Think Like a King
This is a guest post by Jason Fonceca.
Let’s get right to it. Chances are you’re interested in these things: Blogging, Niche-Marketing, Passive Income, Traffic, Comments, Tweets, Content, Success.
Awesome, but are you wasting your time? Like really, really, wasting it?
Thinking Like a King Brings Success
We’re going to address this, but first some background…
Chances are you’re not only open, but eager for knowledge, instruction, and guidance on actions you can take to do more in the above areas.
That’s the key though – chances are you’re focused on action. We have a world running around like chickens with their heads cut-off, constantly, mindlessly, seeking more actions to take.
And this is great in a way, because without action, nothing gets done. This is a simple, straight-forward, and easy to understand principle. A whole bunch of people sitting in a room meditating, don’t generally do much.
It’s worth noting though, that this intense and almost habitual focus of so many people on action, has consequences. People forget about thought, and they forget that thought and action go hand-in-hand, they are inseparable. Even our reflexes come from sub-conscious thoughts, which are thoughts that were once conscious in humanity, and have been programmed into our subconscious through evolution and repetition and necessity. There’s one more thing people these days tend to forget, and that is that thought is more powerful than action.
Thoughts are More Powerful than Action
Thought-management is one of the most powerful things you can do, and thought-management and empire-building go hand-in-hand.
That’s right. Thought is way, way, way more powerful than action. Many bloggers, businesses and experts discuss the power of using your highest leverage resources, or getting the highest leverage you can out of any particular action. This is a fantastic principle, but are you neglecting to leverage your thoughts by replacing intentional thinking with an unconscious habit of chasing after the ‘best action’?
How many thoughts do you have in a day? Is it even possible to count? I’ve heard estimates of 50,000 to 100,000, but it doesn’t really matter — the point is that there are a lot, and there are far more thoughts than actions a person can achieve each day.
It looks like this:
We can clarify the situation further…
(Okay, so I like design 
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Despite the above clear views (reminds me of the 80/20 rule applied to thoughts & actions a bit,) everyone’s still so focused on action. You know what I’m talking about… there’s a million how-to’s on the web about “how-to start a blog,” or “how-to travel cheaply,” how-to take THIS action, or how-to take THAT action… They’re all over the place.
Ah, but there’s a good reason for this:
Supply-and-Demand.
Supply-and-demand is the basis of niche-marketing. Supply a “niche-with-a-need” with what they’re demanding (a perceived-solution,) and you’re golden.
But let’s look deeper, what exactly is a niche and what is supply-and-demand?
What Is A Niche?
A niche is a group of people with a common ‘problem’.
A group starts from one person, connecting with another person, and it grows from there. Niche’s start with one person.
When a person begins desiring something passionately, they become a niche of one. This desire is a thought. When they connect with another through community/word-of-mouth of some kind, and the two people share the same desire, they are now a niche of two. Then three, four, and it expands and amplifies, often virally.
So How Does a Niche Demand Supply?
So when a group of people all desire the same thing, it is picked up on by others in society, and those others see it as a niche. They are then inspired and motivated to create a solution to satiate the desire of the niche.
This is a graceful and powerful aspect of our current economy.
Use of this understanding, is how niche-marketers make money, and simultaneously how “the niche’s” improve their quality of life in a sweeping, way.
So a niche has a common desire and demands a solution, and as word spreads, a niche-marketer steps up to supply the demand. Simple eh?
Desire and Niche-Marketing Success
People tend to gloss over a niche-market’s desire and how it came to be. It’s like “Ok, this group has a problem, let’s make money!” — Sometimes it can really help and enlighten to know a bit of background; let’s look at desires a little deeper.
A desire is not really noticeable/apparent to most of society when it is just 1 person, with 1 fleeting thought, it requires more focus/energy.
Let’s look at this through a fictional person named John, who really wants to Tweet like a Rockstar because he feels like he’d be a lot happier in life if he could get some followers.
Let’s say ‘John’ thinks “Oh, I could really use a guide on how to Twitter Like A Rockstar“, that’s great, but society won’t take notice, and it was just a fleeting thought so John likely won’t bring it up in conversation with other human beings, and no one will care to solve this problem (or satiate this desire.)
If John becomes miserable and unsuccessful with twitter, he may think repeatedly “Man I wish I knew twitter, man I wish I knew twitter, man I wish I knew twitter…” over and over, sometimes frustrated, sometimes hopeful. When this happens, his desire is strengthened. He will almost certainly mention his Twitter issues in conversation, actively search it on Google and forums, and send out other subtle signals to society for help. John does these things because of his powerful, incessant, practically habitual thoughts. He may not even realize he is doing these things, but they are real choices, real actions, that have real effects on society.
He now begins to connect with others sharing a similar desire, and a niche starts to form.
As this niche grows, now society takes notice. Now the resources of humanity and humanities main motivator can come into play. Now people realize there is a community of people willing to pay them to solve this Twitter-dilemma, and they realize they can make a living for themselves by helping this niche.
What started as a fleeting thought, became the desire of an entire niche, and hit a tipping point where other members of society were inspired and passionate about solving the problem.
A single thought is the foundation and seed for society’s greatest accomplishments, and combined with our economy, we can see it’s poetic effect.
Okay, still with me? We’ve got the basics:
- Thoughts are more prevalent than action.
- Thoughts are higher-leverage than action.
- Thoughts are the foundation for action, and ultimately inseparable from action.
- Thoughts are our primary tool for evolution and advancement in ANY area of life.
People, especially in cities, are focused on the rush-rush, fast-paced, GTD-promoted idea of taking action after action for success.
After all we’ve looked at here, it seems at least ‘vaguely productive’ (read: this is a universal principle people, use it!) to give some attention to the foundation for all this action… our thoughts.
They’re the key to true success.
There are millions of successful people in life, and they all execute very different, very creative actions to achieve their success. There’s not a huge amount of similarity in each successful person’s particular chosen actions, save that they all generally leverage well. So that’s it? Successful people leverage well, and that’s why we have millions of successful businesses and celebrities? Trying to compare each of their actions is dizzying.
Tim Ferriss will tell you that you can succeed taking direct action for only 4 hours a week, Nathan implies in his blogging-crisis podcast that success in blogging requires a lot of hard-work to succeed.
Donald Trump has said “Everything in life is luck”, and Richard Wiseman claims to have determined scientifically that anyone can be lucky. Creative types such as visionary artist Alex Grey will tell you to allow inspiration to come and to put little focus on deadlines.
Blogger-God Seth Godin will tell you deadlines are vital – so vital they should be renamed life-lines, and all this is just tip of the iceberg. With all these contrasting actions, it makes it nearly impossible to sort out the ‘correct action(s).’
What we can do though, is examine the foundation of these people’s thoughts, and when we do, we can see that successful people have some very similar thought patterns.
- Successful people believed they could succeed long before any physical signs of their success actually showed up. That’s right, successful people generally appear delusional for a period of time before the success arrives.
- Successful people believe they can trust god/life/themselves, and give their all through fear and risk to pursue their passion.
- Successful people go the extra mile, whether that means saying “no” to that client who is pushing you too far even though you need the money, saying “yes” to that client out of love and care when your mind is screaming that you should take care of some other thing, or even if it’s guest-posting for a blog you feel good about when you have many other irons in the fire (Mad love, Nathan )
- Successful people accept success of all kinds. They accept the success of people who’ve taken a spiritual path, they accept success of those who may’ve committed crimes to achieve their success, they accept their friends success and their enemies success. They may not encourage the actions involved, but they accept success in all it’s forms, without judgment.
- Successful people have thoughts and ideas about thriving joyously, whether they can see it or not, they truly believe that they can thrive in life.
- Successful people realize and acknowledge the value that they provide to the world. They have no problem marketing their message because they see every contact with another human being as them providing value and giving others a gift. Whether its with fans, clients, customers, or whoever they are connecting with, they think about and appreciate the value they offer the world.
There are many other thoughts that successful people think, but this is a great start, and if you haven’t been thinking anything even remotely like this, and you are currently not experiencing the success you know you could be, try them out.
And hey, if you really want to know some actions you can take that will help you manage your thoughts, check out all the free resources at SpiritSentient.com, we love ideas and thought-management, and they’re provided to help you.
It’s high-leverage.
It’s high-value.
It’s high… fun.
Note: Thought-management is a massive topic, and I could talk on the details of it for ages, but hopefully this primer will serve its purpose.
Thank you all for reading, (and thank you Nathan for this opportunity to share with your audience,) you’re all already Kings in my eyes, and this is just a reminder to keep rockin’ – Shape The World.
Jason evolves humanity, he really does. That’s his conscious, intentional vision. When people get stuck talking rules, he speaks love. When people’s habits are panic and fear, he injects spirituality. He provides help through tremendously helpful Free-Resources, and is about to launch a new Digital Affirmations product and a book called Idealution & Thoughtsperity on Thought-Management.
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