BRX Pro Tip: Business Success is Not a Marathon
Stone Payton: [00:00:00] And we are back with Business RadioX Pro Tips. Lee Kantor, Stone Payton here with you. Lee, contrary to conventional wisdom, popular opinion, business success is not a marathon.
Lee Kantor: [00:00:14] Now, business success is not a path that just goes on for a long time. And if you tough it out, then you’ll make it to the end. It’s more like a ninja warrior course. There’s going to be hurdles, jump surprises, things you’ve never seen before, things that seem impossible. You have to have a different mindset when you’re attacking a ninja warrior course than you are a marathon.
A marathon, you just have to have the mindset to just keep one foot in front of the other and you’re going to eventually succeed. In business, it doesn’t work like that. You know, putting one foot in front of the other, you could be just walking into a wall over and over again. You have to have kind of the creativity. You have to have the persistence, sure. You have to have the resilience, sure. But you also need the right team around you. You need supporters. You need mentors to show you a way to kind of identify the path around this.
So, if you look at your business more like a ninja warrior when you’re building your business and not a marathoner, then I think you’re going to find success a lot faster. Because if you watch Ninja Warrior, you see there’s people cheering for them every step of the way. They’re watching kind of others go through the course. They’re learning from other people going through the course. They’re kind of seeing different ways to attack what seems impossible and watch.
When you watch someone fail over and over again, you figure out, okay, maybe I don’t do that. I do this instead. And there’s those people around you in your business community. You’ve got to find those kinds of allies, you’ve got to find those supporters, find those mentors, and you’ll be able to kind of work your way around the course and get the success that you desire.
