It took me many, many years to learn this secret. So pay close attention. It’s worth my weight and your weight in Gold.

Yesterday as we were getting ready for our big Champions Club 2007 launch, we were working feverishly to meet our launch deadline and had no time to spare. We’ve spent months and many man hours preparing for the event and now on the last day before kickoff everything started to go awry. First, the video wouldn’t work on our test page. Then we had shopping cart problems. And on and on it went. Then to tie a nice little bow on top of everything, I sent someone off in my fairly new Escalade to go do an important errand. When they turned the key nothing happened. It’s completely dead. So after quickly ascertaining it wasn’t the battery, I called the Cadillac dealer who hauled it away on the back of a truck. And I went back to the chaos.

Now, if this had happened twenty years ago (and similar things did), or even ten years ago, I would have gotten so caught up in everything that was going wrong that I would have (1) been in a terrible mood and (2) lost all my focus on the task at hand.

Not so this time. No, this time I actually smiled to myself on one occasion and out loud said, “this launch is going to be huge!”

How could I say that?

Because I’ve learned (after many bumps, bruises and tears) that when I am in hot pursuit of a long-held goal, and things start going haywire, it probably means I’m on the edge of something BIG —- if I don’t get distracted.

In fact, James Allen, who wrote the classic As A Man Thinketh, says as much. In describing successful people he says, “They hold fast to an idea, a project, a plan, and will not let it go; they cherish it, brood upon it, tend and develop it; and when assailed by difficulties, they refuse to be beguiled into surrender; indeed, the intensity of the purpose increases with the growing magnitude of the obstacles encountered.”

And that last sentence is the true secret:

“indeed, the intensity of the purpose increases with the growing magnitude of the obstacles encountered.”

If you can internalize and apply that secret, you will have one of the true “keys to the kingdom.”

How did it turn out for me this time?

Well, when we opened the doors to the Champions Club earlier today we were signing people up at the rate of one per minute in the early going. Things have slowed down some, otherwise we would have been out of spots in the first two hours.

As it is, more than half the spots are spoken for (in the first seven hours!) and registrations are still pouring in. It has been an incredible launch and a great bunch of interesting members for 2007.

Here is the link one more time if you missed it:
http://www.goals-2-go.com/champClub2007.htm .

And if you haven’t yet gotten your copy of the widely acclaimed 13 Secrets of World Class Goal Achievers, get it here: http://www.goals-2-go.com/13secrets.htm

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