Hustling
You Have To Take Action to Hustle
Everybody dreams but few people act to make those dreams come true. Success doesn’t just happen; it has to be worked for. All successful people were not born successful and most of them had to hustle, consistently working harder than everyone else to get to the top.
What makes achievers different from everyone else is the hustle, the hard work and the long hours and efforts they put into their work. These people are willing to make sacrifices that other people cannot and this is why they succeed. Achieving success takes a conscious effort but the best thing is that every single person has an opportunity to succeed but only if they want to bad enough.
Get Up and Get To Work
For you to hustle and be good at it, you must stop wishing things could get better and waiting for a miracle. You must get up and decide to put in the long hours and all the effort that it will take to achieve your dreams. If you cannot do this, those dreams will never be real. You see, many people make excuses for their situations and they get stuck in a rut because they are not willing to make the sacrifices or pay the price, so to speak.
Take Risks
In order to be a hustler you must be willing to take risks and not be afraid of failure. Many successful people failed severally before they made it. Failing actually makes you better and wiser because you get to learn from the mistakes you make. The secret to achieving success is getting right up and getting on with the hustle.
Commitment
In order to be a successful hustler, you must make a commitment to yourself to succeed. Hustlers face many challenges and obstacles along the way but instead of giving up; they continue knocking and go at it until they succeed. Other people simply give up too easily and fail to make dreams a reality.
Discipline
All successful hustlers are disciplined people who are self-motivated. The problem is it takes conscious effort to be disciplined and most people just don’t have this discipline. They work for a few days and then they get lazy and sloppy. These people cannot become successful hustlers because without discipline, you cannot be consistent at what you do. If you are not consistent, your results will not be consistent either. To be a good hustler, you must be disciplined enough in order to focus and achieve your goals.
Michael Jordan The Hustler
Michael Jordan is definitely one of the most successful men in the world. Apart from being a successful businessman, he is regarded as the greatest basketball player of all time and has won so many awards and titles than any other basketball player. With all these achievements under his belt, one might assume that Michael was born with natural talent and that he has always been good at the game. Contrary to this, Michael Jordan is a hustler who worked his way to become a legend in basketball.
He is Not Afraid to Fail
Although Michael always had a passion to play basketball, his coaches didn’t think he was good enough. His height did not reach the minimum height that was required and he failed to make the team. Instead of giving up, Michael refused to stop playing basketball. To cut the story short, he made the team and began his great basketball career always seeing failure as just another reason to succeed. Now this is the spirit of a true hustler. If you are told you can’t make it, you push yourself harder and harder still until you make it just to prove to that you can do it.
He Was Highly Determined and Very Competitive
Michael attributes his competitive nature to the way he was brought up and partially to sibling rivalry. His parents demanded discipline and had great expectations from him and his brothers. Michael hated being defeated by his younger brother, Larry and became more and more determined to be the best. He used this determination and competitive streak to become the best basketball player in his team in college and throughout his career.
Consistent Practice
When you do something repeatedly, it gets easier to do. When Michael tried out for his basketball team, he was not picked to play the varsity team and had to stay on in the junior team. Embarrassed and disappointed, Michael decided to practice every single day and he only became the best when he had learnt to practice better than all his team mates.
Eventually, he got so good that he became everybody’s favorite player in the team and the varsity team would come early just to watch him play. Soon enough, he had impressed the coaches and was selected to join the varsity team. His resilience and hustling spirit enabled him to become better than anyone else and until the end of his career; Michael was always the first to arrive at the gym and usually the last to leave.
Prioritize Your Goals Before You Hustle
Before you hustle, ask yourself what you really want to achieve and set realistic goals. You see, many people hustle and keep failing because they did not set specific goals in the first place. Everyone dreams but in order to succeed you must know the dreams you want to chase and be sure that they are not someone else’s dream. If you decide to hustle, you should hustle right. Below are some of the reasons why setting goals and prioritizing them before you start hustling can make all the difference.
It May be Urgent But is it Really Important?
Being a hustler means always being on the go and because there is so much to do and very limited, anyone can get overwhelmed. Prioritizing helps you to differentiate what is important from what is merely urgent. For instance, you may waste a lot of time responding to urgent emails which may not necessarily be important instead of using that time to do something more important.
You Will Stay Motivated
If you set specific goals, every small success will fuel you to continue with the hustle. You must have smaller short-term goals apart from the bigger long-term goals in order to maximize your potential. Short term goals and plans are what you need to achieve weekly or monthly that will shape the long-term goals.
If You Don’t Set and Prioritize Your Goals, You Won’t Grow
Setting goals before you hustle keeps you focused and more organized in your hustle. If you don’t prioritize these goals, you will not have a clear direction on what you really want to achieve. In order to grow and succeed in your hustle or business, you must know when you are succeeding and whether you are growing or not. But how will you know this if you don’t know what you want to achieve in the first place?
Prioritizing Your Goals Keeps You on Track
When you are a hustler, you work harder than everyone else. This means keeping long hours and always being on the go, doing whatever it takes to achieve your goals. Because you are working round the clock, it is easy to stray from the goal and to sometimes forget what exactly you want to achieve. If you prioritize your goals and review them regularly, you will be able to realize whether you are straying or whether you are still on track. This will help you get back to what you started out to do; stay disciplined and achieve your goals.
Mark Cuban The Hustler
Mark Cuban is one of the most successful businessmen of our time. This self-made entrepreneur, investor and business man is now one of the most influential people in the United States and across the world. Although he is well known as the owner of the Dallas Mavericks NBA basketball team, Mark Cuban is also one of the biggest hustlers of all time.
Why He Is a Hustler
Although now a billionaire, Mark Cuban was born to a middle class family as the eldest of three boys. His father and uncle owned a furniture shop while his mother was a housewife. Growing up, he probably had the same opportunities and faced the same challenges his brothers and any other kid his age had. However, this did not stop him from working is way up to be the successful business man and billionaire he is today. He hustled his way through many business startups and jobs before building his own empire
He Started Hustling at a Young Age
While other kids his age were busy playing and having fun, Mark Cuban was already in business. At 12 years of age, he began his first business selling garbage bags from door to door. His second business was buying stamps at 50 cents and reselling them at $5 when he was only sixteen years old. This kid was already going places!
He is Resilient
“Every no gets me closer to a yes.” Mark Cuban
Mark Cuban is the ultimate hustler. He simply does not give up and he believes that persistence pays off in the end. Throughout his life, this man has started many businesses and although not all of them became success stories, he never gave up.
From starting a bar in college that saw him barred from applying to the college’s graduate program, creating a company to sell powdered milk which flopped in the end to being fired, Mark Cuban has had his fair share of failure. Unlike many people though, this man chose to get up, learn from the experience and move on to the next thing.
He is a Hard Worker
“Sweat equity is the most valuable equity there is. Know your business and industry better than anyone else in the world. Love what you do or don’t do it.” Mark Cuban
Mark Cuban knew that in order to succeed, he had to be willing to work harder than everyone else and outdo his competitors. He is an avid reader and he admits that when any new technology came, he read everything he could get his hands on in order to be the best in the field.
Finding Time To Hustle
Are you thinking about quitting your job to start a business or do you just want to explore a side hustle but still want to keep your day job? Your schedule is tight and you just don’t know how you are going to find the time. Well to be fair, there is really so much to do and so limited time. Between mowing your lawn, doing housework and other stuff you only have 24 hours in a day. There is no time, right? Wrong.
So how will you find time to hustle? Hustling is hard work and making sacrifices. For you to succeed you will definitely have to compromise, make sacrifices and learn to manage your time better. Below are some of the things you can do to create time to hustle.
Prioritize!
Maybe you are used to hanging out with friends for a few hours say three times every week. It won’t kill you to cut back on that time and limit going out to once a week. Hustlers don’t have time to socialize, they create time. If you do this, you will certainly get a few more hours every week to hustle and to do productive work.
Cut Back on Television Time and Social Media
Most people spend a lot of time each day on social media. If you think about it, you probably waste more than ten hours every week browsing and watching television. But how does this really help you? In order to succeed in hustling, you must learn to prioritize and make every single minute count. You can spend this extra time hustling and doing more productive stuff that will make you some extra cash or better your business.
Outsource
Another way to create time is to let someone else do other tasks for you. Instead of spending all your weekend doing gardening and housework, you can spare a little money to hire someone to do that work for you and use the time to make more money.
Start Waking Up Earlier
Being a hustler means having to work harder than other people. If you begin waking up an hour earlier and going to bed an hour later than you usually do, you will have ten more hours in a week. That’s a lot of time that you can use to do something productive. Although it may be hard at first, you will probably get used to it soon enough and it will be worth your while.
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