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You Need Three Legs to Be a Success

You need 3 legs for BIGG SuccessBIGG success is life on your own terms. It’s about taking control to build the life of your dreams.

It begins with understanding your role. You have 100% ownership of an incredibly important enterprise – your life.

So you are the entrepreneur in charge. Entrepreneuring is a mindset, not an occupation.

You can try standing on your own two feet. But, when you get down to the essence of a great enterprise, you realize it is a three-legged stool.

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The three legs are product, marketing, and delivery.

This triad is only as good as its weakest link. And unfortunately, one of them is almost always weak.

The magic happens when you get all three working together. It’s the key to BIGG success!

Product

We say product. We really mean service. You may think of it as your talent.

The key is to discover what you can offer to add value in the lives of other people. It’s how you begin creating value for yourself.

Your enterprise is built on this product. But the product alone isn’t enough.

Marketing

Don’t make the mistake of thinking that the most talented person always wins. They most certainly do not.

You can have the best product in the world and fail. The failure is the result of poor marketing.

If know one knows about you and your talent, you will fail. It doesn’t matter how good you are.

You have to get the word out. You have to get noticed.

If you don’t market yourself, your talent will be wasted. You won’t create value for yourself or anyone else.

Delivery

Once you have their attention, you have to deliver. It sounds so simple:

Make a promise. Keep a promise.

It is simple. But it’s not easy.

It requires follow-through and follow-up.

That’s where the difficulty comes in. In the day-to-day rush, promises are made.

The intentions are good. But you need a system to document set up to document those promises and insure they are followed up on.

What’s your weakest leg?

The rewards go to people who get all three legs standing firm. What’s your weakest leg?

Identify the factors contributing to the weakness.
Then brainstorm for solutions to make it more solid.
Develop a plan of action and then…
Make it so!

So you make more money, more dependably. That’s BIGG success!
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Why You Should Never Retire But Do It Soon

Just a month after he retired from 60 Minutes, we were said to hear of the passing of Andy Rooney.

It’s a reminder of the way things used to be.

Work to live

Back in the day, people often retired from the workforce only to retire to the afterlife a short time later.

We’re all familiar with the phrase “shop ’til you drop.” In reality, a lot of people work until they drop.

BIGG success is life on your own terms. Work is one of the five elements of BIGG success. Just one.

Work is but one part of your life. Your life is a system.

So work to live. Don’t live to work.

The purpose of work

With that in mind, we hasten to add three notes about work:

Work adds value.
Work creates growth.
Growth leads to meaning.

So the problem comes when you define yourself by your work. Your work is a part of you, not the other way around.

Work is not the end. It is the beginning.

It is one of the ways you learn about yourself. Your work is the manifestation of who you really are, deep down inside.

So work is important because it helps you discover yourself.

Never retire

And that self-discovery never end. As long as you keep working.

So never retire!

Now this doesn’t mean you have to work 9 to 5 for the rest of your life.
You don’t have to be at the office Monday through Friday.
You don’t even have to trade time for money.

You can volunteer. You can go back to school. Or you can start your own business.

You can do anything. But the important thing is to do something.

So don’t plan to retire. Plan to move on to something bigger and better. Do it sooner rather than later. That’s BIGG success!

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