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Course 1: Introduction
Warriors, I congratulate you on your decision to take the Master Small Business Course I.With this course, we begin an exciting adventure together. For you, the end result will be a full life of purpose, passion, prosperity and peace. Following the advice in the six-course Master Success program, you will rise to the top of your chosen profession. You will invest. You will be in a financial position to retire in twenty years or less. See it. Believe it. Success is right there in front of you waiting for the taking: you will have everything that you've ever wanted in your life for yourself and your family. The Master Success Program is not for everyone. Everyone isn't suited to military missions or entrepreneurial missions. Average people cannot do this. You are a warrior. You are not average. You are extraordinary. Over the next year, you can complete all of the seventy-five missions in the program. You'll be more than ready; you'll be well on your way. Average people are reactive. They are comfortably stuck in the status quo waiting for something or someone else to change their lives. Warriors are the opposite. Warriors are action-oriented. Warriors are clearly focused on mission accomplishment. They know what they want. They research. They associate with other successful people. They work hard and learn and adjust. They save and invest. They don't wait. They control their own future. They make things happen. They enjoy and share their success. This is you.  Average people have no comprehension of the risks and rewards of entrepreneurship. They have no conception of why someone would work hard without absolute guarantees. To average people, avoidance is the safe course. Average people don't understand your willingness to risk and enter the military. Average people don't understand your willingness to risk and start your own business. They don't understand you. Who cares what average people think? We wouldn't care except that they are a majority. They are all around us and always ready to spout opinions based on nothing. They will question your decisions and actions because if you are hesitant and indecisive, you validate their inaction. "Let me tell you what I would have done with those insurgents if I had gone to Iraq!" In military matters, average people voice strongly held opinions based on nothing. You will find the same lame attitudes when you speak to average people about your plans to start your own business and invest in real estate. Expect the peanut gallery to offer overly cautious, negative advice based on nothing. They haven't done it, so why should you? In every society and throughout history, people can be divided into three groups of 10-70-20. The bottom ten percent is comprised of people who through their own fault or no fault of their own have to be supported or carried by the other ninety percent. This group is preoccupied with themselves. The next group, which comprises the overwhelming majority, is the seventy percent. These are the nice, average people who want a three bedroom, bath and a half house. They want two cars and a flat screen television. They want a two-week vacation. They want to work forty hours a week. They aren't ambitious. They don't aspire higher. They are already too busy doing something, so they don't want more work. If at work, someone dies or quits or the company is doing well and expands, they make a little more money. If they get average back in return for their average efforts, they are relatively happy. There is nothing wrong with being an average American. .jpg "There are people who live in million dollar houses.")
There are people who drive Mercedes and Cadillacs and Lexus cars. There are people who live in million dollar houses. There are people who lunch poolside at the Beverly Hills Hotel. There are people who own companies and who own multiple properties. There are people who make $20,000 a year. There are people who make $200,000 a year. There are people who make two million dollars a year. The people in the latter two income groups are not average wage earners. They are the elite, the top twenty percent. Some from the elite went to prestigious schools, which led to high paying jobs as physicians, attorneys, accountants or stock brokers. Some are creatively blessed with talent. Some don't belong in the elite but are there anyway; such as the "Thanks, Dad," members of the lucky birth club. Then, we come. We are the warrior class. We are no-nonsense, hard working achievers. We don't complicate. We don't make excuses. We don't complain. We focus on goals. We research. We plan our missions. We take decisive action. We complete our AARs [After Action Reports]. We learn from the AARs. We proceed. We know that everything that we need to succeed, as warriors, we already possess. With self-confidence and with self-discipline, with persistence and determination, with our eyes focused on the target, we are victorious. And, victory to those warriors who complete the Master Success Program is nothing less than being a multi-millionaire and retired in twenty years or less. Through the missions of this first Master Small Business Course, we meet Kevin Romano. We are introduced to Kevin working as the Asst. Manager of the hardware department of a big box store. He is a guy doing an average job. But, we quickly learn that Kevin is not an average guy. Kevin is a former active duty Marine. Kevin has the warrior spirit. Kevin wants to accomplish more with his one life.  Completing this course, you will be able to identify the style and attitudes of a successful business warrior. You will recognize traits that you can copy and immediately implement in your own life. This course is about successfully opening a pizza shop, which serves as an example for opening any small business. It is not about the type of business. It is about you. Overall, the expectation is that you will spend five hundred hours completing the six courses in the Master Success Program. You can complete the entire program part-time, using about ten hours a week of your free time over the next year. It is up to you. The easiest way to fail is to sit on the couch doing nothing. The Master Success Program consists of much more than six loose-leaf books filled with short missions. For each text mission, there is a corresponding video lesson. Be disciplined. Read the mission. Watch the corresponding video. Take your quiet time to relate the information to your personal situation. Participate in the online Discussion Forums with me and your fellow students. Watch the weekly online video seminars. Begin your research. Join your associations. Read. Read. Write questions. Find your mentors to answer your questions. Repeat. Repeat. This is the long march which leaves the average person discouraged and exhausted on the wayside. This is the long march, which does ultimately lead to success. Now, enough about others. Challenge yourself by taking a step. Take another step. Together, step-by-step, we can complete these missions to make you a multi-millionaire in twenty years or less. Expect nothing less from yourself. You are a warrior. You have survived. You can do this. For yourself, for your family, for your brothers and sisters in arms who may not have this opportunity, you can do it. You deserve success. You are a warrior. You are extraordinary. Don't screw this up. Let's begin our mission.  Bill FitzPatrick Sergeant, USAR (67-73) Shaolin Master Go to The Warrior Mindset: How to Complete
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