Do You Have A M.A.P.?

crski · #1 (**permalink**) 10-19-2007, 10:22 AM

Do you have your M.A.P. in front of you? Having a M.A.P. or Massive Action Plan is the best way to go from average income to making a fortune for you and your family. Executing your game plan and making it work for you, each and every day, will lead you to success.

"Beginning" is another way to describe the most powerful six-letter word in the vocabulary of achievers: A-C-T-I-O-N. Hugely successful people, the kind to go from mediocre to millions almost overnight, know that the major key to their success was taking MASSIVE ACTION.

When Jeff Bezos decided to start Amazon.com, he left his job on the East Coast and headed to Washington State. He had his wife drive him and their belongings across the country so that he could stay on the phone constantly convincing potential investors and vendors why Amazon would be a success.

Even the smallest of action, the ones James Allen called trivial and insignificant, can lead to great success. Sir Issac Newton's principle that a "body at rest tends to remain at rest and a body in motion tends to remain in motion," definitely applies to the action principle. Once you've taken the first step (even a baby step), the next steps seem easier to take.

Getting launched into massive action is just one of many things you'll find that will change your business and your future!

Steve MacLellan · #2 (**permalink**) 11-30-2007, 03:48 AM

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Do you have your M.A.P. in front of you? Having a M.A.P. or Massive Action Plan is the best way to go from average income to making a fortune for you and your family.

I don't need one -- not interested in making a fortune for me or my family. My friend Dien Rice, posted this story on another forum. I'd like to share it with you:

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Originally Posted by Dien Rice

Working Towards What You Already Have....

The American investment banker was at the pier of a small coastal Mexican village when a small boat with just one fisherman docked. Inside the small boat were several large yellow fin tuna. The investment banker complimented the Mexican on the quality of his fish and asked how long it took to catch them.

The Mexican replied, "Only a little while."

The investment banker then asked, "Why didn't you stay out longer and catch more fish?"

The Mexican said, "With this I have more than enough to support my family's needs."

The investment banker then asked, "But what do you do with the rest of your time?"

The Mexican fisherman said, "I sleep late, fish a little, play with my children, take siesta with my wife, Maria, stroll into the village each evening where I sip wine and play guitar with my amigos, I have a full and busy life."

The investment banker scoffed, "I am a Harvard MBA and could help you. You should spend more time fishing; and with the proceeds, buy a bigger boat: With the proceeds from the bigger boat you could buy several boats. Eventually you would have a fleet of fishing boats. Instead of selling your catch to a middleman you would sell directly to the processor; eventually opening your own cannery. You would control the product, processing and distribution. You would need to leave this small coastal fishing village and move to Mexico City, then Los Angeles and eventually New York where you will run your ever-expanding enterprise."

The Mexican fisherman asked, "But, how long will this all take?"

To which the investment banker replied, "15 to 20 years."

"But what then?" asked the Mexican.

The investment banker laughed and said that's the best part. "When the time is right you would announce an IPO and sell your company stock to the public and become very rich, you would make millions."

"Millions?...Then what?"

The investment banker said, "Then you would retire. Move to a small coastal fishing village where you would sleep late, fish a little, play with your kids, take siesta with your wife, stroll to the village in the evenings where you could sip wine and play your guitar with your amigos."

I spend all of my Summer weekends at my cottage on the Bay of Fundy, here in Nova Scotia. Activities include biking, hiking, exploring caves, traveling old roads through the mountainside. When I decide to get a little wild I invite a few musician friends over for a beer and a BBQ -- much like the fisherman in the story above.

Best Regards,
Steve MacLellan