I heard a motivational speaker say this recently. He's a multi-millionaire and he's been giving seminars for years. I thought it was great. So I kept listening and listening until the very end of his motivational DVD series. I was waiting for it. What was the IT! It was the steps on how I could make money if I did what I loved. The seminar ended and there I was. I felt empty, used and hanging without the steps I needed to get there.
Today, my wife and I went for a 3 mile walk. This was the topic of our walk. We got into such a heated debate that the 3 miles went by so quickly that I felt like doing them again. I couldn't agree with the speaker. I don't care if he made a million dollars or not. He made money off selling me this DVD series that says that if I do what I love then the money will come. Then I'm left hanging. No ending. No proof. Just his word for it.
Of course I'm a lawyer so I question everything. How much money "will come"? Is it enough to feed my family? Is it enough to fuel my future? Is it enough for my retirement? Is it enough to pay the rent or the health insurance?
Other questions came to mind about this money-making philosophy I was hearing. What happens if someone is a poor business manager and spends more than they make? What if someone doesn't bother marketing themselves and just expects people to walk up to them and buy their product or service? What if they have the wrong timing for their product or service in this market and the downed economy? What if they don't spend enough time on marketing and make tons of product but can't sell it?
There were too many unanswered questions. This isn't what I expected from a multi-millionaire who was going to show me how to get where he is. His idea revolved around simple ideas that people can grasp. But what happens if they don't have a definite plan to follow . . . the failure rate is exponential.
Am I finding fault with this guy? Absolutely? Why? Because the big winners out there aren't really giving away their secrets and their techniques. They aren't giving you a step by step plan to get where you want to go. Granted you can't please everyone, but generalized propositions aren't going to help the seasoned entrepreneur.
So what did I take from this? I can do it! Yes. I took a positive out of this. I took a HUGE positive out of this. I got tired of all the missing pieces that I want people to have. So now I'm beginning. I'm setting down what the best of the best consistently have to offer and I'm going to track it, study it, revise it and perfect it.
Why? Because anything that has been done is duplicatable by another person if they have the right roadmap or blueprint. Yes no one seems to want to set it out as clearly as people need it. I agree that people want it simple and they don't want to be inundated with information. Yet it's information and things that aren't being made simple and overwhelm people that form the roadmaps. If people want to get from Rhode Island to California and a huge chunk of the map is missing in the middle of the United States and people want to get there as directly and economically as possible without tons of failures and wrong turns then let's face it, people are going to have almost an impossible time doing it if they've never done it before.
As for me, I'm not rich but I'm not poor either. I've been able to talk to audiences about some successes I've had and I've captivated several audiences with what I've been able to achieve with programs both on and off the internet. I've read about and listened to the ''Greats" for years and I've taken from them all the things that I felt were sound and worked for me and could work for anyone to achieve greatness, wealth, success, health and personal relationships.
Each of my mentors by books, tapes, CD's, lectures, ebooks and such have inspired me to a level of greatness in my own life that I never thought possible. Yet today marks a milestone in my ideas of Guaranteed Wealth. Today I began writing a book of my own philosophies. Some that I have coined from others I have read about and some which I have revamped and revised because I saw flaws that I simply couldn't accept once I challenged them.
Time is a factor that I hope I have in my favor as I begin a journey to produce a work that I am hoping will bring the dreams of many people to fruition, dreams of a fruitful retirement, dreams to be more than you are now and more than you ever thought you could be, dreams to work for yourself and to help others, dreams of reaching whatever goals you want to set in your life.
My dream began years ago . . to develop practical ways to reach your goals and to be accountable only to yourself and to whatever supreme being (if any) that you believe exists. Today, my dream took shape and I began to write like never before. It was like a raging fire incapable of being extinguished and driving me to greater expectations of myself that I can show people how they can become more than they ever thought possible in their lives.
I hope you will share with me this dream as I include small excerpts as I begin this journey to help you become whatever you wish to be by reaching for newer heights in myself.
It is no longer just a moniker. It is a principle to live by. I see it! I believe it! I will achieve it! And when all is said and done, I will share it with you and with the world so that others can truly reach for the stars.
Remember SBA! See it! Believe it! Achieve it! Then Share it!
Christopher A. Pearsall
Money Making Entrepreneur and Attorney-at-Law
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Hi Christopher
I strongly agree with your wise words here. I have been involved in Internet Marketing and Niche Marketing for some years now and when I began I started very slowly, researching niches that I knew nothing about, I had no passion for the subject...very quickly I made no money!
After a few months I decided to focus on my 'big niche' but with a slant on what I enjoyed, which was deconstructing and reverse engineering. I took the 'big niche' that was attracting a great deal of traffic and applied my interest of reverse engineering to the subject.
This provided me with a whole load of subject matter to focus and remain interested in, which for me meant long term residual income.
So 'Do What You Love and the Money Will Come' is a great soapbox statement for me too! Great post!
Posted by: Nigel | October 24, 2008 at 10:16 AM