Today, and most days, I’m hit with a dozen emails from people who want “help” in their business. Many of their emails allude to the same thing I work with some — not all — but some, of my clients to overcome.
I call it The Happy Accident Syndrome.
This is when business is slow — most of the time. YET, every once in a while — although WAY TOO INFREQUENTLY — you get a great client. Of course, you’re not sure what brought them to you. And you’re not sure how to make it happen again.
And — IF this is you — you’re CONVINCED your business is “so unique” that the regular rules like EVERY ACTION HAS AN EQUAL AND OPPOSITE REACTION don’t apply. In fact, even the standard universal relationship between CAUSE & EFFECT doesn’t apply. Not to you, oh special specialized one. =) lol… And so you persist in this Happy Accident Syndrome.
Now, I have a wide range of clients. Christian, Jew and Gentile. Male and female. Gay and straight. Out of the closet and in. Single, married and divorced. I love them all.
BUT, there is one belief we MUST SHARE if you are to be one of my ROCK STAR clients… There’s one thing I need you to confess before God and Man if you are to see BEYOND your potential and into your PROFIT, and here it is:
There IS a powerful and undeniable relationship between CAUSE and EFFECT.
And, to take it a step further, you must be willing to accept your role as the CAUSE. Both the cause of the effects you’re seeing now… AND the cause of the effects you WANT to see in the future. Anything less will keep you right where you are.
As Steve Chandler once told me, “No one is coming. It’s up to you.” I wanted something. And I had to be willing to drop all of my excuses, grow up and declare that I would CAUSE that thing to happen. If you’re with me, I invite you to share the image and/or this blog post. Print it out. Tape it on your computer. If your goals are to become a reality, you MUST CAUSE them to become a reality.
Here’s to being the CAUSE.
beCAUSE we can.
and beCAUSE no one is coming.
and beCAUSE — secretly — underneath our own pity parties, we’d RATHER depend on US.
