The Faster You Develop, The Quicker You Succeed

1. The Story

If I could give my younger self one piece of advice, it would be this:

The faster you develop, the quicker you achieve success.

When I was first starting out, I thought success was just a matter of time. If I worked hard enough, year after year, I believed success would eventually find me.

I was wrong.

There are plenty of people who grind for decades and never break through. Time alone doesn’t guarantee success. Hard work matters, but it only gets you so far.

What actually creates breakthroughs is growth.

The turning point for me came when I shifted my focus away from simply grinding more hours, and started asking myself a bigger question:

Who do I need to become to run the business I dream of?

That’s when everything changed.

2. The Lesson

The real accelerators of success aren’t time or effort—it’s development.

• The faster you sharpen your skills, the more leverage you gain. Every new skill compounds your opportunities.

• The faster you learn to lead people, not just manage tasks, the more your business multiplies beyond your own hands.

• The faster you build systems, the less you rely on hustle, and the more your company can scale without you.

When I invested in developing myself—studying sales, leadership, and strategy, learning from mentors, building systems instead of relying on brute force—everything accelerated.

Revenue scaled. My time freed up. Opportunities started coming to me instead of me constantly chasing them.

The faster you grow into the person capable of leading at the level you want, the sooner success becomes inevitable.

3. The Takeaways

Here are three questions you should ask yourself right now if you want to speed up your timeline:

1. What skill, if I mastered it in the next 6 months, would change everything in my business?

2. What system could I build today that would remove a bottleneck or free up my time?

3. Who do I need to become to run the business I say I want?

Answer honestly, then get to work on them.

Because the truth is simple: success doesn’t reward waiting. It rewards preparation. The faster you develop, the faster you succeed.

Final Note

If you want to accelerate your development and compress years of trial-and-error into months of growth, I’ve opened 3 new spots in my mentorship program.

Inside, I share the exact strategies, systems, and mindset shifts that took me from zero to scaling multimillion-dollar businesses—so you can fast-track your journey.

Apply here: www.grantmittconsulting.com