Failure is NOT an Option...

Have you ever meet a certain type of person that failure seems to not even be in there vocabulary?  Everything they do seems to lead to the right type of results.  Why is that?  I believe there are 3 major characteristics that can be found in these people (I know that you probably have better ideas than this so please share in the comments).

1. Work Ethic:  Having the right attitude and work ethic can bring you a long way.  Being able to give 100% on a day to day basis is the foundation in which success is built on.  I meet with an agent a couple weeks ago and he was just getting started in Real Estate.  He was coming from another Real Estate related field, but new to the game none the less.  He said something that stuck with me: "Travis, whenever I am faced with a problem, I always tell myself that this problem would have gotten 5 people out of the business."  Meaning the challenges he faced, he knew they were hard, but he appreciated the challenge and others would have failed with a lesser work ethic.
2. Balance:  Being able balance your faith, family and business has proven to be my toughest challenge by far (as well as many of you).  Today in our team meeting we talked about Napoleon Hill's Think and Grow Rich and the Fifty-Five Famous Alibis by Old man IF.  It was eye opening for me to think about and talk about my alibis - "if only I didn't have a family I would have more time."  The realty is that millions of people are successful with families.  How to they do it?  They live in the moment.  When they are working, they truly are working.  When they are with their family, work does not take away from that.  We can only red line so long before burnout will catch up with us.  Make sure you have the recharge time needed.
3. Desire/Passion:  You have to enjoy what you are doing.  Work/Business will take up a significant portion of your waking hours and to dislike what you do is insanity.  Passion and desire allow you to focus on the important parts of the job/business and nurture it and watch it grow.  Going through the motions will lead to burnout and fatigue quickly.

I would love to hear your thoughts too.  It has been a little while since I posted a blog article and maybe I am way off base tonight :)  Thanks for reading!