When you succeed

people work really hard and learn everything they can about success and how to get there, witch is a longer harder process then it may seem first you need to figure out what success actually means to you maybe it just a monthly income maybe its requirement.  but for this lets assume that its starting and building a business to the point that you can sell it for 10 years worth of your current salary. and lets they that you do that. Now what, whats next, you have a big pile of money if you put it in the bank inflation will slowly eat away at it. If you invest it in your brother in laws company you may lose everything. So what do you do? Trick is to start thinking about long before you succeed because once you have that money and aren't doing anything with it your automatically losing money. So plan to succeed NOW so when your big break comes your ready for your next one. Have several different sound investment plans ready. Thinking 2 steps ahead is part of being and entrepreneur.