It Can't All Be About Money
This past weekend I had the opportunity to go any watch the
NCAA championship Lacrosse game here in Baltimore MD. Who
played? You guessed it my alma mater the Duke Blue Devils
played against the Johns Hopkins Blue Jays.
It was a fantastic game. Duke was seated number one and
John's Hopkins was seated number 3. Throughout the first
half of the game the Blue Jays had a sizeable lead. I
believe going into halftime John"s Hopkins was up by 6
goals.
In the third quarter Duke battle back with 5 unanswered
goals and brought the score to within one point by holding
the Blue Jay's scoreless.
Looked like we were in for one heck of a fourth quarter
battle and we were. The Blue Jays scored a quick goal
putting them up by two and then Duke answered back with a
goal of their own.
The score was 11 to 10 with John's Hopkins up going into the
final seconds, Duke had the ball and an excellent
opportunity to score. They took a great shot, but the Blue
Jays goalie made a great save to seal the victory.
I must say being an ex high school lacrosse goalie that
John's Hopkin's goal was legitimately one of the best I'd
ever seen. The guy was fantastic.
A great game, not the outcome I was looking for, but none the
less a great battle on the field and an effort both sides
can be truly proud of.
But let's be honest . . . Duke lost. And as I sat in the
Duke fan section of the stadium with many of my old friends
from school who played lacrosse during my time in college I
could tell they were truly deflated.
The team itself must have felt much worse, after going
through a grueling season and coming out of it ranked number
and going to finals in the NCAA to see their dreams of being
the best swept from under their feet by a single goal.
So close, but so far at the same time. Truly an empty
feeling . . .
But at this point I ask you:
Will they be back next year to try it again?
Of course they will and they will probably train twice as
hard after getting so close and yet being one shot short of
the best. It will fuel their fire.
They won't walk away depressed and never play a lacrosse
game again. That's just now how it works. You keep on coming
back.
In high school as a wrestler I had a dream of being
the best and being featured in the Washington Post newspaper
as one of the best wrestlers in the area.
I had this dream when I was a freshman and won 7 out of 25
matches, but I held that dream close to my heart and I
persisted.
And you know what it was damn hard, I had moments where I
cried after a tough lose that I thought I should have won,
and you know what, to this day I have memories of wrestling
matches I lost that I should have won. It still stings.
But I did obtain my goal. I was featured in the Washington
Post my senior year as one of the best wrestlers in the
state. At the moment it happened it was one of the best
moments of my life.
To this day I hold that as one of my most proud moments of
myself. To the next guy this achievement wouldn't mean
much, but to me to obtain that goal was worth more than any
amount of money and I wouldn't trade it for anything.
It defines me. It told me that if I have a goal and want it
bad enough and I keep on coming back after each set back
I'll get it.
When I came to know of network marketing I again formed this
same sort of goal. To be the best internet network marketer
was literally something I went to bed at night and dreamed
about.
I would wake up everyday and think of how I could become
better and those days sometimes meant hard lessons and huge
amounts of money wasted, but it didn't matter the goal was
more important than the money.
I never got paid 1 cent to be a wrestler and the Duke
Lacrosse team didn't either - we both strived continually in
the face of defeat. Why would someone do that if there is no
money involved?
Because there are some things that are MORE important than
money and always will be.
This is why I find those who say "Daegan I'm trying really
hard I'm not going to give up, I've done XYZ and I haven't
had any results yet, but I'm not going to give up because
I'm not a quitter" quite a dubious thing to say to me.
Doesn't matter if I think you're a quitter or not, only
matters if you do.
Sure sage advice and validation of hard work and a pat on
the back is nice, but what you have to ask yourself would
you still persist even if there were no pat on the back?
Would that goal, whatever it is, still hold the same value
to you?
If it does then you've got the magic juice of success on
your side and it's on it's way.
As a marketer think like an athlete - put money out of the
picture. It can't all be about money. It has to be about you
wanting to obtain your goal at all cost.
As far as internet network marketing is concerned I would
consider myself one of the best, but I would never say that
I can't get better because I know that I can. This is how
you must be at all levels of success to truly one day be
considered by the outside world as one of the best.
And of course the money will follow.
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