For most people - and I think the ones that don't persist are the ones who assume paying to go to a seminar will cause their success. It's just like reading a book or listening to a recording will cause the use of the knowledge and that's not a valid assumption. If you pay to go to a seminar, it should be seen as a beginning, not as an end.

You have really graduated from the first year of school, and now ready to go into the marketplace and actually work. That's where the real success is generated.

But, the assumption of many people is if I spend the money and do the training, then I will succeed. No, you won't. You'll know how to succeed. There is a big difference between succeeding and knowing "How To."

Imagine if you will for one moment that a man is holding a gun to your head and unless you reach your dream or goal within the next 30 days he will pull the trigger. Do you think that you would try harder? It's a good question and all of us after the first few moments of trying to find a way out will then change and focus on how to achieve their goal. Don't you agree?

"But at least at the end of the day, you will be further to reaching your goal - and a lot of very scared people."

What really stimulates us all to be successful is the emotion and a need. It could be a need stimulated from the outside like a gun to your head or it could be stimulated from the inside like seeing an opportunity you want to achieve. That need is what stimulates the creativity to achieve.

So, your mind is sitting there ready for you anytime you turn to it. Just say, "What are five more ways I could make my clients happy that they did business with me; five more ways without spending a penny? Well, I could smile at them. Well, I could drop by and say thank you. Well, I could send them a note. I could call someone else and brag about how good my client is knowing that the world would get back to them and they would hear I'm spreading good rumors about them. I could find out what they're working on and help them achieve it." Instantly, your mind would produce ideas.

It all comes back to the 'want to.' The book "Think and Grow Rich," the classic by Napoleon Hill, the one thing it says in there is you've got to have a burning desire. And people say, "Fine. How much is a burning desire? I'll take three."

No, no, no. They're not for sale. You can't go to a seminar and get them. You can only go to a seminar and learn how to stimulate them. You will find them inside yourself.

You see there are real achievable desires that live within you, but you say, "Well, it's not right to want something luxurious or opulent like a Large Home, a Bentley a Luxury Yacht or a whatever." Really? Why not? Is it okay to want a radio for your home? Well, of course. Is it okay to want a really good radio? Well, how good?

See, people get too many of the shoulds, and the musts and the ought tos mixed up in their thinking process and they start setting artificial limits for how much is too much, and how much is not enough, and how much is okay, and how much is greedy and how much is not.

Look, if you want a luxury yacht, a Rolls Royce automobile and private jet and you want to have clear title to all of those, plus a big, luxurious home, then in order to get that, what you have to do - assuming you're going to choose a legal pathway, what you have to do to earn all of those things is provide enormous benefits to other people that they're willing to pay for. In other words, you cannot acquire all those things without making the world a better place.

If you help enough people get what they want in life you cannot but succeed in getting what you're after, whatever that may be.

When you go out there and do good things in the world, the whole world starts to flourish. The way you make an economy grow, is you get people to see something they want, find something they can do that's worth something to other people and then go out and do it often enough and well enough to get paid for it. And the world starts to thrive.

Entrepreneurism is what makes the world work and without entrepreneurism, all you have is a growing bureaucracy that ultimately collapses upon itself because it no longer has entrepreneurs to tax money from.