DISQUS

Bryce Moore · 1 year ago

Powerful punch. I struggle with these things daily. It's not so simple as "just doing it" though for people that have become punch drunk on failures, ostracizing, and belittlement. At some point along the way just avoiding the failure and the subsequent cleanup becomes easier than trying again.

That's not to say you're wrong or have the wrong perspective, only that the perspective here becomes harder and harder to hold on to over time.

nicefishfilms · 1 year ago

A great way to start off the week. Reach high then reach further, stretch yourself. You can never go wrong by doing the right things for the right reasons. The closer we get to executing ideas in our own voice, the closer we come to changing our universe.

Please count me in as a pre-order for your new book.

geechee_girl · 1 year ago

Phenomenal post.

ophelia_chong · 1 year ago

I was riding my bike up the hills today to the Observatory. Half way I thought I was going to die. I looked up the hill and said "tomorrow I am going to be at that point, and then on Wednesday I am going to be at the top".

Setting your goals at a reasonable pace will get you there, rather than set goals that are not realistic. Pace yourself, and you will reach your goal.

Great post Steve. :O)

Matt from MMA Gym · 1 year ago

This is a great motivational read! Some of the most excellent people I have ever met shared this winning attitude. They were often highly focused, eccentric, and full of energy. Most people thought they were just plain odd, but in their own minds they were doing exactly what they wanted -- realizing their dreams. It's finding this balance between taking risks and being able to survive them that is so hard to live by. I think Rocky said it best in that it's not how hard you can hit, but how hard you can get hit and keep moving forward. I can hear his barely comprehensible monologue right now in my head...

Anne · 1 year ago

We Try So Hard To Be Mediocre by Steve Spalding. This really is an article with lots of words of wisdom. Full of hope and full of confidence. I really like every single words written on this article. It keeps me burning! It's telling to go and achieve my dreams! I like it! I really do!

DanGTD · 1 year ago

Great article.

You have to be willing to take the hits of life, and never look at someone as being responsible for something that has happened to you.

Jack Smith · 1 year ago

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Marketing Co. · 1 year ago

There are certainly no short-cuts to success - especially when it comes to building a business. Excellence in any endeavor is achieved only by the will and determination to succeed - either as an individual or group. Even successful businesses still have to re-light that fire every so often.

Tinu · 1 year ago

It's an important thing to point out. People constantly ask me how I got to this place, or how I did that thing. And the answer is always the same -- until I got there, I did nothing else. Just to get to the 100k mark, for about three solid years I worked 19 hours a day, slept five, started over, six days a week. Most of that time I barely scraped by and lived in a motel efficiency. With a friend. In such bad health sometimes that I could barely make the walk to the bathroom and back. With no health insurance, so when I started to make money, I still had to maintain that lifestyle in order to be able to pay my health costs. (pre-existing conditions suck).

And then? At the end of those three years? I finally got somwhere. And one minor mistake cost me everything, including my health and I had to start over. That time, it only took me a few months to get back where I was, once I stopped moping and actually did something.

So the moral of the story is: if you're willing to dedicate Everything to something for long enough, you can get there. You have to consider the costs, sure, the time put in, the risk of failure, stagnated friendships, strained family relations, stress, your health. But in the end, you have to go big. Or go back home.

MaggyYoung · 1 year ago

Great perspective Tinu. I sure hope Bryce reads it & cheers up. We all have down times. But you never know what's round that corner until you try.

MaggyYoung · 1 year ago

Great perspective Tinu. I sure hope Bryce reads it & cheers up. We all have down times. But you never know what's round that corner until you try.

Phentermine · 1 year ago

This was a kickass post, sorry for not so eloquent wording but that was what it was! It was brilliant.

I think you were right when you said if your not taking risks your doing nothing at all.

Bijou Argent Tibetain · 1 year ago

Very nice article. We can use this not only for our business and ideas we may have but for our life in general, to improve our relationships, to get out of a bad relationship, etc.

Sara · 1 year ago

Thank you.

Seth · 11 months ago

I just love your choice of photos

John · 10 months ago

Very insperational post!

Fashion Shop · 10 months ago

No risk no game and definitely no new experiences learnt in the process of running a business.

Stretch marks removal expert · 7 months ago

This is very inspirational, definitely going to add to my favourites :)

Pauline · 6 months ago

That post will definitely get me going.
I'm interested, so can I get a copy?

Baldchemist · 3 months ago

Well my friend, what a fabulously written wake up call. Just how I feel about things. No bullshit, just thats the way it is. Very nice. Probably the best call to action that I have read for a very long while.
I've nothing to add. Which is unusual for me.
Take good care and get as much joy as you can everyday.

sbspalding · 3 months ago

I'm glad you got something out of it. Hope you're having a great one.
Thank you.

Baldchemist · 3 months ago

Just as a little post script. Mediocrity is comfortable and we are used to it. It's all around us everyday in the music and stuff fronting as art and design. Because its common place everyone thinks they can do it.
Genius costs but most are attempting to become Picassos cheaply.

Waldotoomuch · 3 months ago

Even you are making it too complicated. Business is simple, I have been self employed for 30 years. You make a product people want, at a fair price and you just keep doing it, for years -- not months. My father had a hotel, he served beer and rented rooms. It was not how he did it, it was not luck, people like to drink, and they need to sleep. That simple, and that boring.