5 Steps Forward, 4 Steps Back - A Motivating Story
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Scott Adams, world famous creator of Dilbert, has a great post today on the power of perserverence. He documents all the baby steps that took years before he achieved his overnight success and champagne moments.
It is a great lesson for real estate agents (and bloggers) everywhere. Take great joy in the small victories but keep working hard towards your goals. Work hard enough and long enough and you too can be an overnight success story.
But hold the champagne. One major newspaper isn’t enough. I needed lots more. The new newspaper clients trickled in at nearly the same rate as existing clients cancelled. It was five steps forward and four steps back. My editor at United Media suggested that maybe a publisher would be interested in a Dilbert book, and if successful, perhaps that could get newspapers more interested. Andrews McMeel Publishing agreed to publish my business-themed book, “Build a Better Life by Stealing Office Supplies.” Yay!
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And so it went, in ant-sized steps forward. Every pat on the back came with a kick in the nuts. I worked for ten years without a day off. During one particularly busy year, I held a full-time job at the phone company, wrote and drew Dilbert, and wrote a book called “The Dilbert Principle.” I didn’t sleep much that year. It was my first hard cover book. Yay! via The Dilbert Blog

