All the Time

You could search for all the time in the world, to find a great opportunity, but so long as you're searching through all the bog of opportunities, you may never find the best one for you. Look, for anybody, anything could work, and work very well. It just depends on who you are, and what the opportunity is. You could already have a great business going, it doesn't matter if it's a big business, or a small more local business. It could even be a small info or blog business on the internet. The potential is always greater.

Without realizing potential, you're stuck in the same place. And growth takes much time, not to mention the growing pains. I used to look at potential as a good thing when I was much younger. I took it as a compliment. Then after some consideration I decided it was not a good thing. Why? Because if somebody says you have potential, that must mean that you have something that is not yet realized to you, or by you... Now, I look at it both ways. Potential is both good and bad, because although it is yet unrealized, it is a good thing you should seek hard to realize.

Your business has potential. It can either succeed or fail. While failure leads to lessons learned, it is the way that people would rather not go. Myself included. I'd rather be seen as sitting idle, than as a failure, but it is always better to fail while trying, than to succeed at not trying. Both ways are failure, but one way has a better chance of success. You've always got to try, if you are to get where you want to be. What if there was a way to have something work for you, like your website? Or a company that makes websites, runs the advertising and marketing side for you, where all you have to do is customize it, or tell them what you want? Sounds expensive to me. Although in reality there is such a company, and the cost is less than running a 2" by 4" yellow pages add, and at the same time delivers way more return.

Hey, I've worked for companies where they provided the vehicle, to take you to neighborhoods, and then you walked and hiked your tail off knocking on doors trying to get someone to invite you inside. I've been kicked off front porches, threatened, known people who were shot at, and had guns pointed in their faces. Hah! What risk for such little in return! I was selling meat out of a freezer hooked up on the back of a pickup truck in Florida when I happened to knock on one door, the last door of the day, and it was getting dark out. The gentleman answered, and by the way everything was happening inside after I knocked, I knew he had a gun with him at the door.

When he opened the door, I started with something along the line of "Don't shoot, I'm a veteran!" Not that its actually what I said, but it was the jist of what I tried to get across! What I said isn't important, what happened after is. He had just got a coupon from a competitor (Omaha Steaks) and happened to mistake me as being them, since they were expecting a caller. I told him how much better quality our steaks were, and told him I'd come in and show him. Now I hadn't seen the gun the man had, I just new he had one behind his back when he answered the door, so when I got the box off the truck and went inside I saw it laying on the table. Great conversation starter when you've been in Iraq!

What was important to that man when I got the sale was the coupon he had, and after our conversation it was obvious that he wanted to buy from me, I had gained credibility with him. Omaha didn't matter to either of us beyond that coupon, which I eagerly took. The sale was mine. The important fact to note? I could have quit working as it was getting dark (and you're not supposed to knock on somebodies door after the sun goes down according to law,) I could have said, well, I didn't sell anything today, I might as well quit now and try again tomorrow. I could have run away when I knew he had a gun at the door! I don't know what motivated me to that last door, maybe it was the sales lectures I'd heard many times, about the last door so often being the only sale of the day, just keep going! If I hadn't kept going, and knocked just that one last door, such amazing timing would have never been realized!

What I do know, is that timing is everything. And I never knew when was the right place at the right time. Time is so important to our existence, everything that surrounds us, all of the business, or personal life in the world revolves around time. It is the dimension that we have not mastered, and it is what binds us on a continuous race to our end. We cannot give up on it, because it will not give up on us! You have the opportunity to do something with your time, or to watch it fly by.

Don't give up your time, it is limited, don't waste it, it is more valuable than money itself. Thank God for such amazing events of timing, as it becomes more and more obvious to me everyday that he is the orchestrator of such wonderful timing.


Don't give up your search! No matter who you are, or what your position, if you are a military person, looking ahead at that 20 or so year retirement, that pension will seem much smaller when you actually get it than it does today. Stay at home mom? You have the time, just as you have the need. Become a Work at Home Mom, everybody knows that every little bit helps, and even moreso would we all agree that a lot more helps a lot more!

If the time I've spent saying no to different opportunities was wise, then it is just as wise for you to heed my advice. By the way, all I'm saying is; Do Something Valuable with your Time!