Gonna do something different today.<\/p>\n
I’m cracking open my skull and letting you look at my brain.<\/p>\n
(egh… that sounded gross, didn’t it? Hey, cut me some slack. I’m working on the second draft of my zombie novel I’ll be publishing in a few months, and the gore is bound to “seep” out into these emails from time to time…)<\/p>\n
Specifically, I’m gonna tell you my 2014 goals.<\/p>\n
This’ll take multiple emails.<\/p>\n
But, maybe they’ll inspire you.<\/p>\n
We shall see…<\/p>\n
Anyway, my most important goal is:<\/p>\n
PATIENCE<\/strong><\/p>\n Why is this my #1 goal?<\/p>\n Because, my little droogie, patience is what separates the boys from the men. Patient men lead and inspire people to trust them… impatient men bring down and hurt people through their bad decisions and lack of discipline. Patient men are confident and have power over themselves and over others… impatient men are insecure and have no power over their urges, emotions or others. Patient men don’t waver and buckle under pressure, they endure and wait for the right time to act… impatient men react to pressure and often do the exact opposite what they should do, wasting their shot and often causing misery around them as a result.<\/p>\n You get the picture, yeah?<\/p>\n Patience is power.<\/p>\n Power over yourself.<\/p>\n Power over your opponents.<\/p>\n And, power over your world.<\/p>\n But you know what?<\/p>\n I lost a lot of my patience in 2013.<\/p>\n Frankly, I used to have this patience “attribute” in spades.<\/p>\n “Delayed gratification” was my middle name.<\/p>\n I would eagerly wait weeks, months even YEARS to implement plans and ideas simply because I knew that would be the best chance of those ideas succeeding in all the important areas of my life:<\/p>\n But, something happened in 2013 to change that.<\/p>\n Exactly what happened, I know not.<\/p>\n What I DO know is I had unstoppable patience in 2012.<\/p>\n And in 2011.<\/p>\n And in 2010.<\/p>\n And, really, my entire business life.<\/p>\n (Going back to 1998.)<\/p>\n Then, about mid way through 2013… it was gone.<\/p>\n Vanished like a fart in the wind.<\/p>\n Good news is, I recently found my patience again.<\/p>\n (In the last place I looked — where all my lost time is found too).<\/p>\n Now it’s just a matter of getting it back to the “unconscious competence” mode it used to be in — where it was as automatic as breathing, instead of the “conscious competence” mode it’s in now, where I have to sometimes remind myself of it.<\/p>\n Hey, you can NEVER rest on your laurels.<\/strong><\/p>\n I don’t care how great your life is now.<\/p>\n Or, how successful you are.<\/p>\n In fact, the more successful you get, the more you have to be on guard about losing the things that made you successful in the first place.<\/p>\n Now, let’s wrap this email up:<\/p>\n One product that takes patience to read is…<\/p>\n\n