CHAPTER 12PREPARING FOR SUCCESS
GO AHEAD, TREAT YOURSELF
WE PREPARE ourselves for failure, but we seldom prepare for success. If you follow the advice in this book, and you have the requisite talent and discipline, you will be successful. Therefore, you must adopt an abundance mentality, not a poverty mentality.
TIAABB: THERE IS ALWAYS A BIGGER BOAT
Earlier in my career, I was speaking in Philadelphia, which is about 90 minutes from where I was born and raised in northern New Jersey (just across the Hudson River from Manhattan). During the 90-minute keynote, I had related to the audience that I was raised in the most densely populated city in the United States and had grown up playing stickball on the streets amidst the traffic, for which the ...
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