Why Your Success Helps More Than Just You

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Hi, I'm Wes. Welcome to I Want You to Succeed, But Probably Not for the Reason You Think. Today's leading question, that hopefully you can think about as we go through this episode, is: What becomes possible when you become more successful? Now, that might not sound like it's directly related to the title, but let me explain.

The title is I Want You to Succeed, But Probably Not for the Reason You Think, and the question is, what becomes possible when you become more successful? The correlation here is, I decided to start this business, Your Life Systems, as a way to help people become more successful.

Now, usually what I talk about is becoming more successful by using and implementing systems, creating systems for your life, your business, things like that, that make success more easily attainable or more repeatable, or both. But one of the big reasons that I wanted to do this was because success is not a finite resource.

I've talked about this in the past. I've given a few speeches and trainings based around this, and the two examples I use are: love is not a finite resource. That means that love is not capped. No matter how many children you have, you can love all of them. Because you love one child, it doesn't take away from your love of another child.

The other example I use, if you're around babies or toddlers and they learn about kisses, you know, if they have a boo-boo, you kiss it. Or they're happy to see their mom, and their mom gives them a kiss. Kisses are not a finite resource. You can kiss each child. Same thing about success.

If I'm successful, it doesn't take away your success. It doesn't take away any of the opportunities for you to be successful.

And the thing about successful people—and I've been around a lot of successful people, working with people, helping them achieve success, helping them create systems. I've done a lot of consulting for businesses of all sizes, so I help businesses create success, maintain success, increase success. The thing about successful people is that they tend to help the people around them.

Years and years ago, I was talking to someone, and the point they made to me was, they said, 'Wes, your family deserves the best you.' Because when you're working at your top capacity or your top ability, you benefit, but also everyone that you love and care about benefits also. And that's true.

I've paid attention to that ever since then, and it's true. When I'm working at my peak capacity, when I'm working on success and things are falling into place, I'm in a different mindset. Of course, it helps me financially. I feel better. That's kind of my best life.

And when I'm at my peak like that, the ones that are closest to me benefit from that. I'm easier to live with, for one thing. But they also, whether they directly realize it or not, pick up on the energy and the success that I'm having. And things are easier.

That's kind of hard to put into a distinct definition. But if you start tracking that in your own life, you'll start noticing that those around you and those closest to you can sense when you're doing great. It's something that flows out of you.

And that's the point I'm making here. I want more people to be successful. Because the more people who are successful, it's not taken away from the success of anyone else. And the more people who achieve success, the more people benefit. Not only will you benefit from being more successful, those around you will benefit from your success.

And that's why the question, what becomes possible when you become more successful, ties in with I Want You to Succeed, But Probably Not for the Reason You Think. I want you to succeed because it will change your life, but it will also change everyone's life around you.

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Okay, here's some of the things that success can do to help you and change your life. Success gives you more ability to help the people you care about.

I have a grandchild, about two and a half years old now. First grandchild. Completely changed my life. Now, there were times in my life where I was very tied down to what I was doing and when I had to do it.

But because of the way I've designed my life, and the things I've worked for and developed, and systems I've put into place over my adult life, I have a tremendous amount of freedom now. I have a tremendous amount of time freedom, which I recognized decades ago as the most important type of freedom that I wanted. I also have quite a bit of financial freedom.

I still have to do work, but I do work on my own terms now. Again, this didn't happen overnight. It took decades to get from working a nine-to-five, or whatever. I never worked nine to five. It was more like seven to five, or eight to six, or longer. Whatever. It doesn't matter.

It took a long time and a lot of work to get from there to where I have the time and work freedom that I have now. Back to the grandchild. When the grandchild was born, my wife and I were able to be there.

My wife was able to stay there for the first month to help out with the mom and the new baby. That would not have been possible if I had not been able to be successful like I am now. There are times in my life where that would not have been possible.

Even though our grandchild doesn't live especially close to us, ever since the grandchild's been born, we've been able to go see the grandchild at least once a month. Usually it's more often than that. When we go see the grandchild, it's usually for at least three days at a time because I have the time freedom to do that.

It's a blessing for me. It's a blessing for my wife. It's a blessing for my daughter. It's a blessing for the grandchild. It's all a blessing, but it's because of the success that I've created through systems and work and effort through the last several decades. That's the type of freedom and the type of things that can change in your life.

That's why I want you to be successful. That's why I want you to start using and creating systems in your life and business, or wherever, to improve. To be more successful in life. To be more successful with your health. To be more successful financially. Because it helps you help the people that are most important to you in your life.

It can be your family. It can be your closest friends. Whatever. That's the number one reason you should be searching for more success. Because not only does it help you, it helps you help everyone that's important in your life. More resources of any kind.

Remember I talked about time freedom, financial freedom. Health freedom's another one. More resources can create more choices, freedom, and influence. Now, oftentimes when you hear influence, you think one of two things.

Some people think influence is bad or evil in some way. And other people think of, oh, influence. That's like the influencers on social media.

Influence used correctly is extremely valuable. You don't have to use influence in an evil way. But you can influence things in your life when you start realizing there are things in your life you want to change. And you realize you have the power to start working towards a success that will influence these things in your life.

Just like I said, time freedom. Thirty years ago I had very little time freedom. Now I have a tremendous amount of time freedom. But it's because I intentionally created things in my life, systems, made choices that helped me achieve the time freedom I have now. It didn't happen because I wanted it to.

It happened because I did something about it. I saw it. I decided to do it. I did what it took. And that was a big goal of mine, or a success system that I put into place.

Your success can become evidence for other people that change is possible. If you want to achieve anything, a big goal or large success, you have to make some changes. I had to change things to go from being tied to a job to having the time freedom I have now. I had to change a lot of stuff.

But change is possible if you decide what you want, you figure out the right goal, the right system to put into place, and then you follow it. Success isn't only about what you gain. It affects what you're able to contribute.

My wife and I support a lot of different things because we're able to now. One big thing that bothers me is I don't like people that don't have food. I've never gone without food. I've always been very fortunate, even growing up, always been fortunate. I've never had to worry about food.

But there are people in our community that do struggle with food security or don't have all the food they

need. So we try to help in those areas where we can, and we're blessed that we're able to. But that's just one example.

Maybe you have other people or things or causes that you want to support. The more successful you are, the more you can help things like that. Becoming more capable can improve more than one area of your life.

And that's really what success is. It's about creating or improving your capabilities so you can do more and you can grow along the way. So those are some of the reasons that I want you to succeed.

Again, this is Wes with Your Life Systems. I hope this helped. Please subscribe, and I'll talk to you soon.

What's Next?

·        Write down what becoming more successful would make possible beyond the immediate goal itself.

·        Identify one type of freedom—time, financial, health, or another—that would expand your choices.

·        Choose one system that could help you create more of that freedom consistently.

·        Ask how your progress could make life easier or better for someone you care about.

·        Identify one person, cause, or community need you would like to support more as your capabilities grow.

·        Look for one area where your progress could become evidence to someone else that change is possible.

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