Paul Finck - Be a Success Maverick

BE A SUCCESS MAVERICK
VOLUME 3

How Ordinary People
Do It Different
to Achieve Extraordinary Results

Published by
The Maverick Millionaire Publishing
New York, NY

Copyright 2021 by Paul Finck.

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Finck, Paul

Be a Success Maverick Volume 3: How Ordinary People Do It Different to Achieve Extraordinary Results
ISBN: 978-1-7344341-1-8
eBook: 978-1-7344341-2-5

Cover design: Joe Potter
Copyediting: Claudia Volkman
Interior design: Claudia Volkman
Maverick Millionaire Logo Design: Joe Potter

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DEDICATION

Every adversity, every failure, every heartache carries with it the seed of an equal or greater benefit.

Napoleon Hill

To all the Mavericks in the world who have suffered tragedy and loss, remember Napoleon Hills words and look for the greater benefit: The Silver Lining! The biggest difference I have seen between those that succeed in life and those that dont is that the ones who succeed keep the faith, have hope for the future, and never, never give up. As a Maverick, you have the strength and power to create even more, experience even more, and BE even more. Dont squander the days you are given. Cherish every moment and live every day to its fullest... until the day you cannot.

I dedicate this book to my wife, Deborah Finck, the love of my life, who epitomizes the above quote better than anyone I know. She has shown me what true optimism looks like in her ongoing love for the world, care for the individual, and belief in the future. Her smile lights up a room and makes her the beacon of joy for so many every day! The world is a better place with her in it. May this book help others find the silver lining in their life.

MAVERICKS DO IT... REGARDLESS

Paul Finck

The following is a Facebook excerpt I wrote in March 2020:

Over the last few months, my wife, Deborah, has been experiencing pain, shortness of breath, and coughing to the point of it being uncontrollable. She has been diagnosed with asthma, bronchitis, and COPD, to name just a few. Over the last month, this has gotten so bad she could not bear the pain anymore and had all but given up.

Finally, a scan was ordered that showed... she had a pulmonary embolism, or at least that is what they thought it was. This sounded bad enough, and we started figuring out what to do next. Unfortunately, this was an embolism the local doctors had NEVER seen before; in fact, they had never seen anything remotely similar to it. They ended up telling us, We cannot help you. You must find specialists elsewhere. They referred us to Columbia Hospital in NYC.

After seven days, we had no effective assistance from Columbia Hospital. We were waiting in a hospital room, not knowing what was happening. Not knowing what was really going on inside my wifes body, I was frustrated, overwhelmed, and scared.

Fortunately, my daughter Amanda came in to save the day. She is a PhD student at University of Pennsylvania and is working in the cancer immunology department. She was able to connect us with the amazing doctors and staff at the University of Pennsylvania hospital. They not only called us right away for an over-the-phone consult; they then followed up constantly over the next several days and created a course of action for us.

On March 8, 2020, Deborah was admitted into the University of Pennsylvania hospital for tests. This phase of the process went very quickly and was kind of a blur. A battery of tests and multiple conversations with multiple specialists over the next few days helped determine the following:

Deborah had a rare massive tumor in her pulmonary artery that was completely blocking all blood flow through the artery to the left lung (Leiomyosarcoma). This is a rare type of sarcoma, with only 250 to 300 cases known worldwide.

Surgery was immediately scheduled for March 12th. Those few days leading up to the surgery were the scariest days of our lives. The doctor told us his concerns... the possible complications... the degree of unknown. It could have grown past the wall of the pulmonary artery into the aorta. The lung could be permanently destroyed and have to be removed. We could find that the cancer has spread to other parts of the body. He gave her a 5 to 10 percent chance of dying on the operating table! Our choice: zero. Move forward or live with a quickly deteriorating body.

On Thursday, March 12th, Deborah went in for the massive, four- to six-hour open heart pulmonary artery surgery after tearful hugs from myself and her six children. We said our goodbyes, not knowing if we would ever see her alive again. They were about to open up her chest, cut into her pulmonary artery, remove the tumor, and look around to see how bad it was.

And then, a miracle: Nothing else was found to be of concern! They successfully removed a (holy cow) 9-cm tumor from INSIDE her pulmonary artery. Everything that could go right DID go RIGHT. It really was a miracle! Even her lung looked good.
SUCCESS: She is now OUT of ICU and recovering nicely.

Although the miracle happened, and my wife was going to live another day, this was not the end to the amount of stuff I was to carry that week. My wife got out of surgery and was put in the ICU unit for proper recovery. And I was told I had to leave.

YES, I was told to leave my wife in ICU. Why? Because of COVID-19. This was the first lockdown to occur and the beginning of our new world challenges. As I soon found out, life as we knew it was about to change. All social interaction was eliminated that day. For a speaker who centered the majority of his prospecting and client engagement around live events and live interaction, this was a HUGE blow to my business. At the time, I was booked out for nine to twelve months. Over the next two weeks, all my speaking engagements were canceled. My business took an 80 percent dive in sales. A personal event and a world event occurred for me in the same twenty-four-hour period and changed everything that followed. I felt like I had just taken a double punch to the stomach. My initial thoughts were What did I do wrong? and How did I end up here?

Success/Achievement/Power/Leadership

All the words we scratch our head about. The concepts we strive to internalize and make our own. How do some succeed and others dont? What makes them the lucky ones?

All the research has brought us to study key human factors in regard to their influence on our ultimate successUltimate Maverick Success. The keys are:

Intelligence Quotient (IQ)

Social Quotient (SQ)

Spiritual Quotient (SPQ)

Emotional Quotient (EQ)

Adversity Quotient (AQ)

While all of these are important and play into the effectiveness of the individual, there are two that have been identified as the cornerstones to success. Although ones IQ (intelligence) seems like it would be important, it is one of the lowest factors in the list as a predictor of future success. We all know people who are not as smart as we are who have succeeded big. Spiritual and Social Quotients are also highly important and yet not the key(s) to success. The thing that all the studies agree on, though, is that WHEN you have a HIGH Emotional Quotient AS WELL AS a High Adversity Quotient, you are almost unstoppable.