Today’s topic is I’m looking for scrappers. What do I mean by that? I didn’t necessarily like school. I wasn’t a big reader early on. I didn’t do great in school; however, I did graduate. I didn’t go to college. I wasn’t great in sports. Sometimes I was the last kid to be picked for the local team. “Ah, we’ll take Dill.” Did it build my confidence? No. But for some reason, my entire life I just scrapped along. People used to ask me, “What’s the one word that makes you successful?” I would say, “Persistence.” I just knew how to scrap. Did I get in fights when I was young? Yes, like most of us back in school. But along the way, as I continued to scrap and continued to show up, continued to persevere, I began to figure things out.
Later in business I always found myself being one of the top performers wherever I was, whether it was in the financial industry, the restaurant industry, whatever it may be. Fortunately, now my coaching career is doing well too. I have the honor, privilege, and pleasure of coaching great clients who are scrappers, and who are willing to do what it takes to persevere forward and make things happen, no matter what. Do we sometimes complain? Heck yeah. Well, my clients complain to me, vent with me so you can get back on their A-game. Do I complain? Heck yeah. That’s why I have coaches so I can vent out with them, so I can get back on my A-game. Do we have bad days? Absolutely. Do we show up right all the time? No, but we scrap through it. We persevere, we figure it out. We don’t give up. We’re scrappers.
There are plenty of scrappers out there. Now, what’s interesting in this theory, there are a lot of people who are on top of their game, but we only see them on top of their game. We only see them as super successful. We only see them as people who make lots of money. Millions, sometimes billions. We only see them as everything they have achieved. Some think they got lucky. Some think they acquired it dishonestly. They didn’t get lucky, they weren’t dishonest, they were scrappers. They scrapped all along the way to achieve that. We don’t see the journey. We just see them on the mountaintop. But I guarantee you, almost every person who has reached success has somewhere along the line, scrapped along the way. They’ve worked hard. They persevered; they showed up no matter what, and they did the work. They did whatever it took to become successful. They’re scrappers.
My question to you is, are you a scrapper, are you going to do whatever it takes? Are you going to show up every day whether you feel good or not? Or are you going to show up on the good days and then not show up on the bad days? That’s not a scrapper. Whatever you need to do, become a scrapper, and persevere. You don’t have to be the smartest in the world. A great quote came to me from teaching Think and Grow Rich. “Knowledge is all about being educated enough to just make a decision to take the action to get you from where you are to where you are going.” That’s it. We just need to know enough to take action, to take us from where we’re at, to where we’re going. That’s the motto of a scrapper. Persevere. Do what it takes. Have fun doing it. Believe in yourself and reap the rewards. Be a scrapper!
COACH MICHAEL DILL is an Award-Winning Certified Business Coach, global speaker, and published author. He is a proud Action Coach Franchise partner as well as the President of Power & Ice Wealth Creation a strategic leadership company that works with business owners, leaders, teams, and entrepreneurs to both develop a systematized and structured organization while accelerating their mindset, efficiencies, and effectiveness to grow both personally and professionally to achieve extraordinary results. He brings more than 40 years of business and entrepreneurial experience in his leadership, team training, and mentoring practice. Businesscoachmichaeldill.com