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I am rarely disappointed because my expectations are less than the general market, however failure to address the problem will see the mag always a battler.
I helped start the magazine Australasian Dirt Bike and it was the same... my input was minimal but the founder/editor the late Geof Eldridge worked like a dog ..one man did it all as compared with a staff of 32 on the American original version...to which he had no affiliation.
Fortunately everyone supported him as we find in the support for the mag we are talking about... but he moved past being the victim of problems and established that mag as better than the American version.... and on a visit to the American office was told they saw his mag as better...at that point he had a staff of 2...they had a staff of 32...
He could have offered the excuse he was under resourced but never did I hear him say such..his cry was we can do better than what is there at the moment.
Sad to have a wonderful man like that leave us but he went the only way I guess he would have been happy with...killed in a desert race in the USA.
I always think of him when I think a dead line can not be reached... no excuses only results...pretty simple once you determine that you wont have it another way..its a choice.
It is all in commitment and not letting set backs stop what you are doing and recognising if you want to be the best you have to have no excuses.
alex
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