Here Is What The 99% Don’t Do With Their Time That 1% Do

There are so many things that the 1% do that the 99% do not do, but the most crucial thing is this:

The 1% are willing to get uncomfortable.

They are willing to call the people they need to to get business, are willing to talk to the attractive people at the bar and are willing to put themselves through hour-long workouts day after day.

While the 99% sit on the couch, watching the newest series on Netflix or playing the hottest video game, the 1% get uncomfortable and do what is necessary to get ahead.

I have answered so many questions about success, saying that the key to succeed is hard work, where people have commented and complained that there are many people that work hard that never reach success.

But I guarantee you one thing, if you looked at the kind of work those did that succeeded vs. those that did not succeed you will see that the 1% that reached success did what was uncomfortable but necessary.

They succeeded because they truly worked hard.

“ Being busy is a form of laziness — lazy thinking and indiscriminate action. Being busy is most often used as a guise for avoiding the few critically important but uncomfortable actions.” — Timothy Ferriss

The truth is, you know exactly what would get you further in life.

If you called your dream company every day, if you learned that very difficult skill, if you talked to more attractive people, if you ate healthy and worked out harder, and if you read more books you would be closer to success.

That’s not new information! You know this!

Yet the difference between you and the 1% of people who succeed, is that they do these things.

None of the things that are comfortable bring you success, otherwise everyone would be successful already.

On the contrary, it is the hard things, the ones that no one is willing to do, that bring success.

Success in dating, for example, is obtained by talking to more people and starting up more conversations, while success in business is obtained by doing the uncomfortable work at uncomfortable times while talking to the uncomfortable people.

“You must be willing to do what they won’t do — and even take actions that you might deem ‘unreasonable.’” — Grant Cardone

The 1% really do not do anything too out of the ordinary.

They are not all masters in their fields, are not all incredibly talented and were not born with a four-leaf clover in their hands.

They are normal people just like you and me.

The only difference is that they take that uncomfortable step into the unknown darkness where we watch from the sidelines; they do what we are not willing to do.

Originally published at http://quora.com.