Seeking Success
How would you define success? How about these scenarios?
Someone is standing in line to buy a $4 sandwich at a gas station. One problem, they don’t have $to their name and when their debit card gets declined they leave with their tail between their legs.
Someone drops $62,000 (more money than they have at the time) to open a new business. A few months into opening the person they hired to run the business is quitting, and they have no one to replace her. Even worse, they don’t have a license to practice in that state. They were about to lose everything.
Last, how about if someone’s employee left to go to the bathroom and never came back???
I think we can all agree that none of these stories depict someone that is successful. Or do they? I think the real question is not what happened, but instead how did they respond.
Let me tell you how I responded to those three situations…
1) In 2005 I got mad and I went an opened my first business on a $0 budget (it is now one of the top Chiropractic offices in the world)
2) In 2010 I used a temporary person until I worked a deal to keep my current manager with faith that I would grow the business big enough to afford her new salary.
3) Last, in 2007 I took Ritz Carlton training, read every book on Starbucks, Amazon, and Nordstrom and created a World Class Team!
Pushing myself through adversity is why I am where I am today:
1) My team and I get to help tens of thousands of people in our Chiropractic Practices
2) I am privileged to speak around the country on health, business systems, and creating a World Class team
3) We have won the top place to work in Loudoun County, the Community Leadership Award, been nominated for an Apollo Award, and many others.
I believe what has always been in my head is the pursuit of success. No matter the high, or the low,I was always after success. Those experiences only happened to test my will, to see if I could learn and createfrom them, and to see how badly I wanted to move forward.
When I get asked what I think made us successful, I think back to those stories, and think about how much farther we have to go and I can’t help but smirk and think “we are successful?” I don’t say that to come from the wrong place,but to simply say, that if you believe there is more to success to come in the future, if you can see it, you will keep seeking it. To me it is a constant pursuit, a chance to always improve. A chance to do one more thing to grow as a person, as a father, as a husband, as a boss, as a CEO, and on and on.
Seeking Success, I believe the journey is what makes you successful, not the result.
Celebrate your ups, learn from your downs….never stop moving forward.
