The Only Rule of Success
About this episode
Roy H. Williams discusses the singular Rule of Success and the concept of life goals as guiding lights.
I promise that I will state plainly for you – in ten short words – the singular Rule of Success before you have finished reading this Monday Morning Memo. Stay quiet and stay close. We are wandering into a dangerous area. To see the glittering truth of the Rule of Success, we must quietly sneak up on it. The North Star never moves because it hovers directly above the axis of the earth. If you draw a line from the South Pole to the North Pole and then extend that line 323 light years into space, it will touch the North Star. Your life’s goal is your guiding light, your North Star. This is why you are forever traveling northward as you pursue your dream. But there is a limit to north. That limit is called the North Pole. When you go beyond that limit, you are now headed in the opposite direction. This is the bitter truth that has been tasted by every person who has achieved their life’s goal: “You work your whole life to reach the summit. And when you get there, all the roads lead down.” Like every rule, North and South are finite and achievable. Like every principle, East and West are infinite and unachievable. You can travel east forever and never reach the end of “east.” “The…
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