Larry Weidel - Serial Winner: 5 Actions to Create Your Cycle of Success

Advance Praise for

SERIAL WINNER

Larry Weidel is a leader with the ability to be both personally successful and reproduce that success in others. It is a rare skill; very few people can do both. In Serial Winner, Larry shares his unique vision and pairs it with the actions you need to take to win over and over again in business and in life.

Glenn Williams, CEO of Primerica

Success in life and business always requires a multistep formula of discovery and integration. Larry Weidels experiences in business have resulted in a playbook of tips and tricks as he characterizes and defines the common traits of the serial winner. The serial winner is a finisher that is omnipresent, humble, always self-aware, and emotionally intelligent. This winner is also a leader and a team player that is constantly optimistic, self-improving, and growing. In addition the focus, the ability to do grunt work with perseverance, and the willingness to adapt to change are the hallmark exemplary features of this successful individual. This book challenges us to discover that the win is always within each of us waiting to be mastered!

Bert R. Mandelbaum, MD, author of The Win Within: Capturing Your Victorious Spirit

For over a decade, Larry has been an invaluable mentor who has pushed me to achieve repeated success. Serial Winner captures Larrys key teachings and presents the ideas in terms that anyone can understand and apply to all endeavors. All you need to succeed are the desire to be your best and Larrys five actions!

John Clendenin, US Ski Hall of Fame member and founder of the Clendenin Method

Serial Winner will teach you to cultivate habits that will help you build a winners attitude. Each chapter is full of tips and anecdotes that will inspire you to be more committed to your goals and embrace the perseverance to reach them.

Todd Mullins, lead pastor, Christ Fellowship

Theres a saying that goes, You are what you eat and the company you keep. Larry Weidel is definitely great company. He has proven to be wise and resourceful in his approach to success. Serial Winner is an eye-opening tool for anyone needing guidance and motivation for next-level thinking. If you like winning as much as I do, this is for you.

Lee Haney, 8-time Mr. Olympia, past chairman to the Presidents Council on Fitness, founder of the International Association of Fitness Sciences

This publication is designed to provide accurate and authoritative information in regard to the subject matter covered. It is sold with the understanding that the publisher and author are not engaged in rendering professional services. If expert assistance is required, the services of a competent professional should be sought.

References to A.L. Williams (now Primerica) are historical in nature. Primerica offers a tremendous opportunity for individuals who work hard and who desire to develop a business with strong income potential.

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For my parents,

Andrew J. Weidel and Mary O. Weidel

W e all know people in life who seem to move from success to success, with barely a pause or dip in between. Theyre always talking about their next big project or goal. Theyre always excited about something. They have limitless energy, which they use to accomplish more and more. They are role models and opinion-makers. They always seem ahead of the game. They stay on their feet. They lead rewarding lives.

They are serial winners. In a world full of people who almost win, they are the few who do it again and again.

To most of us, serial winners are confounding. They seem to have the ability to shed the negatives in life and attract the positives. How do they find the energy or time? we ask. How did they get there so fast? How do they fit it all in? We just dont understand how these people achieve what they do. Because for the most part, they dont seem all that special. Many of them started where we did. Sure, some had elite training, but most didnt have any extra advantages (and some had even fewer)they worked their way up from the streets. (Did you know that most millionaires in the United States are first-generation or self-made?)

So we try to follow their moves. We study what they say. We may stick some of their better quotes on the wall. We even copy their stylehow they dress, their mannerisms, their haircuts. They become our models. Why? Because we want similar things. We want opportunities. We want to contribute to our communities. We want to lead fulfilling lives. We want to have fun! We want to do big things. Yet we still seem to be missing some important piece.

That piece is actionconsistent action that leads to consistent progress.

Serial winners leverage a cycle of winning action to make progress. They dosomething every day that puts them or keeps them on course for the things they want in life. Along the way, they steadily overcome friction and other forces that could slow them down or knock them off course. By focusing on what they can and should do, they manage themselves out of tough, demoralizing situations. The result? They are always moving forward, following their passions, having fun, and contributing to the world.

What about you? Are you achieving everything you want to achieve? Are you making the progress you would like, or do you feel stuck? Do you have an itch to break out, try something new, or go for more? Is there something great you want to make happen in your career, your life, or even the world?

If youre okay with your life remaining exactly as it is now, this book probably isnt for you. But if you can picture yourself doing more and doing bigger, this book can help. Because the only difference between you and a serial winner is five basic actions.

And there is nothing keeping you from applying those five actions in your own life.

Even though it may not seem to be true, everybody has won and lost. No one has a perfect batting average, and no one has struck out every single time. Anybody who tells you different is trying to sell you something, so be sure to read the disclaimers. Serial winners bounce back, move on, and win anyway. And they do it through action.

Ive had big successes, but I also had to accept food stamps for a time just to keep my wife and two young boys from going hungry. Today Im a multimillionaire, but I once had a boss label me Turkey of the Month in a company-wide newsletter (no kidding). I know what it is to have nothing go right, to be passed over for promotions, to be the one applauding others who were getting ahead. But Ive learned a lot about success and winning along the way. And I have spent the past forty years building a national financial services organization and helping the many, many people on my team achieve the success they want. Hundreds have been able to earn six-figure annual incomes, and even more have earned the label millionaire. I had to dig harder and longer than some people, but when it takes you longer, you value the results and what you learned along the way more.