Wednesday, May 09, 2007
Why You Don't Want Your Business to Be an Overnight Success
That's right. You don't want your business to be an overnight success.
Sounds crazy, doesn't it?
But there's a good reason for that.
If you experience success instantly, you don't know how to handle it.
You got there by luck and you don't know how to maintain it. You live in fear that the same luck that brought you success will suddenly strip it away from you. You have no power over whether you succeed or fail.
You're much better off if you get your success by skill.
If you took an integral part in achieving your success, you've built a storehouse of knowledge that you can use to build further successes. That storehouse of knowledge enables you to maintain your success.
The problem with achieving your success by skill is that it diesn't happen overnight. It takes time. You have to work at it. You have to learn. You have to grow.
But it gives you a resource that no one can take away. Once you've learned how to build a business (or do whatever you want to succeed at), you can always do it over again if you have to.
No, you don't want to be an overnight success. You want to be a success that can last. And there's no way to do that overnight.
Jeff
P.S. You can grow your ability to succeed by trial and error. Lots of people have gone that route and succeeded.
Or you can shorten your learning curve by learning from people who have already traveled the exact route you seek to travel.
That's why I use BANABU as a key part of my personal and business growth. I simply haven't found anything better for getting me outside the box and heading me in the direction I want to go.
Check out BANABU for yourself and see what parts of your life it can help you achieve the success you seek.
That's right. You don't want your business to be an overnight success.
Sounds crazy, doesn't it?
But there's a good reason for that.
If you experience success instantly, you don't know how to handle it.
You got there by luck and you don't know how to maintain it. You live in fear that the same luck that brought you success will suddenly strip it away from you. You have no power over whether you succeed or fail.
You're much better off if you get your success by skill.
If you took an integral part in achieving your success, you've built a storehouse of knowledge that you can use to build further successes. That storehouse of knowledge enables you to maintain your success.
The problem with achieving your success by skill is that it diesn't happen overnight. It takes time. You have to work at it. You have to learn. You have to grow.
But it gives you a resource that no one can take away. Once you've learned how to build a business (or do whatever you want to succeed at), you can always do it over again if you have to.
No, you don't want to be an overnight success. You want to be a success that can last. And there's no way to do that overnight.
Jeff
P.S. You can grow your ability to succeed by trial and error. Lots of people have gone that route and succeeded.
Or you can shorten your learning curve by learning from people who have already traveled the exact route you seek to travel.
That's why I use BANABU as a key part of my personal and business growth. I simply haven't found anything better for getting me outside the box and heading me in the direction I want to go.
Check out BANABU for yourself and see what parts of your life it can help you achieve the success you seek.
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