If you have ever thought or you still think there is a short cut to success…I am sorry to tell you…there isn’t one. Take John Wooden, although highly successful from his start as the coach of the UCLA Bruins basketball team in 1948, it wasn’t until 1964 John Wooden and the Bruins won their first NCAA National Championship. Wooden and his UCLA Basketball teams went on to win 10 NCAA National Championship’s in 12 years, a feat never duplicated to this day. Persistence!
I have tried short cut’s, in the long run they worked out for me, but not in the short run.
In 1985 I drove my car from Santa Monica to New York City in the span of 4 days to work as a broker on Wall Street (no short cut there). I was going to NYC to make six figures within 3 months! That did not happen…one year later…it did not happen…but, one more year later it did happen and there were many more high multiple six figure years to follow and opportunities to live and work in Asia and London. Persistence!
Now it is 2011 and I have been working from home for 3 years and I tried numerous short cuts and they all cost me a lot of money. Did I learn a lot? Yes in deed, and I am happy to report that I am now a successful work and play from home entrepreneur. Persistence! Don’t ever quit. If you never quit, you cannot fail. If you don’t think I wasn’t missing sunny Santa Monica and Malibu when I was struggling in New York making just enough to get by and living in Bay Ridge, Brooklyn for my first year? I wanted to quit. I missed my friends. I missed the beach. But I refused to quit! You know what happened? I met a whole new group of fantastic friends. They introduced me to surfing in Montauk, LI. I bought a house there with my brother. I took 6th Place in the New York State Surfing Championships one year (should have won it, but I only caught two waves in the final heat) The point is if I can do it, you can too.
I hear too many excuses these days. Just do it! Never Quit and You Never Fail. If you have done your best, then you have done enough. Peace.
“I will persist until I succeed.” Og Mandino
To Your Best Success,
John Rothstein

























