A while ago, I read the very excellent “Success Is for You,” a book by David Hawkins.
It has easily become one of my favorite books about having success with integrity. Very possibly, occupying my #1 spot.
In it, David talks about the fact that in the Great Depression, there were people who didn’t have any jobs – and there were other people who had five or six jobs.
In other words? Success is in your mind. It comes down to being the right kind of person who can do excellent work and deliver value in everything you put your mind to.
He also mentions the difference between two people who have become stranded on a desert island.
The first person lives at a very low level, depressed that they’ve lost their previous life and hardly surviving.
The second person has made themselves a hammock, they’ve designed tools that allow them to easily harvest coconuts, they’ve got a whole shelter built that accommodates all their needs.
If the island is inhabited, the unsuccessful person is shunned and separate from the native people, an outcast and an uneasy enemy at best (lunch at worst!)
Whereas the successful person has taught the children of the village how to play soccer and has married a local woman.
He has a thriving business selling pre-boned fish, and he is working on a way to write their language down for the first time.
The only difference between the two kinds of people in both of these stories?
The successful person understands that they bring their success with them wherever they go.
True success cannot be taken away from you by your environment, even in “less than favorable situations”, or an unfortunate turn of events.
No matter what, a person with this kind of “internal success” will always come out on top of every situation.
This is especially true and important for times like this, where the economy has drastically changed because of a few events and everyone else is throwing up their hands in defeat.
So, Sneezy… How confident do you feel you've really "got it"?
The economy isn't going to magically get better once this quarantine thing is over...
Resourceful people who understand success will continue to win, while those who don't will find they can no longer rely on the easy living they have for the past 12 years or so.
The simple fact of the matter is, when the economy is good, money flows uphill. When it's not? Not so much. Only the really smart survive.
Me? I have had to beat off the opportunities with a broomstick for quite a while now, during quarantine was no different.
I'm absolutely drowning in clients and probably will be for the foreseeable future.
It's a good problem to have. In any economy, I find I have to continually raise my prices just so I can have a family life, because every time I raise my prices, some of my cheaper clients reluctantly "bow out" of my tepee and take their business elsewhere...
Only to be replaced by higher-paying, higher-quality ones I enjoy working with more.
If you'd like to have that "problem," instead of whatever ones you are currently facing in your business, I'm pretty sure I can help you.
Unlike the famous "ex-twerps" who sell multiple thousand dollar programs at hyped up seminars, I don't pretend to be able to help everyone.
That's for posers who have no standards. They say, "it doesn't matter if you don't have any experience, it doesn't matter if you have never made a sale in your life, it doesn't even matter if you are homeless or living in your mom's basement..."
And they simultaneously are taking money from some of the least advantaged people in the world, with no skills or experience to speak of - while flooding their business with people they actually have no real chance of helping.
Entrepreneurship is risky for most people, and being genuinely successful in sales and marketing (not just $30k-a-year college-job successful) takes perseverance, character, and patience.
The principles I teach are deep. They take time to apply, but if you have a business or you want to create one some day and you've got a good grasp of those fundamentals - then what I can teach you is much more than food for thought.
It's a whole new way of approaching life that leads to the kind of success this blog post talks about, plus a whole lot more I could never fit in any single piece of writing.
And the first step is totally free for you. All you have to do is sign up for the email list.
I'll send you a free video on the power of vision - the ONE and ONLY way people make decisions. Don't believe me? Then you should only get the video so that you can scratch me off your list and take your attention elsewhere.
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And I'll see you on the other side.
Later gator.
Marcus Wiesner
