The other night, I played softball against a team whose strategy for winning was clear:
Walk to win.
In other words, if the other team loses, we win!
Yup, batter after batter stood at the plate and wouldn’t swing. Pitch after pitch. Strike after strike. Stand there, watch the pitches, and hope for a walk.
Sure, this team walked a few times but ultimately they did not win — and no, it wasn’t even close.
You see, when your strategy is based upon hope and “let our opponent ‘lose’ us a win” you aren’t playing the game to win. In fact, you’re fooling yourself a slow death-wish to mediocrity: YOU AREN’T PLAYING THE GAME AT ALL because…
1) You aren’t taking control and
2) You aren’t swinging and learning from those swings.
First, The Millionaire Fastlane is about control. If your strategy is to allow someone else (in this case, the pitcher) determine your destiny, you relinquish control.
As I stood in the outfield picking my nose and watching batter after batter stand there, I wondered if they lived their life the same way … hoping for walks, hoping for giveaways, and hoping for a free pass. I wondered, “Why pay $60 to play softball when you just stand at the plate and not swing?”
Are you living your life the same way?
Are you living your life standing at the plate, and not swinging? Hoping for walk? Hoping for a promotion? Hoping for a job? Hoping for a better economy? Hoping your 401K gets back even? Hoping for a death in your family so you can “earn” your inheritance? Hoping for someone else’s failure so you can take the free pass to first base? Or worse, are you still in the dugout?
If this is you, you are playing the game based on hope. In other words, you have given up the keys to your life and removed yourself from the driver seat.
Millionaire Fastlaner’s are in the driver’s seat of their life, they are at the plate, and they are swinging!
Second, because this team rarely swung, they will rarely learn. How do you improve your Fastlane game? You take action, you fail, and you learn. Yes, you take swings and strikeout! Practice! And yet, for this team, they let pitch after pitch pass them by and with it, the opportunity to learn from the velocity of swinging.
The Fastlane is analogous to baseball.
To be competitive in the game and have a chance at winning, you have to go on offense. I’ve said it many times — wealth is created offensively via income and that is done by getting to the plate, and swinging. Yes, put a bat in your hands and swing at what’s thrown at you. You have to learn how to strikeout. Free passes are rare and no one is going to give you your win.
So reflect on your own process as you venture out on your Fastlane roadtrip …
Are you a swinger?
Or a walker?
And Stop The Prostitution of Monday Through Friday!
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