A few years ago I watched a Joel Osteen sermon where he was talking about acceleration. He was discussing how there are points in life when things happen so quickly that it seems unreal. Things that would normally take years happen in much less time. I thought of this yesterday when I read about how Elon Musk, the founder and CEO of SpaceX, CEO of Tesla and founder of The Boring Company, among a whole host of other things, is now the richest person in the world. I’m not surprised that he would reach such a feat, it was inevitable, but it’s the amount of time it happened in that I find mind blowing and quite frankly thoroughly exciting. A perfect example of acceleration from a man who specializes in cars and rockets. How fitting.
“Musk started 2020 worth about $27 billion, and was barely in the top 50 richest people” according to Robert Frank writing for CNBC. He ended the year having added over $150 billion to his net worth. How is that even possible?! For someone to gain over $150 billion dollars in a year! It keeps going up because as I write this (January 8, 2021) his net worth is now at about $185 billion dollars, which now makes him the richest person in the world, after passing Amazon’s Jeff Bezos yesterday.
Maybe you think this has nothing to do with you, but how can you read that and not see that anything is possible?! Not only that, but things can happen quickly and in unprecedented ways, after years of working at it of course. I always say you should go after your dreams and never give up. This right here is why. One day everything you’ve been doing will pay off in ways you never expected. I don’t think being the richest person in the world was on Elon Musk’s radar. He was going after his dreams and doing what he loves and boom, here he is today!
It was not an easy journey, at some point his companies were draining money at such a fast rate that he had to get money for living expenses from friends. If you’re not familiar with Elon Musk’s story I would suggest that you make it your mission to get yourself acquainted with it. You can read the biography: Elon Musk by Ashlee Vance. One way that I find inspiration and lessons in dream pursuit, entrepreneurship and life in general is through reading biographies or autobiographies and this Elon Musk one that I just mentioned is one that is worth reading if you want to make something of yourself and achieve greatly.
I hope his story as a whole and this new development show you the importance of pursuing your dreams, doing what you love, working at it and never giving up. And that at some point acceleration can take you to a level you never even dreamed of, without you doing anything differently.
