Description
Standing above the Crowd is a book that will give you fantastic insights about how to “Stand Above the Crowd“ versus “Standing out from the Crowd” ….. all without having to be 7 feet tall like your author James Donaldson.
You’ll find in this book that I share a lot of success strategies and how to live a life that will continue to have you standing above the crowd. I share with you experiences that I’ve had throughout my years as a 20 year professional NBA basketball player, a 20 year owner of a small business, decades of leadership throughout various communities and a recent run towards an elected office in my hometown of Seattle Washington.
I take the approach that “anyone can do it if you try and apply yourself”. How many times have you found yourself wanting to take advantage of an opportunity that’s right in front of you, only to talk yourself out of it because you don’t think you’re up to the task? I’m here to tell you, that all successful people have the same thoughts, fears, and apprehensions, but yet the successful ones continue to forge on anyway. Successful people are not afraid to try and sometimes come up short. Successful people don’t always bat 100%. Successful people have many failures that you don’t even hear about before you finally hear about the success that brings them to our attention.
There is an old Yoruba proverb that says: “Your Failures In Life Come From Not Realizing Your Nearness To Success When You Give Up”. Wow, think of it, how close to success you probably really are when you give up on chasing and achieving your dreams!
You don’t need to be a self-starter and a self-motivated person like myself in order to Stand above the Crowd. All you really need is a vision, passion, the willingness to sacrifice short-term gain for your long-term goals, a belief in yourself and your talents, and then a “stick to it” attitude that keeps your “Eyes on the Prize”.
