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Excuses or motivation, it's your choice! I believe that success is highly unlikely without pain. Now it doesn't have to be physical pain. It can be mental or emotional pain as well. The pain in your life does one of two things to you. It either gives you excuses or it gives you resolve and motivation. Pressure will either bust pipes or make diamonds. Either way, the vibrations that create pain is energy that is there for you to use in the future. So if you're going through something right now, know that you can channel that energy into positive actions and know that it brings you closer to the success that you deserve. Without pain, there is comfort. And when you're comfortable, subconsciously you don't want anything to change and you become complacent. To break out of your comfort zone and take the actions necessary to succeed, you have to either have pain from your current situation or you have to experience the pain of underachieving. The latter is the gap between where you are and where you know you should be in life. You have to be in a situation where the only way to relieve the pain is to set a goal and progress towards that goal. That's what will really drive you to do what it takes. Some people just accept the pain and accept not being happy with their life and learn to live with it (excuse makers). Successful people wake up one day and say ENOUGH! I'm going to do something to change my life. Can you relate to what I'm saying? The pain that drove me for many years stemmed from my childhood. Let me share with you a story that I've never talked about publicly. I grew up in a single-parent dysfunctional home in a drug infested area of Queens, NY. My mom and dad met in a heroin rehab clinic in 1972. My father was there because he was involved in one of the biggest drug busts in Westchester County history at the time with several mafia related gangsters indicted. He pleaded down in court to being a user and got sentenced to attend rehab being that it was a first offense and he cooperated. In rehab while trying to clean up their life, my parents hit it off and fell in love. It was a happy time for them. They got married in April of 1974 - she was 19 years old and he was 20. In August of 1974, six weeks before expecting their first child, my father was found dead on a roof top in Harlem, NY. Evidently his past caught up with him. When they found him, he was badly beaten and overdosed with heroin. It was thought to be a homicide but police never found who did it. I was born in Oct 1974 and missed meeting my dad by about 6 weeks. My mother spent the first two years of my life in a deep depression after being a newlywed and losing her first love so suddenly. She relapsed into heavy drug use. Much of my childhood was spent living at my grandparent’s house without seeing my mom for weeks at a time. I would often sit by the window crying waiting for her to come home. Excuses or motivation? My childhood gave me the latter. The pain from my early years motivated me to never do drugs and made me promise myself that my kids would never have to go through what I did. Fast forward to 2004, I got married to the love of my life and my daughter Nia was born. I had a six figure job working for JP Morgan on Wall St. We had just bought our first home and everything seemed beautiful. But I was working 60 to 80 hours a week and the only time I'd get to see my daughter was for an hour or so at night and on the weekend. I felt like I was becoming the same absentee dad that I vowed not to be. That was the pain I needed to really focus on my business and leave the corporate world. In 2007, a month before my son Ryan was born, I finally left the corporate world for good and the universe opened all kinds of doors for me. You know the rest of the story - I went from small time Clickbank publisher to NY Times Best Selling Author with appearances on Good Morning America, Home Shopping Network, Fox News, ABC News, NBC, Wendy Williams, People Magazine, Today Show Australia, etc. I went from selling 60,000 self published books to selling 1.2 million physical books with New York City publisher Simon & Schuster. Add to that the dozens of other websites and projects I've done in the past decade plus in business. Overall my Internet businesses and publishing has done over $4 million in net revenue and has made me a millionaire. Everyday I wake up with the freedom to spend my time anyway I like. I'm a geeked out, work at home soccer dad and proud of it :-). Excuses or motivation, it's your choice. Talk soon, This is a letter from my mentor Douglass and it motivated me and now I am a Silver Team Leader at SFI. Start your second income with company that’s first with internet entrepreneurs: http://buzurl.com/il70 http://waystomakeeasymoneyonline.blogspot.com
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