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Majority or Minority?

Are you part of the 95% or the 5%? It’s the majority opposed to the minority. The majority represents 95% of human beings. The majority follows each other. The minority represents 5% of human beings. The minority believes in the additive aspect: success leaves clues. For instance, a great book written in 1937 by Napoleon Hill called Think and Grow Rich. Napoleon Hill spent 25 years of his life researching, analyzing, and interviewing the most successful people on the planet. He analyzed success and failure. After those 25 years of analysis and research, he wrote Think and Grow Rich and created 13 principles that if we learn, study, master, and apply, we will be successful. The minority understands this, follows these principles, and creates wealth for themselves and those around them. They’re only 5% of the universe.

The majority mimics the majority. The minority mimics the minority. They look for other successful people to surround themselves with. The majority of the people in the world, statistically and unfortunately, are overweight, represent a 50% divorce rate, most in debt, not set up for retirement, out of shape, and spend an average of 11 hours a day on social media and/or TV. They’re leading themselves to be influenced by others. The majority curses the minority who worked hard to create wealth and abundance, do the work, and do whatever it takes to become successful. The minority simply ignores the majority because they’re in a circle of people striving to become successful and make a difference. Speaking of making a difference, the minority influences change. Think of all the things in the last 200 years. Think of some of the Einsteins and the Edisons of the world and the changes they made to move us forward. That’s the minority. The majority hates change. They like to stay in their comfort zone. They like to keep things the way they are.

So, you have to ask yourself, are you the majority, part of the 95%, the herd that is all going in one direction? Or are you the minority that thinks for yourself and becomes intentional about who to surround yourself with, what to listen to, and so on?

Someone said a long time ago, you become who you are based on the five people you surround yourself with. A couple of things that can help you become part of the minority, read, read, read, and read some more. Reading is wisdom. Someone else spent a lot of time researching, analyzing, and coming up with clues, successful traits, and wisdom that they spent their whole life on. You could read it in an hour, 2, 3, 4, however large that book is, and absorb that wisdom and start applying it.

Be conscious of who you want to surround yourself with. Find the people who take you outside of your comfort zone and stretch you so that when they’re speaking, you just sit back and listen because there are so many golden nuggets in the conversation like we’re a kid in the candy store. When you start making simple decisions like that, it starts making a difference.

The third thing you could do is ask lots of questions and listen. God gave us two ears and one mouth. The more we listen, the more we’re going to learn, and the more we’re going to pick up. When we speak, we’re just speaking. Listen, absorb the wisdom, surround yourself with the right people, and absorb someone else’s trials, tribulations, and successes that we can learn from and apply. So, if you’re part of the minority, good on you. If you’re part of the majority, it’s time for you to make some shifts.

COACH MICHAEL DILL is an Award-Winning Certified Business Coach, global speaker, and published author. He is a proud Action Coach Franchise partner as well as the President of Power & Ice Wealth Creation a strategic leadership company that works with business owners, leaders, teams, and entrepreneurs to both develop a systematized and structured organization while accelerating their mindset, efficiencies, and effectiveness to grow both personally and professionally to achieve extraordinary results. He brings more than 40 years of business and entrepreneurial experience in his leadership, team training, and mentoring practice. Businesscoachmichaeldill.com