Follow The Loser – 7 Steps To Failing In Business

We’ve all heard the game “Follow the Leader”…one person leads a line of followers behind them who all do exactly as the “leader’ at the front of the line does.  If the Leader raises their left arm, they all raise their left arm.  If the Leader skips a step and does a fancy spin, they all do the same. If you don’t do exactly as the Leader does, then you fall out of the game.  At the end of the game, the one person left that has proven he can do everything the leader can do then becomes the new leader.  It’s much like the game of life.

Our goal should be to emanate the leaders, or mentors, in our lives to become more like them.  Do what leaders do to produce the same results that leaders produce. In the same way, do what losers do and produce what losers produce.  Follow the leaders and you become leaders.  Follow the losers and youbecome losers.  Ouch…that hurts just to type it, but if we’re honest with ourselves, we know it’s true.

Want to fail in business?  Here’s a sure fire business plan for you:

1. Spend your days procrastinating and thinking about being successful, then do nothing towards taking the required action.
2. Allow yourselves to be distracted and quickly lose interest in your goals.
3. Be inconsistent and unreliable.  Never worry about keeping your word or your habits in check.
4. Devote yourself to searching for something with huge financial returns for little or no effort….Sorry, they don’t exist.
5. Allow other people (usually friends that are not doing so well themselves) to influence their decisions, and hold you back. Remember, the sad truth is that friends love to see you doing well, but most don’t like seeing you do better than them!
6. Convince yourself that you  do not deserve to do well.
7. Allow the fear of failure to take hold and choke the belief in your success.

You are the master of your own destiny and you are in control of your own future.  There is a great quote that I use on all my emails, it goes like this:

“There are two primary choices in life: to accept conditions as they exist, or accept the responsibility for changing them.”~ Denis Waitley

Remember, in our game of Follow the Leader, the game requires one thing to begin: ACTION. Where are you taking action? Are your actions mimicking a leader’s traits or a loser’s? You can change today…it’s never to late for a new start.

To Your Success,

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