Getting Back to Basics

In the ebb and flow of economic and financial trends, we are experiencing a down time. (In case you hadn’t noticed yet.)   So here are some thoughts to put things into perspective. 

When starting a company, which I have done, it’s not all about talent.  It’s about work-ethic, philosophy, passion and belief. 

Sometimes you have to be desparate.  We have so much invested… that is good.

Paul Meyer’s mom told him “God wants you to be rich.  Promise me you won’t settle for money.”

Confidence and belief are more important that sales techniques.

As Zig Ziglar (who is a member of Dadsworld.com, by the way) said, “If you help enough other people get what they want, you can have everything you want.”

In these tough economic times, getting back to basics is the key.  Success is all about passion and desire.  Don’t settle for less than your goals.  Refuse to lose.  Energy, vitality, emotion.  Those traits will take you to your desired goals.  Jim Rohn said once, and I think it’s a great line, “Work on your gifts and they will make room for you.” 

Hard work, desire and an unrelenting determination WILL lead you to success.  We don’t always get to our desired destination the way we had planned, or in the time frame we imagined.  But, as Calvin Coolidge said, “Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent.”  Here is the full quote:     “Press on: nothing in the world can take the place of perseverance.  Talent will not; nothing is more common than unsuccessful men with talent.  Genius will not; unrewarded genius is almost a proverb.  Education will not; the world is full of educated derelicts.  Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent.”

When times are tough, and it seems like I have been getting nowhere, I often think of the following quote that I read somewhere when I was younger:  “In the battle between the stream and the rock, the stream always wins.  NOT through strength, but through persistence.”  Be like the stream.  Good and bad economic times both come and go, but your own personal direction, focus and effort should remain the same. 

And never forget, what follows expansions (2003-2005)??  Recessions.  (2006-2008)  What follows ressessions???? …… you guessed it…. Expansions.  Be prepared and be diligent and be persistent.  Right now is gut-check time.  Time to get back to basics and summon all of your passion and desire.  You can do it.  The world meets nobody halfway.  If you want it, you’ve got to take it.  Now go make it happen.

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