How do you sustain that level of motivation throughout your
business?
That is the start of planting the seed, and I then nurture it.
I let them know that if you make a mistake and learn from it, it stays a
mistake. If you make a mistake and don’t learn from it, it becomes a failure.
Many people try something one time, fail at it and then move on. The lesson I
try to get across is that you don’t walk away. If you try something the first
time and it doesn’t work out, you don’t do the same thing, you make an
adjustment and adapt. If you are in a circumstance that you don’t want to be
in, you change it to a circumstance that you do want to be in.
You have to believe in what you’re doing. Who is the best
writer? The guy who believes in what he’s writing. Who is the best marketer?
The guy who believes in what he’s
marketing.
What should a business leader rely upon as a source of
motivation?
I’ve found out only recently in life who I am, what I am. And
I can tell you how to find out who you are. You figure out what has made you
successful. What you’re doing right now, if it’s making you money, paying the
bills, you’re successful. You’re not sitting in the street with a cup in your
hand. You’re not smoking pot, you’re not drinking at a bar. You’re doing
something constructive, and that is success.
You were born with some special abilities, but you didn’t earn
them and no one is going to point them out to you. But it is the special things
you were born with that have gotten you to where you are today. If you can
identify what has gotten you to where you are today, the special things that
you have that you don’t realize yet, and stop using them unintentionally, start
using them intentionally, you’ll reach your potential. But you first have to realize
what makes you special and start using it intentionally.
If you’re at a social gathering, and people like something
about you, you find out what that is and start using it. That is what I did at
age 53, and I’m 55 now. I realized what is making me successful and started
using it intentionally. All of a sudden, when I started using my natural
abilities intentionally, guess what happened? I started reaching my potential,
and I started to fully realize who I am now.
If you can figure those things out about yourself, you can
change lives, and not just your own.
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