“Chicken Soup for the Soul”
April 22nd 2010 01:30 pm
Every day we’re bombarded with hundreds of tasks, phone calls, messages, and everyone competing for our time. Focusing requires giving up something in the present because you are investing your time in something that will pay off big-time down the road.
Jack Canfield and Mark Hanson were turned down by 30 publishers when they submitted the first “Chicken Soup for the Soul” book. Instead of giving up, they stayed focused on their goal and did four or five interviews per day for radio, TV, and newspapers, for five days a week for a whole year.
Eventually, a small publisher decided to take a chance, and of course it became a best-seller that spawned an entire series, that have sold more than 10 million copies. Get my drift?
