This past weekend I had the opportunity to go see the
NCAA Championship Lacrosse game here in Baltimore MD. who
played? You guessed it my alma mater the Duke Blue Devils
played against the Johns Hopkins Blue Jays.
It was a fantastic game. Duke was sitting at number one and
John’s Hopkins was ranked number 3. During the first
Halfway through the game the Blue Jays had a considerable advantage. I
I think going into halftime, John’s Hopkins went up 6
goals.
In the third quarter, Duke struggles again with 5 unanswered.
goals and took the score to a point keeping
the Blue Jay’s without annotations.
It seemed like we were in a fourth trimester
battle and we were. The Blue Jays scored a quick goal
putting them in pairs and then Duke responded with a
own goal.
The score was 11 to 10 with John’s Hopkins entering the
final seconds, Duke had the ball and an excellent
chance to score. They made a great shot, but the blue
The Jays goalkeeper made a great save to seal the victory.
I must say that being a former high school lacrosse goalie who
John’s Hopkin’s goal was rightfully one of the best there was
never seen. The boy was fantastic.
A great game, not the result I was looking for, but none the
minus a big battle on the field and an effort on both sides
can be really proud.
But let’s be honest. . . Duke lost. And as I sat in the
Duke fan section of the stadium with a lot of my old friends
from school who played lacrosse during my time in college,
I could tell they were really deflated.
The team itself must have felt much worse, after going
through a grueling season and coming out of it at No.
and go to the NCAA finals to see your dreams of being
the best sweeps underfoot by a single goal.
So close, but so far at the same time. Truly a void
feeling. . .
But at this point I ask you:
Will they come back next year to try again?
Of course they will and will probably train twice as long
hard after being so close and yet being a shot away
the best. It will fuel your fire.
They won’t leave depressed and they’ll never play lacrosse
play again. This is how it works now. You keep coming
back.
In high school as a wrestler I had the dream of being
the best and appears in the Washington Post newspaper
as one of the best fighters in the area.
I had this dream when I was a freshman and I won 7 out of 25
matches, but I kept that dream close to my heart and I
persisted.
And you know how hard it was, I had moments where
I cried after a tough loss that I thought I should have won
And you know that to this day I have wrestling memories
games that I lost that I should have won. It still hurts.
But I achieved my goal. I showed up at the Washington
Post my senior year as one of the best fighters in the
Express. At the time it happened it was one of the best
moments of my life.
To this day I consider it one of my proudest moments of
myself. For the next boy, this achievement would not mean
a lot, but for me achieving that goal was worth more than any
amount of money and I wouldn’t trade it for anything.
It defines me. He told me that if I have a goal and I want it
bad enough and i keep coming back after every game
I’ll get it.
When I found out about network marketing, I re-formed this
same type of goal. Be the best internet network marketer
It was literally something that I went to bed at night and dreamed
about.
I woke up every day and thought about how I could become
better and those days sometimes meant difficult and huge lessons
amounts of money wasted, but it didn’t matter that the goal was
more important than money.
They never paid me a penny to be a fighter and the Duke
The Lacrosse team didn’t do it either: we both continually strive to
the face of defeat. Why would anyone do that if there is no
money involved?
Because there are some things that are MORE important than
money and always will be.
That’s why I find those who say “Daegan, I’m really trying
hard I am not going to give up, I have done XYZ and I have not
I’ve still gotten results, but I’m not giving up because
I am not a permit “, something quite dubious to tell me.
It doesn’t matter if I think you’re a renounced or not, just
matter if you do.
Sure wise advice and validation of hard work and a pat on
the back is pretty, but what you have to ask yourself would be
Does it still persist even if there was no pat on the back?
Would that goal, whatever it is, still have the same value?
for you?
If so, you have the magic juice of success in
your side and it’s on its way.
As a marketer, think like an athlete: make money from
picture. It can’t all be about money. It has to be about you
wanting to achieve your goal at all costs.
As far as internet network marketing goes, I would
I consider myself one of the best, but I would never say that
I can’t improve because I know I can. That is how
must be at all levels of success to truly one day be
considered by the outside world as one of the best.
And, of course, the money will follow.
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