You will receive from the world who you become. The world is so obsessed with goals. The world is so obsessed with externals, but the doorway to success, I suggest to you, swings inward, not outward. And the best way to have a game-changing life and the best way to have a world-class lifestyle and the best way to change the world is to change yourself.
I mean, we get from life who we become. I was having a conversation with my Mom last night, and we were talking about goals and setting big dreams. And what I offered to her was it’s great to have external success, but the real value of external success is who you had to become as a person and what you had to build in terms of your character and the capacities and the talents you had to polish to get the external success.
I mean, that’s the real value of success, you build, let’s say a great business or a great family life, that’s awesome. But who did you have to become? What did you have to overcome? What talents did you have to learn in order to get to world class? That’s the real value.
And even if you lose the external success, you get to keep the internal gold for the rest of your life. And so I just invite you to play with the idea, which is you receive from life who you are and the single best move to be a game-changer is to work on your character, work on your emotional architecture, work on your mindset, work on your spiritual life.
And then you become this force of nature that becomes invincible. And you become this force of nature that radiates this enthusiasm and this inspiration and this self-belief, that really brings everyone around you into your dream.
And that’s why John F. Kennedy, and that’s why Martin Luther King Jr. They didn’t really execute on the dream. They executed on their internal power so that the people around them felt the dream and did the work. And that’s really what leadership is all about.