Sten Morgan - 7 Mindsets of Success

Mindsets of Success

Mindsets

of Success

WHAT YOU REALLY NEED TO
DO TO ACHIEVE RAPID,
TOP-LEVEL SUCCESS

STEN MORGAN

NEW YORK

NASHVILLE MELBOURNE VANCOUVER

Mindsets of Success

What You Really Need To Do To
Achieve Rapid, Top-Level Success

2017 STEN MORGAN

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Almost every successful person begins with two beliefs: The future can be better than the present. And I have the power to make it so.

David Brooks

Your life doesnt look like you planned. Youve worked hard, read the right books, talked to the right people, but youre exactly where you were a year ago. In your most honest moments, youre afraid if something doesnt change soon, youll be in the same place again next year.

Maybe your business isnt taking off like youd imagined. Maybe you feel like youre wasting your days at a job that isnt getting you anywhere. You have an idea or a dream, but dont know the first step to get started.

Youve tried to get the success you wanted. Youve asked for the raise, youve made the sales calls, youve put in the hours, but no matter what you do, you keep falling short of your goals. Sometimes youre so afraid of failing again that you stop trying altogether, and settle for just getting by.

Youre tired of books, seminars, meetings, and classes that promise you success, but leave you in a perpetual place of stagnation. Maybe youre even starting to feel guilty or ashamed that youre still here when you dream to be there .

Will you ever get the kind of success you want?

Sure, you can probably scrape by with what youre doing now. Youll be able to pay your bills, maybe provide for your family, and if youre lucky, be able to save up enough for that new car or better house.

This isnt what you want though. Youre unfulfilled, exhausted, and growing more jaded with each passing day.

I promise you that weeks will turn into months that turn into years. Before you know it, youll be looking back at your life wondering where the time went, and more importantly when you gave up. Youll have accepted that mediocrity and mundane are your normal.

Are you willing to look back on your life and imagine what it could have been? The consequences of your inaction are irreversible. Maybe you picked up this book because you want to do something about it.

I know what its like to struggle with these questions. Ive been there. And Ive helped myself and others out of this place.

By the age of 22, I was jointly managing over $160 million worth of assets. Just out of college, in a brand-new city, fresh out of an investment internship where I ranked in the top 10 percent of interns nationally, I got an incredible job at a high-level investment firm.

If only it had lasted.

After three years of working for this investment firm, I realized it was going in a different direction than I was. I couldve kept working there, making a decent amount of money and been fine. But I wanted something more. One day, in the middle of a dispute with my boss, I left the company. I was ready to do it on my own. To build my business and finally get the success I wanted.

Of course, if success was easy, everyone would have it.

Moving on looked a lot different than I anticipated. During these months, there were nights I had to tell my wife, We only have $40 to spend this week. Did you fill up your gas tank? Lets try to not use the car and eat only what we have in the cupboards.

We had to put limits on what we ate and where we could drive because we couldnt afford the gas. We had to put limits on everything we did.

You might think because I run a successful business now, that I am detached from the reality of starting from nothing and living paycheck to paycheck. Im not. This all took place only four years ago. Im here to tell you that this kind of situation is normal. Success must be earned. None of us have it fall into our laps.

I knew it was in my power to achieve success, and over the last four years I was able to completely build a top-level, successful financial advisement business from the ground up.

Success does take hard work and activity will get results, but the kind of rapid growth I experienced in building my business from nothing to managing 120 million dollars in just three years takes something more . I do not believe that success is something uncontrollable or unpredictable. I believe success is different for everyone, but that everyone can attain it.

What did I do differently?

The first thing I did when I started my business was to define what success looked like for me. I have a close friend whos about ten years ahead of me in the business. When he first started out, he defined success as making a million dollars. After he made it, his goal was to make two million. He did it again. He made the two million dollars. But he still wasnt satisfied with the success he had.

Im not fulfilled, he told me over breakfast this morning. Im lost and Im divorced. I had to sacrifice a good marriage to gain that success. I have no kids, and two of my three assistants quit on me today.

As I heard these things, I thought to myself, If I define success by the amount of money I make, it could disappear in a day.

You need to decide what success means for you. Im not going to tell you defining your success by a number is wrong. Im going to tell you I wont do it. I defined what success meant for me a long time ago, and it has more to do with my family, personal growth, and my integrity than it does with how much money I make.

Google defines success is more of a journey about reaching your full potential in business, personal growth, and in your family life.

To reach your full potential is an interesting concept. You might have the most successful day of your life, but does that mean that tomorrow cant be better? If you make a million dollars this year, is that where you give up or do you push further, higher, and harder? Success is an everyday pursuit of getting closer to a goal and when you reach it, finally realizing you can do even more. I never thought I could write a book, but after finishing such a difficult project, Ive found I can. I also know that I wont stop here.