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Entries from November 2009

Be There and Be Aware

Simply by being “in the game” and being serious about trying to succeed will help you win 50% of your competitive battles, and therefore account for half of your success. This is because most theoretically able-bodied workers are apprehensive to fight, and therefore are not well-suited to win while conducting “competitive” commerce on a daily [...]

Are you Lost?

Don’t get lost with intangible plans and tasks. Instead, stay focused on tangible long-term goals, while understanding what’s truly happening around you minute-by-minute, and how you can positively affect it.

Choose to Succeed

The good news is if you want to be wealthy, you should take to heart that all the other rich people who surround you have 99.9% the same DNA as you. The difference is not in their genes or in their luck: they just chose to succeed in business and proceed accordingly.

It’s not luck

Very few people who start a business from scratch and succeed can attribute their success to luck. Of course, a small portion of society is born into a family business or is undeservedly promoted in a big company, which is a small barrier for competitors. Overall, successful people are those who are focused on proactively [...]

Don’t Complain

The world offers an enormous and ever-expanding global economy; all you need is a minuscule piece of that economy to succeed or a slightly larger slice of your local economy.
Nobody and nothing can stop you from getting your fair market share if you maintain a long term focused effort. Therefore, if you happen to [...]

Don’t Play the Blame Game

Avoid blaming external forces or people for problems that are in your own best interest to solve, irrespective of how they emerged. Blaming the economy will never help you, nor will blaming the government, a political party, your mom, your teachers, your competitors, your genetic code, your community, or your boss.
Even if it is [...]

Be a Success

In 1999, Stanford graduate Charles Brewer, founder of the Internet provider MindSpring, attributed his success to “honesty, integrity, frugality and adherence to the Golden Rule [to be friendly, courteous, fair and compassionate – Do unto others as you’d have them do unto you].”
Creating and maintaining core values as Brewer has is essential to having the [...]

Maximize your web strategy

Molly from Grassroots.org posted this here.
From YouTube to SEO, navigating the web development landscape can be daunting. That’s why our founder, Mike Mann, developed this comprehensive list of best practices for any organization — for profit or not. Scan through this guide to evaluate your current web strategy, for inspiration on how to revamp your [...]

Buy Your Time Back

If you create extra financial padding, you can essentially buy your time back, and if you desire, donate some spare time and cash to whichever charities you choose.

Give 15% to Nonprofits

For a person who successfully follows our business advice and scores big, we recommend committing 15-30% of your wealth to nonprofit interests and about 50% of your available time. Since we are only recommending you do this after you are wealthy, it couldn’t hurt you and will definitely give your life extra meaning.