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Posted April 9, 2009 Great Drive!! Just back from 22 hours on the road and 1200 miles round trip for 1½ hrs of meetings. That's my idea of a good day. We made the presentation in person as a means of guaranteeing success, and I think we made the sale. If we didn’t, it was not for lack of trying. The last time we tried to sell this product to this same company, we failed. They couldn’t get the product to work, even though it was a production sample. Figure that out. Failure may arrive in many ways, but success comes only from hard work, persistence, and even harder thinking. And success in business is often simply refusing to give up time after time, failure after failure. it reminds me of bull riding. Everyone gets thrown off, some times sooner, sometimes later, but even the best get thrown off. As an aside, indulge me please, I considered becoming a bull rider and professional cowboy when I lived in (my beloved home state of) Texas. I opted to follow the route of being an inventor instead. I filled out an application to become a NASA astronaut as well, but again, decided that being an inventor was really where my passion lied, despite longing for the excitement those occupations might offer. I would have done one thing differently, however. If I knew back then just how much I love going fast, I’d have stayed in the NAVY and become a jet fighter pilot. But had I done that then, who knows what I might be doing now. For this lifetime, I indulge my passion for speed on the back of a thundering V-twin, racing across the plains buffeted by wind and rain, grinning ear to ear, and yelling "YEEEE-HA!" as the road recedes in the rear view mirror. And that does quite nicely, thank you. Failures are a component of every endeavor, and success is built on the back of those failures. The greatest hitters only get a hit a third of the time, the greatest runners don’t win every race. Strive and fail, strive and fail, again and again, and success will be yours. it is not guaranteed, mind you, but there is no other route to get there.
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