What would you do if you had been that person?
Would you quit or do you think he should quit? Most people would say he’s obviously in the wrong line of work and should do something else.
I say that’s incorrect, and here’s why.
If you are going to be in business, you have to persevere.
Anyone with the perseverance to continue creating products even though he’s not making sales is going to eventually be successful. Obviously, he’s not afraid of failure because if he were, he would have stopped after the first product.
Also consider he’s got the drive and determination to keep going, even when everyone around him tells him to quit. Heck, even his sales are telling him to quit.
Yet when he emailed me he said he was working on his seventh product, and by the sound of it I think he’s got a winner this time.
Listen to this amazing story about how a guy went from zero to hero.
There was another fellow by the name of Eddie who wanted to be a horse jockey something fierce. When he was 15 years old he traveled to Kentucky and went to work galloping horses for $15 a week.
But his boss told him that he was not good enough to ever be a jockey, so Eddie hid his tears, told his boss goodbye, and headed to California.
There he found a job with horse trainer Clarence Davison, who let Eddie ride in a race. What was the result for this 15 year old young man?
He was a loser like most people never know.
Eddie lost that race. He lost his next race, too. And his next.
In fact Eddie kept racing and losing for eight straight months.
The power of a mentor, coaching, and not giving up.
After every race Clarence would sit down with Eddie and go over every mistake. How tough that must be to get corrected time and time and time again, even for some of the same mistakes.
This is what Eddie did, he kept persevering until after two hundred and fifty losses later, he finally quit. That is, Eddie didn’t quit being a horse jockey, he quit losing.
Now one month before his sixteenth birthday he got up on another horse and Eddie won his first race.
Life for winning Eddie was happily ever after, not so much.
Although Eddie steadily improved under Clarence’s guidance and kept winning. Then two years later, after falling off a horse in Chicago, he cracked his skull, fractured two ribs, and punctured his lung.
OK. Now it’s time to quit, right?
Eddie DID NOT QUIT and won the Triple Crown.
Nope, Eddie did not quit and four years later he captured his first Kentucky Derby win. Then ten years after he was told he would never be good enough to become a jockey, he captured the U.S. Triple Crown.
He went on to become the only jockey to win the U.S. Triple Crown more than once. During his racing career, Eddie Arcaco rode in 24,092 races and won 4,779 victories.
He also placed in the top three 11,888 times. Not bad for someone “not good enough.”
The coach created a master from a student that didn’t quit.
Eddie Arcaco was known as the “Master” by his peers, is it any wonder? Yet he could very easily have quit anytime during those first 250 losses and we never would have heard of him.
Here is a quote full of wisdom from Eddie Arcaco himself:
“You have to remember that about 70 percent of the horses running don’t want to win. Horses are like people. Everybody doesn’t have the aggressiveness or ambition to knock himself out to become a success.” Eddie Arcaca
The biggest question in the pursuit of your dream.
Do you have the ambition and perseverance to be a success? I think you do.
How big is the dream you have inside of you? Will you be able to take 250 losses and still pursue your dream with passion and unwavering perseverance?
I believe in you and that you can achieve your dream if you don’t quit. If winning and being successful were easy everybody would be doing it but they are not.
So here are a couple of things for you to get started toward your dream.
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