By the Ocean
Before Sunrise 78 Degrees
6:16 a.m.
Most things don’t work. Most attempts at getting the world’s attention don’t quite end in the result you want.
This is business.
This is the art of service.
You are willing to try again and again because you have some type of change you want to deliver to the world and creating a way to do that is more important to you than your pride, or ego or number of times it takes you to get it right.
Overall, the spreadsheet might say you’re making progress, but it rarely feels that way. Because you’re always on your edge. You’re always walking on that line between what works and what doesn’t. You’re always expanding. You’re always taking new things to the marketplace to see if they are able to find as much value in them as you do.
Colonel Harland Sanders, founder of KFC, didn’t get started with that business until he was 62. That’s 62 years of doing stuff that ultimately didn’t work to find something that did work.
Where does the energy come from for this journey?
Some guys just show up and get the money. They are energized by the chase. “I can buy a box of socks for $4.50 over here and sell them over there for $25.50. I’m going to do that a million times. Get out of my way and watch it happen!”
I’ve never been one of those guys. My work has to have meaning. It has to be in pursuit of something that is much larger than the money. If it isn’t, I don’t have the energy for it.
Is that a blessing or a curse? It all depends on what perspective you choose. Your ability to CHOOSE HOW YOU SEE THE WORLD is one of the greatest assets you have in business.
I’m in the business of helping people show up in the world with more power, more clarity, more consistency and more attraction in the marketplace than they believe is possible.
To do that a shift has to happen inside. And then the appropriate systems need to be built to reflect that shift and communicate it to the world.
My energy to keep trying no matter what comes from my desire to leave the world better off than I found it.
When you find that source of energy in yourself, that’s what you draw on any time things aren’t going the way you want.
You go back to that source, the reason you started, and you rekindle your flame to continue onward. You can become your own source of inspiration.
We are in the middle of an adventure here. This is not a test. This isn’t school. This is you assuming artistic control over your life.
There are no instruction manuals. There are no oracles that can give you all of the answers. You are walking on a path that has never been walked on before.
If you had all the answers, the journey would have no value.
You have the power to dream and to choose the size of that dream. You can provide yourself with the inspiration required to keep moving forward no matter what circumstances present themselves to you on any particular day.
Think bigger, dream bigger, be yourself without exception, take one step at a time.
One day, you’ll look back and see that all of those steps through the “wilderness” made perfect sense. It was only your inability to see and trust yourself that made it feel hard.