The great thing about living in these times is you can do anything, you can be anything,

you can build anything, and achieve anything you set your mind to, your muscle to, and your

determination to.

Welcome to Darren Daly on demand, your most trusted resource to help you become better every day.

Here's your success mentor, Darren Hardy.

I was recently consulting with a friend about his business future, and he made a statement

that I've heard so many times. But this is all I know. Now, he's owned a successful electronics

equipment assembly company for two decades. But with new

technological advancements requiring smaller and smaller microelectronics, mass production technology

has become more automated. Modern manufacturing systems now use robots, programmable motion

control devices, sensing technologies, and computers to do what his company and employees used to do themselves.

I told him it doesn't matter what he's done. He could do anything, even completely unrelated to his past, his experience, his education, or otherwise.

I told him of my own wildly different businesses that had nothing to do with any educational background,

prior experience, or qualifications, from selling environmental products door to door,

to real estate, hospitality, television, internet media, educational software, to publishing

and on and on. Of course, since he's a friend, he's not going to listen to me. Isn't it interesting how we listen to the people that we know the most, the least? So I told him the story of Wayne. Wayne started at the bottom, literally. At age 25, Wayne's dad loaned him $5,000. With that, Wayne started in the garbage business with one truck in 1968.

Wayne was legendary for his hard work.

He would drive the truck from 2.30 a.m. until noon,

then spend the rest of the day knocking on doors and introducing himself to drum up new business.

He grew his company waste management into a Fortune 500 company

and the largest waste disposal company in the United

States. When it came time for Wayne to reinvent his career, you think he would have stayed in the

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