How To Climb To The Top - Part 1

Now we're going to talk about how to climb to the top. What does that look like? What's that process? We all wonder if we're good enough and we wonder what the process is like. We haven't done it before. So how do you climb to the top? How do you reach those goals that you have? Now the top is whatever you're going for. Alright, let's not spend any time on that. But here's the principle you've got to. The principle is there's a principle and this is what whether you like it or not, this is what everybody does. You go through to get to. So there are things you have to go through to get to where you want to go. You hear things about you got to grind before you get to the glory. You hear things about you got to pay the price. Most people want to, everybody wants to win, but not everybody wants to pay the price. Well, there is, this is what that means. There's a principle, there's things. There's no rule that you can't reach the top, but there is a process. So the process is you've got to go through things to get to where you want to go. Now an example of this is when you look at immigrants and it's easier to look at here you have immigrants, when they come to the U.S. what you have is they're stuck with getting what they call a. They might have been doctors, lawyers, Indian chiefs back in their own countries that may have had lots of property and everything, but they're just getting started. They need a toehold on the mountain when they come here. So what they do is they get there, they start off with whatever they can to make a living, to support themselves, to be independent, to learn how the country works, learn the culture, to get going. And so those first generation businesses can be. They're usually service things like when the Chinese came over long hundreds of years ago, a lot of times they were doing the laundry business. A lot of times you see people from mid eastern countries or from everywhere the eastern countries, they're in there and they're working in convenience stores. It's not. They can't do more than that. That's a first generation business they're getting started. A lot of them are running the bakeries and the donut shops doing perfectly legitimate wonderful work. However, not all they're capable of just what they're getting started to do. So what happens is once they get through the first generation business, then they go on and they earn the right to move on to the second Generation now this may be them, this may be their kids. They may open a chain of these things. They may expand into a chain of stores. They may move into higher ticket items like opening up computer stores. They may go in more upscale restaurant type things, furniture or they. Restaurant furniture. Or they may move into service work. They get the education, they become professionals and what they become attorneys, accountants and doctors. Doctors, dentists, whatever this is. They move into the second generation type things and then, and then they continue to expand and develop depending on how driven they are. But this is kind of the process is easy to see how that works. Now let's look and see how it worked with many of us. Many of us came from. It's almost like we were immigrants. Our families were working and still work in blue collar work. We, you know, they're working for a living, blue collar work and moving up into the offices and moving into the, you know, the kids, the offspring. My father was in the, My father was Air Force. He was in the service because of the Air Force. I was able to go to college from that. The contacts, education and everything. I was able to get my own business on my mother's side. Her family started as sharecroppers in South Georgia, which means they would work the land for someone who owned the land and split the. Grow cotton, grow corn, whatever, and split the profits over the years. Split the pro. The profits over the years. My grandfather worked so long in this one farm, when the lady died, she deeded it over to him and he wound up with a hundred acre farm. So it went from, you know, he, so now he was a landowner. Of course my grandfather's pretty industrious, had the first, you know, he saved up. He had the first automobile in the area, the first radio in the area. I mean he was, he was always driven, but started as sharecroppers working the land, working the animals. Became a landowner, had his own property, but from that of the grandkids and there's about 25 or so of us, lot of us were able to go to college and have our own businesses and I won't. Well, from that I'll tell you, I was able to go out and do some pretty good things. My cousin Edward, the firstborn, first grandchild Edward, my cousin Edward. This is how we were. This is the road to the top. Sometimes it takes generation Edward. His name is H. Edward Roberts. Look him up on Wikipedia. He's the inventor of the personal computer. Bill Gates. Paul Allen went to work for H. Edward Roberts and that's where Microsoft came from. Microsoft, they did the software for the company, micro instrumentation and telemetry system. MITs in Albuquerque, there's a museum there. And with the Altair computer. So my grandfather started a sharecropper, worked his way over the years to where he became a landowner, provided the family took every. You know, the church is a big part of this. The values, the character. Able to go to college. His grandson invented the personal computer. Another grandson I was with another grandson, another grandson became a. One of the top guys. I don't know his title of the Farm Bureau of Georgia and has more or less run that. Wayne Daniels has more or less run that for the last, I don't know, 20 years and, you know, other levels of success inside there before you see how this happened. The road to the top. My grandfather knew in his lifetime he was motivated to do big things, but, I mean, he had to start where he was. But the sky was the limit if he was able to work, maybe not for just him, but for his. Through him we were able to do these things, you know, see, and then I've had some pretty good success and others there's. And of course, we got the great grandkids and who knows what they're going to be doing. But see, folks, this is the road to the top. This is how you do it. You do it by steps, you do it by state. You've got to go through things to get two things. Now, the next tape, I'm going to give you some example, specific examples of how this has worked with specific people. But it's all going where you go through things to get to not just two things, but two bigger and better things. And it's going through the process where when you go through, what happens is you build up skills, you build up insights, you find what works. See, things that work for my grandfather, he passed on down through his kids. You find what works, what doesn't work, what's a lost cause. You find you develop, you know, technical skills, technical skills, but also people skills. It takes a while to develop these things. And then insights, you find out what. And then also network of friends, network of friends and acquaintances. People know people put you in contact with people. But also depending on who your friends are, they know things you can and they teach you things, just like you teach your friends things, they teach you things. So as you go, you know, the longer you go through everything project, you do every situation, you build up contacts, you build up insights. And. And these you pass on. And so it takes. It happens. It's the biblical principle little by little. Little by little. So you go through it to get to it. Little by little. Another way of saying it. Brick by brick, you put the thing in place. That's how you climb to the top. There is no elevator that goes from the basement to the top. If there was, you wouldn't know what to do when you got there. And so it's not a matter of success, is not a matter of someone hands you a lot of money, like winning the lottery. Success is being able to create success and handle success and be able to stay there. And so that's how you get to the top. That's how the road to the top looks. So we'll give you some examples in the next one. Part two.