| Traffic is slow, business is weak, the economy stinks | | | | make excuses than to take control of your own |
| and banks aren't buying. Repeat this mantra one | | | | destiny. After all, how can it ever be your fault? The |
| hundred times and see how you feel. I promise you | | | | economy is so bad and certainly you don't control the |
| that if you replay this message enough you will believe | | | | economy. |
| it as absolute truth and become depressed and | | | | The economy is made up of single micro economies |
| desperate. No matter what circumstances are present | | | | that create a larger macro economy. You do control |
| the choice is simple; you choose to win or choose to | | | | your economy and it starts between your ears. When |
| lose. | | | | you listen to the news and hear that things are not |
| The one single ingredient that is always present in any | | | | good, do you allow that to be your destiny? After all, if |
| success story is self determination. You are always | | | | you hear it on the news, it must be true, right. |
| responsible. You are responsible for the good and you | | | | Let me ask you a few questions. |
| are responsible for the bad, it's just that simple. If you | | | | Did you allow your expenses and debt to get too |
| will allow any excuse for failure no matter how | | | | high? Did you allow weak processes and accept less |
| overwhelming the evidence, you have sown the seeds | | | | than favorable results? Did you create an ongoing |
| for more excuses to follow. | | | | relationship based marketing program to your existing |
| To succeed in good or bad economies takes the | | | | customers or did you ignore your most valuable asset |
| exact same ingredients but in tougher times it takes | | | | which is are your customers? Did you neglect to install |
| more resolve to keep producing the successful | | | | and enforce daily education? Have you massively |
| ingredients. Your success or failure is based upon your | | | | self-educated yourself on a daily basis to stay abreast |
| beliefs and philosophy. If you do not have a belief | | | | of all developments in marketing, technology, social |
| system to support success and a personal philosophy | | | | media and marketplace changes. Have you created a |
| of self determination, you are subject to all forces that | | | | marketing plan based upon measurable direct |
| cause failure. | | | | response media that you continually tweak? Do you |
| You must create an impenetrable mind; a mind that | | | | allow excuses and surround yourself with excuse |
| can sustain all attacks of negativity and philosophies of | | | | makers? |
| randomness. The dirty truth is that most people do not | | | | Success is based upon certain fundamental truths. |
| believe in self determination. Most people are excuse | | | | Install and adhere religiously to those truths without fail |
| makers and have philosophies of luck and a welfare | | | | and you will succeed. Although everyone has |
| belief system. | | | | setbacks, setbacks are not failures and are only |
| In the United States which is the richest country in the | | | | temporary signs to adjust and plain accordingly. |
| world with resources and opportunities that can only | | | | Always ask yourself, "What's next?" Keep moving and |
| be imagined by people in some parts of the world, | | | | adjusting. Success and failure are ultimately a choice. |
| people make excuses everyday as to how they | | | | The choice is yours. |
| cannot control their own destiny. It is much easier | | | | |