Well… So it begins! I am talking about the Success Quest’s First Blog. I thought it would be appropriate to write the first blog, about a recent exciting event that happened for me, seeing that the network is about Success.

Like many entrepreneurs and inventors out there who are striving to create a success out of their businesses and ideas, I have been also working on a very useful and practical invention for the foodservice industry, which once out, can help reduce the labor and the rate of food poisoning in the restaurants, cruises, hospitals and many other places, significantly. The equipment called NapWrap, sanitized, wraps and bands the silverware for restaurants automatically, so that the servers won’t have to touch them anymore and as what I call a “Recovering Roll-a-Holic” who used to do this myself, I can truly appreciate that.

The development on this project has been taking several years and to say the least, has been a rollercoaster, like many other entrepreneurs and I have stock to it and continued moving forward. Many people come very close to their dreams that they have worked for, for many years and many times they stop 3 feet from gold and if they had dogged just a few more feet, they would have hit the jackpot and that is unfortunate. But there is a positive side to that too…

I have had the opportunity to ask some of the very successful entrepreneurs that I have met throughout the years and there are two key elements that they have shares that has been instrumental in them achieving their Success (however you define that term), and it was 1) Have a “No Matter What” attitude, have persistence and persevere at your dream and 2) Trust Your Gut Feeling and Instincts. Luckily, turned out I was doing those to a good degree as well and it helped me stay in the game and don’t give up, despite all the challenges.

This July, I saw another small stepping stone and some of the rewards of persevering; NapWrap was nominated and selected to present at the annual San Diego Inventors Forum Invention Contest and be among the 10 inventors presenting at that event and with great pleasure, we did end up on the top 3 awards there. In fact we got the 2nd prize on the SDIF Invention of the year award and this is just the beginning.

My intention is to help improve the quality of the dining experience for the average Joe who goes to a restaurant with their kids and family and overall improve the foodservice industry’s standard and if it weren’t for the Persevering and believing in my gut (having faith), I would not have even got to this point and still the journey continues.

So take those two qualities and apply them in every business endeavor you do as well and just Go For It.

You can learn more about NapWrap, if you’d like, at www.NapWrap.info 

“Success is nothing more than a few simple disciplines, practiced every day, while failure is simply a few errors in judgment, repeated every day. It is the accumulative weight of our disciplines and our judgments that leads us to either fortune or failure”. ~ Anon

 To your success

~ Payam