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More awsome words from Perry Marshall.
Got this today from my favorite Internet Wizard. A Wizard is far above a Guru, btw.
Enjoy!
If you know and FEEL what he is talking about, you can go far in this biz. If you don't have a clue, you might want to be looking for a j.o.b.
I just returned from Maui Hawaii, 100+ customers
from a dozen countries face to face and palm to
palm for 3 days. It was immensely energizing to
shake everyone's hand and hear war stories and
spend time together.
In that conference room you heard every kind of
story you can imagine. There were people there who
literally made a million dollars last month. There
was probably somebody who LOST a million dollars
last month. I have no doubt.
I know of one guy who was literally down to his
last twenty dollars. A trip to a pricey seminar
was his last wing and prayer. There were many
businesses that have grown 400-500% in the last 12
months.
Welcome to the knife fight, to the rough and
tumble world of being an entrepreneur. A universe
of extremes. Work hard. Play hard. High highs. Low
lows. Humiliation. Exhilaration.
When I moved from Nebraska to Chicago 17 years
ago, there was a part of me that somehow just
needed to flee safety and comfort. In pursuit of
action and adventure.
Nebraska is a safe, genteel, polite,
unthreatening, mannerly place.
And... it's kinda boring there.
I don't have very many customers from Nebraska.
It's just not a "Planet Perry" kind of place.
Here in Chicago we have the Chicago Bulls and
Bears. Michigan Avenue and the Gold Coast. The
Hancock Building and Navy Pier and yachts and
hi-rise condos. O'Hare airport and tollways and
commuter systems and Broadway shows and vast urban
sprawl.
And gangs and drugs and hour-long commutes and
gapers delays and starving artists and the West
Side and the South Side and Joliet Federal Prison
and crime and poverty and housing projects.
In Chicago, you get it ALL. From the ridiculous to
the sublime. That's why I love it here.
My friend, there are some of us who are just BORN
to thrive in extremes. You crave the WHOLE
enchilada. You want access to the whole box of
chocolates. You want the CHOICE to grab that
nugget of mystery out of the box and get whatever
you get. And reach for another and another.
It's hard, but it's better than the SAFETY of
having someone else skim off the gourmet stuff and
feed you stale 8-month-old Hershey bars.
150 years ago if you preferred the Wild West to a
3 bedroom condo and 3 square meals everyday, you
were surely a little bit INsane.
Today, if you prefer the Wild West to
institutional mediocrity, it's probably the best
possible assurance that you ARE sane... that the
world hasn't yet pounded every last ounce of
adventure out of your soul. That you don't want
to sit in a cube under buzzing fluorescent lights
and follow the car ahead of you to oblivion every
day. You don't want to gulp down antidepressants
and watch TV from 5pm til bedtime.
If you thirst for greater things, if you dream of
accomplishing something really big and daring in
your life (and I'm NOT just talking about money by
the way) then I'm here to tell you, you're in good
company.
If you've failed and failed and failed again....
or if you've achieved modest success only to have
a monsoon wipe out what was so promising.... if
you're constantly dodging the snakes and
arrows.... you're in splendid company.
It's never too late for a comeback.
It may be lonely in your particular corner of
cyberspace on a particular Tuesday afternoon, but
I'm here to assure you, you're not the only one.
One more thing:
There is no such thing as a great person in
history who was a "perfectly reasonable guy."
We're all a little bit unreasonable, a little
shaky, a little insane. And driven by an inner
fire that won't go out.
Passion is the fire that lights itself.
If you have that Passion, give thanks for it,
honor it, and press into it. Harder.
Not everybody has it. But you do. And you know it.
So write it in blood. Put it in an obvious place
so you never let yourself forget it.
The entire history of your life culminates in the
present moment, and all the possibilities that it
holds. Right now.
Every hour, every day....
...seize the day.
Perry Marshall
P.S.: You're awesomer than you think you are.
(I just added "awesomer" to my spell checker. My
declaration: It's a real word now.)
Brilliant stuff there, and so, so, true.
Cheers,
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