6 tips for stopping the excuses and meeting your goals instead
Today’s guest contributor is Dan Waldschmidt, author of Edgy Conversations: How Ordinary People Achieve Outrageous Success, international business strategist, speaker, author and extreme athlete. His consulting firm solves complex marketing and business strategy problems for savvy companies all over the world.
Great people throughout history often fail, quite miserably, before finally reaching their goals.
Van Gogh sold only one painting during his lifetime; Winston Churchill lost every public election until becoming prime minister at age 62; Henry Ford went bankrupt five times; Albert Einstein was a terrible student and was expelled from school; and Sigmund Freud was booed from a stage.
Ideas, brilliance, genius—they all mean nothing without the guts, passion and tenacity necessary to make your dream a reality. But often, people fall back on excuses and give up on trying to reach their goals.
Most of us have dreams, and many of us have big ones, but few of us actually see them through.
