Come for the Ride!

I stumbled across this gem while browsing one of the auto industry blogs I frequent. Times are tough now and whether you’re a car dealer or an entrepreneur, your ability to visualize success and execute those actions does make a difference in the result. Most of the differences are very small but make incredible differences.

You can change where you are in life by (1) being honest where you are and (2) getting the knowledge to get you in a position to take the actions of successful people. Each one of the categories below are impacted ONLY by KNOWLEDGE! So are you mostly column one or column two?

Successful	Unsuccessful
Can Do Attitude	Can’t Do Attitude
I Will Figure it Out	See’s Solutions as Impossible
Opportunity Focused	Problem Focused
Loves Challenges	Hates Challenges
Seeks to Solve Problems	Wants to Avoid Problems
Persist until Successful	Quits When Challenged
Willing to Take Risk	Actions are Conservative
Unreasonable	Reasonable
Willing to be Dangerous	Must Be Careful
Interested in the Creation of Money	Interested in Conserving Money
Takes Action	Talks about Action
Says Yes	Says No
Commits	Never Fully Commits
Goes All the Way	Half Attempts at Everything
Now (immediate)	Later – (procrastinates)
Courage	Fear
Change	Stay the Same
Right Approach	Hard Work
Interested in Change	Not Willing to Change
Breaks Traditional Ideas	Adopts Traditional Ideas
Goal Oriented	Work Oriented
On a Mission	On a Job
High Motivation	Low Motivation
Career Focused	Job Focused
Interested in Results	Interested in Work
Big Goals and Dreams	Realistic Goals
Creates Reality	Deals with Reality
Commit First – Figure Later	Figure First – Commit Never
Highly Ethical	Unethical
Interested in the Group	Interested in Self
Dedicates Time to Learning	Dedicates No Time to Learning
Seeks and Values Knowledge	Denies the Value of Knowledge
Willing to be Uncomfortable	Must Stay Comfortable
Reaches Up	Reaches Sideways and Down

“THE BEST INVESTMENT YOU CAN MAKE DURING TIMES LIKE THESE ARE IN YOURSELF.” – Warren Buffett, April 2009

This excerpt was borrowed from Grant Cardone who has studied successful people for over 30 years. Grant Cardone is a speaker, author, sales trainer and CEO of Cardone Training Technologies. Author of Sell To Survive and other Audio, Video, and training programs.

For more information on Mr. Cardone visit grantcardone.com

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