What is the difference between achievers and normal people? Well, it's not brainpower. It's not time. It's not race, sex, religion. There is something, though. There's a razor's edge of difference.

Let me give you an example. Right now one of my primary home towns is Nashville, Tennessee, otherwise known as Music City USA., a town full of musicians. It's in our culture, it's in our blood. It's our stew. We know the business.

Interestingly enough, in that business there are multimillionaires whom you surely know about. Garth Brooks might come to mind. Then there are seemingly hundreds of thousands of songwriters and musicians, enough to comprise a whole city, who are barely skating by, barely making it. I call them "driving on maypops"?those bald tires they?re driving may pop any minute.

What is the difference? Look, time isn't it! A lot of times talent isn't it, either. It's focus! It?s intention. It?s determination. It?s daring! The successful ones know what they're doing, design the path, and they go after it. They take that extra mile?they take what they're doing seriously. They take action relentlessly. They don't just talk about it.

It's situational acuity?they always know if what they're doing is improving them or is not. Then they have the discipline and courage, the decision, to do what they need to do. They ?look? like they are doing the same things, but they're going for more and they're responsible for it.

That's the difference I wish for you.