Welcome to Daring Daily On Demand, your most trusted resource to help you become better

every day.

Here's your success mentor, Daring Hardy.

All right, welcome back.

We are in the midst of a series called Winning the Game of Life.

Unlike the board game where you are subjected to just the spin of the wheel and just doing

as you're instructed, to win an actual life you need to grow skills so that you get better

and better at the game.

And learn effective strategies that will give you leverage and an advantage.

Today, let's discuss taking an offensive approach to the building of a business enterprise

organization or career.

I'm not sure if my bias to attacking an opportunity or problem with aggressive offense was imprinted

on me by being raised by a hard-knows university football coach or not or by baptism by fire

in my early entrepreneurial business life, but I had mentioned before, I got into real

estate not long after Black Monday and the early 90s recession.

All the defensive tactics realtors relied on and were used to just got wiped out, doing

floor duty, which was waiting by the phone for somebody to call looking to buy a house

or sitting in an open house, waiting for somebody to come in and say they wanted to buy it,

or waiting for somebody in their farm to call them off their refrigerator magnet or notepad

with their picture on it to come list their house.

If you wanted to get business in a recessive market, you had to play offense.

So I did, and I played it aggressively.

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