Average people compare themselves to other people. 

  1. This is why they are average
  2. If the average person sees others doing better or more, they will work harder to get the same and stay with the average

Other end of the spectrum, over-achievers compare themselves to their potential and what they can achieve. 

  1. No matter what their potential is, they will not let anyone else define it and they will end up achieving more. 

What you are always after is a consistent increase in level of understanding. Ask yourself these 7 questions

  1. When you look around at the way people live, do they live exceptionally well?
  2. 10 years from now, would you be thrilled to live like them?
  3. Why do you think most of them are where they are?
  4. T/F Knowing that every Physician in America graduated from med school, if a person that is a doctor graduated in med school then anyone who wants to be a Dr. has to go to med school
  5. T/F: If a person desires to be an attorney, he had better enroll in med school
  6. Why was the previous question false?
  7. 10 years from now, if in fact that you wouldn’t want to live like others, would it make sense that the more differently you live the more likely you are to live differently years down the road. 

Over achievers accept they are different long before their success is earned.  To be different you must act different

In our world, exceptional manners are different 

  1. Manners are becoming rarer so that simple things will give you a competitive edge. 
  2. Don’t let anyone ever tell you that is weird. 
  3. You are different from everyone else; you will have different and greater success moving beyond the average. 

Like most people, teenagers desire to be accepted. 

  1. They don’t want to feel different or weird.  
  2. Andy went on a trip and packed Andy asked his sons if they would like to hand out free copies of his book to kids they saw along the way.  The book is titled, “The Kid who Saved the World”. 
  3. The boys agreed to do it but they were not thrilled and didn’t end up doing it. 
  4. Andy saw the books in their backpacks once they returned home and asked why they didn’t give them out.  
    1. They replied, “Dad, really? We can’t just go up to a kid and give them a book, because its weird”. 
    2. To which Andy replied, “it’s not weird - it’s only different because no one ever does that.  It would be weird to go stick your tongue out at them, toss the book and run.”

Think about and describe yourself in detail – “How does the average person go about their day?”

Think of the most successful person you know; describe how they would go about their day. How are they alike and how are they different?

Live different lives, have different exceptions, receive different success