What I learned from Harvey Mackay, the author “Swim with the sharks without being eaten alive”

Today I was listening to Harvey Mackay , the most successful author, an amazing speaker and a trainer and if you donot know him you need to google his name and read about him. Well he amazed me with his confidence. How? He interviewed the most successful people for one of his books and when it was time to publish he believed he could publish 100,000 copies of his book. He did convince the publishers. He believed that he could do it.. He had attitude of a winner. He took a risk and it was so worthy.

One lesson we can learn from this example is that confidence makes the most impact on your success. Without confidence you cannot have positive thoughts and actions. Without confidence in yourself you cannot even go and find a mentor.
Confidence is like taking a sharp knife and cutting through the uncertainty of intrapped thinking. You must have a mindset of success and belief.. You must believe it is already there.

The second quality I saw in Mr Mackay was that no matter how succesful he became he still has mentors.. He reread many books from “Think and Grow Rich”, Dale Karnegie books dozens of times. Why? Because every time we read we find something that is hidden between the lines. We find wisdom in the same content because we grow up and see the information in a different light. We get aha moments. It happens all the time… It happened to me and what about you?

The third quality of a successful entrepreneur is ability to establish connections.
Harvey Mackay had a huge rollodex of people he met, coached, spoke in front of… Big names, big companies.. He believed that his books would be sold because of his connections, and because of his credibility and his reputation. He start networking with the right people people who can show you the path to the new YOU. They will bring you into their spiderweb where you will see others who want to connect with you.

It amazes me that some people are afraid to connect with successful people because they are intimidated or they think do not know enough or good enough. You must be brave but not obnoxious. You must be willing to learn and master your skills. You also must believe that these successful people are no different than you are. They only have different set of skills and different perceiption about the same things you have, you do and live with but they are successful because they made a choice to learn from the successful people. If you want to be successful and become a super star in your business you must be made out of the same dough and have same ingredients as they are…

Have a great weekend!

Tatyana Gann

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