Joey Chestnut Repeats As Hot Dog Eating Champ, Is A Great Role Model For You

Tags: Breakouts, Milestones

There are times in life when you think you can do no more so you give up. Joey Chestnut does not know this feeling. He takes the impossible and stuffs it down as if it were just another hot dog. For a 2nd year in a row, Chestnut out-ate the former champ Takeru Kobayashi to win the 2008 Nathan’s Famous Fourth of July International Hotdog-Eating Contest in Coney Island, this time in a dramatic overtime victory after both eaters down 59 hot dogs in the regular 10-minute competition. Yes, fifty-nine hot dogs each.

I highlight this, just as I did HERE and HERE with Tiger Woods, because it’s these type of champions, whether they excel at hitting stupid little balls or downing lots of processed mystery meat, that define hard work and success. They represent something to which we should all aspire, in whatever field makes us happiest.

For me 1999-2007 and many of you, it’s profiting from stupid little blinking numbers…for me 2008, it’s teaching/cutting through the stupid financial industry BS. Understand that I will not rest until I have turned this snakeoily niche into something great and my blog and TIMalerts will continue to be published each and every trading day, even if I’m deadly sick, hungover or dead, because I wanna teach/help you guys profit that badly.

It truly doesn’t matter what our passion is, we all can accomplish our goals is we work our asses off, study, research, sacrifice time with friends and family and work harder than we ever believed possible. Hard work hardly guarantees success, but it ups our odds so there’s really no excuse not to do it if you want something badly enough.

For example, Chestnut has been waiting all year to show off the results of his hard work. And now he’s achieved victory, not because he’s a better person than Kobayashi but because he wanted it more…check out THIS article and see his rigid workout routine.

And, after you see THIS graph (Gratzie FD and BP) of how these two competitors have single-handedly taken a once mediocre past-time and made it into the grand sport that it is today, you’ll begin to understand that their passion has elevated an entire industry. And, that my friends can and should happen in other industries/hobbies too.

It’s a beautiful thing to see and it should be written about seriously more often.

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