In my last lecture I would simply say, go for it! I will say
this because I did.
Since starting this course 13 weeks ago a close friend, who is
also enrolled in this course, and my brother started taking the plunge. We have
started our own property management company. In these weeks we pitched to a
large customer and even though we were not successful in getting all the
business we pitched for, we got a contract document a 10-year maintenance plan
for them. This is a once off cash injection into our business and a foot in the
door for the next 10 years. Looking at it now this is exactly what our business
needs now. We also signed a small complex two weeks ago with two more to come.
We are not making enough money for any one of us to get into it full-time but
we have made a start. It is our goal to devote more and more time to the
business so that one by one we enter into it on a full-time basis.
I have always wanted to work for myself but lacked the
courage to do so. I have also not found the right partners to work with until
now. I have made many false starts but this has come at the right time and I
feel we are in the right market. Together we have the right skills to offer a
quality service.
Do not sell yourself short. You need to trust in yourself. If you
are not able to trust yourself how can others do so? Business is built on
trust, without it there can be little progress. We each have infinite potential,
that stretches from eternity to eternity, acknowledge this, feel it, and know
it!
Resolve now to never compromise on your moral standards, no matter
what. It may seem like the immediate reward outweighs the long term consequences.
It never does. Elder Tanner speaks about two fundamental elements required for
self-mastery, personal moral standards and willpower. Acknowledge and take a
stand for what is good and right without compromise. Do not give up. Put forth the
that little bit of extra willpower that will allow you to triumph over
competitors. The world owes you nothing. You need to work at your dreams and
should not be deterred. In the
book A hero’s journey a concept explains this idea well. “Greatness is reserved
for those who put in the effort to overcome good. It is easy to be good but
being great requires hard work and dedication.” The remarkable thing is, once
you have become good at something the vast majority of the work has been done.
With a little more effort you can turn good into great.
Surround yourself with good people you can trust and take
the leap to greatness. It is better to have failed than to have never tried.
