I don’t care what business you’re in, what you do, what you’re selling, if you have the opportunity to talk to the #1 person in their field, you have to take note. If you have any desire to improve your business, you have to compare notes against someone who is succeeding at a higher level than you.
I’d like to think of all of us as “a nucleus”. If we take on that responsibility, good things happen.
When my own dad passed last month, Joe reached out and told me what my dad told him 22 years ago “you honor the deceased by living”….so here we are today, full circle.
If you can fail through effort, if you cannot take it too personally, if you can learn from the fail, you come back stronger, better, more knowledgeable, more confident, more refined, more developed, more experienced, more professional, more better.
General rejection is tolerable, personal rejection, from those you know, is harder.
There will be 2 camps in six months from now, those that got better and those that wish they had.
…we need to stumble, we need to be confused, we need to question, we need to feel that discomfort of “what the f”, in order to work through the issues.
…you have to have a big picture appreciation of where your head is by asking those 8 questions. I do believe all the tactics in the world don’t matter if you don’t have an appreciation/thought for the “why” you’re doing them.
This isn’t about a quick pep talk, it’s about a consistent reminder of keeping your head where it needs to be in order to grow outside of any comfort zone you may find yourself in.
When I’m strong of mind, or strong of heart, my faith overcomes any fear I’m feeling from the pressure and the mindset shifts to “failure is not an option”.
