{"id":1438,"date":"2011-11-17T05:29:30","date_gmt":"2011-11-17T11:29:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.drbilltoth.com\/blog\/?p=1438"},"modified":"2011-11-17T05:33:30","modified_gmt":"2011-11-17T11:33:30","slug":"your-phd-and-the-waitress-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.drbilltoth.com\/?p=1438","title":{"rendered":"Your PhD and the Waitress &#8211; Part 2 of 2"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Good Morning Team &#8211; Often a new business owner will pin their success to one big contract, one big fish.  We often see this with new Network Marketers &#8211; they&#8217;ll get started and go to their &#8220;Big fish&#8221; &#8211; the one person who &#8211; if they get started &#8211; has so much influence, expertise, success &#8211; and will surely make them both fabulously wealthy.  And all too often the &#8220;Big Fish&#8221; is either too busy being successful to look, simply not ready or plain ole just says &#8220;no&#8221;.  <\/p>\n<p>The metaphor = The waitress goes to the table, &#8220;<em>Would you like more coffee sir<\/em>?&#8221;  Answer; &#8220;<em>I&#8217;ll only get more coffee if my friend buys the restaurant and gives me a percentage of the profits<\/em>&#8220;.<\/p>\n<p>The point &#8211; your success in business rarely comes from one big fish or contract.  So continue to focus on improving your product, service or skill set so you can attract the right people and contracts to your business.  Be the kind of person that the big fish wants to do business with.<\/p>\n<p>Live With Intention,<br \/>\nDr Bill<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Good Morning Team &#8211; Often a new business owner will pin their success to one big contract, one big fish. We often see this with new Network Marketers &#8211; they&#8217;ll get started and go to their &#8220;Big fish&#8221; &#8211; the &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.drbilltoth.com\/?p=1438\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,6],"tags":[29,119,32,154,37,27,152,117,118,43,30,125,42,28,36,126,153,31],"class_list":["post-1438","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business-coaching","category-personal-development","tag-author","tag-bill-toth","tag-business-coach","tag-create-your-fate","tag-createyourfate","tag-dr-bill-toth","tag-dr-billtoth1","tag-drbill-toth","tag-drbilltoth","tag-entrepreneur","tag-father","tag-julie-toth","tag-leadership-development","tag-morning-moments","tag-neurolinguistics","tag-nlp","tag-postaday2011","tag-speaker"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.drbilltoth.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1438","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.drbilltoth.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.drbilltoth.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.drbilltoth.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.drbilltoth.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1438"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.drbilltoth.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1438\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1440,"href":"http:\/\/www.drbilltoth.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1438\/revisions\/1440"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.drbilltoth.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1438"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.drbilltoth.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1438"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.drbilltoth.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1438"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}