Uncertain Times.. How to Survive
Uncertain Times.. How to Survive….
A wise man once said when it comes to starting a new business, “Begin with the end in mind.”
Yes, this is a positive way of starting a new business, but how do you deal with the ups and downs of reaching success in the process?
Well, it doesn’t matter what your goal or desired outcome…here’s a little metaphor to help you along the way:
Imagine you are a die hard baseball fan and your team was playing in the 7th Game of the World Series.
But, even though you hardly ever miss a game, this one game, you had to miss.
So, instead of camping out in front of your television with your baseball cap on, you record the game, knowing that when you get home you can watch it just as it were LIVE.
You wouldn’t even know the difference if it was LIVE or recorded, as long as you didn’t know the outcome.
However, before you start the playback of the game, you make the fatal flaw of hopping onto Facebook and finding out that your team won the game.
Well great for you that your team won, but now, the mystery has been removed.
But here’s the rub…
Now that you know the outcome, I have a few questions for you?
Would it matter if your team fell behind by 3 runs by the bottom of the 2nd inning?
Would it matter if your team’s best left handed pitcher threw his arm out in the 3rd and couldn’t play for the rest of the game?
Would it matter if your team went up by 6 runs in the 5th, then fell behind by 7, or 17 or 80 runs in the top of the 7th?
NO, it wouldn’t.
None of that would matter.
Why?
Because you already know the outcome – your team already won!
So regardless of the score, or how many errors your team committed or how many pitchers your team went through to finish the game, you knew for a fact that in the end, your team came out on top.
So, that being said, during the game itself, you could relax.
Couldn’t you?
You could enjoy the game.
You could accept the errors.
You could accept falling behind.
You could live with the fact that it wasn’t perfectly played.
Well imagine you treated your business the same way.
You knew, in your heart of hearts, without any doubt, that you were going to win.
That you were going to be successful.
That you were going to become a great leader.
That you were going to build a very profitable business that pays you for decades into the future.
Could you relax and enjoy it more?
Would you relax and enjoy it more?
I bet you would.
I bet you would have more fun.
I bet you would make more money.
And I bet you’d even become successful much faster.
Whatever you do, begin with the end in mind.
It’s the only way to succeed!
To Your Success,
Herb Hunter, 734-285-6792, hunter645@aol.com
This article was originally written by Aaron Rashkin
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GREAT POST HERB.