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When starting a new work at home business it is very easy to become consumed by it. We spend so much time trying to get the business up and running that we may end up becoming burned out and lose our motivation. There is so much to learn and Normal 0 false false false MicrosoftInternetExplorer4 /* Style Definitions */ table.MsoNormalTable{mso-style-name:"Table Normal";mso-tstyle-rowband-size:0;mso-tstyle-colband-size:0;mso-style-noshow:yes;mso-style-parent:"";mso-padding-alt:0in
Only the weak ones quit. Is that true? There is a story of a CEO of a multi-national company whodecided to withdraw a product from the market when it had consistently failed for nine monthsand eaten up millions of pounds in advertising, promotions etc. Was he weak? He could havemaintained the myth of success and stayed in the market and gradually withdrawn, costing himand his company many more millions. Instead, he chose to face the fact that they had made a baddecision backing the product in the first place. He admitted his mistake publicly and withdrewthe product before it cost him and his shareholders more money. Is he weak?We believe the opposite is true. He is a winner and winners quit in order that they can go on toachieve greater success. Perhaps, therefore, the phrase should be, ‘only the weak ones stick'. Thestrong appear to recognise when they have exhausted all the options and get out before thesituation becomes a liability.The successful appear to know when to quit whereas the weak ones, the unsuccessful, stay with aproject hoping and praying that it will turn itself around. Just stop for a moment and ask yourself:Am I maintaining a project, thoughts, attitudes or beliefs that I should haveditched a long time ago?What is it that I know I should have quitted but keep hold of?What am I holding on to because I am afraid to let go?What is it that stops me from quitting?David was made redundant in 2001 and decided, because he had been relatively successful incorporate life, to become a management consultant, working from home. He had read all thebooks and information on the web telling him how much these guys earned and because he had20 plus years in management they would be eager to call on his assistance and knowledge.He realised he had little, in fact no, selling skills so he enrolled on a number of sales trainingcourses. In fact David enrolled on and attended many courses in the first six months to learn theropes. How to cold call. How to put a proposal together. How to find out the real problem in theorganisation. How to close the sale. Etc. etc. etc.The problem was, six months later, no work. He had visited a couple of owners of small andmedium sized businesses to talk over their problems, sorry issues, but he was never retained. Hefelt that they were either seeing him out of politeness, because they couldn't say no over thetelephone or because they were trying to pick his brains at the meeting rather than pay for his‘expertise'. David actually met one owner on a number of occasions, including buying him lunch,but to no avail.Lyn, his wife, was getting worried because the redundancy cheque had long since disappearedand their savings was going the same way. He refused to apply for jobs saying that he knew hewas doing the right thing. He just hadn't found the right company yet.David's sole marketing was cold calling and calling his old network in case they had anything. Asthe months ticked away so did his money, his temper, his relationship and his health.His cold calling got less and less because ‘that didn't work'. He found himself reading more,buying more and more management books and magazines and becoming better organised. Hehad a great filing system but no work.He decided he needed a web site. So spent hours and hours designing and developing his webpresence. Many, many hours not contacting a potential customer because they would now comefrom the web. The months went by, the savings got less and less. His wife worked more andmore hours to keep the ship afloat.You see, David couldn't quit. He couldn't accept that being a management consultant wasn'tworking for him. Because only the weak ones quit.The difference between success and failure is that successful entrepreneurs know when to quit aproject and start again. They are not attached to their loss making thoughts, attitudes andbeliefs. It is the strong, focussed and determined that quit failing ventures before it costs them alot of money. It is an ego driven myth that only the weak ones quit. Graham and Juliewww.desktop-meditation.com Article Tags: Weak Ones Quit, Weak Ones, Ones Quit
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