When I decided to become a multi-millionaire entrepreneur, the only thing that naturally crossed my mind was the dollar signs, there was no preparing at all and I definitely didn’t prepare for failure. All I could think about was how much money I could make if I owned my own business or if I hit it big with stocks and real estate. I wanted the reward but I never thought about the effort it takes to achieve such a prestigious status. I never thought about staying dedicated or what the things I must do not to become a failure. I was and still am young but at the time I was youthful in my thinking and I never prepared for all the possibilities of success or failure. the only thing I prepared for was the best way to spend 1 million dollars.
It sounds good to be the richest man in the world, but how can you ever reach that status if you never prepare yourself for whats to come in your future. The answer is you cant! The most rich and famous people are those who worked their butts off even when the possibility of failing seemed extremely high. In order to stay such a hard worker you must always prepare that way there’s no second guessing or miscommunication. You know what steps to take now you need to learn how to prepare. Not only do you need to learn how to prepare but there’s something so obvious that will change your life, your business, and your wealth forever…but unfortunately most people fail to do it. What I’m talking about is preparing for failure. If you would just focus a majority of your time on preparing for the worst you almost always come out better because whats good is good and we’ll take anything that’s good. What we are trying to do is to eliminate all the negative and y hurdles that will stop us from reaching success.
The responsibility for success depends solely on the willingness to be responsible for failure. Understand that nothing will come easy especially making a lot of money, so you must become responsible for assuring that you become wealthy. this means that you have to be an effective leader over you day to day actions when it comes to your wealth. You must lead yourself to greatness, nobody else can, nobody else will, and if you want to know something important its nobody Else’s responsibility but your owns anyway. So start preparing for success and begin to take responsibility for your own actions, this is one very important step towards becoming successful. As I said earlier in this paragraph you have to be responsible for your own failure. You must be accountable to yourself, and for yourself and your actions. Realize that if you fail at something its only because you did not take responsibility for becoming successful. but what you did do, is you made sure that you failure rate was kept high so that you could have a higher chance of failing. When you don’t do all that you can to become successful you are doing all that you can to become a failure.
Would you like to get rich quick and get the fame and celebrity for using some fancy gimmick to get rich. Or would you like to make sure that your kids will forever have food on the table and your spouse is always taken care of….forever. This can happen but not with short term actions. If you want to be the popular man on campus and make a quick buck or two then by all means go for it, there is nothing stopping you and there’s definitely nothing wrong with being a celebrity. But this post is intended for those people who aren’t celebrities and just want to make sure that they are financially secured for the rest of their life. This post is intended for the person who has a dream, who has a goal but needs inspiration to prepare and take action. See fame and all the glory and your “15 Min’s” can come in a moment, but greatness comes with longevity. You want to secure a spot at a nice university for 4 kids, paid for all by you while you are on vacation. Prepare and do the hard work now so that you can have fun and relax for the rest of your life.
Now on to the good stuff. When thinking about success the first thing we should think about is all of the different ways you can fail. here are a few brainstorming tips for you to come up with ways to think about how you can fail. The point of this is to open up your mind early in your business building process. This way you can tackle the problem and address it with intelligence so you will either eliminate the problem before it starts or you will be able to handle it when the problem arrives. This is all good preparation skills.
- Do I have enough time to dedicate to this project?
- Am I motivated to prepare correctly for this project?
- Will I have enough capital to run this business, even through tough times?
- Is Failure and option?
- What support do you have?
- How genuine is your support?
- Do you have a set plan in place showing each step you need to take to build and grow your business?
These are just a few questions that will certainly get your mind actively focused on winning in business. When dealing with personal development and personal growth one big topic is failure. The reason being is because its easier to fail at something that is is to be strong and fight through the obstacles until you reach success. Everybody wants victory and success, but most people don’t have what it takes to get there. Most people fail to merely prepare to fail… and that’s a crucial part of succeeding.
“The man who knows how will always have a job.
The man who knows why will always be his boss.”
Now that we have discussed ways to get you thinking about all the ways you can fail, now you need to start thinking about how you can build yourself internally to keep your business on top. It’s time that you start to realize that most of the success or the lack there of with your business all depends on how your personal philosophy is. your personal philosophy determines your public performance. If you think negatively and slick then you will have poor performance results, and your business will suffer. Its not to say just because you have high integrity you will automatically become successful. But remember what goes around comes around. If you are mentally based off of good personal philosophy you will be rewarded in some way or another because doing right never goes un-noticed.
And also when dealing with your personal philosophy, its good to point out another effect it has on your day to day life. If you have a poor personal philosophy it will be easier for you to take part in negative actions. Actions such as procrastination, or talking a good game but not taking care of business. Your personal philosophy is how you carry yourself, if you think correct you’ll act correct and get the correct results. If you think wrong, you’ll act wrong and the only results you will get will be horrible. You’ll end up wasting a bunch of time then you’ll start reading this blog for more self motivation when you should have just paid attention the first time you read VictoryBlogger.
You should make it a habit that each week you’ll work on a different part of your personal philosophy that you’re not happy with. This is all about your preparation process and filtering out ways that you can fail. because failure all boils down to this. The only reason you do wrong is because you don’t do right. Do something every week that will add something positive to your personal philosophy and eventually you will be following good set of rules to guide your life. There’s no way in hell that this can hurt you, so if you are serious in building your business then you must do everything you can to achieve greatness. And I’m giving you excellent ways to do just that.
I hope that you take sometime to prepare for failing because that preparation is exactly what you need to have victory in the business world. You need to set goals and make plans so that you be the best prepared to get your business of the ground and running. Understanding what your personal philosophy is can make you or break you. Work on yourself internally to see better results in your life and business. Preparing for failure will eventually bring you great wealth, prosperity, and success.
June 24th, 2008 at 4:22 am
Richard - This is a most awesome post. Lengthy, but definitely worth the read. Thank you!
June 27th, 2008 at 2:24 am
Thanks alot. Yeah I get alot of emails discussing how long most of my post are. And my answer is simply put as, I write long post because I want to give out as much accurate information as possible. Sometimes im able to do that with a short post, but most of the times it involves an epic novel…hehehe thanks for reading.
July 18th, 2008 at 3:07 am
Thanks - That was informative.
I’ve always thought it was funny that there is a thin line between success and failure. Two relatively similar people can have such wildly varying achievements just because of mental fortitude.