Find your tribe

It is often said that a group of brains coordinated in a spirit of harmony will provide more thought energy than a single brain. This makes it true to say that no one can achieve anything great alone. As George Shin puts it "There is no such thing as a self-made man. You will reach your goals only with the help of others."

It always takes a group or a team of like-minded people who speak the same language to achieve anything worth achieving. In other words, we call them a tribe, not ethnically grouped but in vision and thought process. This means that everyone has a language, and it's when we understand each other's language that we can be able to communicate, connect, network, and relate with each other to achieve a particular goal. The opposite can also be true, we can't build anything great together if we don't speak the same language.

Since we are all unique beings and we possess unique capabilities, how we speak is not an exception to this fact. Oftentimes, as a result of ignorance, we find ourselves placing expectations on people before understanding their language. This is what leads to failure and disappointment. Prior to that, we can also miss opportunities to connect with the right tribe when we base the idea of a tribe with the wrong understanding. Sometimes your tribe might be the people that seem unqualified professionally but qualified in the mission statement.

A tribe is attracted by clarity of vision and purpose. Your tribe can be your customers, your clients, the people around you who move and act the same way you do and have the same belief system. To master the art of connecting with the right tribe is to master the gateway to success. To scale up in any venture you need the right tribe. People who believe in the vision and are willing to go the extra mile for the same cause.

One of the root causes of most failures in business is individualism. Such can only exist when people are connected based on temporary factors other than the language they speak. Another one can be immature execution. The chances of you getting the wrong people are always high when you put out an idea without proper planning and procedure. Timing in this case is a factor to consider when looking for your tribe.

As they say, if the people around you are not making you grow, then they are doing the opposite of that, either breaking you or killing you. The right tribe at the wrong time will kill a vision instead of manifesting it. Doing the right thing at the right time but in the wrong way will also attract the wrong tribe.  This concludes that the fundamental of long-term success is finding your tribe, specifically the right tribe. This can only be possible when we do the right thing, at the right time in the right way. As the popular saying goes, "When the student is ready the teacher appears."