Coach Scolinos was 78 years old and five years retired from a college coaching career that began in 1948. He shuffled to the stage to an impressive standing ovation, wearing dark polyester pants, a light blue shirt and a string around his neck from which home plate hung – a full-size, stark-white home plate. Near the end of his presentation, this is what he said…

The next time you’re tempted to take a shortcut to abdicate your responsibility of leadership, keep in mind there’s not a single successful CEO who got to where they are with easy buttons, quick fixes and “hacks,” so the more time you waste on these things instead of just doing the work, the longer you delay actual progress.

In business (and in life), I don’t think you need to be a genius to win. You simply need to try to make fewer stupid decisions.

…the desire to be free is a shared, common value and a prize worthy of pursuit and sacrifice.

Many of the highly successful people you see today in business started from VERY humble beginnings, zero budget, no talent, no resources and even NO PLAN for growth. They simply put in their reps FOR YEARS and finally figured it out. The proverbial “overnight” success that only took 20+ years to build.

Most people seek ease, comfort and security. That is NOT the call to adventure of an entrepreneur. Seeking to avoid an HONEST day’s work, or even resenting that you HAVE to work, is highly unproductive and dishonorable. The leaders who not only achieve success but sustain it have put in YEARS of hard work and dedication to their accomplishments. To us, EVERY day is a workday.

It’s very difficult to build a productive and profitable following online, just as it’s difficult to write a great best-selling book, produce truly influential content, keep a profitable audience’s attention or scale a successful business – but it’s effortless to write a smarmy, nasty critical comment. Given most people cannot do any of the former, they default to the latter. So, as you strive up, you just have to accept that haters and critics will attack you – and social media facilitates this.

According to the National Association of Unclaimed Property Administrators, 1 in 7 people have unclaimed property held by state governments and treasuries in the United States. Last year alone, state-sponsored unclaimed property programs returned over $5.4 BILLION to people with rightful claims in one year (July 1, 2022, to June 30, 2023).

No one owes you anything. Playing crybaby and demanding something be given to you is the opposite of grit and gratitude. We ALL have obstacles to overcome. No one who achieves anything of significance gets it handed to them on a silver platter with no resistance.

I’m often perplexed by the obvious bad decisions and rookie mistakes people make in marketing. If ONE bad promotion takes you out this fast, you’re already on life support, barely hanging on.