Last year one of my podcast guests died tragically at the age of 56.
I'm speaking of David Longdon, lead vocalist for a little-known band called Big Big Train. I think he may have been the best rock vocalist in the business.
That his band is so little known is one of the great outrages of the modern world.
At any rate, I asked him:
You are making some of the best music I have ever heard. Yet most people listen to mediocre three-minute crap on the radio. Does that ever bother you?
His immediate answer: "No, because there's nothing I can do about it.... I don't feel like I'm owed a living, by any particular right or claim on it."
Wow.
Somehow he was more at peace with the situation than I was!
I could riff on his brilliant answer all day, but for now a short lesson:
People who do think they're owed a living make lousy entrepreneurs.
Instead of grabbing opportunities, they sit around waiting for things to happen to them, for things to be given to them. It's poison.
Meanwhile, people with ambition pass them by.
Nuts to that.
You're on this list with me, which -- let's be blunt here -- means you're more ambitious than most people.
Tomorrow night one of my podcast guests is holding a live webinar that I absolutely, positively, without a doubt, 100% promise you will be impressed by and learn a lot from.
Over the past two days, if you've followed him so far, he's spent seven hours teaching you for free.
Tomorrow night he's doing a summary session for people who don't have that kind of time.
Here's how to build the kind of membership business I run three of, and that allows me to live on my own terms, ignore the haters, and not worry that next month I'll be broke.
We all want that.
To get there involves taking a first step.
Here's that step:
http://www.tomwoods.com/membershipwebinar
Tom Woods