How to show up as a gift and not a burden

“Passive income is a BS internet dream… you need to accumulate assets in order to generate large amounts of passive income. You need to work like a dog… there is no in between unless you win the lottery.” - Gary V.

Open doors do not equal valuable opportunities.

We ask for open doors all the time.

The only doors that open on their own are doors for consumers and they are a trap.

Doors that open without any effort on our part were designed that way for one reason – to make a sale.

Don’t judge how great your service is by what doors open to you without you having to knock.

The greater the door of opportunity means it will be more guarded.

There is ancient proof from the greatest leader of all time that says, “and to the one who knocks the door will be opened..”

We know that knocking requires more than one action.

To walk up and hit a door one time would not be considered knocking.

By definition knocking is a repetitive action.

The instructions that come before the door is opened seem to be backwards.

This leader says, “Ask – Seek.. and then Knock..”

Think about it. If you were going to borrow a book from a friend your journey to their house would start with what you need – the book.

Based on what you needed you would then knock and then when they finally open the door you would ask.

The natural order appears to be: seek, knock and then ask.

However, the proven process I follow puts “ask” upfront.

This order of: ask, seek, knock makes me a messenger not a beggar.

This changes how I view opportunities.

I don’t knock on prospects doors asking for something, but offering something of real value.

I am a carrier of something valuable.

I begin with good questions and I seek to understand what my target market is wanting.

Spend the time seeking to understand if what they want is what I can provide.

Seeking is not something we do much in business.

To seek is to take an active role. To do whatever is required to locate what we are looking for.

It involves research, asking deeper questions, reading, asking hard questions of ourselves and getting our hands dirty.

Seeking keeps us from blindly looking for opportunities.

The ability to clarify purpose and then clarify pursuit are rare things that people desire.

However, they just don’t know who to ask or how to seek.

The awareness to seek comes as result of the asking.

Consequently, you show up with your gift of “here is how I can help”

not your burden of “buy my stuff”.

Now, when you approach doors that are more valuable you cannot expect them to be standing open.

Knocking requires courage and it’s awkward and uncomfortable.

It requires you to be vulnerable and to face your fear of rejection.

But the vision changes when you see the difference between knocking because you NEED something and knocking because you HAVE something to give.

When you seek to understand by asking, researching, proving and concluding you can help a group of people in the world…

Then you are not standing at people’s doors empty handed looking for them to fill your hands.

What you found in your seeking is connected to what is behind that door.

You are the solution knocking.

Doesn’t this change how you see the opportunities to grow your business?