"All right Mister, let me tell you what winning means… you're willing to go longer, work harder, give more than anyone else."- Coach Vince Lombardi
Years ago when I was fresh out of college and in my first business, I can remember being at a personal development and leadership training being led by multi-millionaire Pasha Carter.
While talking about what it would take for each one of us to attain maximum success, she said these words to us: "You have to make a decision that you are going to out-work and out-produce everyone else. That is what it takes."
Those words have never left me. And I have found them to be more and more true as the years have passed and I have experienced varying levels of success in multiple businesses.
Whenever I've been at the top of my game (a place that I work really hard at staying in) it has largely been because I had "put my stake in the ground", so to speak, and committed to a work ethic and level of discipline that matched the size of the dream I was fighting for.
Does your work ethic and dedication match YOUR dream? That is definitely a question that you will want to ponder I have known so many entrepreneurs who have willfully deluded themselves into thinking they that they were working diligently enough to realistically hit their mark.
So often people convince themselves that "making it big" in business is attached to some sort of luck or unfair advantage, and that just isn't the case. Typically there has been a LOT of hard work and sacrifice behind the scenes that we have just not been made privy to.
So I as you again, is the level and intensity of work and dedication to a point where you know without a shadow of a doubt that it matches the size of your dreams and goals? Making sure that it does it the TRUE secret to success.