I just returned from a remarkable trip to Cancun, Mexico. While there, I found myself sitting in a beautiful cabana overlooking a sparkling pool and the ocean with the most remarkable light blue water imaginable. Because we arrived on a red-eye, my wife quickly fell asleep to the sound of waves while I pulled out some classic books on my phone to pass the time and just relax. As I sat there reading excerpts from The Magic of Thinking Big and Working With the Law, I couldn’t forget how much these books taught me before and how big of an impact they have made on my success now. Today, I just want to share a few impactful lines from each of these books. I hope they can be as meaningful to you as they were to me.

Epic – [ep-ik] – heroic; majestic; impressively great; spectacular; very impressive; awesome.

Everybody claims to have the secrets to success. There are a million books written on success by people who really have never been successful at anything except selling a book on how to be successful. The fact of the matter is, any success I have had in life has come from practicing and mastering the basics and repeating them until I achieved my goal and knowing that success does not come from doing 5,000 things well, because it comes from doing 5 things 5,000 times.

Epic – [ep-ik] – heroic; majestic; impressively great; spectacular; very impressive; awesome.

The pursuit of money is rarely a game to be played by the weak, sick or afflicted. To have a real hope of escaping the slavery of wages, it requires time and patience, which the unhealthy rarely have the luxury of possessing. Making real money takes a healthy heart to sustain the toxic hours, miles and heaping amounts of disappointment that bombard even the most healthy body and mind.

Epic Rule #5 – Learn how to break up.

Epic – [ep-ik] – heroic; majestic; impressively great; spectacular; very impressive; awesome.

When I was single, I was not very good at breaking up. In fact, I was pretty awful at it. I hated hurting feelings so instead of doing the manly thing and being honest with a girl, I became distant and cold until they eventually broke up with me. I was a real wimp, I admit it. In the end, I likely hurt more feelings than by just doing the right thing.

Epic – [ep-ik] – heroic; majestic; impressively great; spectacular; very impressive; awesome.

I am epic, and so are you.

Whatever can be said in praise of entrepreneurial induced rags-to-riches stories, they are better experienced with a loving partner to help you escape your pits of financial despair and not lose all faith in the process.

My first experience with network marketing was not fun, in fact it was a lousy experience. As a 22 year old, I sat with my brother, my future upline and 10,000 other wanna-be entrepreneurs for 10 hours in uncomfortable seats in a basketball arena. My brother and I missed our dates we had planned with some lovely ladies and had to listen to Dexter Yager drone on until 3:30 in the morning. At about 2:00 A.M. my brother looked at me and said, “I am in hell!” I was too.