Yo, today's QOD is, if you think it's hard being successful, try being a failure.

Here we go.

Welcome back to the Quote of the Day show. I'm your host, Sean Crox and the

Sean Crox and.com. We got Brian Tracy on this show today. And this has to be

one of my favorite talks of all time. If I was a motivational speaker, this is

exactly what I say to people when I was on stage. You got to get good at what

you do. Actually, not just good at what you do. You got to be excellent at what

you do. You have to develop your skills. You got to develop your craft. You

got to go out there and help people. And you have to be amazing at it. Because when

you were amazing at it, when you put in that hard work, you cannot help.

Will become successful. Brian Tracy is coming up.

The second letter of the 10 is competence. And this is a discovery that I made

a couple of years ago. And it just stagger me because I've been studying

success for years. And then there's the book in search of excellence. And then

there's the pursuit of excellence. And then there's refining excellence and

losing excellence. And all the excellence books. And I sat down and looked at

this whole concept of excellence. And I saw something that I hadn't noticed.

It's almost like something brought to the surface of your mind. I noticed

that every single man or woman that I had studied who had achieved any kind of

success in any field whatsoever had done it after they had made a commitment to

becoming excellent in that field. And I began to look and I began to compare and

I began to talk to people. And I speak to thousands of people virtually every

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