Whatever It Takes!

I have a sign on my office door. It 'pretty much sums up my philosophy of life. The sign simply says ... .. "Whatever it takes."

Short. Simple. At this point.

"Whatever it takes," means exactly that. What do "anything" to get what I want. It 's the best description I've ever been able to prepare to summarize the business experience.

Decision. Commitment. Result. Something that was almost ingrained in my subconscious, sports as a child.

Make the decision.
Commit to this result. View.
Experience this.

With my friends and colleagues and tell me shorten WIT ... I often refer to individuals or WIT have or not. Sai is like Rocky in the movies ... "Eye of the tiger." You can tell when someone and when someone is pretending WIT WIT. Or, even worse when someone does not even know about it!

Walt Disney has suffered through bankruptcy and breakdown. Milton Hershey abortive experience in his research as "the king of chocolate." HJ Heinz has seen his fledgling company into compulsory liquidation. All these individuals understand WIT

It often confuses me though how many people will never understand what "anything" really means?

It seems that I developed my understanding of this philosophy through discomfort. A tough teacher, but an effective one anyway.

Maybe you can relate.

When I started my life as an entrepreneur I thought it was pretty focused on what I wanted. Instead I got the exact opposite. Work long hours for little or no pay, dealing with creditors, angry customers, vendors, unresponsive, indifferent brokers, bankers, idiot, illegal sales, paying money to the company, etc. Quite frustrating until I discovered that all that had been a training ground of the kind that taught me the alchemy of turning problems into opportunities. The only feature that every big business man must possess.

What. The problems into opportunities.

WIT made me realize that is not what happens to you. WIT makes you look at what you're going to do?

Before I discovered WIT I never knew I had a list of "shot that was responsible for my situation. There were many problems that hinder my success. I was convinced that I needed less problems." Where's Only "so to speak. ... I rationalized successful people who had less problems than I did that allowed them to succeed. LOL! I hate to admit it, but it's true.

"Well you know the economy ..."
"But the government ...."
"If only I had more money ..."
"It 's all in who you know ...."

All these are huge lies that prevents you from understanding "WIT"

Everyone has problems. But the problems begin to dissolve when you acquire the skills. I was guilty of wishing and hoping for fewer problems. What I need even if it was better skills. Without your ability to concentrate gravity of the problem. A goal far from satisfactory.

How often do you complain? Most of us are unaware of how regularly proves that our "Focus" is the problem not the solution. I was thinking about this the other day when I heard a group of employees complaining about their situation. It reminded me of my "fault LIST." No WIT

One of the advantages of being an employee is not having to take the total responsibility of your life. Its made me realize that I have rarely seen successful people complain about their situation. This is a fundamental distinction between people who show entrepreneurial talent and those who will always be dependent. WIT

The biggest problem I have found successful in actually defining "the word" SUCCESS my way. Over the years I developed a love affair with dictionaries. Perhaps you remember those books our ancestors in the days pre-search engine. However, I regularly use dictionaries to see how they define a word. What was fascinating about this is that dictionaries often disagree among themselves .... A little 'as search engines do today.

If you look at the next word in most dictionaries, it will usually come with some variations of the following ideas:

a) the development, implementation, implementation, triumph, victory

And my experience has been that these synonyms promote the following views:

When you get what you want then you can be happy.

Life begins when you get X.

What we have is better than what you have.

More is better.

I find this outlook totally inadequate to really define the elements of a successful life. Until you decide what success means to you, you inadvertently fall for one of these perspectives. The key is the definition of success built on what is significant in the final analysis, your life on your own terms with your own design.

For me, WIT is a wonderful definition of success. football coach and legend Vince Lombardi said: "The arrogance of success is hard work, dedication to the job at hand, and the determination that whether win or lose, we have applied the best of ourselves to the task. " If anyone understood WIT was Vince Lombardi.

However, I also remembered the prisoner Papillon French was unjustly sentenced to life imprisonment on Devils Island. It 'been bothered by a recurring nightmare. His dream was that was before a severe judge. "You pay," they shouted, "with a wasted life. How do you plead?" "Guilty." He muttered. "I plead guilty." Papillon, the prisoner knew that to waste his life was under the control of other wastes. It also has always followed his freedom. WIT

Life is essentially composed of energy, time and space. For ultimately, live a successful life would mean that we deeply understand these basic elements and invest wisely without waste in pursuit of our goal .. The rich have the money. The hit single has a rich entrepreneurial life and lives it intensely.

Success is a passionate love affair with life. WIT on your own terms with your own design.

So be it!