My Friend Passed Me Up— Lessons From Getting My Butt Kicked In Business

I talked to an old friend yesterday on the phone. We have short burst conversations on Facebook every now and again but it had been a while since we had a real-time, voice to voice chat.

I called him to eat crow.

My friend had passed me up in business. Big time.

He and I both started with very similar backgrounds. We cut our teeth in the same internet marketing/MLM company a half-decade ago. We sat in the same conferences and studied from the same teachers.

As strange luck would have it we both went on to work in life insurance. We even ended up in the same company and didn’t even know it at first.

A couple of years or so back, he left the company we were both in and went onto another insurance organization.

Fast forward to our telephone call, he’s stone-cold crushing it in his business. Legitimate, verifiable, results. He is light years ahead of where I am.

I called to congratulate him. He deserves it.

After the call, I had a lot of time on the road and I kept rolling around in my head what he had done to accelerate so far past me because there are lessons there. While there will be many that will say something like “Everyone is on their own…