Have you ever thought of yourself as weird? It may not have occurred to you before, but the things you probably want in life aren’t normal. It’s not normal to be wildly successful and work from home. It isn’t normal to live in an exotic part of the world. All these things are a little weird.

Do you have what it takes to be weird? Your willingness to be a little weird is a great indicator of how much success you’re able to achieve. The key is being the right kind of weird.

Being Weird Comes at a Cost

There are plenty of people who are weird but they aren’t productive. They don’t operate with a strategy. Because of that, they aren’t going to end up creating a lot of success.

Being weird—even the right kind of weird—will put you in direct opposition with the masses. Even your friends and family may have a difficult time with your weirdness. If you have kids, eventually they’ll get old enough to speak their minds, and they might think you’re a little weird too.

Use Your Imagination Wisely

Being weird means using your Imagination in the right way. Imagination is a powerful thing. But when you use it to find something wrong with every business opportunity that comes your way, you’ve been using it incorrectly. There’s always something to find fault with when it comes to business opportunities. You have to look at the opportunity before you and tell yourself that it’s good enough.

People who are the right kind of weird aren’t afraid to do their own math. It doesn’t matter what’s happened in their past. They tip the scales in their favor so that no matter what comes their way, the result is a successful outcome!

Be, Then Have

We all tend to say that once we a certain thing then we’ll be successful. But success doesn’t start with having something. It starts with being someone. Who are you being? Who you are right now will help determine the level of success you’re able to achieve down the line.

If you want to know what you’re being, just look at what you have right now. What you have is driven by what you are. Think about how you’re employing your resources to become the person you want to be.

Being Weird Means Thinking Laterally, Not Linearly

We’re all programmed to think linearly. Society tells us that someone like Shane who’s a high school dropout deserves a dead-end job. But lateral thinking doesn’t come with the same kind of restraints. Lateral thinking tells us that if you’re sick of the job you have now, you have the motivation to go and do something successful!

Highlights from the Episode

• 7:11—Being goal-oriented makes you stand out from the group.
• 9:43—Shane explains why he considers himself to be unlikely to succeed. Yet, because he’s the right kind of weird, he’s succeeded beyond his wildest dreams.
• 25:46—Rachel discusses her journey to setting a goal and how she realized she didn’t want to work for someone else.
• 34:32—Shane discusses the changes he implemented when he decided to work toward being successful.

View the entire episode here!