I've been thinking the same thing for years. I'm extremely positive and very goal oriented. I have failed in businesses many times, and last year I had $250,000 stolen by my fund manager.which wiped me out. I have never lost site of my goals of becoming a millionaire. I now have enough money to start a new business. I've always liked the mail order business. Very glad I found this site.

Dave

The new blog isn't selling anything and the whole site is still a blank slate, but I chose to set my ground rules before doing anything else.
( http://1950marketing.com/blog ) We're on the same page.

On another blog I just posted a long entry a few days ago about dream stealers. Very coincidental!

Keep it coming, Dan!

Owen

No worries mate, I feel the same. You seem like a top bloke, and besides, you like Dogs, obviously are into health and helping people, are doing something with your life, and have a Latin wife. These are all good things that I can relate to. I first heard you on a Supplement Millions recording and liked what you were saying so looked you up online. I really like what you are doing.

It would be great to catch up one day, in NZ or otherwise. I am not based there any more (I float around in a suitcase, generally getting lost in translation) and am writing this from the sea side in Malta, while taking a break from a product launch in the UK. I am likely to end up based somewhere in the US from the end of the year (if I don't get my permanent visa, then it will be Cali, Columbia or Playa Del Carmen, Mexico instead!) but wherever I am you will always be welcome to drop in and hang out.

I will keep reading my way through this site, I have a lot to learn! Keep up the good work mate.

Best,

Chris Ashenden

Thanks a lot for this post.

You're the kind of warrior I would love to hang out with. I hope to visit NZ one day and have the pleasure of doing that.

All the best,
Dan

I am reading my way through your posts. Both backwards and forwards.

This is the best one I have read so far, by a long way.

It saddens me a bit that more people have not responded to this. Hopefully it is because the readers here are too busy taking action to pursue their dreams?

Too many people talk, too few do anything. Listening to people with a complete lack of integrity is by far my greatest peeve.

Not just because I dislike hearing them yabber about something they say they want, but do nothing about, but because I know they are blowing their lives in a one-person-race to mediocrity, and if they have ever have the gumption to face the mirror at a later date, a long period of regrets.

Unless they are immediate family, or if I am honest – a really good looking lady, (they get extra time for some reason) I try and help them, then if they DO nothing, I avoid people like this as much as I can.

It is one thing for someone to have no interest in moving forward, or take no action despite saying they want to pursue a dream. It gets even worse if they are close to you and are trying hard to hold you back to avoid, as you perfectly put it the "failure implication".

This is a big one, and has huge ramifications for personal relationships that many people don't want to face. It has also led to some interesting conversations over the years. It is hard to live with when it is someone you are close to, and even harder to walk away from it.

What this has meant to me is that of my school friends (while I like a lot of people there and keep in contact with them from a distance) I am still close to… one.

Of my university friends, if I am honest, while I am friends with many, I am close to…… zero.

I prefer to surround myself with people who are interested in living a life spectacular, whatever that means to them, and are taking the action necessary to achieve it. I also like investing my time with people who are willing to share their energy and zest for life, and are willing to help others experience the same.

I am no great success, and know very little about direct marketing (but am learning quickly thanks to you mate!) but at 32 years old I like to think I have lived an interesting life. I started a business at 25, was a self made millionaire at 26, a multi-millionaire at 27, and retired at 28 to go traveling. I have been merrily (and I do mean merrily) entertained in 61 countries.

I have also had five businesses fail, two spectacularly, have recently lost all my money and have debts I cannot and will not walk away from (now negative 1.8 million and counting) – which means I am now starting again, from a negative position in a brand new industry.

I have also been very unwell for long periods of time, and have lived in a suitcase for nearly four years.

Perhaps of most interest is that I considered writing a book entitled "Wife Hunting in South America" since that is what I told people I was doing for the last four years!

I tried selling the idea to the book agent of a famous author friend of mine when I met him at a party a year ago, but he walked away while I was mid-sentence… I digress.

Of all that, I have only have one regret: that I let my health go for most of my twenties and in the process, not only lived my twenties with half the energy I should have had, but I blew my chance at (young) athletic success, which along with financial and time freedom, was and is perhaps my biggest dream.

No-regrets Doberman Dan. I am making a health and rugby comeback.

I am also making a financial comeback, a BIG one. And with this your generosity in sharing what you know is helping a great deal. You are the man mate, I really appreciate it.

And if anyone reads this from New Zealand and remembers some things I said there in the past, the answer is: Yes!

Massive Action is STILL my drug of choice.

Please keep up the great work Dan, I love this site.

Best,

Chris Ashenden

My biggest regret?

There ain't enough hours in the day to do all the things I'm doing.

Which is why I'm writing this in the middle of the night.