The Secret to Success: The Bigger Picture

He’s got it. There will always be those people others whisper about. The girl at your high school that everyone seems to know. That guy who’s running for student body president that acts like he’s already got the election in the bag. And you know what? He does–he has it in the bag. The election is weeks away but you know he’s a shoe-in and what’s strange is everybody else knows it too. Heck, that guy probably isn’t even arrogant about his upcoming success. He’s just, well him.

This is confidence, this mindset, this way of looking at the world is out there for the taking. However, most of us don’t know how to get it when we’re young. It comes naturally to some people and others are just paid attention and were smart enough to adopt it as their own. But for the rest of us, for those of us who for whatever reason didn’t pick it up early, here’s the secret. You’ve got bigger fish to fry.

I’ve been in groups my whole life and you know who was always the superstar? Who was always the leader? The guy or girl that had something else better going on. The fraternity was just another thing he was in, it wasn’t his life. Being a student senator was fun, but she was going to be a US senator one day so this was a good start.

There are probably a couple of different ways to grab hold of this attitude . You can take your pick of affirmations, mental images, and positive thinking. But thinking of something bigger and better gives you perspective and that comes naturally to human instincts. We feel safe as kids because our parents take care of everything. We feel protected in school because our big brother will deck any kid that tries to mess with us. And if we’re smart, we feel secure in this world because we believe the man upstairs has our back.

Having a winning mindset is no different. When a problem arises, realize you’ve got bigger an better things, this is nothing. When you’re at that job interview, you should be overqualified because you’re already two steps ahead.

The biggest mistake I made as a college student was thinking a degree was going to make me—make me successful, make me employable. If I had to do it all over again,, I would have treated college like the milestone it really is. If I had been looking beyond college, the day to day wouldn’t have fazed me. If had been reaching for the stars I would have at least landed on the moon.

You can be a moon walker too.