

You have to be an active and vigilant participant in your own life.īecause I hate when people offer advice without action, so here’s a checklist of things to do:ġ. I cannot shout it louder, success will not just happen to you. My advice is to use this changing time to figure out what feels right to you and create an action plan to make it happen. Let me be clear, I’m not saying we should just work, work, work. It cannot be summed up by the minimized paths to success that celebrities took. He put his big boy pants on and did the damn thing. Steve Jobs was fired but didn’t wait for someone to hand him his next company. Michael Jordan may have cried after being cut from his high school basketball team, but it drove him to work harder. Wait.” Well, I hate to be the bearer of bad news, but Oprah worked her a$$ off before her wild success started. So, how do we remain productive or even better, how do we become productive (maybe even for the first time) as our world shifts? How do we take ownership and responsibility for ourselves when the world is seemingly saying “Oprah wasn’t successful until she was in her 30’s. I don’t need to share a meal with the table next to me at a restaurant. While we will return to many things that feel normal, there will ultimately be things that never change back and, quite frankly, shouldn’t. I don’t know the last time I was in Penn Station without a military presence.

We don’t even remember what it was like before that. We changed how we walked through airports, our check-ins for building security became much more stringent and our overall awareness in public multiplied by the thousands. I also think it’s a time to preemptively strike on the things that will remain different until they become the same.
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I think this is a time to be creative and learn how to adapt your business to a changing world.

It’s your a$$, you move it.” Read that last part again, “ It’s your a$$, you move it.” Nobody is going to coddle you because you’re lazy. I don’t just disagree with this mindset, I abhor it, and here’s why: I saw a quote recently and it said “Nobody cares about your excuses.
