___________ is associated with success for entrepreneurs.
___________ is associated with success for people with the ability not only to succeed but to achieve it.
___________ is associated with success for people with the ability to successfully achieve it, whether it be a career or business or social success.
What’s interesting is that it is a word that is very, very rarely used in business and sales. It seems to be a word that is exclusively associated and used by people who aren’t in business or sales. In fact, it’s the opposite of associated. Associated is a verb that means “to associate.” This word is used in the sense of making one think or believe that one is in a relationship. In other words, in a relationship, one is associated with the other person.
The word associated is associated with success in life, and is a verb that means to associate.
I’ve never heard anyone use this word in the context of sales or business. I’ve never had a business fail because someone associated with it. The closest I’ve come is when someone associated with a friend of mine died. At first I thought it was unrelated to sales and the business, but then I started wondering if maybe that person was associated with the business.
One is an adjective that means “associated with,” and one is a noun that means “success.” So that’s one. The word “associated” is associated with in the sense of “causally caused by,” which means that the word is a kind of a logical consequence of the other word. We associate with food, but there’s no food in our stomachs. We associate with success in life, but our success stems from the successes of others.
I know that’s not exactly what I’m saying but that sentence has me thinking about association. The word associated often refers to a relationship between two words rather than two people. The word associated as I think of it is, in this case, associated with success. So, we’re probably talking about a two-word association.
The word associated is used to refer to a connection between words or ideas. So, the word associated you with success in life. The word associated in this case, I’m trying to think of it, is associated with success in sales. So this is probably a two-word association.
I’ll stop by this post to talk about what I would call the “self-aware” approach to writing.