Dave’s Diary: Lottery Letdown — Plan B For Success

Ok, we didn’t win the powerball.  We’ve got to get over it.  Time to pick ourselves up, dust ourselves off and move on to plan B for success.  Steven Scott , author of “Mentored By A Millionaire”, says if you aren’t lottery lucky, you need three things to launch your success.

 • A mentor.  Scott says in all his research he has yet to find any successful person who could not name a mentor during some portion of their professional life.

• Creative persistence. Emphasis on the word “creative.” Creative persistence is not hitting a brick wall and getting up and hitting it again. Creative persistence is hitting it once and realizing you have to find another way around it.

• Emotional word pictures. When you can communicate your ideas using emotional word pictures, people buy in to your ideas more easily. Ronald Reagan was a master at this. A great example was when he called the Soviet Union an “evil empire” shortly after the Star Wars movie came out. Instead of giving a long speech – he simply painted the word picture by using the phrase “evil empire.” Everyone got it.

 Great advice! I wonder if he has any thoughts on the next powerball……