Zig Ziglar uses a flea circus as an example and it is easy to translate it into everyday terms but first you have to learn how they can train fleas to stay in an aquarium in the first place. How do you suppose they do it? Exactly! They put a glass ceiling above the fleas and each time that they jump too high they slam into the glass until they get tired of slamming into it and eventually all the fleas will only just miss the glass ceiling pretty soon you can take the ceiling away a and the fleas will continue to only jump high enough to miss the glass ceiling and rarely will one jump higher than that.
Well now you are an adult and the glass ceiling has been removed but you still jump just high enough to miss it. What is the glass ceiling it is what people have told you in your life usually with good intentions to try to keep you from experiencing what they call failure. Well what they didn't realize is that not trying is failure. Any time you try to accomplish something you are succeeding, you are living. Think about it. Did you throw a perfect spiral the first time you threw a football? Chances are you didn't. But did you give up? Probably not and eventually you could throw a near perfect spiral couldn't you? That is because you tried different grips and different angles and all sorts of throwing speeds until you found the right combination.
The reason you didn't fail is because you kept trying different techniques until you found the right combination that worked for you and you didn't give up if it didn't work you just tried something new Well that is the same with anything you do in life. As long as you are trying new strategies or honing old ones with a little tweak here and a little tweak there you will be successful. This is as true in work as it is in playing a game.
You don't have to work for someone else all of your life that is just how you get money enough to invest in something you like to do and then when you get enough money saved and get good enough at your hobby that it begins to compete with your salary you are there then you can do what you want. You just have to get past your glass ceiling. It is a simple choice. I didn't say an easy choice I said a simple choice you have to practice making the right choices.
Just keep practicing and you have to get closer to anything you are trying to do. Well try this stuff and I will get back with you later. Part of the reason I have been doing this book in bite size pieces is so that you will get bored of waiting for me to write something else and start applying what I have already told you. Right now, this minute you have enough information to achieve your goals. This is the whole package. You have the basics down if you have done the exercises In these two chapters now all you have to do is start honing these skills. You have passed basic training at this point and if you have been doing the exercises you have; clearly defined goals; a timetable to achieve those goals; You have intermediate goals that let you know if you are moving closer to your desired objectives so you don't get frustrated along the way. You now possess the keys to greatness.
Now I threw a lot of stuff at you fast so you need to go back and reread what I have told you. The main thing that you need to know how to do is apply this stuff. There are a few other things that you need to know and I will cover them later after you have worked on the basic ideas for a while.
I have told you things that millionaires have taught me that cost me thousands of dollars to learn. So don't take these lessons lightly some people are charging hundreds even sometimes thousands of dollars for the information you are getting for free. If you think I am joking go buy one of those hundred dollar programs and see if it doesn't boil down to exactly the same things I am telling you.
Now there are some books that you should study but they basically say the same thing as I just told you with just a lot more words.