to be true about how you do business is what brought you to where you are right now. And as good, bad, or (as you'll soon learn) interesting your current position may be, if you want to get results like I get for my businesses and for my business coaching clients, then you'd better learn a new way of thinking, before you learn a new way of doing. It's the way I think that's allowed me to discover and profit from the hundreds of sales, marketing, and business-building tools you'll find at the back of this book. So, let's start with the big ones. Only the Responsible Will Thrive Every day you see another poor lost soul whom the world has mistreated, pushed around, and left along the side of the road for dead. What a load of rubbish. You'll never survive in business thinking like that, thinking that the world is in charge. It still amazes me the number of people who live their life from a victim's point of view. They'll blame anyone and everyone for their lot in life. And, if there's no one to blame, they'll either come up with an excuse or totally deny that anything's going wrong. If this is you, you've got to change, or you should go back and get a job. By the way, job is nothing more than an acronym for Just over Broke. In the world of owning and running your own business, you know one thing for a fact, only you can change what's going on in your business. You can't blame your team members, your competition, the government, your mother-in-law, or anyone else, because when you point the finger at someone else, you've still got 1 Copyright 2006 by Bradley J. Sugars. Click here for terms of use.