Sách Serial Winner – 5 Actions To Create Your Cycle Of Success By Larry Weidel PDF tải FREE

THE CYCLE OF WINNING

We all know people in life who seem to move from success to success, with barely a pause or dip in between. They’re always talking about their next big project or goal. They’re always excited about something. They have limitless energy, which they use to accomplish more and more. They are role models and opinion-makers. They always seem ahead of the game. They stay on their feet. They lead rewarding lives. They are serial winners. In a world full of people who almost win, they are the few who do it again and again. To most of us, serial winners are confounding. They seem to have the ability to shed the negatives in life and attract the positives.

How do they find the energy or time? we ask. How did they get there so fast? How do they fit it all in? We just don’t understand how these people achieve what they do. Because for the most part, they don’t seem all that special. Many of them started where we did. Sure, some had elite training, but most didn’t have any extra advantages (and some had even fewer)—they worked their way up from the streets. (Did you know that most millionaires in the United States are first-generation or self-made?) So we try to follow their moves. We study what they say.

We may stick some of their better quotes on the wall. We even copy their style—how they dress, their mannerisms, their haircuts. They become our models. Why? Because we want similar things. We want opportunities. We want to contribute to our communities. We want to lead fulfilling lives. We want to have fun! We want to do big things. Yet we still seem to be missing some important piece. That piece is action—consistent action that leads to consistent progress.

Serial winners leverage a cycle of winning action to make progress. They do something every day that puts them or keeps them on course for the things they want in life. Along the way, they steadily overcome friction and other forces that could slow them down or knock them off course. By focusing on what they can and should do, they manage themselves out of tough, demoralizing situations. The result? They are always moving forward, following their passions, having fun, and contributing to the world. What about you? Are you achieving everything you want to achieve? Are you making the progress you would like, or do you feel stuck? Do you have an itch to break out, try something new, or go for more? Is there something great you want to make happen in your career, your life, or even the world? If you’re okay with your life remaining exactly as it is now, this book probably isn’t for you.

But if you can picture yourself doing more and doing bigger, this book can help. Because the only difference between you and a serial winner is five basic actions. And there is nothing keeping you from applying those five actions in your own life.

THERE’S NO PATENT ON ACTION

Even though it may not seem to be true, everybody has won and lost. No one has a perfect batting average, and no one has struck out every single time. Anybody who tells you different is trying to sell you something, so be sure to read the disclaimers. Serial winners bounce back, move on, and win anyway. And they do it through action. I’ve had big successes, but I also had to accept food stamps for a time just to keep my wife and two young boys from going hungry.

Today I’m a multimillionaire, but I once had a boss label me Turkey of the Month in a company-wide newsletter (no kidding). I know what it is to have nothing go right, to be passed over for promotions, to be the one applauding others who were getting ahead. But I’ve learned a lot about success and winning along the way. And I have spent the past forty years building a national financial services organization and helping the many, many people on my team achieve the success they want. Hundreds have been able to earn six-figure annual incomes, and even more have earned the label “millionaire.” I had to dig harder and longer than some people, but when it takes you longer, you value the results and what you learned along the way more. When I started my career, everything was hard.

But my weaknesses gave me an edge. I knew I didn’t have a chance of making something great out of my life unless I paid attention. I studied the winners I knew closely. I asked a lot of questions. (I’m surprised people didn’t start walking the other way when they saw me coming.) And I figured out what I had to do—step by step, detail by detail—to improve. I caught on to the fact that the people who were winning weren’t better than me. They simply did things that I wasn’t doing. I learned something important: nothing can keep us from doing what winners do.

There’s no copyright on wisdom, and there’s no patent on action. My biggest advantage has been the incredible circle of advisors and mentors in my life. I learned about coaching from “Bullet Bob” Turley, professional pitcher and winner of the Cy Young Award. My cousin, Edward Roberts, who was known as “the father of the personal computer,” taught me how to follow my curiosity and apply my drive. Art Williams, founder of the A.L. Williams & Associates life insurance company (now Primerica), taught me a lot about how to be a winning leader.

Everything I’ve achieved, I’ve achieved by watching the best. How do the best do it? How did they get to the top and how do they stay on top? I wasn’t interested in modeling just anyone. I wanted to watch what the top people did, because obviously they knew and did things that most people didn’t. Life is too short to figure everything out on your own. Unfortunately, not enough people have access to great mentors and coaches. They aren’t close enough to serial winners to spot the simple pattern they all apply. And that is why I wrote this book—to help people discover the patterns that could catapult them to a new level of success and happiness.