I am huge on personal development in the sense that everyone needs to grow in order to achieve success. You won’t see me preaching some philosophical speech or anything to the tune of that, but I understand the power of having the ability to see through the obstacle of everything and pushing forward to achieve your goals.

What most people don’t understand is that when you come into the industry as a “noob” you are facing odds that you will fail or quit. (Actually you only fail when you quit)

But why is it that you fail, is it that you are stupid, is it that you don’t have any money, is it that your family curse says “though shalt not succeed”? No. Failure is only an obstacle that must be overcome with adversity. When you look around the industry at every single person you see pitching a business, indirectly or directly (a.k.a spam) you will see a pattern.

There will be people that you see for an extended period of time. Those that you see over an extended period of time are either:

1. Making it work.
2. Working their ass off to make It work.

That is it. The time that I have spend in this industry only being around 19 months, I have seen as many people leave as I have seen come. And the sad part is that many of them had the potential and the heart to really make it work.

But what is it that separates the weak and the strong. Will. Take a look at the movie Rudy, that scrawny short little kid worked himself to the bone and never got the opportunity to play hardly one minute in the game. Did he leave, no. He sat on that bench every single minute but two of his whole four years in college football.

But what is Rudy doing now? He is making around $17,500 dollars a speech as a motivational speaker. Yes, his football games never made him an all-star, but his legend lives on to the tunes of 100’s of thousands of dollars a year.

He pursued something that he believed in and in the end it paid him money that he would never be making if he actually went to the NFL in the 1960’s.

The story here is that no matter what the obstacles are, if you pursue your dreams hard enough and understand what it takes to really be successful, the pitfalls will over power themselves and lead to a more powerful you.

Take it from Rudy….Success is only 2 minutes away from you.