What are my goals and what are yours?

6:52 AM PST
Tuesday

Hi.

It's a great day in CA.

I'm working on the internet and I discovered this little story and I want to share it with you to give you some insights into what I do and how I do it.

I'm always looking for ideas.

If I don't stimulate myself with ideas, then I'll hit a wall. With the internet, this is an easy fix. I mean this is like have twenty rooms, big rooms, full of books and data and information and all you have to do is speak into a speaker and BAM, there's the information you were wanting.

So I love to write stories. I am not that good at it yet...

but I just spent $854 on a course, that has no guarantee and I still bought it.

Why would I do that?

Because if you're going to be GREAT, not just good at something you're going to have to invest in yourself.

And you know, that's what I'm doing.

So here's the story, off the internet.

Read it and tell me, if it was interesting to you, and why you read the entire story.

I have a plan here, and there's a reason I'm telling you to read this, so please, do it now.

"David Neagle was a high school dropout.

His first job was as a forklift operator for a shipping company, spending long, terrible hours on a cold loading dock and cursing his existence.

Now, he makes millions every year by showing others how to take the same steps he took to become a mega-success.

Here’s what happened…

On one particularly cold evening around 2:00 a.m., David had an epiphany.

A little voice inside his head said, “Change your attitude.”

David set out that very instant to do just that.

He thought about his boss – the owner of the company and the most successful person he knew.

And he decided he would do what his boss did.

He noticed that his boss was always kind and courteous, treating everyone with the utmost respect.

So David started following his example.

He also started caring more about his work. Before, David was all about doing as little as he could get away with, not caring if the boxes he was loading fell over and got crushed.

Now, he took extra care to make sure they were loaded properly, even if he had to do it over.

David’s new attitude paid off.

Within a few months, he received the kind of promotion usually reserved for the owner’s relatives. (It was a small, family-owned company.)

David’s coworkers joked that he must be the boss’s illegitimate nephew, but he didn’t care.

He just kept right on doing what he was doing.

And today, like I said, he’s making millions.

All because of a little epiphany he had years ago on a cold loading dock in the dead of night.

You can learn a few things from his example:

1. Identify someone successful in your company or industry and think about what got them to the top.

2. Examine their work habits. Do they consistently come in early and stay late? Do they constantly improve their skills? Do they interact with supervisors and coworkers in a friendly way?

3. Write down what they do… and start doing exactly what they do, because success leaves clues.

But you don’t have to play copycat with someone from afar.

You can get personal, one-on-one advice from someone who has been
where you are and achieved great success.

I’m talking about getting a mentor.

Mentors are more than role models.

They can significantly cut your learning curve.

Based on their own experience, they can help you avoid costly, time-wasting mistakes and get up the ladder much faster than you could on your own.

(The story goes on, but I don't think you have the time to read the rest, because then he reveals the one big secret that lead to him getting the million dollars and what he said to the owner to move into that slot when the owner was ready to retire)

I love stories because people remember them and they can learn from them. I mean look at Dr. Suess. Crazy stuff, but it made him a lot of money and still does to this day.

But again that is the power of a story.