Monday, August 18, 2014

Founder of IBM on Your Success

“”Would you like for me to give you a formula for success? It’s quite simple, really. Double your rate of failure.””
-Thomas J. Watson, founder of IBM

I really like that quote. And you can take it to the bank, coming from a guy whose company has made billions and even lost over 5 billion in just one year.
He knew that success simply comes from a LOT of failures. 
Some big. Some small.
Failing isn’t natural for most of us though.
We were taught at school to take grades and pass. If we didn’t get the right grade, we failed.
And if we brought a report card home that had a big
red F+ on it, we felt like we failed our parents.
Failing wasn’t something we were ever encouraged
to do.
It’s something that we have to learn to get over though,
because in reality?
Failing isn’t failing.
Failing is succeeding!
Doing nothing is the only way you’ll lose here.
Something that I like to do is to ask myself, “”What’s
the worst that can happen?””
Seriously, when you’re fighting doing something that
you need to do in your business, when you feel the
resistance, ask yourself that question.
You spend $10 bucks on your first FB ad.
What’s the worst that can happen? You lose $10
dollars? Can you handle that! Can you lose another
$10 a day until you get it profitable? Sure you can.
You email your new prospect list and make an offer
to them, and somebody unsubscribes and hits the
spam button on their way out the door.
Is that too tough for you to take?
You buy a Solo Ad from a vendor. Again, what’s the
worst that can happen?
As long as your smart about things, the risk is usually
just created in our heads.
We think we can’t “”fail””, because if we do, WE’RE a
failure.
But it’s just not true!
Here’s another one to ask yourself…
What’s the BEST CASE SCENARIO that could
happen here?
So maybe the ad leads to a $1k commission, 10
people buy from the email you sent, the solo ad
brings you another 100 leads and a few sales
scattered over the month…
Think both ways, be willing to fail, and take action.
Fail twice as much, again, it’s Sir Thomas formula
to success. And it’s a great one.
I double dog dare you, put this to the test.
And the best for you will be if you can get all of the
creation and time consuming stuff out of the way
right now.
Go through the easy steps, start to test a few ads 
to your links that you’ll be receiving to promote with,
and fail yourself forward to success with this!

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