Changing horses

Imagine a chart with a curve up shaped like a hockey stick.

The most successful people stuck with one area of work for a very long time – and kept at it much longer than it took to become VERY GOOD at it.

Changing your line of work can be beneficial and even necessary – but often you’re starting your education all over again.

University on Wheels

How much time do you spend driving?

You can safely multi-task – essentially doubling that time, by listening to audios of people training you on the skills and knowledge you’ll need to accomplish whatever it is you want to do.

Why waste a minute?

The Great Divide

The destitute and the winners.  Each has eyes, ears, ten fingers, ten toes…

What’s the difference?

The way they think.

So far, what has your thinking done for you?

Prime Mover

In every business there’s (at least) one person who drives it, keeps the team together, and does whatever it takes.

Usually it’s the person at the top.  But if the owner of a small business doesn’t take on that role or is absent a lot, there needs to be someone else.  Without that nuclear person who has the gravitational power to keep it all together, it comes apart.

Who is the prime mover in your business?

It doesn’t have to be fun to be fun

Satisfaction often comes from things that are hard work.

Looking back after a long day/week/month/year and seeing what you’ve accomplished and how far you’ve come – that’s meaningful…

and fun.

The most dangerous competitor

Nothing is more dangerous to your business than a fully committed competitor that will never give up.

Are you that to them?

Believe in You

Your opportunities are only limited by your belief in yourself.

Do you believe in you?

How much?

Great investing

Would you rather have one million dollars, or the ability to earn one million dollars?

Invest in you.

Economic Forecasting

I went to a business meeting to hear speakers tell businesspeople “what we can expect” in the year coming up.

But the person that can tell best tell you what your economic forecast is, is you.

That’s because you’re the one who determines it.

Right?

What is wealth?

Wealth is when you have created more value for others than you have spent.  It is a stored value.

Wealth is easier to store when you create lots of value for others.  Wealth can not be had if you spend as much or more than you create, no matter how much that is.

Do you have an imbalance of value created versus value spent?  In what direction?