I’m sure you’re familiar with the saying: “All good things come to those who wait.”
Well, Preston Ely here and I want you to forget that outdated saying.
See, I’ve been watching people lately.* You know what I see when I look around?
Waiters.
Nope, not the kind that bring you food either.
Actual waiters. As in, “those who wait.”
What are they waiting for?
Do they really think if they wait around, their investing business is going to just magically appear?
Why are they waiting?
I’m pretty sure good old Dr. Seuss knows. (Who in the heck let this guy inside my head?!)
I gotta start closing the door to my mind and locking it when I write these lessons. You just never know when a deceased iconic children’s book writer will come in and start rhyming the place to shreds.
The Waiting Game
“Waiting for a train to go or a bus to come, or a plane to go or the mail to come, or the rain to go or the phone to ring, or the snow to snow or waiting around for a Yes or a No or waiting for their hair to grow.
Everyone is just waiting.
Waiting for the fish to bite or waiting for wind to fly a kite or waiting around for Friday night or waiting, perhaps, for their Uncle Jake or a pot to boil, or a Better Break or a string of pearls, or a pair of pants or a wig with curls, or Another Chance.
Everyone is just waiting."
~ Dr. Seuss, Oh, the Places You’ll Go
Don’t Be a Waiter
Waiters. Don’t be one of these people.
Now, you may not think you’re a waiter, but maybe you are. We tend to see ourselves in some pretty distorted light, at best. Although I must admit, you’re getting sharper and sharper the longer you hang around here.
Keep up the great work. I must be rubbing off on you.
“Pray like it all depends on God, and work like it all depends on you.”
~ Saint Augustine
Make It Happen
You gotta get out there and MAKE whatever you want to happen… HAPPEN.
You have to create it. And you’re not allowed to sleep at night unless you have created it.
No createy?
No sleepy.
Sorry bud. That’s the new deal-ee-o.
You have to take action if you’re going to building a successful investing business.
And one more thing… stop taking all your freakin’ cues from other people! Why are you looking at them?
They don’t know what the flip is going on either. No one does!
Think I’m full of it? Fine, then take it from Michael Gerber. You know, the ‘non-waiter’ who wrote the The E-Myth. Allow me to paraphrase an excerpt that’s rather fitting for this lesson:
“The light finally went on for me when I sat down to interview at a Fortune 500 Tech Firm
and realized that the guy interviewing me didn’t know what was going on either.
I finally saw it – no one knows what’s going on. It’s not just me.”
See, the world is hungry for leaders. Not cue-following waiters. Get out there and act like you know what the heck you are doing, and maybe – just maybe – something will actually happen.
* I sure as heck don’t work much so I gotta do something with my time.
Whatcha Got to Say?
Tell me how you’re taking action and making things happen in your business.
Don’t wait - create!
Be your own person and stop taking cues from everyone around you.
Take action – now – today.
Make things happen.
Preston Ely
is a real estate investor, serial entrepreneur, life coach, musician and philanthropist. CEO of Real Freedom, Inc, one of the most influential internet-based information publishers in the world, owns the largest Anytime Fitness Gym in the United States, is recording a music album with Atlantic Records, sits on the board of Advocates Of Love Orphanage, and has a non-profit charity assisting the poor and oppressed in Cuba with both their physical and spiritual needs.
With over 200,000 subscribers to his email newsletter, he is rapidly fulfilling his mission on earth, which is to glorify God by setting people physically, mentally, financially, and spiritually free through his music and his message of FREEDOM. Preston is 37 years old, lives in Tampa, FL with his wife Ashley, where he spends most of his time reading, writing, and practicing mixed martial arts.