Take a look around you at your friends and relatives. Most of them are ‘content’ to work in a cubicle doing busy work, and unless you make some important choices and take action, you are destined to live out your days there, too.
What It Takes to Thrive
By show of hands, how many of you have had your life handed to you on a platter?
Not that many, I see.
To get what you want from life, you have to take life by the throat and choke it into submission to give you what you want. You have to create your own opportunities, your own successes, or somebody else will.
Napoleon Hill, in his amazing book Think and Grow Rich, gives a 13-step formula for turning desires into reality. Point by point, he describes how to acquire success.
Burning desire, backed by clarity of vision and persistent action, will put you on target every time.
No Man is an Island
Henry Ford, Christopher Columbus, Samuel Adams, and others are highlighted in the book as men who had a burning desire to accomplish, to discover, and to liberate,
Thanks to their clarity of purpose and persistence, we now have:
- Unlimited choice of automobile styles
- A rich country full of resources and opportunity
- Freedom to pursue our happiness as we see fit
But none of those men accomplished anything of significance without the involvement of other people!
These great men attracted forces to themselves to help them achieve their vision, invited intelligent people to get involved, and relied upon those people to enhance their own knowledge.
Henry Ford once sued a Chicago newspaper for libel, after they labeled him “an ignorant pacifist.” When asked a particularly insulting question designed to highlight this “ignorance,” he angrily replied:
“If I should really WANT to answer the foolish question you have just asked…let me remind you that I have a row of electric push-buttons on my desk, and by pushing the right button, I can summon to my aid men who can answer ANY question I desire!”
Henry Ford understood that he couldn’t possess all the knowledge required to run his company. He understood that he needed the minds of other people to supply the knowledge he lacked.
In short, Henry Ford created the Ford Motor Company, not by himself, but through the aid of his Mastermind Group. Each of those men at the end of the electric push-buttons supported Ford and filled in the gaps in his knowledge.
How to Get Your Very Own ‘Electric Push-Buttons’
As illustrated above and in much greater detail in Think and Grow Rich, great success requires that you surround yourself with capable, intelligent people, and that you have humility enough to take their experience to heart.
Since you are reading this blog, you must be interested in doing great things with your online business. If so, then there is a ready-made group of talented, intelligent men and women focused on that same desire.
Welcome to the Internet Business Mastery Academy, or the IBMA for short.
A thriving and active community of entrepreneurs, the IBMA provides A-Z courses on internet business so you can learn the necessary skills and strategies–the basics! These are tested methods you will learn from seasoned internet entrepreneurs, Sterling and Jay.
But even more valuable than the home study course is the “Mastermind Forum,” where you can submit your projects and ideas for feedback from the other members.
You have a group of entrepreneurs from all walks of life who are there to help your dreams grow legs and learn to run. These enterprising people are united in the goal of helping each other succeed in online business, and there is powerful mojo in so many people united for a common cause.
You do not have to be Henry Ford to have your very own electric push-buttons with smart people at your beck and call!
All you have to do is understand that the Academy and its Masterminds can shortcut your journey to wealth and success, then click on over to find out more.
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