Second, I want to say up front that I dont have all the answers. In
fact, I am still seeking just like you are. For many of you, my role i
not to teach you anything new. It is to remind you of what you
already know.
For others of you, some of the things I talk about will sound too
basic. Success, whatever that means to you, is not usually something
deep and complicated. It is most often found in the mastery of the
basics.
I read that when Vince Lombardi took over the losing Green Bay Packers
a reporter asked him what plans he had to turn the team around. Mr.
Lombardi replied that he was not going to turn the team around.
He said that he was going to get brilliant on the basics. Brilliant
on the basics. Do you get it? Remember this: your accomplishments in
life will not be determined by how much you know. They will be
determined by how much you do with what you know. Action is the
hinge upon which notable achievement revolves.
--Rene Godefroy
CHAPTER ONE
Focus On The Finish Line, Not The Starting Line
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Focus On The Finish Line, Not The Starting Line
Twenty years from now, you will be more disappointed by the things
you didnt do than the ones you did. So throw off the bowlines. Sail
away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails.
Explore. Dream. Discover. Mark Twain
M any people believe one of the myths of success: that in order to
achieve anything significant in life one must come from a background
full of resources. There are those who look at where they are in
life and conclude that its impossible to make it to the top. Have
you met people like this, those who blame their failure on their past?
Somewhere in their subconscious they believe their past (where they
started in life) is the reason they are barely surviving today. This i
far from the truth. When I look at how far I have come to be where I
am today, I cant help thinking that you and I have more inside us
than we could ever imagine.
