(If you have stumbled across this post, you have found me blogging my upcoming book “Getting to Did: How To Lose Your Big But and Live a Life Without Regret.” In the last installment, the TRAINER taught Sam about the valuable points of HONESTY and INSIGHT. If you need to catch up on the whole book, you can start with “Sam’s Crumbling World” and follow the successive links.)

NEVER QUIT

“NEVER QUIT is important at this point because gaining INSIGHT through experience kills many attempts at getting to CAN. I’m sure Dave has mentioned he started his first restaurant at 25.”

“Yeah, he mentioned that,” Sam said, eager to hear a little more about Dave’s success.

“Has he told you he nearly went bankrupt in his first attempt?”

“What?!” Sam exclaimed, nearly falling over in the chair he had been leaning back on two legs.

“Oh yeah. He usually waits and lets me tell people about that. Dave knew he wanted to get into the restaurant business. When he was a kid, he had a good friend whose dad owned a restaurant. His friend’s dad always seemed to be having fun. That’s what Dave wanted. However, back then, Dave didn’t know anything about managing a restaurant, picking the right people to work in a restaurant or leading the people he had working for him. He made a series of bad choices that put him on the brink of bankruptcy.

“About ready to throw in the towel, he went to his friend’s dad and wanted to know what he was doing wrong. He was told, ‘You’re not learning from your mistakes. Hang in there. Pay attention to what is working and what is not. You’ll gain the INSIGHT you need to make it.’ Dave decided to stick with it. He was certain about success and he decided he was not going to quit, no matter what. In a couple of years, he was running one of the most successful independent restaurants in town.

“What would have happened if he quit while he was still gaining INSIGHT? Who knows? Hopefully he would be sitting where you are, learning from someone about how he should NEVER QUIT.

“I think you will like this card. There is not much work to it.”

(Come back next Thursday when the TRAINER teaches Sam about GROWTH and GOALS.)

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