What are the Four Cornerstones of success ?

1. Believe in What You’re Doing

It doesn’t matter if it is sales or working in a not for profit. If you don’t believe in what you are doing then you should not do it. It’s just not worth it to devote your life to a paycheck.

Practically no one on their deathbed looks back and says, “I really wish I had made one more dollar.”

I guarantee, no one after their death said it.

That may be the one thing that practically everyone on the Internet agrees with.

2. Work and Counsel Through Massive Action, Constant Correction (MACC)

Humans are learning creatures. In the history of creation, there are only a few creatures that ever used tools.

Humans are the primary one of them. We are the only of them that turned around and wrote books on how to use them.

It is amazing that we as species willingly teach how to do things. We exchange information more or less freely.

Humans learn as much through failure as success. We probably learn a lot more through failure.

That also explains why we read the instruction manual generally after messing up the tools.

We learn through correction. Sometimes massive amounts of it. That is a good thing.

Children that touch stoves learn not to do that when they are hot.

It only took me a few minutes to learn that lesson as a six year old.

I remember it 30 plus years later.
It means we are growing.

I think it is part of what makes us truly human.

3. Commitment to Ongoing Self Improvement

I like to joke that even though I help people through insurance what I do for a living is self-improvement.

I am always learning. Always growing.

I read because others know wisdom that I do not know yet.

The best leaders are generally readers.

4. Associate With the Right People

It is said that you are the sum of the four people that you hang out with the most.

Very few fortune 500 people hang out with people that normally act like the extras in Cheers.

Find the right people and follow them, friend them, and grow with them.

A bonus 5th.

Build off something reliable. In the picture you notice that four rocks are built one on top of another. They are just above the water.

Yet, they all are resting on something solid.

Something more dependable than the rocks.

That’s perhaps the best secret of all.

The wisest man I know once said, “build your house upon the rock and when the rain falls, and the floods come, and the winds blow and beat on that house, it does not fall, because it had been founded on the rock.”

Best advice I’ve ever heard.

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