The Ten Times Rule: The Only Difference Between Success and Failure

something
to do with what is
happening—or it would not have involved you. Remember, although it may be
happening to you, it is happening because of you. Although you may not want to
claim responsibility for the accident on the police report, the reality is that the
insurance company is going to exact a penalty regardless of who is at fault. Keep
one thing in mind: Anytime you play victim in order to “be right,” you are taking
on the identity of a victim, and that can't be a good thing. Until a person is done
being a victim, he or she is unable to create solutions and success. That person
only has problems.
Once you start to approach every situation as someone who is 
acting—
not
being 
acted upon—
you will start to have more control over your life. Having (or
failing to have) success, I believe, is a direct result of everything you are doing
and thinking yourself. 
You
are the source, the generator, the origin, and the
reason for everything—both positive and negative. This is not meant to simplify
the concept of success, of course, but until you decide you are responsible for
everything, you likely will not take the action necessary to get you above the
game. However, if you want to have it all, then of course you have to assume
responsibility for everything. Otherwise, you are going to waste a lot of potential
10X energy making excuses instead of profits.
It is a myth and falsehood to think that success just happens or that it just
happens to some people. I know that the approach I'm suggesting works, because
it's the one I've used to accumulate my own success. I didn't grow up in an
especially privileged household with any connections to the supposedly “right”
people. I was given no money to start my companies and was not especially
more “gifted” than the next person. Yet I was able to accumulate financial,
physical, spiritual, and emotional success that is far beyond anything most
people expected of me—all because I was willing to take actions at massive
levels, assume control, and take responsibility for every outcome. Whether it is

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the flu, a stomachache, a car wreck, a criminal stealing my money, my computer
crashing, or even the electricity going out, I assume control and responsibility.
It was only until I truly started to believe that 
nothing happens to me; it
happens because of me
that I was able to start operating at 10X levels. Someone
once said, “No matter where I go, there I am.” This little saying suggested to me
that I am both the problem and the solution. This outlook put me in a position of
being the cause of the outcomes of my life rather than a victim. I didn't allow
myself to blame anyone or anything else as a justification for any hardships I
encountered. I started to believe that although I may not always have a say in
what happens to me, I 
always
have a choice about how I respond to it. Success
isn't just a “journey,” as countless people and books suggest it is; rather, it's a
state—constant or otherwise—over which you have control and responsibility.
You either create success or you don't—and it isn't for whiners, crybabies, and
victims.
You doubtlessly have gifts you have yet to use—potential that remains
untapped. You've been endowed with a desire for greatness and are aware
enough to know that there are no shortages of success. Increase your
responsibility level, assume control for everything that happens to you, and live
by the slogan that nothing happens to you—only because of you! And
remember, “Don't be a little bitch.”

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