Success Doesn’t Just Happen By Chance
I have had the privilege of meeting with some the most successful people in the country. It is such an incredible feeling to sit down and have a conversation with people like “Gene Landrum”, “Brian Tracy” and “Dan Kennedy”. Gene Landrum actually created Atari and is the founder of “The Chucky Cheese Pizza Chain”.
While talking to these people, I was enlightened to how they achieved such great goals.
It is obvious that when they wake up in the morning, they know exactly what they are doing that day. Their goals are guiding them through every breath of life. Well thought out and deliberate.
It seems a whole lot of people get caught up in the notion that success is an accident or by luck or chance. Maybe they think it is genetic or a freak encounter.
Most people (including life insurance agents) who think this… must, in order to live with their own lack of achievement. To admit that success is both a methodical process and the outcome of a process virtually anyone can use would be to admit they failed themselves.
It is more palatable to say that life failed me than to say that I failed me, to say I’m unlucky rather than to say I’m lazy or week or stupid. More comforting but obviously not helpful.
Every successful entrepreneur I know shares several chief frustrations.
- One is time; not enough time to do what he needs or wants to do.
- Another is a pack of family members who think he’s so much more successful than they are by accident, who resent him, who have no appreciation for his victories, who mooch off of him, who guilt him. Every successful entrepreneur has this in his or her family.
Success is very, very, very, rarely by chance. So if you want to be successful, you need to start planning for it and work at it. Write down your goals and look at them daily. If you want to achieve your goals and be successful, they have to be a part of your every fiber. But keep in mind that it is not going to be an easy road and there are many tolls.
Again, success doesn’t happen by chance…to be successful and get those hot life insurance leads you have to remember (and apply) this famous quote by Abraham Lincoln:
“Things may come to those who wait but only the things left by those who hustle.”
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