Michael Phelps and Your Business

What does Michael Phelps have to do with the failure or success of your business?

Last night (Sunday November 30, 2008) I was watching "60 minutes" (CBS) piece on Michael Phelps ... it was a good story, but something which grabbed my ears and would not let go of my entrepreneurial mind was when Anderson Cooper (The interviewer) asked Michael Phelps coach Bob Bowman what he believes is one of the biggest contributing factors which caused Michael to win.

What's happening is a just reward for a guy who's been training non-stop since age 11. His teenage years were spent swimming lap after lap, thousands of hours staring at a black line on the bottom of a pool.

"For about five years he did not take one day off," explained Phelps' coach Bob Bowman.

Bowman said Phelps even trained on Christmas Day and on his birthdays.

"How do you do that every day?" Cooper asked.

"To be honest, it's not wanting to lose, wanting to do something no one's ever done before. That's what got me out of bed every day," Phelps explained.

The workouts were so intense, Bowman became known as the mad scientist. The toughest workouts, he said, were swimming 10,000 meters for time, which takes about two and a half hours.

"Two and a half hours of full-out racing?" Cooper asked.

"Just swim as hard as you can for two and a half hours," Bowman explained.

If you apply this type of ethic into your business endeavors (willing to "miss" parties, social gatherings, movies, sporting events, etc.), you too CAN use this time to gain the leverage you need to make "IT" happen for you too.

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To Your Success,


Dave