The Formula for Success does not equal the formula for success.

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Shout out to Uncle Rog my tattoo guy at Guns’N Needles tattoo in Minneapolis. My wife makes a cinnamon cake that is madly delicious and it is her own secret formula. I gave it to Rog and he wanted it… BAD! For his mama. So he talked to her and we cut a deal on sharing secret formulas/recipes with each other. Sweet and sour Hawaiian chicken. 

 

What is your secret sauce? Your secret formula for success? 

 

When do you fire at your highest level of achievement? 

What gets you there?

 

It is a tricky question because if and when I answer it you will want to copy it if you don’t already have one.

I have a friend who needs lots of time alone, he needs heady theological books, he bikes long distance, his wife and he spend hours making candles and crafts, he loves to listen to the bible on his iPod and he works out stuff on paper. He is great on a team but not as the leader. He can spend hours talking things through and thinks everyone should have a say. He loves to work from 1pm till 11pm… AND HE IS VERY SUCCESSFUL, his motto is it will all work out.

*if I tried to live his life? I would fail miserably and I would go crazy… first off what man makes candles… and rides a bike? My bike is a motorcycle. 

 

But we do it right? We hear a sermon on giving and a guy says God told me to give my whole check to the missions in Africa and God blessed me and I received 5x’s as much the next month. AND WE WANT TO COPY THE FORMULA.

Look, life is not like making coke a’cola. That has a secret formula… but you have to find out your own secret formula for success.

 

Here is how I make sure I have created the environment to accomplish life at its highest degree for me. 

Here are the things that go into my secret formula. I have to read books on leadership, psychology, business and entrepreneurship. I don’t read hardly if any spiritual books. But I read a ton of the Bible every day.

I pray on average 2 hours a day.

I need people and lots of activity. 

I get more done being busy than having time on my hands.

I need to work out because it challenges me.

I need to talk things out to myself and not write them out.

I am most creative alone and you will only slow me down.

I know what I do best with my wife and it is 1-2 hours a day just hanging out on our computers, reading or watching a movie. 

I have to be the leader, I work best early in the morning until 11am and late at night like 10pm-1am. and I am worthless from 2-4pm which is why I work out sometime during that spot. 

I keep tons of lists all over the place and I journal a lot. 

My Mantra is Make God Look Good. 

 

Look there is no shortage on how to be a success articles and books and podcasts… they are all probably good and usable to some degree… but they are not YOUR formula for success. Because only you can know it, tweak it and work it.

 

Years ago I was asked to come and be a part of a conference for youth workers from around the country. It was put on by a pretty famous psychiatrist and she was looking for all of us to come together and learn and work through her material called “The 12 things your student doesn’t know and needs to”. After the first full day she would ask all of us to get into groups and write out ways to bring life to the presentation, ideas, stories, games and etc… I sat in a group for about 10 minutes and about lost my mind. I just simply excused myself and went and sat alone. The Good doctor came up to me sweetly and assumed I was just simply working on my own stuff and not hers. I explained to her I work best in these scenarios alone. She challenged me and I said “why don’t you let me work today alone and if is not up to your standards I will gladly work with a group the rest of the week”. That week everyone after the meeting wanted to go out and eat, see a movie, just chill… I didn’t. I knew I had to keep my environment in order to stay at a high level of production. At the end of the week she came up to me and said “I have looked over your input and I am using all of it exclusively for the book and I would like you to help me with an audio version”. 

WHAT WOULD HAVE HAPPENED IF I HAD TRIED TO KEEP OTHERS SUCCESS PLAN? 

 

If you read as much as I do you will quickly learn that every successful leader has principles they live by and they are all very similar but the application is always different than others and they have tailor made it for themselves. 

 

An interview of over 5000 successful business leaders revealed some major characteristics.

  -  They all knew they had a greater calling than most

  -  They all knew they needed to be rich

  -  They all read lots of books 

  -  They all believed they were different from others

  -  They all had huge dreams and goals 

  -  The all had no fear of failure

 

but the one thing the survey showed beyond a doubt… they all lived these out in their daily lives dramatically different. 

 

3 John 1:2 Dear friend, I pray that you may enjoy good health and that all may go well with you, even as your soul is getting along well.

 

any and of every kind that will create the whole/success. Find out what ways work best for you.