My definition of having a “Job Mentality” is wanting to get paid and  getting  Medical and Dental benefits just for “warming” a chair.

And of course… living for Friday’s… all just to get the “Sunday scaries”… being depressed about work the next day.

I remember  one job working 60 and 70 hour weeks, 6 and 7 days a week, and accomplishing what my manager said “great things”. I remember in one of my yearly reviews, my manager said ” Vic single-handedly eliminated all SLA outages (computer problems). His work took the nightly issues from 30 – 40 issues a night, down to zero to 1 issues per night”. That was a great review, and earned me a 10% raise when the norm was 2% to 4%.

BUT,  what difference does a 10% raise make in your life? After about the third or fourth paycheck, you don’t even feel the raise anymore.  And it’s certainly not enough to make a dent in any kind of debt while still being able to save for your rainy day fund.

I found that A job will pay you just enough so that you don’t quit.. but not enough for you to achieve your dream lifestyle.

It’s the same reason why a Cop, or Fireman, or School Teacher or Nurse usually hurt financially. Any Employer will always pay you the lowest amount they could to bring you on board.

Isn’t is a shame that a Cop or Firefighter, or Nurse… all of whom run towards trouble when the rest of us run away from trouble have to live Paycheck to Paycheck.

Or returning Military Personnel that faced great danger and made great sacrifices for the amount of time they Served, come home to a life of mediocrity… looking to find work that hopefully pays $50,000 – $60,000 per year?

Is that what our Veterans deserve?

I don’t think so!

But that’s life’s harsh reality.

We all had grand dream and goals when we’re little kids… wanting to be a Doctor, or professional ballplayer or Astronaut… somewhere along the path to adulthood that dream gets squashed for so many.

How do those dreams gets squashed? You”d be surprised. But dreams usually get squashed from 2 spoken words… “Be realistic.”

Many people hear the 2 MOST COMMON DREAM STEALING WORDS….. “BE REALISTIC!!”,… usually from their own parents.

Those 2 words… “BE REALISTIC” have probably been responsible for stealing more dreams from ambitious young folks… than anything else… And to top it off, those 2 words… “BE REALISTIC” typically come from the people that love them the most.

These loved ones, parent, guardian, uncle, aunt, teacher… whoever… meant well. But as Jesus said while giving his Life up to God on the cross: “Forgive them Lord, for they know not what they do”… your parents, loved ones that say “BE REALISTIC”… knew not what they were saying.

They thought they were helping you…

protecting you from disappointment….

protecting you from getting your hopes up too high…

and then in the end…. failing.

But little did they know, they were saying: you cannot be great. You are destined for mediocrity. You will fail.

But every person that has ever accomplished great things knows that:

Failure is the Stepping stone to success

You my friend,  can do whatever it is that you are passionate about and put your heart and soul and mind to.

You can have anything in life that you want…

….you just can’t have everything.

In other words… Focus!!!

I would suggest to immerse yourself in books on success, autobiographies on successful people.

When I read this little black book by Michael Jordan, in my opinion, the Worlds Greatest Basketball Player, I was amazed to find out how he did not even make the basketball team in High School. Now you’ll have to read the book for yourself, but Michael Jordan took that failure and practiced like no one else… that is why he ended up playing like no one else.

Michael Jordan took that one HUGE failure (and disappointment) and turned it into a great victory. That failure in High School was his stepping stone to success.

When parents have to drop off their pre-schoolers to the baby sitter every day… and  millions do that…  Most don’t do it because they love their jobs more than they love their kids.  They do it because they have to, in order to  make ends meet.

But there are those that take ownership of their situation, of their own financial failure… They don’t blame their job for not paying enough… or the government for over taxing them, etc.

Complaining does nothing for your bank account balances.

When people stop playing the blame game, and stop blaming others for their situation and take ownership of their situation, often times that’s when they’ll look for legit ways to supplement their  income.

Many do it with a home based business.

I can’t even begin to tell you how many idiots are out there saying negative things about Home Businesses… maybe you know some of them.

But as far as I know, the complainers are all broke, in debt and living paycheck to paycheck.  With their situation, I felt they could not offer me any advice that I felt I’d ever want.

Rather, I saw the success of the Marketers on the team, I saw the successful marketers lifestyle… and I said… I could enjoy that lifestyle.

While every one is different and achieves different levels of success, and do it in their own what, what I found is that the most successful marketers follow similar steps:

They jump right in, roll up their sleeves and get busy.

Phase 1:  They jump in and find a mentor that has real and verifiable results. Not a “fake it till you make it” person. Not a person that gives a good talk but has no walk to back it up. Not a person that looked good, smelled good, but was broke. A person with fruit on their tree.

Phase 2:  Duplicate and followed the exact plan of action that your mentor gives me. After all… your success benefits your mentor.

Phase 3: Train your team to do the same and point them to that mentor.  Edify an edifiable mentor. If you edify a non-edifiable person,  that will  backfire on you . So remember, a real mentor worth following witll have verifiable results and they have the fruit on their tree.

Phase 4: Use your own verifiable success to motivate and lead the team.  A motivated team is a successful team. Keep out confusion, because confusion leads to inactivity.

Phase 5:  Once you identify successful leaders on your team,  edify them. Point to success other than yourself and shine the light on them. Why? Because a rising tide raises all ships.

I can talk for days on this. On the fact that Failure is the stepping stone to success. But please comment below and come back for more stuff!

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