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Overnight success?
What's the opposite of that? An Overnight failure?
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Do you want to get a promotion, make $500,000 per year, appear on Oprah, or have 10x the number of customers? Be careful what you ask for.
The secret of the web (hint: it's a virtue)
Patience. Google was a very good search engine for two years before you started using it. The iPod was a dud.

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Sales Prospecting
Sales prospecting is very often a salesman's least favorite part of his work as a salesman. I have found this to be the case about the same number of times I have found that the salesman hasn't had sufficient training in how to prospect effectively, and so hasn't been having a lot of prospecting successes. To the degree that the salesman doesn't know how to go about prospecting, and ends up with losses instead of successes, sales prospecting can be a mighty discouraging activity. I have conversely discovered that the more one's ability and successful experiences in sales prospecting grow, the more enjoyable an activity it becomes, and the more willing a salesman is to do it.

Overnight success?
What's the opposite of that? An Overnight failure?
Strategy vs. Fundamentals
Creating companies is hard. Most fail. Overnight success is rare (my favorite “overnight success stories” are the ones that take 10+ years, like iRobot or Harmonix.) While strategy plays a key part in the outcome of an entrepreneurial venture, the fundamentals matter a lot. Take the following parable that I got from a friend recently.
How to Succeed at Everything that Matters
Everybody wants to succeed. Success, though, rarely comes easy. Nor does it happen overnight. We often hear about overnight success stories, certain companies or individuals thrown into the limelight, having made millions from something or another. What we fail to realize, or rather the people calling them an "overnight success" fail to realize, is that there is usually a pretty substantial history building up to that success. Long hours, lots of money invested, family, goals or desires sacrificed, etc.

Those "Instant" Successes
Many times an unknown person does something spectacular and suddenly becomes a "hero," a public figure, an "overnight success," the object of much envy. Let's explore this "overnight success" syndrome.

Those "Those "Instant" SuccessesInstant" Successes
Many times an unknown person does something spectacular and suddenly becomes a "hero," a public figure, an "overnight success," the object of much envy. Let's explore this "overnight success" syndrome.

How Long Does it Take for Salespeople to Get it?
How to get salespeople to enjoy overnight success!
Hard Work, Outstanding Performance and Success
Outstanding performance is an important key to career and life success. As Malcolm Gladwell points out, outstanding performers are hard workers. They know what they want and do whatever it takes to get it. They enthusiastically act on their dreams. This action helps them reach their goals. There is no way around hard work. You have to put in the time and effort if you want to be successful. Ask any "overnight success." Everyone that I've ever met tells me that they spent years and years getting to the place where they became an "overnight success." Set your goals. Work hard. Work smart. And you'll succeed.

Making Life Happen!
Are you ready to learn a few more tools to help you in making life happen for you? Sometimes it takes recognzing what's standing in the way and dealing with that first to get things rolling. 2009 is almost over, however there is still lots of time left to create a few more successes before December 31st. I hope this article will both inspire you to create a few more successes this year and to support you in making that happen for you.
Celebrate Failure
Leaders should not only celebrate successes, but failures as well.
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