Are you a sprinter? A pacer? A walker?
Imagine that you work at a bookstore and someone asks you to help them find a book. You know exactly where it is. How fast do you walk to it?
Walk slow and they perceive you as not caring about what you’re doing. Go too fast and they perceive that they are a nuisance to you. Walk at their pace and they won’t perceive you at all.
The big go getters in life, the real big ones, they don’t make it. I’ve tried each of the paces. I’ve gone too fast and crashed. I’ve gone to slow and disappointed people, including myself. I’ve done things at a mediocre rate and went unnoticed.
I’m writing to tell you that the right pace is different for you than it is me because we’re likely trying to please a different group of people. However, we all have our competition. The right pace can be simplified to slightly faster than your competition, than those trying to please the same group of people as you. We all have our audiences and average pace for pleasing that audience.
The best become so by being slightly better.
Selling, consulting, making people happy. It’s not a race. The quickest don’t win. Those who push themselves just past the average are the ones who win.
And in the world we’re in, winning is everything.
Stay Positive & Get Out There, Be Better Than The Rest
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