Dave Kotecki – The Persistent Networker

Here’s a quote from Better Networker, and my response:

“There are a lot of discussions in the forum about knowing your WHY in building your business. The bigger the WHY, the easier the HOW. A lot of the WHYs seemed to be driven by past pain and bad experiences than anything else. Is it true than that unless you have suffered in the school of hard knocks, then you really don’t have what it takes in you to light up your inner flame and build your business?

Many people haven’t made a penny since starting their own business. Does everyone have to go

through some sort of awakening or epiphany before they can light up their inner flame?”

My answer:

People (including me) are lazy.

This must be overcome.

The funny thing is, we mostly want money, etc., so we can be even more lazy!

I rant against the idea that “It’s not so bad”, “it’ll pass”, etc. All of these ideas have at their root an excuse to not take action and create the reality that you dream of.

Stop it!

The only way that you can tap into your greatest strength is to convince yourself that you absolutely cannot bear to esxist in your current conditions any longer and you’ll do ANYTHING to escape the mind-numbing boredom of your life without purpose.

When you just can’t stand it anymore is when you’ll act. All the good feelings about what you can do, have, etc. pale in comparison to the motivation created by the idea that you’ll live the rest of your life never achieving anything but going to work every day to a job you hate in order to pay your lousy bills and  other people rich.

What’ s the point of that

?

If you don’t have enough pain in your life to get yourself up off your dead ass to take the actions necessary to actually make something of your life, CREATE IT.

Make yourself as uncomfortable as possible in your current situation.

Then you’ll act.

Those people that you admire so much because they came from such bad circumstances to rise up to their current level of success are not special. They just had nowhere else to go. And they knew that the road they were on would lead nowhere.

All they did was turn around.

They didn’t have the option of saying “This isn’t so bad”. So they couldn’t use it. And once they saw how bad it could get, they knew they had to do SOMETHING, ANYTHING, to create a better life for themselves.

Then they set about it.

You simply must create that type of urgency and pain in your life in order to break free from all of your old paradigms and succeed.