I know the title could be referencing the upcoming football season. Actually it is. But it’s more in reference to my membership base. I’ll be honest when I say I have a tough time with armchair quarterbacking. Because I know who most of them are…having been there and done that. When I was a lump (or as a good Canadian friend of mine called me a ‘tub of goo’) I spent a lot of time commenting on how a player should have done this or that as I wolfed down my nachos and drank my flagon of beer!!
I have to admit that it’s not a character trait that I’m proud of. And I know that if I kept on talking about how things could have been done better or a game could have been won if so-and-so had done such-and-such it would prevent me from thinking about ME….and the fact that I was a lump and getting bigger by the day! Thankfully things are different for me right now. Ten years later I’m as fit as a fiddle at 50 years of age…with a son who turns 2 in 3 weeks and hopefully a brother of sister for him in the next year – yes, I’ve done the math about how old I’m going to be when he graduates…thank you very much.
And now to the point of this diatribe. A business partner recently gave me a great book called “how I went from failure to success in selling”. And I realised that that’s the approach I’m going to have. I always have actually. But it’s going to be more pronounced. You see, he openly admits in print that he absolutely sucked when it came to selling. And then documented what he did to become one of the best in the world in his field.
Now, I’m never going to say that I’m one of the best in my field. But I can say that I went from being borderline obese to crossing the finish line of an Ironman triathlon in just over 12 hours – 3 years later. So when someone hears me say “it’s like this” or “you’re going to be”…..those words are coming from someone who has been there and done that…
