Financial Success is Counting on Yourself

Why do so many people let their dreams crumble into dust? One of the biggest, hidden reasons is other people. Queer though it may sound-it's not our enemies, it's our friends and loved ones. If the ones we spend most time with are negative, cynical naysayers, constantly harping why we will fail, THEY are literally doing us in. A friend can tear us apart in more ways than several enemies. The one who never got a merit raise will give you all the reasons why hard, productive work won't get you anywhere. The guy who has never reached the top sales position or achieved a sales target will tell you not to bother because the management always sets the goals too high. The wage earner who never ran a business can give you 221 obstacles why you can never start your own enterprise. The truth is listening to just about anyone without being aware of their own tracks could be suicide. Listening could be habit forming and you could end being held hostage by fear or burying your head in the sand.

Without goals you get nowhere. No one got anywhere without defining their life goals. Your goals should never drop out of sight. Can a ship navigate without rudder? Has your calendar been invaded by financially dead excursions and diversions? Similarly you can have a great product or the best quality benchmarks yet unless you know how to take it to the world's markets you'd be doing what a certain tribe in the Arctic does when their parents reach old age-they'd put them in a canoe on a water expanse with nothing else and abandon them to die! Stop huddling with the same cast of characters you have habitually come to lean on. Look at all your advertising pieces and ask, "What's the first thing that strikes peoples eyes when they look at my product?" Acquire one special skill and you could reverse your cash flows for life. You don't need a PhD to do that or even a college education. Remember opportunity is self made. Winning stimulates winning, iron sharpens iron. Don't douse your dreams. Light your fires and take off on a newly ignited trajectory.

[ The writer believes that YOUR OWN SPACE could be your launchpad ]