Friday, May 25, 2007

Burning Desire People (BDP)

There are people from Europe, Asia and the U.S. contacting me to become affiliates in one of my businesses.

The thinking and emails and behaviors show that they are "burning desire people," exactly the kind of people that every entrepreneur wants as business partners.

They are the rare exception.

Most people are more like Homo Zapiens: they spend their entire lives "zapping" from one TV channel to the next. Or going from one fiction book to another, in order to escape a reality that they do not have the courage to face and change.

And yet -- and this is the tragedy -- to change oneself gets easier and easier AFTER you launch the change process.

Similarly, the more you procrastinate and delay the change process, the more DIFFICULT it becomes to BEGIN the change process.

Seneca wrote centuries ago: "It's not because things are difficult that we don't do them. It's because we don't do them that they are difficult."

He also wrote: "Powerful is he who has himself within his power."

The Burning Desire People (BDP) I mentioned above and am always looking for to partner with, are people who have decided once and for all that NOTHING and NO ONE will stop them once they've decided to do something.

Self-made billionaire Ross Perot said that "it just takes one idea to live like a king for the rest of your life." He never mentioned what that idea is, but for me, the idea is to "start living like a king for the rest of your life!"

That is, START thinking like a king. START acting like a king. START recruiting knights like a king. START wearing the king's crown and START ruling over your life, your thoughts, your behavior.

A Spanish proverb goes: "After the game of life is over, both the king and the pawn return to the same box."

That's a powerful success secret: you are not a wooden chess piece. You can DECIDE to play the game of life like a KING or a PAWN.