Cheap Soap.

Copyright by Nick Grimshawe

Success comes from the mind. Do you agree? Success doesn’t just happen. Success isn’t dumb luck. Success is a way of thinking, which translates to actions that eventually generates success. Oh, there be hard times, there will be failures, there will be mighty struggles with self and others, but true success shines through all this adversity because you are success.

What does all that have to do with cheap soap?

Cheap soap is the analogy I use to demonstrate the mindset you need to develop to earn success. Cheap soap comes in packages of 4, six, or 12, for…say $7.99. The soap is manufactured in large industrial warehouses using inexpensive ingredients designed to appeal to the average consumer at a price agreeable to them; in other words, cheap.

Now here you come along, swaggering down the soap aisle, Mr. Or Mrs Success. You grab a 12 pack of Misty Nice soap bars and continue on down the aisle, humming you’re little tune of success.

What’s wrong with the picture?

Cheap soap and the mindset of a success do not lather up (sorry)! Ahh, “a snob,” you exclaim like a victory yell. No. If you want to think and then act like success, you have to rise above what everyone else does. We’re not just blowing bubbles here. This is a very important point.

If you think like everyone else, you tend to act like everyone else. You lower yourself to the lowest common denominator. Lowest common denominators do not in general succeed.

Think of your favourite wealthy celebrity. Do you think a common bar of soap ever comes close to their body? Ugh! Not way.

Surround Yourself With the Best You Can Afford.

That was Leonardo da Vinci’s recommendation, and he knew a bit about the mind, he had an extraordinarily brilliant one.

Personally, it’s all about living well. Surround yourself with sensual pleasures that invigorate your senses, lift your mood and spirit. I’m not talk ostentatious wealth. I’m speaking of a bar of soap.

Let’s go back to the snob routine for just a moment. I shower with a French Milled soap that has a fragrance that makes me perk up first thing in the morning. My one bar equals 12 of the Misty Nice. I then wander down stairs for my breakfast cup of real coffee made form fresh ground beans of good quality. My one-cup probably equals the price of those huge 2kg tins (an now plastic) of ground-up stuff that may or may not be coffee. That cup of coffee matters to my Success mindset. Ordinary soap and inferior coffee don’t really set you up for success. Come on get over the snob thing, you’ve got to leave that behind if you really want to develop a winning attitude.

Once you have reached that pinnacle of success set for yourself, you can drink all the bad coffee you want. Why? Because you are no longer part of the lower denominator. By your success, you stand apart.

Its only soap.

I admit that cheap soap doesn’t define a success-oriented mind. Rather it symbolizes the change you need to strive for in order to escape the common denominator.

Let me give you one more example here just to illustrate my point. (I still get a glimmer of that snob thing.)

My dad, who I loved dearly, aligned himself thoroughly with the “little man”. The rich and powerful was automatically the enemy. Anyone who proclaimed they stood for the “little man”, found favour in my father’s eyes, even though these pretenders were, quite often, rich and powerful. He never rose above his station because by his definition he could not rise higher.

He use to make me so angry, that I would yell at him that he was not a little man. However, yelling doesn’t change the inward set of a mind.

Only you can change what is inside of you. Nevertheless, it doesn’t hurt to change what is around you as you strive for personal growth and achievement.

Cheap Soap is only a symptom of a mindset you need to escape to achieve your dreams.

Where can you get French Milled Soap? (That’s better.)

I’ll give you a hint: not in a grocery store, yuk, shudder, grimace.

Nick Grimshawe.

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