We dream about what we would like to accomplish and achieve, but we never get beyond our dreams. We never bring them into reality. Most of us never move from curious to serious we just stay curious our whole life and let success pass us by.
To move into that prosperous 5% of the people who are building their dreams, you must get serious and claim your success. In other words, you must make a commitment to claim success.
Another way of looking at this is what I call the three D’s: Desire, Deserve and Decide.
To claim your success as an entrepreneur, you have to desire to be in the business you have to feel you deserve success and you have to decide to enter the business and make it work. The crucial one here is Decide. When you really decide to get into business, you are making a commitment to it and to your success. It takes a conscious effort to be 3-D. Even now, I still have to focus on being 3-D. Here is a prime example.
Once, after a long day of business out of town, I finally checked into my hotel. When I got to my suite, it was the first chance I had all day to finally sit down and relax. As I sat and reflected on the day, I took a good look at my suite. It was extremely luxurious with all the amenities for which one could hope. I considered the cost and, after pondering a moment, asked myself, “Do I really deserve all of this?” The answer is, “Yes, I do most definitely deserve this and more!”
To make a commitment to becoming an entrepreneur or anything else in your life, you must ask yourself the following questions.
• Do you really desire success, or is it just something that sounds good?
• Do you feel you deserve success, or is that something for other people not for you?
• Have you really decided to be successful, or are you going to quit at the first rough patch in the road?
Because you are reading this article you most likely have the desire for success. If you have desire, then you probably feel you deserve to lead a good life. If you desire and deserve, then the only step left is to decide, which is the same thing as making a commitment.
If you find that you are having trouble committing to becoming an entrepreneur or to anything else in your life then take another look at your challenge. It may be that your original challenge is not really your true passion, or maybe you need to rethink your definition of success and change your challenge.
As the circumstances in your life change, your challenge will sometimes need to be changed. Just remember that when you are having a difficult time committing to something, it is usually because you are not passionate about your challenge.
Without a doubt, your passion will be the barometer for success because without it, your business will just be something to do something at which you can make money.
Unless you are passionate about your business you will not be fulfilled, nor will you be happy being in or even part of your business.
Passion is the fuel for commitment and commitment is the springboard of success. Without passion you will never have commitment true commitment, that is and without commitment, it is very unlikely that you will ever reach true success. Without passion, working in your business would be no better than working at a job for someone else.
Don Burnham is an entrepreneur, author, real estate investor, teacher and speaker. He is CEO of the International Association of Seminar Professionals (IASP) and CEO and co-founder of the Wealth Restoration Institute, LLC, at http://www.weknowthewayback.com/
