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It is New Year’s Day and I am sitting here in our motorhome thinking about how few people actually achieve their new year’s resolutions.

And I thought this story from the 2016 Sydney to Hobart Yacht Race and how it can help other people achieve their goals, whatever they are.

It is the story of the maxi yacht Perpetual Loyal owned by the successful businessman Anthony Bell.

In 2014, Perpetual Loyal started but did not finish the race.

In 2015, this was supposed to be the last race that Anthony Bell would enter Perpetual Loyal.  But once again they did not finish.

Now Anthony Bell could have taken the typical response and say, “That’s it, it’s over”.  But no, like the successful businessman that he is, he did not want to finish that way.

To him that would have been a failure, giving up.

So they entered again in 2016 with the aim to finish and sail the best race they could sail.

Now in the 2016 race, not only did Perpetual Loyal finish first across the line, it did so in a record time.

So the morale of the story is this.  Even if you did not achieve your goals in 2015 and 2016, don’t give up in 2017.  You just may end up smashing them like Perpetual Loyal did.

Remember, failure is not falling over, it is not getting up each time you fall.

Wishing you all the best in 2017.

Do you and your family a favour and start taking steps so you can avoid the poverty trap.

Wayne Wanders

The Wealth Navigator

wayne@avoidthepovertytrap.com.au

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