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This article begins with a misconception that millions of people around the world hold. That misconception is this: many people in this world fail not because they lack skills or talent, but because they misuse the smartphone in their own hands. Remember this clearly, they fail because they use it incorrectly. Think about it for a moment. No person who wakes up in the morning thinks they are going to destroy their day. Nobody thinks that way. You don’t think that way either. But instead, they do something equivalent to that thought, even if they didn’t think it. They do something similar. That similar thing is picking up the phone thinking they’ll just check one notification. Once they pick up that phone, they don’t put it down for about thirty minutes, maybe half an hour. There are plenty of people in this world who waste time like this in the morning.
What happens is that the motivation they have, the inspiration they possess, dies right there. They fall into airplane mode. There’s no active mode beyond that point. What exists beyond that is a reactive mode. That means they start responding. Responding to notifications, to messages, to comments, to all these things. People destroy their day with the smartphone in their hands. If you’re also someone who picks up the phone and checks notifications as soon as you wake up, leave a comment. Then this article is definitely one you need to read today.
We’re going to tell you what the top one percent of people in the world do to become successful. Try these things yourself. Success is common to everyone. That’s why this article will teach you how to grasp that common thing. In this world, everyone, whether poor or rich, whether they have high self-confidence or lack self-confidence, everyone in this world has received one thing equally. That is time. You have twenty-four hours, and I have twenty-four hours. Some people use these twenty-four hours to build vast empires. Some people spend these twenty-four hours freely searching for reasons to waste time. The difference between these two isn’t intelligence, luck, or the background they were born into. The difference between these two is extremely small. It’s what you do in that small, lazy, invisible moment of time that others waste.
There’s something very interesting here. Nobody in this world eats time thinking they’re wasting time today. Nobody does that. But instead, they do some work. Look at whether you also do these things. That means some people say they’re still preparing for this. Some people say the right time hasn’t come for them yet. There are people who say they won’t do this work until the right time comes, and when the right time comes, they’ll start. Waiting for the right time like that is like waiting at a bus stop for a bus that will never come. You’ll just grow old there. People waste time through methods like these, according to the world’s latest discoveries. That means nobody professionally says they’re wasting time now or they’re destroying time. They create various reasons and stay stuck with those various reasons.
When starting something new, people say one thing: they don’t have time for it, they’re too busy these days. But the amount of time these people who say this spend scrolling Facebook, the amount of time they spend on YouTube, the amount of Netflix series they watch is extremely large, as you probably know. You might have this experience too. Think if someone recorded what you did in the past week and you watched that recording without editing, what would you see there? Would there be a great creator creating the future, or a professional lazy person? Your success or failure is determined by these two parts, these two extremes. Don’t add intelligence, luck, or anything else to it. Don’t try to cover it with any other label. Your success is determined by how you use your time.
Wasting time in the world doesn’t just mean sleeping until noon or partying until night. Those are kept as very basic things of time wasting in the modern world. Instead, what time-wasting specialists do is very busily, very seriously, scroll their phones. Scrolling their phones, commenting on things, some people watch on their phones how to become successful. All the time, those people are just watching videos about becoming successful. Some people save extremely valuable quotes. Research shows that those saved quotes are never looked at again. While ninety-nine percent do this, only one percent have made their change in this way. They don’t show off being very busy. They don’t post big things on social media. They don’t engage and connect with useless things. What they do, what they actually do, is know exactly what they need to do for their future and quietly walk that path.
Let’s clarify this with a simple example. There are two people working at the same institution. Both these people finish work at four in the evening. Both are at the same level, both receive the same salary. Let’s call one person A. Person A finishes work at seven in the evening, and after working so hard today, thinks they need to check their phone or hang out with someone, and wastes the rest of their day. That’s person A. If we name the second person B, this person B also works hard and finishes at seven in the evening. Gets the same salary as both. This person B then spends thirty minutes of their day learning something new. Next, another thirty minutes working to implement these new things. Another thirty minutes reading a book to learn something new. That’s persons A and B.
After about a week, there’s no visible difference between these two. The party person parties. The learning person learns. No difference at all. But after about a month, a small difference starts to appear. The party person continues partying. The learning person has improved by about a step. After about a year, these two start to become a bit different. After about two years, these two are in two different worlds. While person B becomes successful, why does person A fail? Because they used the time they received incorrectly. People say person B is lucky, everything comes to them, they’re really successful, because they used time correctly. You choose whether you’re in person A’s category or person B’s category.
Now what needs to be done here? The main thing you need to do here is not get used to not wasting time. Understand correctly. What you need to do here is refrain from paying attention to unnecessary things. That means don’t let your attention, your focus, go elsewhere by replying to various notifications, meaningless news, messages, and comments. If it goes, it goes. It will take you a considerable amount of time to get back on track. Then you might be delayed by years.
We told you that one percent of people in the world become successful. Do you think this one percent of people wake up every day with amazing enthusiasm and great motivation, like they’ve received some kind of blessing? No. There’s no such thing. Even the people who succeed in that one percent feel lazy when they wake up in the morning. When they wake up in the morning, there are plenty of times when they feel like sleeping a bit more. But these people work according to a system. We’ve told you before, get used to a system rather than motivation. Because motivation is a feeling. Feelings constantly change. But once you get used to a system, that system takes you to success.
For example, you don’t brush your teeth thinking today I need to brush my teeth or now I need to do the teeth brushing, right? Brushing teeth is something that happens to you effortlessly. If you can get used to such things in your life, if you can create such a system, you’ll get the benefit of it. Picking up that phone and checking notifications, starting to reply to messages on the phone when you hear a sound, that’s your system. That has become your habit. The time you waste from that is extremely large.
Becoming successful in your life doesn’t happen overnight. That’s a fact we all know. But you can build that habit in one hour. That means if you can use one hour that you waste meaninglessly, use it correctly. Make it your habit. That habit will start building your identity. After listening to this article, don’t start working by making big promises to yourself. That will never work. Instead, create a small agreement. That means I will do this work today. No matter how difficult that work is, will you do it? Do that work, even if it’s wrong.
If you’re about to start something, start it even if it’s wrong. Starting something even if it’s wrong is much more valuable than not doing anything. That’s what many people in the world say. So don’t not do it, start doing that thing even if it’s small. You’ll get the ability to further develop what you do after that. Start doing a small promise or a small task every day. When you do that work every day, you develop an amazing self-confidence. I can do this too, can’t I? If you can reach that point, you’ll also realize that from there onwards, there’s a place where you can win this world, even a small part of this world.
