Network Marketing - Determination To Succeed

This article is to give you something to think about.

Contrary to a great many textbook assertions, having the best product, the better mousetrap, a whiz-bang new idea, the top location, the best market, the smartest accountant, the neatest bookkeeping system, a ton of capital—or all of them together—does not ensure success.

On the other hand, having the worst product, a mediocre mousetrap, a silly idea, a bad location, a weak market, an accountant who can’t count, a shoe box and paper bag bookkeeping system, or no money—or all of these things together—does not ensure failure.

I have seen people succeed under the most improbable conditions.

I’ve also seen people who have everything going for them still manage to screw it up.

In all of these cases, it’s the person making the difference. That’s why there really is no business successes or failures; there are people successes and people failures.

Entrepreneurial Success Is Mostly a Matter of Decision, a partnership, friendship, intimate relationship, or marriage that succeeds or fails, a book that gets written or remains a jumble of notes in a drawer, the garage that gets cleaned out Saturday or put off until next week—these are all the result of decision and determination to make the decision right.

Making the right decisions is often a lot less important than determining to make your decisions right.

Only by making a decision and acting on it can you get into action and move forward. By waiting to make only the perfect decisions, you remain inert and cannot move forward at all.

Most people go through life making decisions by default, choosing only from narrow options dictated by others or by evolving circumstances.

One millionaire friend of mine grew up in a very small town where, as he put it, there were two career options: working at the factory or raising pigs and chickens.

With only a few exceptions, everybody he went to school and graduated with chose one of those two options.

I am often amused when I’m traveling and get asked what I do; when I describe my job as best I can, I often get the envious sigh, the gee-I-wish-I-could-do-that, and then the laundry list of complaints and dissatisfactions from my fellow traveler about present career or business or life.

I’m amused because he apparently does not know he can change those circumstances by decision.

Similarly, when I told fellow travelers that I lived in “sunny Phoenix” (where I lived for more than ten years), I’d often hear the envious sigh, the gee-I-wish-I-lived-there-instead-of-in-X, then the litany of unpleasant things about their home city.

This amuses me because apparently they haven’t noticed the highway signs in their town pointing the way out.

Successful entrepreneurs learn to be much more assertive, proactive, and creative in making decisions to change things as they prefer, to make things happen.

If you are to succeed as an entrepreneur, you have to break free of your old reacting and responding mode and switch to the assertive, proactive mode.

You have to reject the entire idea of limited choices. As an entrepreneur, you need to reject every single piece of programming you’ve ever received about limited options or prerequisites for exercising certain options.

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Ida Mae Boyd
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