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.

He died in 2021, still in his 50s. Awful.

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.

Today at 3pm Eastern one of my podcast guests is continuing a live workshop on creating successful membership businesses that I absolutely, positively, without a doubt, 100% promise you will be impressed by and learn a lot from.

Get access to it when you click the link below to get the replay of part one. (You can attend today's without having watched part one -- he's going to be talking about how to get and keep members, which is kind of the whole enchilada.)

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.

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