True story: Many moons ago when I was in grade school I attended one of my cousin’s birthday parties. When your kid a birthday party is like payday! Getting a piece of cake was like affiliate checks in the mail! I don’t remember all the details of the party but I do remember how the party ended.
It was about 4 o’clock and everyone had their fill of some great barbecue and was getting ready to leave. Before anyone actually made it to the door someone pulled out a piñata full of candy. The kids went nuts! (Myself included). All the adults lined the kids up for each of us to have a chance to crack open the piñata, with a blindfold and a wooden bat while someone was swinging the piñata from a tree. A few kids took their swings with no luck. My cousin (the birthday boy) was standing in front of me and was up to bat. I waited with anticipation for my turn. He took two swings and BOOM! The safe was cracked! A few pieces of gold fell out of the pinata and on to the grass. At that very second I lost complete control of my body and my animal instincts took over. At a split second my legs immediately began to sprint toward the gems on the grass waiting to be claimed. I was the only kid within a foot of the candy. Actually, all the other kids were still waiting around in a circle watching me. Well, what I didn’t realize was that everyone knew I had ran for the candy, except for my cousin, who was still swinging for the fences blindfolded. Before I could even think about stopping WHAM! I took a vicious grand slam to my stomach… and all I could here was the crowd say “ooohhhh”. The game was over.
This really has nothing to do with marketing or building a business, except to say that experiences can be painful. However, what is even more painful is not learning from experiences. I guarantee you from that day forward before I ever ran for another piece of candy I was 100% sure that the batter was “aware” that kids were going in for the kill… not to be killed! It’s so simple to learn from other people’s mistakes, but why don’t we? I really don’t know the deep psychological answer behind this question, but I do know that the people who learn from other people’s mistakes are light-years ahead of the rest. There is a great quote in the book “The Greatest Secret In The World” by Og Mandino that says “In truth experience teaches thoroughly but her course of instruction devours men’s years so the value of her lessons diminish with the time necessary to acquire her special wisdom”. In my opinion, experience is somewhat overrated, wisdom is not. I hope you find some value in this post and I strongly urge you to shorten your internet marketing or network marketing experience “curve” by surrounding yourself with wisdom at MyLeadSystemPro.
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