MBA2635 How To Be More Successful Than 99% of Other People

Wondering what it really takes to stand out and succeed—no matter your field? Some people effortlessly crush their goals, earn respect, and get ahead, while others struggle to follow through. If you're searching for that simple yet powerful edge, today’s episode holds the answer. Omar reveals a game-changing habit that’s often overlooked but makes all the difference. Learn how applying this principle can transform your confidence, reputation, and success in ways you never expected. Plus, get practical strategies to build consistency and unlock new levels in business, career, and life. Don't miss this—hit play at the top of the page and uncover the lesson that could change everything! Watch the episodes on YouTube: https://lm.fm/GgRPPHiSUBSCRIBEYouTube | Apple Podcast | Spotify | Podcast Feed

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  It sounds simple, and it is, but it's also rare. So rare, in fact, that if you make this one habit a non-negotiable for you, you will become unstoppable. I know this because I work with a lot of entrepreneurs. I've been doing this for over 20 years, and I can probably count on one or two hands the people I know that do this and are highly successful because of it. You'll stand out everywhere: business, career, life, relationships. I'm talking everything you do. Let me show you why this works, how to master it, and I'm going to give you examples, real-world examples, where it changed everything for me.

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  Welcome back to the $100 MBA Show. I'm your host Omar Zenhome, where I deliver practical business lessons three times a week, Monday, Wednesday, and Friday, to help you start, grow, and scale your business.

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  As you get older, as you live life, you learn that most people don't follow through. Most people, they say they're gonna launch a website, they say they're gonna ship a product, they say they're gonna show up on time, they say they're gonna deliver the work, they say they're gonna start a business, and they don't. But when they do, they become the person who follows through. It becomes their reputation. You become somebody that's trusted, that's respected, that gets opportunities, that gets sales, that gets all of it. But the opposite is also true. All those wonderful positive attributes that I just mentioned, think of the opposite of those attributes. You become those things. You become known for those things. You become unreliable, somebody that can't be counted on, somebody that can't be trusted, somebody that doesn't deliver,

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  somebody that is just not respected amongst your peers because you just don't do what you say you're going to do. Now, I'm here to tell you why this happens, and why this habit applies in every corner of your life and your business. Number one thing you need to remember, it's not just any promises, but it's all the promises you make in life. The first type of promise is your public promises. If you told your audience that you're launching in 30 days, you need to launch in 30 days under any circumstance, right? You need to make sure it happens, even if it's not perfect. You need to launch because you said you're gonna launch in 30 days. And if you don't launch in 30 days, it means that you can't be trusted.

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  Why would I buy from you if you can't even stick to a deadline? The second type, private commitments. This second one might be more important, in my opinion, than the first one, but I wanted to ease you into it. When you tell yourself anything, when you tell yourself, for example, "I'm gonna send 20 cold emails today", you need to do it even if no one's watching. Why? Because when you break promises to yourself, you erode your confidence. The opposite is also true.

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  Also true, when you constantly fulfill your promises to yourself, when you tell yourself, "Hey, I need to write this blog post by the end of the day," and you don't end the day, you don't go to bed until that blog post is written, you build like a little higher percentage of confidence inside of you. All of a sudden, you start to believe that you can do things. This starts to stack, this starts to compound. Every time you tell yourself you're gonna do something and you do it, this builds unstoppable confidence over time because you believe in yourself. Because when you say you're gonna do something, you do it. Listen, I told myself today, "I'm going to do three podcast episodes." This is my third podcast episode, okay? I could have easily said, "Hey, two's enough. I'm five weeks ahead in the publishing

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  schedule. It's totally fine." No! Yes, it's totally fine, but what's not totally fine is me telling myself that I'm going to do three episodes and not fulfill that commitment. You need to make sure that what you say to yourself actually happens. So, this also means you gotta be careful about what promises you tell yourself because you want to keep your promises. And this applies to everything in life. If you're at the gym and you gotta do four sets of 10 reps, you gotta do four sets of 10 reps. Not four sets of eight reps, not three sets of 10 reps, it doesn't matter. You need to fulfill your obligation to yourself. And the more you let that kind of slide, even in other parts of your life, you start to tell yourself, "It's okay to

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  break promises. It's okay for me not to fulfill my agreement with myself." And that is not on, okay? This is one of the cases where how you do anything is how you do everything. So, keep your private commitments by any means possible. Be honest. As a business owner, how much of your day is actual work? And how much is it just getting ready to do the work? Answering emails, tweaking presentations, hunting for numbers? That stuff adds up fast, which is why upgrading to the premium tier of Google Workspace with Gemini is a game changer. One subscription gets you Google's AI right into all your apps like Gmail, Docs, Sheets. And Meet, so it can handle all the heavy lifting across your day.

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  Number three, your promises to your team. If you said to the team, "Hey, we have two weeks to finish this project, and when the two weeks is up, you just extend it to three weeks." That means your deadlines mean nothing. That means that whenever you say two weeks, it doesn't really mean two weeks. It means whenever the project gets done. You need to make sure that you wrap up that project whenever you said you were going to wrap up. No rescheduling. You have to make it happen. Listen, people remember who delivers, and they also remember who doesn't deliver, especially your team. Listen, I'm going to share a very vulnerable story. We like to do team retreats, right? With our team, we like to get onsite, go to a nice location, nice hotel, three, four, five days in a beautiful beach. And do team building activities, get to know each other, have some fun. And one year in particular, we were not making as much profit as we'd like.

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  And we were thinking about, oh, maybe we should cancel the retreat. There was no way possible I was canceling the retreat because we already told the team, we're going to have this retreat, we already booked the dates, or we already told them the dates and the location. So this retreat is going to happen, even if it meant pulling money out of our own pockets, Nicole and I, and that's exactly what happened. Why? Because I said to the team, this is going to happen. I gotta keep my promises. I gotta keep my commitments. Because I know in my core, that when I do this, always consistently in my life, in my business, with my customers, with myself, with my team, that's the recipe of success. Let me give you some more examples. When we pre-sold our software, Webinar Ninja, back in 2014,

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  we had nothing but mockups, a landing page and a buy button. But I said to them that in four months, we're going to deliver the software. And guess what? We did. We built instant trust with our early adopters. Hey, they trusted me in buying the software before it was ready. And then I had to make sure that they can trust me again when I said four months. And if I broke that promise, I'm going to be starting on the wrong foot. And there's a really low chance they're ever going to trust me again and buy anything from me again. But because I did fulfill my promise, I did deliver, that user base became a multimillion dollar SaaS. And I truly believe if I missed that deadline, I don't think the business would have grown the way it grew. I don't think it would have been a multimillion dollar business

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  that got acquired by ProProfs. None of that would have happened. Another example, this podcast, $100 MBA Show, we publish three days a week, Monday, Wednesday, Friday. Rain or shine, if I feel like it, if I don't feel like it, if I'm busy, if I get sick, if I'm tired, if I'm traveling, if I'm not, all that doesn't matter. It doesn't matter. That's what I'm trying to say to you. Like, all the stuff I just mentioned, the consumer, the listener, the customer of yours, they have nothing to do with that. If you said you're going to do something, you gotta do it. So you gotta plan accordingly. This is why I batch my episodes. This is why I like to have a lead time of five, six, seven weeks so that I can travel or I Can make sure that it gets published even when I'm sick because we have some lead time,

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  you know, or my voice goes away because I went to some, you know, crazy fun concert or whatever it might be. And that consistency of publishing regularly, day after day, week after week, you know, for 2,600 plus episodes, that built our loyal audience. And that's frankly, why we won best of iTunes. This is why we grew to millions of downloads. This is why we have any audience at all, because we showed up, we did what we said we're going to do. Another example, before all that, back when I was the head of department at the high school I was working at when I was an educator, I built a reputation for one thing. When Omar says he's going to do something, it gets done. Right? You know, that old saying, if you want to get something done, give it to somebody who's busy.

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  I was like the poster child for that. To a fault, I know people abuse that, but I'm okay with that because it allowed me to become who I am today. But anything the institution needed, curriculum design, staff support, parent communications, I was known for following through, for getting things done. And that's really honestly why I got promoted in my career. That's what got me trust. And I wasn't like incredibly talented, but I was incredibly reliable. And that's why people actually trusted me enough with responsibility, with position, with the ability to manage other people. And I used that experience in my career as an entrepreneur later on. But forget about me. Let's talk about some famous brands like Apple.

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  When Apple says the iPhone ships on September 22nd, it ships on September 22nd, not in October, not when they feel like it, not when they get around to it, it ships on September 22nd. That's what professionals do. That's why they have raving fans because their delivery is part of their brand. Amazon, Prime shipping, two days, done. Say what you want to say about Amazon, but they built an empire on doing what they said they're going to do again and again. Now, why most people won't do this? Because it's uncomfortable, because life gets in the way, because they let themselves off the hook, because, because, because, because I can go on and on. But if you don't let yourself off the hook, you will pass 99% of people around.

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  Quietly, steadily, relentlessly. So right now, make a commitment to yourself. Right now, I'm serious. Say it out loud if you want to. Make a commitment. I will do what I say I'm going to do. Every single time. In every aspect of my life, my business, my work, my relationships. I will become that person. Your life will change forever from this moment forward. Before I go, I want to leave you with this. This isn't about hustle culture or never missing a beat. It's about becoming the kind of person you can trust. Say what you'll do and do it. No drama, no flair, just action. And over time, you'll build a life, a business and a reputation that speaks for itself.

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  Just go to 100mba.net, sign up for any of our guides and you'll be a part of our newsletter automatically. Thanks again. I know that today was a little bit of tough love and maybe I was a little bit over passionate, but I really believe in what I shared with you today. It's really something that changed my life. Once I got this, once I took responsibility, once I owned this, I realized I need to start fulfilling my own promises to myself, to others, and never back down, never compromise, never say, oh, it's okay, whatever, next time. Treat yourself with dignity, okay? Treat yourself better than that because you are better than that. Thanks again. I'll check you next time.

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