Obtaining The Midas Touch
Copyright 2005 Glen Snethun
What does it mean to “pay your dues”? Have you paid yours?
If you want to know the answer, just ask yourself, “Am I at
the level of financial success that I desire?”
If the answer is “No”, then you haven’t paid your dues. If
the answer is “Yes” then you have. It’s just that simple.
Have you ever wondered why some people seem to walk into a
new endeavor and everything they touch turns to money. Do
you ever question why they have the Midas Touch? Well I
wondered the same thing until I heard speaker Jeffery Combs
explain to me that they’ve “paid their dues” – in a
different arena, at a different time.
And so I wondered if I had really paid my dues. Is this
why I wasn’t achieving the results I wanted? To put it
blunt, I needed to look in the mirror.
Did I like what I saw? Not necessarily. Was I ready to
change? Absolutely!
So what does paying ones dues really look like? For
everyone, it’s different!
But one thing is the same -- it’s always a process of
getting sick and tired of where you’re at, deciding to quit
passing the buck, and facing oneself.
For me, paying my dues started in small ways.
To improve my self discipline, I got out of bed every
morning at 5:00am, not 5:10 or 5:20 but 5:00am sharp! I
didn’t like going to bed at 9:00pm in order to get enough
sleep but I put my stake in the ground.
Physically, I was 50 lbs overweight. Getting up at 5:00 am
gave me time to exercise every morning. I started to lose
weight.
I began to apply self-discipline to my diet. Absolutely no
more MacDonalds or pop.
And then there was the mental challenge. I refused to let
my mind wonder to the negatives in a situation. “Stop!”
I’d say to myself. Was that a hard habit to break!
And I began to try to look for the good in people and their
messages instead of displaying my temper. If you think
there weren’t any dues to be paid here, think again. I had
to leave a comfort zone I’d lived in for 30 years.
Now how about my business success and making money online?
I started paying my dues by getting on the phone and
talking to people even though I was terrified. I muddled
through learning about the Internet and computers even when
it frustrated the heck out of me. I kept going on every
training call possible. I continued to pick up the phone,
even when I had heard every reason in the book not to join,
not to buy, not to invest. Then the law of averages began
to take over and I began to hear the word “yes” more often.
My point is that I started paying my dues in small but real
ways. And all of the small dues equated into huge
differences in many areas of my life.
These are some of the keys to success that I found to be
true in my life.
So be true to yourself. Are there dues that need to be paid
in your life? Like a friend of mine told me, “Why don’t
you decide to pay them now, instead of riding the truck all
the way to the dump?” Something to think about.
Glen Snethun is a stock/options trader as well as a full
time Internet Businessman, Author and Coach.Glen dedicates
his time to showing others how to create multiple streams
of income using the Internet.Get ideas from Glen at
http://www.GlenSnethun.org
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