So the gentleman that introduced me to networking, really the change in my attitude, came through the change in the way I thought.
He introduced me to some books but he also taught me that success is all about what you think. If you think a thought and you reap an action and, if you sow an action you reap a habit, and you sow a habit and you reap a destiny or sow a destiny you reap a character.
Well, my thoughts were in the area of pleasure and just living life. They all had a couple things in common. Of course, all the things of, you know, hard work and diligence and playfulness in the things that you do and doing it better than someone else. But, my thoughts, you never get what you want in life you only get what you picture, so I had to change the way I saw myself, as anyone else would have to do, and reading about other people that had succeeded I looked to these characteristics.
One, I gave my heart to the Lord and by the way, that was a big deal for me because I was so self-centered. Started incorporating some of that into my life as principles. The next thing you know, the very things that all these other people had done, I realized success was about a dream, having a dream, the willingness to work, the right attitude and a vehicle.
I found the vehicle, I just had to develop the right attitude. I had to develop the right vision. How I saw myself. So, I saw myself successful. I reinforced that by reading books, listening to tapes, getting around good people, changing my environment and then the vehicle, well networking is what I had, and it was something that I could replicate so I actually started believing I could succeed and now by surrounding myself with other people and reading books, listening to tapes, the environment I put myself, it reinforced that.
So the difference is the way I saw myself. Anybody can do that. I just knew there would be no limits to what I could do. Success is a progressive realization of a worthwhile goal or dream.
I finally set a goal that I wanted to, well, you know, you have to make a hundred dollars a week before you make, you know, a thousand dollars a week or back then they used to gauge it in months. But, what I did I believe — that I could help other people to succeed in my industry — it was a matter of taking your eye off yourself and helping someone else.
I realized the more people I helped the more I helped myself. I latched on to that concept and in networking, I had the ability to go do that. So I actually believed that I could do what it took to go find enough people to help myself.
Now, first and foremost, I had to help them. I believed I could because I believed there were people out there that wanted more than what they had. So it was simple. So, when I found that vehicle, the relational marketing is what I call it, I started helping people.
I dreamed it. I believed it and then achieving it was just a matter of doing the work. Just going back, but I wonder as an entrepreneur how hard did you have to work. I mean we hear of people, you know, becoming a millionaire in 18? Can you tell us a little bit about like what the daily routine was for you as you were trying to become so successful?
What I realized was that I had to do the very things that other people had done to be in that position. If I could help them to generate volume in their own business which, piece of cake, found a product, a service that I believed in, all of a sudden finding someone else who believed in that was all I needed.
By helping one person and seeing that if I could help one, my gosh, everybody knows somebody that wants something more. My daily routine was a step pattern I created or actually 12 steps, excuse me, a daily dozen that I talked about. Every day my routine was get up and thank the Lord for being blessed that I had another day. Of course, I would review my goals and dreams and what I wanted to do that day. But I knew that long-term goals were important. Yes, I wanted to be successful but I had to do things in my daily routine.
Actually hidden in that was my destiny. If I was willing to do things every 12 to 24? But I had a job. I had to go to work and put in 8, 10, 12 hours a day in my Plan A. My Plan B was to develop wealth. So every day I had to come home. I had to build a list. I had to contact people.
I had to read. I taught myself to read a little bit every day to encourage myself, whether it was in the bible or good books or biographies of people and looking for principles that encouraged me. Doing a little bit in my business which, you got to realize you got to be very disciplined if you have to work a job, which most people do to get by to make a living, but to build a life and create wealth you have to find something you can replicate yourself.
So I had to come home. I had to keep the right attitude. I then had to go out again. I tell people I made a living from and built a lifetime and a future from in the evening on. I turned my car into a university. But reading, listening, contacting people, staying in touch with people. Reviewing my goals, using my products, educating myself so that daily routine, those daily disciplines developed new habits in my life and anything you do 21? They chose not to do something.
So I disciplined myself to do those things that caused progressive growth every day, mentally, physically, financially. Encourage myself every day. Made contacts. Do my little bit every day. How do you work with goals and how do you set them? I know you said you liked short-term goals better than long-term goals as far as your daily routine but how do you work with goals?
I want to be free. I think understanding what a goal is. Some people think a dream and a goal are the same thing. A dream is a goal with a date put on it. A goal for me is a level in business that I want to achieve in a certain time period.
There are many type of goals. So you have long-term medium-range goals which I equate to about a year or two years and short-term goals which are six months to a year. Many goals, which are day goals, and many goals can be 30 to 90 day goals. I want to be financially free you know in 10 years or so. Got to do your micro goals before you hit your many goals. I mean I think a lot of us have had a friend who is relentless about trying to sell us the next big opportunity and since you sort of have had tons of success in there and have seen it from the inside what are your thoughts on that?
Most people have got to get used to the fact that everybody has an opinion about something. How do they formulate those opinions — by information. Well, you know, people have an experience is what I found out, some negative, some had no experience whatsoever but were taking the opinions of others and taking that as creed, as truth.
I can formulate my own opinions. When the guy offered me this opportunity through networking I had no clue what it was so ignorance was bliss for me. So I did something everyone should do. Brig calls it a Volunteer Army of Believers. Come and see where High Tech will lead to High Touch to make a difference in people lives. Our oldest son enjoys the outdoor world using his physical talents constructing pool enclosures and scuba diving under boats doing maintenance.
An independent entrepreneur like his parents, he continues to explore opportunities that broaden his business acumen. Brittany is a Los Angeles based celebrity and editorial fashion stylist. The son who leveraged his love of street skateboarding into a professional career.
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