5 Sep

Sharing Your Success

Written by Matt Hackney |

 

How should you climb Mt. Everest?

 A. Pack a big backpack and take it straight from the bottom to the top
B. Take a small group of friends, all with their packs, and go to the top.
C. Climb a smaller mountain, wait a month, and then climb Everest.
D. Get together a group of 40 people and head for the top, allowing them to turn away if they want.

 

D is the correct answer. Why? Because it involves sharing success.

 The person breaking the snow goes slower, but it allows the weaker people to get farther, which in turn gives you the help you need to reach the top. They won’t be able to get all the way to the top, but they’ll help you get 25% of the way. The best will help you 50% of the way, and the best of the best will take you 75% of the way. You’re the only one who can get you 100% of the way. By sharing your success, it brings you more success. As a personal trainer, to have a real million dollar client, you need lots of non-million dollar clients.

 To expand on the Everest climbing analogy, however, you don’t want to take just any 40 people, you want to take the 40 people who will help you the most. So you start by climbing a small mountain five times, with a different group of forty each time. Maybe half of those will reach the top. Now you have a 100 people—take them to the top of a higher mountain, like Mt. Whitney. Out of those, maybe 40 will make it. Those are the 40 you would take with you to Base Camp 1 of Everest. You want to have the weakest people carry the least weight, so you don’t tire them out too fast, and it keeps the stronger people in shape. Then you all go up in stages, taking turns breaking ground. If you don’t share your success, you’re just playing the lottery.

 

So if you’re building a personal training service, you would start out with someone with less experience than you and tell them, for example, “If you work for me for a while, I’ll get you certified.” Then tell them that if they make that first step, you’ll talk about that second step.

 

You want to increase the quality of people you’re working with. Everest has four base camps; you always want to be working with the people one “base camp” lower than you, no lower. You can’t preach to someone on the same level as you. If you continue to work with people at the bottom of the mountain, it will hold you back. Just work with the people just below your level. You’ll get more successful as they get more successful.

 

Some people won’t ever get very high up your particular mountain of success. But don’t discredit them; you still need them. You won’t be respected if you don’t have a lot of people on that first base case—which shows that you are capable of helping them get there. Even if you’re at the bottom of your mountain, you can still find someone lower down than you. And talk about where you’re going as if they’re standing where you are now.

 

The mountain is always getting higher; the more people you bring almost to the top with you, the higher it gets, and the more successful you will be.

 

I love the analogy of somebody who is trying to climb Mt. Everest but they are so stubborn that they’re doing it all on their own and they don’t see any success at all because it’s really impossible to do it solo.  If you try, you’re going to end up hurting yourself more than you help yourself.

 When you share your success, the world gets back to you.  It’s a beautiful thing.  Ghandi understands it.  Most world leaders understand this concept.  It’s the masses that don’t see it – they are so selfish.  They need to stop asking, “What am I going to get out of this?”  They need to start asking, “How can I give?  How can I teach more?”

 Using this analogy of somebody that climbs Mt. Everest and finds out how to get there by bringing as many people as possible, the ones that go with you that are really excited about it, they only make it to the base. But hey, they’re there at the base, they’re your support group, and they care for you and are there if something goes wrong. 

Then the ones that actually did a lot of training, they make it to base camp number two.  You did your best trying to get everyone as far as you could because you’re sharing your success.  Then when you’re going to base camp three, they’re helping to plow the snow out of the way and they’re leading the trail every now and then.  They might carry an extra pack if you get sick. 

 Whatever it is, they will help you just because you’re sharing that success with them.  In the end, 99% of them will never, ever make it past base camp three but bring them along and help them in their own journey because that is success to them.  When you help them find that success, you being at the top of your game will reach the very top.  It’s the person that helps others reach their success who is the most successful. When someone says, “How can I help others every moment of every day and make my life about helping others and helping them reach their goals?” 

 That person is untouchable because nobody does that. I can name probably two dozen people in the world that I’ve seen that have that aspect in their life and that’s so rare that nobody can get as far and be as successful as you are because you helped so many different people.

So reach your hand out and you’ll slowly realize how much you’re getting hangs helping you out in return. 

From the success you’ve created from helping people get higher another guy goes and takes four or five of his friends and they make it to base camp three and two of them make it all the way.  That would be a typical group.  Then think of the person that says, “I’m going to get as many people as possible to go” and the go and have a party at base camp number one and those people are so excited that they’re thinking, “Wow, I am at the base of Mt. Everest.  How cool is that?”

 They have literally 50 people at the bottom and then 15 of those make it to base camp number two.  Eight make it to base camp three.  Four of those make it to the top.  That is a successful group to me because nobody died, it was sharing success the whole way, and each person that made it to the next level feels successful at the level they made it to.

 So this is the concept of this chapter and it’s really the fruit of my success.  I’ve helped so many people out and it’s such a blessing to me to be able to say that and to see them out there helping.

Those that say “What’s in it for me?” are clearly on the bottom and have no concept of success.  They have a lot of growing up to do.  While those who ask, “How can I help?” are the true leaders and should be given the most attention.  Help those who listen with both ears and then extend help with both hands.

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