Success Advice
The Curse Of Being Extraordinary

My newfound success it not what it’s cracked up to be – it never is. In some ways, it can be a curse. Ever since I broke out on the internet as a viral blogger, my life has never been the same. I’m humbled by the experience, but want to use it to help the world more than anything.
It’s so hard to tell you what it’s like until you experience it for yourself. When you mix your dream with passion, love, determination and enthusiasm altogether in a blender, what you get is the best tasting smoothie you could ever imagine. Becoming extraordinary is phenomenal.
Unfortunately, you do get a side of slightly off yogurt with it.
For those who have yet to experience success, here are some of the challenges with becoming extraordinary:
1. Lots of coffee catch-ups
A day doesn’t pass by without multiple requests to catch up for coffee. In the beginning, this was fun; now it’s a constant struggle. If you say yes to every coffee catch up you never get time to be alone with your thoughts.
You never get time to think up the extraordinary. You never get to focus on your goal to change the world. Many times, people just want to have coffee with you to tell their friends and colleagues that they know you, or even worse, to get a selfie with you.
Even stranger is that I actually don’t drink coffee, so the thought doesn’t wow me. A super food lunch on the other hand, is a little bit harder to say no to.
Before you say yes to a coffee catch up, ensure that you have the time, are enthusiastic about it and there is a mutual benefit to both sides. If not, abandon ship.
2. Expectations to perform
The curse of being extraordinary is that there is this constant expectation for you to perform. Somehow people think you have a magic wand and everyone wants to have a go. Whatever you touch should turn to gold, but it never does. The truth is that extraordinary people have more flops than successes.
“What makes extraordinary people the way they are, are the 0.01% of times they succeed”
It’s the fact that they’re willing to risk so much for those few highlights that normal people mistakenly believe is someone’s entire life.
Those moments are just the highlight reel of a long run of stuff ups, disappointments and failures. I’ve had so many rock bottom moments, sad times and failures that this little bit of success I have now is the reward for so many bad debts in the past.
3. Decision fatigue
Being extraordinary means more of everything. More invitations, more friends, more expectations, more events to attend, more chances to speak, more job offers and more chances to start businesses. I’ve experienced all of these over the past couple of years. I’m grateful, but the curse at the same time is that it creates decision fatigue.
You have so many big and small decisions to make at one time that your head gets clogged up. There’s no free space to think about the things that make you extraordinary in the first place. Having a lot of decisions to make is not as fun as you may think. It’s both a blessing and a curse sometimes. Such is life.
4. Notification overload
If I log in to any one of my social media accounts right now, I’m going to have a ridiculous number of notifications and messages to fill my brain up with dopamine like an overflowing fondue fountain. The temptation to consistently check social media is hard to ignore – especially when it’s full of compliments about what you do and who you’ve become.
Consuming notifications takes you away from having the time to create the very content that those notifications stem from in the first place. Being only one person, with no team, means I have to only notice some of what goes on. I do my best to reply but sometimes it’s impossible.
I want you to know that it’s okay not to see everything on the internet with your name on it. You can’t see every moment. What you can do is appreciate these moments though. Not everyone is so blessed.
5. You’re expected to post on social media constantly
If I didn’t post an article like this on social media for a week, then people would think I’ve gone rogue. This has happened before when I’ve gone away on holiday. My thoughts about this are to post when you can.
“You don’t need to be “ON” 24/7”
Taking a break sometimes is the best way to find new ways to become extraordinary. It’s the silence between the different pursuits you have in life that create the epic moments of success, and in my case, viral blog posts.
6. People assume you don’t have stuff ups
Hahahaha……if only you knew. Actually, you do because I post about it all the time. In case you have forgotten, extraordinary people have so many stuff ups that they can’t even name them all. The stuff ups give you the muscle to execute when the odds are against you.
The stuff ups give you courage like a coat of armor that a warrior wears. Learning to appreciate the stuff ups is the hardest part. These celebrities you follow claim they do although I know for a fact that many of them don’t.
Sometimes people think I just woke up one day and was lucky enough to get published on a blog that went on to have a cult following. This is not what happened to me at all. I tried many creative pursuits that failed beforehand- mostly music related.
I tried for a long time to be on the top of iTunes. I never even got close. All of those attempts then culminated in me using a different way to evoke emotion in people. The failure caused me to find another way to do the same thing. Blogging was the channel. I didn’t choose it and I didn’t even know. It happened by accident.
“It was a science experiment gone wrong. Success often is”
Conclusion
The purpose of this post is to show you the other side of being extraordinary or successful. Too often we only see the upside and not always the downside. This post is not a message to the world which says don’t be extraordinary; it’s a warning of what to expect.
Go out there and change the world. Make your dreams come true.
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There is no greatness without becoming and there is no becoming with authenticity

In just a few weeks, we will be wrapping up 2023. Can you believe it? This year has been absolutely incredible for me.
I have seen amazing doors opened, new relationships formed and I am seeing dreams realized in my life. While this seems like the hallmarks of a great year, this has also been the most challenging year of my life. With all of the change happening in my life, I have been forced out of my comfort zone and challenged to grow in every area of my life.
I can truly say that I have made the most of my moments this year and I have used everything as a catalyst for maximizing my greatest potential.
As a revolutionary leader, I have the pleasure of consulting and advising leaders around the world to fulfill purpose, realize their greatest potential and make an impact.
I want to share some insights with you that will help you to break cycles of mediocrity and manifest your greatness.
Everything legal must come through the matrix
I am sure that some of you are wondering why I am using the term matrix. However, what you have to understand is that I am trying to make a highly complex spiritual principle practical to understand.
Regardless of your spiritual beliefs, every life has an origin and I believe that origin is divine and begins with eternity. You are birthed from eternity and into time to fulfill a unique purpose and assignment in your lifetime and generation.
The matrix is simply the portal or vehicle that brings something out of the invisible realm and into tangible form. The problem with much of the teaching today is that it excludes the matrix. We are told to believe that success is instantaneous and overnight.
Nobody talks about how a dream progresses through stages beginning with visualization and ultimately culminating in manifestation. Without a matrix or portal then everything that you attempt to birth and build will be illegal.
The matrix not only makes you legal but it gives you the authority and power to function as the greatest expression of who you were created to be.
Every matrix has an incubation process
While many people admire and respect me today, I remember a time when nobody knew who I was or the significance of my message. How did I get to where I am today? I got here through an incubation process.
In other words, everything that has been destined for your life is incubating and awaiting a set time of manifestation. The problem is that most people live their entire lives idle and never initiate the incubation process.
What do I meany by that? Most people are living reckless and very few people are living intentionally. I am amazed at the number of people I have conversations with that have no vision, goals or strategies for their lives. They show great promise and they have undeniable potential.
However, without development they will die with their dreams still in them.
Everything that has been destined for your life must be incubated and converted to become realities born to time.
“Visualize this thing that you want, see it, feel it, believe in it. Make your mental blueprint and begin to build.” – Robert Collier
You must give expression to that which is not yet born to time
When you think about a matrix or a prophetic incubation process, you have to understand that potential is often unrealized and untapped. In other words, your potential is in raw form and your potential cannot serve you as long as it is untapped.
The thing that makes me valuable is that I have the ability to convert potential into power. I have done it in my own life and I have empowered leaders around the world to do the same. How do you convert potential into power?
First, it is important to note that you have to perceive potential. If you cannot perceive your potential then you can never cultivate your potential. In addition, you must take the time to cultivate your potential. We often get excited about our capabilities; however, we never expand our capacity in order to realize our greatest potential.
In other words, the strength of your potential is only discovered through your willingness to stretch. The more we are challenged the more we are empowered to expand our capacity for greatness. Most of all, you must begin to express your potential. The expression of potential is different for every person.
For example, the expression of my potential is best demonstrated through the thoughts, ideas, products, services, books, etc.
For another person the expression of potential may look like a screenplay, artwork, sports, scientific discoveries, medical breakthroughs, etc.
Regardless of the form of expression, I know that you will live empty and unfulfilled until you make the decision to express your potential. The expression of your potential gives voice to your dreams, life to your vision, significance to your moments and activates your true power.
You must manifest your greatness
As a revolutionary thinker and leader, my work has impacted people around the world. I am grateful that my life is a source of empowerment to so many people. However, before anyone could ever benefit from my life, I had to make a non-negotiable decision to become who I was born to be.
I wish I could tell you that this journey is easy and that you will get there overnight. However, in a world that celebrates us for doing we are often criticized for being. As a result, I wasted a lot of time trying to be who other people wanted me to be instead of being who I was born to be.
There is no greatness without becoming and there is no becoming with authenticity. It is through our bravery to be vulnerable that we ultimately manifest our greatness. We do not bless the world by being a duplicate. We bless the world when we honor our difference. When you honor your difference you honor your potential.
Ultimately, your difference is how you manifest your greatness.
When you present anything but your authentic self to the world, you are playing small and you are robbing the world of your significance. Manifesting your greatness requires you to master your gifts.
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