric ascent that seemed to come out of nowhere and is due to a single, memorable event.
It’s about the day when the agent of a big record company happened to be in the small club where the band that tours the world today performed. It’s about the one signature under one contract that made the young entrepreneur ridiculously rich from one hour to the next.
It’s always about fateful moments, breathtaking all-or-nothing situations, or stellar moments in which the one final thought was born.
In fact, these stories are almost always beautiful fairy tales.
The road to success is boring
Yeah, you read right. Becoming a bestselling author or an Olympic champion is not glamorous, but at best mundane and at worst incredibly annoying on most days.
Because let’s be honest: How else can you achieve the necessary brilliance in a discipline without doing the same things for years, day in, day out, over and over again?
The world-class pianist had spent thousands of hours alone at the piano, refraining from meetings with her friends and fighting against herself before she arrived up there on stage.
The Oscar winner ran from one casting to the next as a young man, lived in crowded flat-sharing communities and ate out of cans, like all the other young actors, before getting his first role.
The bestselling author was rejected by a hundred publishers and didn’t know how to pay her rent until the first contract was finally signed and she made some money with it.
But none of them gave up. You can only give up if you don’t know if you will ever be successful. But if you don’t know that, you don’t understand one of the fundamental truths of life: You have to master the mundane to master success.
It is everyday life on the road to success that separates the wheat from the chaff. Those who give up have failed, but not because they didn’t have a chance. They just weren’t willing to do what was necessary — hold on a little longer, work a little harder.
You have to understand that after a while everything feels like everyday life, no matter what your high goals are. The initial kick, when you start something new and tackle a big goal, passes quickly. Everyday life sets in and stifles the fire of passion that has helped you over the first days and weeks.
But there is a chance to get through this phase and continue: To know that this monotonous everyday life is the key to the gate to extraordinary success.
How to master the mundane
You have a good chance of achieving your goals if you know in advance that it will be exhausting, frustrating, and tedious.
You will have even better chances if you know at the same time that your path will not go straight up and that there will be setbacks — hard setbacks.
But all this won’t do you right if you don’t remember every day what you’re doing and enduring all this for.
The only way to make sure that you don’t lose sight of your goal is to deal daily with the future you aspire to.
Therefore, why is almost always much more important than how. If you don’t have a clear vision of your goal, you won’t get anywhere.
Just wanting more money or a more exciting life is not enough. If you are asked, you must be able to describe your goals in the most dazzling colors with the strongest emotions. If you can’t do that, you’re on your way to nothing.
Embracing the monotony and everyday life is the essential prerequisite for an extraordinary life and outstanding success. And success is not always measured in money and fame.
Success is also a fulfilled partnership, to be a role model for one’s children or to rest content in oneself.
But no matter what you personally understand by success — it always arises from the fact that you master the mundane and do every day without exception what is necessary.
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