| Chances are if you are around many people at | | | | there room for continual growth? |
| all, you are associated with someone who has | | | | |
| BDSI Disease. This stands for Big Dreams | | | | There are other factors but these were 3 of |
| Small Initiative Disease. | | | | the most important factors they had to |
| | | | accomplish before becoming successful. They |
| Many of us know someone who dream of all the | | | | did not sit around a table just talking about |
| things you see in the movies...big houses, | | | | how they dreamed of starting a business and |
| yachts, travels, fancy cars, the works. But | | | | what they wanted to accomplish just to go |
| very few people have the initiative that it | | | | home and return to their every day J.O.B. for |
| takes to make the changes in their lives that | | | | that week - to - week paycheck. |
| are required to achieve their dreams. They | | | | |
| just assume that they have to come into some | | | | Many people do this in their daily lives |
| inheritance or win a lottery in order to | | | | without even realizing it. People love to |
| achieve their dreams. | | | | dream but when approached with an opportunity |
| | | | to achieve their dreams, they refuse to take |
| What they are missing is the knowledge to | | | | the necessary action to make it happen. This |
| find the right business vessle to carry them | | | | is what I refer to as the BDSI Disease |
| through to those dreams. Along with the right | | | | because it is easy to dream but it isn't so |
| business, they also need the initiative that | | | | easy to have that initiative that it takes to |
| it takes to make a plan and take action to | | | | reach your dreams. |
| achieve what they want from life. | | | | |
| | | | If you have dreams, you should be open to |
| Most people are in a dead-end J.O.B. that is | | | | that opportunity that will be your vessle to |
| doing nothing but getting them by paycheck to | | | | achieve them. And most of all, once you find |
| paycheck and making their bosses rich. What | | | | the right opportunity, have that initiative |
| they fail to ask themselves is how their | | | | that it takes to use that opportunity to its |
| bosses came to be in the positions they hold. | | | | fullest to reach your goals. If you are open |
| Most of them didn't inherit these positions | | | | to opportunities, you can do the research |
| and most didn't win lotteries to get there. | | | | needed to determine if it is the right |
| Most of the successful business owners saw a | | | | business for you and if so, then act on it |
| dream, wrote out a plan and took the | | | | and put your best effort into building it |
| necessary action to achieve their goals. Some | | | | toward success. Just remember in order to |
| of them may even have a minimal investment in | | | | cure the BDSI Disease all you have to do is |
| their businesses but have built from the | | | | apply the R.P.A. (research, plan,act) rule. |
| ground up without a lot of debt. | | | | Write down your goals, both short term as |
| | | | well as long term and figure out what you |
| This happened because they did research on | | | | need to do to reach those goals and write |
| their business to find the necessary | | | | that list. Then highlight each one as you |
| information that they needed to build a | | | | achieve it. You will be surprised how much |
| successful business. Three key factors they | | | | this will boost your initiative and keep you |
| had to explore was 1) Marketability- was | | | | pushing for those goals. |
| their product or service marketable and what | | | | |
| was the size of their target market? 2) | | | | Don't just sit back and talk about your |
| Profitability- was their a good profit margin | | | | dreams! Get out there and make them happen. |
| in their product or services and was this | | | | Then, teach others how they can do the same |
| profit ongoing or temporary? And 3) | | | | in their lives. If you teach enough people to |
| Stability- would this product or service | | | | be successful, you, in turn, will also be |
| remain stable through the future and was | | | | successful in your life. |