RULE 73
Don’t sit back
There’s a saying that ‘Nothing wilts faster than laurels that have been rested upon’. It’s very true. There is a temptation once we have made a bit of money, when an investment has worked out, or it seems to be all paying off, to sit back and relax. Yes, we can. But we don’t want to. Now is the time to speed up a gear or two, put more irons in the fire. Now is the time to look around and work out our next plan of attack. Now is the time to strike, capitalize, consolidate. Now is not the time to take your eye off the ball.
We can all stir from the swamp and then settle back into the mud. But the really prosperous keep struggling until they are completely free of the slime forever. If you take a day off, the slide begins ...
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