In my quest for wise council these past few weeks during a pivotal point in the development of my business, I went back to the resources I've used in the past. I think it's very interesting to see how groups are often times so interconnected and integral in each others success, as in this example.
Back when I was starting off on my quest, I listened and read a lot of stuff by Dan Miller. Through his site I found a coach named Jay who gave me some good advice last October. I reconnected with Jay recently, and he suggested that I take a look a the site podcastanswerman.com where a guy with a similar background to mine has been very successful selling hardware, and consulting with podcasting. His name is Cliff.
As it turns out, Dan Miller had also been instrumental in Cliff's success. Cliff currently charges $150/hour for his expertise, and has started charging $2,500 a day for on site support.After about 2 years of part time and 2 years of full time work on his business, he's on track to make $10,000 a month, with lots of potential for this to keep increasing as he fine tunes his business.
While I was waiting to hear back from Coach Jay, I had written Dan Miller about a business question, and he had recommended I speak to a guy named Justin. Looking on Justin's website, he's become successful in his own right, and just two weeks ago had Podcast Cliff on his show talking about his success.
One common denominator in listening to each persons story of success is that they had surrounded themselves with a group of successful people, and had also reciprocated the help to others along the way.
A second common thread seems to be that in making their needs and goals known, those coaching and supporting them seemed to be more than happy to come to their aid. For instance, Podcast Cliff had mentioned on his show that one dream of his was to interview Dan Miller. A few weeks later, Dan was interviewing on his show.
In a way, this is similar to the idea of manifest destiny where you focus on a goal, make your goal known verbally, and it happens. To be fair, it's not in a lot of ways in that the driving mechanism isn't some cosmic force that you've harnessed, or some deity which must do your bidding, but instead when someone goes out on a limb to make known a goal (and open themselves up for failure in front of friends and family) often times people seem to step in to give them a hand.
How does freeze tag fit into this? Well, it also seems to me that another key element to being successful is being part of a group that have that 1)share a similar outlook on life, 2)are willing to help, and 3) you must also be "in the game" of trying to succeed to get this help.
Dan Miller, and the people in his network who have succeeded and are more than willing to help others succeed no doubt cross paths with people who could be helped by them on a daily basis. However, many are either afraid, complacent, lazy, or too proud to take the steps needed to be in a position to be helped. So in a way, they are frozen in life, and missing out on great opportunities available to them.
To be fair, I am sure there are plenty of people as well who are in a tough spot in life despite their best efforts. I am just speaking of those who fail to act, and just assume there is no way out of their situation without putting in the legwork to find out. They are not "in the game".
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