When you’re young you tend to think that you have limitless potential when it comes to your identity.

Why is your identity important?

Because it’s one of the ways that irreversibly anchors you to success.

I’m not talking about identifying as a doctor, a lawyer, or a graphic designer.

I’m talking about identifying as a skilled surgeon, a world-renowned lawyer, or a fabulous graphic designer.

The level. Not just the title. Not an entrepreneur. A successful entrepreneur.

Size matters.

So the point that I was trying to make here is: you don’t get that kind of identity through mindset, positive thinking, or motivational pep-talk you give yourself.

You detect that. Feel that. Realize that. It comes to you, as opposed to you shoving it down your throat with disregard to any evidence whatsoever.

This proof or evidence is amassed from scanning your previous accomplishments or past history. If you find nothing to back that up, you wouldn’t get the intended effect that I’m trying to make you reach through the natural route here. The unshakeable self-esteem. No hesitation. Facts. Not Feelings. Not due to banning negative thinking. Not wishful thinking.

The point is: you should make ample achievements to back up any claims you make to yourself concerning your identity, or how good you really are at what you think you can do.

Results matter. And they are everything. They are what anchors you to success. Results, not production capability. The product itself.

Do you understand?

You can be smart as hell. Better than virtually everybody else at a certain field, and yet your performance in it will always be laughable, if you are significantly behind them or way behind them when it comes to your achievements, position, rank, or the amount of great or positive results that you’ve accomplished so far in this field relatively to your age.

You can’t start from scratch when you’re old as fuck.

You have to start as early as possible, and accomplish as much as possible per unit time from a very young age, or else you’ll be left behind for good, with no turning back, with no way to catch up with everybody else in that field.

This is not pessimism. This is not negativity. This is a wake up call. Stop wasting your time. Your motivation to accomplish anything or feeling that you can do anything you aspire to do doesn’t last, even if you were immortal. It’s not related to aging. It’s related to not being brand new. Not being born yesterday. Not being level 1 anymore. It’s related to how long you’ve done nothing. It’s about how long you’ve reached nothing. It’s because you’ve achieved nothing for too long. It’s because you’ve reached nothing ever since you came to this world. You begin to settle for and adapt to mediocrity and that would be everything to you. You’ll no longer be ambitious, because you no longer can be.

This is an emergency.

Success is an emergency.

You have to get up on that train as early as possible before it leaves the station, or you’ll be stuck in no man’s land forever.

Build your identity. Achieve more. Achievement is one of the best ways to anchor you to success, because it transfers directly over time to your identity; the identity of how good you really are at what you claim or think you can do.