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Want Enormous Success? Immediately Stop Doing What Everyone Else Is Doing

Anthony Moore
9 min readJun 23, 2021

“Successful people do what unsuccessful people are unwilling to do.” -Darren Hardy, former editor of SUCCESS Magazine

The truth is, most people are making choices based on avoiding what they fear, not striving toward their goals.

This fear-driven behavior is exactly why most people are no on-track to succeed. When fear is calling the shots, you are living reactively, not intentionally. You spend the lion’s share of your energy focusing on problems, risks, and worst-case scenarios rather than how to win.

It’s human nature to choose the familiar, the convenient, the easy. I’m no exception. For most of my teenage years, I chose the mind-numbing bliss of pornography and compulsive video games in lieu of dealing with the pain and hurt from my family, bullies at school, and chronic loneliness.

But after 6 years of intense behavioral counseling, therapy, I’ve learned a few things.

  1. Most people are not on-track to escape their mediocre lives.
  2. Most people aren’t on-track to have great relationships.
  3. Most people can’t say they’re happy with their health.
  4. Most people don’t feel financially secure.
  5. Most people choose the easy path…

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Anthony Moore
Anthony Moore

Written by Anthony Moore

Writer for CNBC, Business Insider, Fast Company, Thought Catalog, Yahoo! Finance, and you.

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