The 4 People You Meet on the Ocean of Life

I spent last Friday at a seminar with Roy H. Williams, the renowned “Wizard of Ads” and founder of the world-famous Wizard Academy.

He shared the following insight, which he learned from Mike Metzger:

“You meet 4 kinds of people on the ocean of life.”

“Those who drift just go with the flow. The wind and the waves control their speed and direction. The drifter quietly floats along and says, ‘Whatever.’”

“Those who surf are always riding a wave, the next big thing. They stay excited until the wave fades away, then they scan the horizon for something new. Surfers don’t usually get anywhere, but they make a lot of noise and put on a good show.”

“Those who drown seem to stay in the center of a storm. It doesn’t matter how often you rescue them, they’ll soon be in another crisis, crying, “Help me, save me, it’s been the worst week of my life. I don’t know what I’m going to do.’”

“Those who sail are navigating toward a fixed point. They counteract the wind and waves by adjusting the rudder and shifting the sails to stay on course.

“But without an immovable, fixed point in your life, there can be no sailing. There’s nothing for you but drift, surf or drown.”

“Your fixed point,” taught Roy, “can’t be money, because money is everywhere you look.”

Are you drifting, surfing, drowning, or navigating?

What’s your north star?

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Stephen Palmer is a marketing consultant and persuasive writer with KGaps Consulting, a co-founder of The Center for Social Leadership, and the New York Times best-selling co-author of Killing Sacred Cows: Overcoming the Financial Myths that are Destroying Your Prosperity.

He is a liberal-arts graduate of George Wythe University and a graduate of the “non-traditional business school” Wizard Academy.

Stephen resides in Round Rock, Texas with his gorgeous wife Karina, awesome son Alex, and princess daughters Libby, Avery, and Laela. Stephen and Karina blog about their magical life on Palmer Journeys.

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