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Here's your success mentor, Darren Hardy.

Have you ever found yourself recoiling from the advice that seemed too harsh, too blunt, or too real?

Have you ever wondered why we tend to reject the truth

that sting the most? What if I told you that to unlock your greater potential, it might lie in

the words that are the hardest to swallow? What if the bitter pill of tough love is just what you

need? That was true for me, and I want to share an incident from my past

in the hopes that it will help you. This was back when I was a young, wide-eyed entrepreneur,

brimming with big ideas and a heart full of ambitious dreams. I was selling and training

distributiveships for the Environmental Products Company that I was building, and a man far my senior,

more experienced and more successful

than I was, noticed my enthusiasm and ravenous hunger for success. So one day, he asked to see me

in his office. With a stern look, he told me, Darren, you've got potential. I can see that. But you're

going about it all wrong. You're like a reckless horse running around without

direction. Your enthusiasm alone won't cut it. You need discipline, focus, and you need a plan.

I was taken aback. His words felt like a punch to the gut. Here I thought I was coming in for

a big pat on the back to give me an add-a-boy of encouragement.

Instead, he gave me the smack upside of the head that I didn't know at the time I needed.

I walked out of his office, my ego bruised, and my head spinning.

But after the initial shock, I started to see the wisdom in his words.

I made the changes, the painful ones. I started to

discipline my ideas, focus them on a clear path rather than scattering them around like confetti.

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