Meeting Someone Important?

One of the many daily web sites I read is http://www.earlytorise.com/. And today an article discussed how to meet an important person when that person was engaged talking with someone else.

After some discussion, this was the result: Walk away.

That's right... they took the advice of renowned etiquette dictator Emily Post, and recommend you walk away. Find another time to meet this person, they said, so you don't rudely interrupt their current situation.

I hugely disagree. To walk away in these circumstances is to give up the opportunity of a lifetime, possibly.

Look at it this way. Let's say you wanted to win lotto, but you knew there were thousands of others competing for the top prize.

What do the losers do? That's right... they think the odds are against them, and they give up and walk away.

This article should be a wake-up call for you. Nothing can ever be accomplished by walking away.

Every opportunity must be seized at the moment and worked on proactively. Only this way will you ever achieve anything.

To bring up a long-running example, Thomas Edison made thousands of trials before he invented the incandescent lamp. Just think what would have happened if the first experiment hadn't worked and he had walked away.

The only way you can win is to take part, persist, and never give up.

Never walk away.