Competition is great, but it can
also drive a lot of people crazy. One reason is we tend to compare ourselves to
others, and that’s a mistake. The only person you REALLY need to compete with…
is YOURSELF!
If you can be the best you can be,
and compete with your own performance, everything else takes care of itself. You
can’t help but win and eventually beat everyone else. And there’s only ONE
thing you need to do that. That one thing is…PERSISTENCE! It’s not something you learn, but rather develop through a
burning desire.
Napoleon Hill, in “Think &
Grow Rich” said that DESIRE is the starting point of all achievement.
If you lack desire, then you can’t
expect to get much of anything. Persistence is naturally developed and is
fueled by this desire.
Most people give up way to soon. I’ll
never get them, but the fact is, they just lack the fire in their belly to go
out and do something BIG. Everyone simply can’t be at the top. BUT, anyone can,
if they develop the persistence it takes to get there. Persistence is the
KEY you need to deal with and overcome failure.
Failure Isn't Really Failure At All
Probably you’ve heard this before –
“You never really fail, until you quit.” Let’s redefine failure, and call it
what it really is – a setback.
While most choose the so-called safe
path – school, job, never risk much, just be like everyone else, etc. We as
entrepreneurs chose a different route. A road filled with bumps, sharp turns,
and lots of detours along the way. And those are all simply setbacks.
When we started our HCI-CMD career, we went on distributing 500 flyers and made 20 appointments with our little white board and demo gadgets. You know the
demo presentation and the whole thing. And out of these 20 not a single one
bought a single drop of CMD.
We can vividly remember telling ourselves
– “this is going to be a little harder than we thought…”
But fortunately we didn’t let that
stop us. It actually ignited the fire within us, because now we have something
to prove. Prove to ourselves that we can do this, and prove to all those people
who said NO. Persistence is the key to having this attitude.
When you encounter setbacks and
challenges, although it doesn’t seem like at the moment, but they actually make
you stronger and help you move faster. One of our favorite quotes and something we remind ourselves VERY OFTEN, is one by Napoleon Hill – “Every failure
brings with a seed of an equivalent advantage.” It’s 100% true. Brian
Tracy said it like this – “When you encounter failure, look at it as a
gift from the Universe, and ask yourself – What can I learn from this?”
You don’t have to stress over every
little setback, just look for the good in it, and what you can learn from it. Another
one of my favorites is by Tom Hopkins, and it’s so true.
He says every time you fail at
something, just say to yourself – “I never see failure as failure but
only as the negative feedback I need to change course in my direction.”
You know what, you might as well
quit right there and then. Don’t even try, because you’re obviously living in a
land of wishing and hoping, and lack the desire and persistence it takes to
win.
When you know EXACTLY what you want…
when you have a BIG WHY (you know your reason why you’re going for it), you
don’t stop the car when the road is closed and go back home. You look for the detour sign and another way to get there.
… We Don't Need Everyone To Join
You only want a certain type of
person on your team. Why would you want people who will
drain your energy and do nothing at the end? Don’t we want others who are like
us, who have the desire, the will, the drive and the PERSISTENCE it takes to
win?
Dr. Jong C. Camba
Dr. Aileen L. Camba
Email: healthyyoucmd@gmail.com
