Become Wildly Successful with this Simple Trick

Do you want to be wildly successful without spending any time to earn that success? Do you believe that one behavior change is all you need to overcome life’s difficulties? Then I have news for you!!!

It probably isn’t that easy.

In the age of instant gratification, everyone wants things now. Instant messaging, one-day shipping, and billions of answers a few keystrokes away. People have become conditioned to expect to get what they want in very little time with minimal effort. The web is cluttered with how-to’s and life tips that promise an easy life with little effort. Unfortunately, for most, the key to happiness isn’t something they find in a 4-minute YouTube video.

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You can find empty promises in YouTube thumbnails, online articles, or on bookshelves. How to Close Every Time. Learn this Language in 30 minutes. Generate $5,000 of Passive Income with this Service. Some offers look more legitimate than others, but they all have one thing in common. They suggest that a person can get a “to good to be true” benefit from an easy to perform action.

I have identified two types of too good to be true internet scams when it comes to becoming successful. There are promises of rewards or tools to gain rewards. The first is direct and will promise a new skill or reward while the second one offers a framework for earning a reward. The line separating them can be blurry and telling the difference between good advice and snake oil can be even more difficult.

For a promise of a direct reward, passive income is one of the biggest examples of people offering a reward with little involved effort. The methods of doing so range from nonsensical to almost doable. In a Forbes Advisor article, ways for generating income without too much ongoing effort are owning real estate, domain name investing, dividend stocks, and vending machines. The first three could be considered gambling and require substantial funds to do, the last is something I’ve personally heard talked to death that doesn’t consider relevant factors like locations, licensing, supply chain, etc. This article, from 2024, also mentions buying NFTs!!! The article is technically not wrong when it says that these fields can be entered with little effort. It is also possible to generate a profit in these areas. However, if it were that easy, we would see a vending machine on every street corner and every person would be a homeowner.

If you don’t have thousands of dollars burning a hole in your pocket, then maybe passive income isn’t right for you.  The second strategy to becoming successful quickly is to take advantage of books or online courses that promise to give those who view its contents the tools to become wildly successful. Those who produce this kind of content might show off their current lavish lifestyles or share their stories to success as proof that their material works. They may even feature testimonials of those who they have helped. An iconic example of this is the “Here in My Garage” guy, Tai Lopez. Like he did, they may even make a point of explicitly saying, “This isn’t a get rich quick scheme,” but proven steps to becoming successful. What is dangerous about these offers is that there may be valuable information stored within them. In the example I gave, probably not, but in books that promise to make their readers the most effective leader possible, there is probably some content that will help leaders build their leadership skills. From covers and descriptions of online courses and self-help books, it seems like there is very little oversight into the claims made by those that create these products. It’s the fault of both consumers unrealistic expectations and sellers desire to drive demand by offering those expectations.

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These advertisements for easy success are very similar to the “You may have already won” and “Congratulations on your free iPod” schemes that have been employed for decades. The key difference is that they appear a lot more legitimate and can sometimes produce real results. It’s also hard to prove that, even if the advice given is wrong for most people, it cannot be used by someone to achieve the promised results. Many people can look at a picture of a yacht on a post card and think, “Yeah right,” but not think the same when they see a course offered by a credible looking company and think their certificate is meaningless.

During college, I was asked to complete a plethora of online certifications that could be cheesed. They typically had no direct communication with an instructor, offered unlimited attempts to gain the certification, and very few barriers to entry. Just like the dealership that wants you to believe you may have won a car, their primary objective is to get you in front of the product. This is not to say that all online certifications are scams or meaningless. Some are regarded very highly, like Meta’s professional certifications that are known to be rigorous and practical by those familiar with them. Even if they can be cheesed, there are people who will gain insights from them when they’re taken seriously.

People want to believe that the solution to their problem is easy. A couple of videos or a few hundred bucks for a used vending machine is all they need. Like mentioned above, this is in part because the internet has conditioned people to expect rewards quickly. It’s more convenient to believe the easy solution is just as viable as the difficult one.

Paying Respect to Risk and Determination

Again, there are people that put great content out there to help elevate others and there are people who genuinely take that material and use it to achieve great things. The internet has been an amazing learning tool for me. The problem is people believing that the solutions to their problems can be solved from reading an article or watching a video. Success comes from determination. Taking risks and being strong willed. Solving problems with non-cookie cutter solutions.

As for actual steps to success, there is no one size fits all. Every person’s journey is unique and requires unique tools to create a path and achieve that person’s definition of success. For similar journeys, there might be common factors that contribute to success. Some habits might be universally applicable. Creating a checklist makes people less forgetful, setting deadlines creates motivation to work on something.

Personally, I don’t know what success looks like for me in the long term. I don’t want a five-story house with 13 bedrooms and a bowling alley. I have different ideas on where life might take me, and I have goals I want to achieve. I don’t know which path I want to take, and I don’t know what done looks like for my objectives. Time will tell. I do know that wherever I find myself, I’m not going to take the ab blaster route and sit around expecting the answer to arrive. I will work towards it.