Watch Your Habits
March 25, 2014 2 Comments
Succeeding Without Risk
March 25, 2014 Leave a comment
The common perception is that entrepreneurs thrive on risk. The greater the risk they take, the greater their win……….Just how right is this perception ?
From 1848 to 1855, people from all over the world rushed to California with one goal in mind: To get rich. James W. Marshall had discovered gold here. People dropped everything they were doing to travel out West.
Pioneers everywhere packed up their belongings, along with their loved ones, with one goal in mind. To seek out a metal so rare, it could potentially change their future for generations to come. Some families suffered and died from diseases such as cholera and scurvy on the trip over. Others were killed by Indians or watched their lives pass them by as they froze to death in the rocky mountains.
A new movement was on the way and everyone wanted a piece of it. The dynamics of the situation were so influential and rewarding that many would risk death to be able to reshape their family fortunes. Any commoner could do something that they never had the opportunity to do before-they could potentially join ranks and become equals with the elite.
Hasty Judgements
March 24, 2014 Leave a comment
Do you find yourself mentally classifying people into: looks like a success ,doesn’t look like a success,seems successful,doesn’t seem successful,possibly a success,likely to be a success in future,unlikely to be successful in future etc. etc.?-PAUSE.Don’t be too judgmental and sabotage your own chances.
This is not to say you have to have to invest heavily on people seriously sabotaging their lives,but rather that you observe them for a while and judge by their accomplishments.Don’t let your own biases and expectations of what successful people look like make you overlook potential and the real successes,while you chase the imitations.
To drive this message home and remember it forever,look at the photo above. Really look.Do you recognize these people?This is a photo of the Clintons from the ’70s. Do they look like a power couple?Top notch successes?
We don’t know the future and what destiny has in store for quite ordinary looking people.
Life Of A Social-Media Influencer
March 23, 2014 Leave a comment
9:49 a.m Tweets “just woke up”. Googles a hangover cure.
10:05 a.m Checks Twitter, Facebook, Google+, Email. Reads online newspapers and blogs to check last night party photos. Sends the editor an email request to removing a photo where “the influencer” looked too fat.
10:35 a.m Tweets about how beautiful “the influencer” is today. Uploads a picture herself on Instagram. Checks in “the influencer’s fabulous office” on Foursquare…..[Incase anyone forgot how important she is].
10:45 a.m Reads a frienemy’s blog and finds out ABC PR agency did not invite the influence to a party. Breaks a vase and tweets ” _____ party is just for influencer-wanna-be”
10:46 a.m Checks Twitter
10:47 a.m Checks Twitter
10:48 a.m Checks Twitter
10:50 a.m Writes a blog post about last night’s party. Read more of this post
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