123 | Brian Tracy: “If You Think It’s Hard Being Successful, Try Being a Failure.”
The Quote of the Day Show | Daily Motivational Talks
Sean Croxton
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🗓️ 25 April 2017
⏱️ 11 minutes
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Brian Tracy is back to remind us that in order to be successful, we must commit to EXCELLENCE. Learn more about Brian's work at www.briantracy.com.
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| 0:00.0 | If you think it's hard being successful, try being a failure. That is the quote of the day. |
| 0:30.0 | Welcome back to the quote of the day show. I'm your host Sean Crox and I'm Sean Crox and |
| 0:39.2 | dot com. Thanks for tuning into our Tuesday episode. Today's feature speaker is Mr. Brian |
| 0:44.4 | Tracy. I actually got this one off of YouTube and he is talking about competence. If you want |
| 0:49.6 | to be successful, you're going to have to do something. You're going to have to make a commitment |
| 0:55.6 | to be an excellent at what you do. This is a conscious decision that has to be made that you |
| 1:02.1 | are going to be the best at what you do because it's the best who are successful. It is the best |
| 1:09.1 | who get paid the most. It is the best who attract the right people, but you have to make that conscious |
| 1:14.3 | decision to be the best to be excellent. Here's Brian Tracy. The second letter of the 10 is competence. |
| 1:25.2 | This is a discovery that I made a couple of years ago and it just staggered me because I've |
| 1:29.3 | been studying success for years. Then there's the book in search of excellence and then there's |
| 1:33.5 | the pursuit of excellence and then there's refining excellence and losing excellence and all the |
| 1:38.3 | excellence books. I sat down and looked at this whole concept of excellence and I saw something |
| 1:43.6 | that I hadn't noticed. It's almost like something brought to the surface of your mind. I noticed |
| 1:47.5 | that every single man or woman that I had studied who had achieved any kind of success in any field |
| 1:51.1 | whatsoever had done it after they had made a commitment to becoming excellent in that field. |
| 1:58.0 | And I began to look and I began to compare and I began to talk to people and I speak to thousands |
| 2:01.6 | of people virtually every month. I found that I never found a single person who was successful, |
| 2:07.2 | who was not excellent at what they did. That competence, the commitment to becoming excellent in |
| 2:12.5 | your chosen field is an indispensable prerequisite for success. That if you are not good at what you do, |
| 2:18.3 | you haven't got a chance in our competitive society unless you win the lottery. That success is |
| 2:24.9 | predictable if you commit yourself to becoming excellent. It does a whole lot of other things |
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