Would anyone invest in you?
Posted by Ric Ward on January 9th, 2007
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When you think the right thoughts, when your attitude is right, when rational (as opposed to irrational) emotions drive you to take the appropriate actions, in due time you’ll get the rewards in life you deserve, you’ll be at peace, you’ll forget what it feels like to be depressed and worry will be foreign to you.
The following article is written by Mike Brescia the founder of ThinkRightNow. I have known Mike for years and have used, and benefited from his programs.
Would anyone invest in you?
Warren Buffet is the greatest investor that ever lived. Part of what makes him great is that he is great at identifying talented people. So when he looks for companies to invest in, he doesn’t look for productline this or plans.
He looks for talented people.
I know of a business whose stock he turned down. That business was later sold for nearly 400 million dollars. So why did he decide not to buy it? Primarily, because it wasn’t in business long enough. He wants to see a 15 year track record. The business that was before him? In business only 10. What happened? After it was sold to a multi-billion dollar company, the principles all left within a year and it’s now being run into the ground. Currently it’s losing money by the truckload by the truckload.
See why Warren invests in people and not plans? The people who bought the company, that already had a great plan couldn’t make the proven business plan work.
So, when people don’t follow your advice and when they don’t do what you want to do, its usually because they don’t trust you. What most people don’t understand it is that unless you are enormously, and I mean enormously, persuasive, it can take a long time to earn people’s trust. Typically, it doesn’t have to take 15 years to earn most people’s trust, but it does take time.
So when you don’t get your way in the first 10 minutes, if you have to pick yourself up over and over again, if you have to fail over and over in order to reach some truly worthwhile goal, do it.
Why do most people, including you, set goals and quit before you reach them?
No guiding principles. Short-term view.
Most people live their lives like dry leaves in a high wind unable to keep themselves from following every distraction that turns their head.
If the TV is on constantly, if endless hours are wasted surfing the Internet for nothing in particular, if many important jobs are left undone and ignored on a daily basis, if you are not setting important daily goals for yourself, your department, your family and any organization to which you belong, then stop wondering why you don’t get your way more often than why more people don’t trust you and follow you.
If Warren Buffett or a potential employer or a potential suitor or anyone you want to join or have join you were to study your past actions and decisions, would they invest in you or follow you, or want you to join them?
In many ways the world is not fair.
But in many ways the world is eminently fair.
When you think the right thoughts, when your attitude is right, when rational (as opposed to irrational) emotions drive you to take the appropriate actions, in due time you’ll get the rewards in life you deserve, you’ll be at peace, you’ll forget what it feels like to be depressed and worry will be foreign to you.
Think the proven thoughts of winners found in every Think Right Now Accelerated, Behavior Modification Program and that will be YOU right down to the cellular level.
Mike Brescia
ThinkRightNow
