So you’re thinking about success. You are looking at an endeavor and wondering the chances of success.

You are scanning the internet and the bookstores and looking at the immensity of the information on ‘Success’ – and wondering –“what’s the part that works – for me?”

There are, to simplify only two components

1)      The physical work, the activity that is required.

2)      The mental work, the mental activity required to keep the energy and focus.

You may ask – but shouldn’t I know if it can be done? Shouldn’t I assess the possibilities, the statistical probabilities for failure or success? Shouldn’t I track what has been done before by people such as me, my family history, my tendency for failure or success? Shouldn’t I check the plan?

There are, to simplify, only two components

1)      The work.

To answer your question – will it work?

Yes, if you can create it in your mind, it is therefore possible. Of course if it is wild and outlandish like say catching moonbeams in a jar, you may need to wait for technology to catch up. And also the more edgy and outlandish, the more you need to focus on the plan needed to get there.

However  lets look ta the more mundane, say creating a successful enterprise or business, or reaching some goal in a sporting event.

In all cases look at the goal, the desired result and plan the work that gets that result. And plan your work with open eyes, don’t fudge the effort that may be required.

Check your plan with those that have achieved the same type of goal, find mentors and people of like minds and aspirations and use their knowledge and energy to make sure you are on track

2)      The thinking part

This is the most important. No matter how great the plan, how well thought out, how simple, how attractive, if your heart is not in it , if you cannot stay motivated –and  it will not be achievable, for you.

This answers the question we all tend to ask – “yes others may achieve , but I am can’t, I am not lucky, or smart enough or trained enough or old enough or” – STOP.

Whenever you hear that voice inside your head, turn it away, turn it off, make a conscious decision not to listen (you can do that), because its called an excuse. And excuses are always lies.

If it can be done – you can do it.

The most effort, more than all the physical work needed, will be in your mind. How you think about yourself, and the work and the result.

If you can’t get excited about the result, the goal you are setting out for, forget it. If there is no emotional charge behind the work, it won’t happen. So either find a way to become excited about the result, or find another result you will be excited about.

Its an absolutely truism, if you change the way you think – you change the world around you, for good or bad.

You can change your circumstance, by the way you see yourself. And you change the way you think about things by the input you allow into your mind; the books you read, the people you talk to, the Television you watch, the movies you see – all that input has an effect.

We are all susceptible to the input we receive, and we all will tend to rather have an excuse than do something wonderful. And everyday we immerse ourselves in input and information. Pay attention if you want to create success, is the input helping you or not, if it isn’t, get away from it. Athletes train mentally and physically, they are careful about what they eat, what they do to their bodies so they can maintain optimum fitness, but also they are 100% aware of the things they let into their minds. They know their minds are the strongest part of their body abd needs the most training

“Your attitude changes your altitude”. An Oldie but Goldie, and its true. Achievement  is about keeping your mind focused on what can be done and protecting your mind from the massive noise of ‘no you can’t’ that is out there.

Trick your mind into believing what you desire is possible, and don’t stop until you have achieved it. It’s just a trick, but it’s the greatest trick out there.

Oldie but Goldie Video

Newer Version

Between the time of birth and three years -we learn more than at any other times in our lives. Among other things for instance, we learn to walk talk and become aware of the fact there is something other than us, something called the world. If a two year olds parents are multilingual so is that child. A child is not good or bad at languages – they just absorb the language. By association

The power of association is the strongest teaching  we know. If you hang around people who are criminals – unless and until you leave that circle – you will become a criminal. If you associate with musicians – you will become a musician. And here’s a scarier thing – if you associate only with people who earn about $20,000 a year – you will make about $20,00 a year. By the same token, if you hang around people who make $100,000 a year – you will make about $100,000 a year. We become who we associate with.

So the guaranteed way to success is to associate with successful people.

However here is the big secret to that obvious fact, or at least the big caveat most people do not think about. First of all be very clear as to what success means to you. A lot of wealthy people are not necessarily successful in the rest of their lives, and certainly not all wealthy people are happy. Also be aware many wealthy people have inherited their wealth, that is they have not created it themselves, it had been passed on or handed to them. Wealth does not necessarily  mean success, and wealth certainly does not automatically mean a life that prospers.

So the big secret, the step people forget to do? Be very clear about what success means to you. Define it in your own terms. And, I think, one of the best ways to do this is to worry less about the money and more about the lifestyle you wish to achieve. In the end money is only a medium of exchange. What do you want your money to create for you: houses, cars, all the things that glitter, freedom, control of your time, stress free living? What is it, exactly and precisely, you are looking for?

Once you have defined success in your own terms, seek out people who have created that lifestyle with their own businesses, by their own hands. Ideally seek out successful entrepreneurs in the field you have chosen, but that is not as vital as seeking our people who have created the lifestyle you are looking for. Seek them out and be around them as much as you can.

Most businesses have seminars, live meetings, where the people in that industry can get together and learn and network. Go to as many of these live events as you can, invest the time to find those that are successful, talk to them introduce yourself, watch what they do, and how they handle themselves, and learn what they know.

The guaranteed way to success in any field is to define what success means to you, and then find people who have that success and then learn from them. And you learn from them by as much as possible, being in their circle, even if that can only happen at seminars or live events. However you can arrange it (without stalking them, of course), associate with them and who they associate with. Find out if there is any way perhaps you can help them, because in the end, their association will lift you, to your success

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They lose their way and aren’t sure which path to take. Starting off small and growing your business gradually so you can learn from your mistakes is the best approach to Bookmarking Demon. This article will cover a couple of Bookmarking Demon techniques you can employ that will assist you in your quest for financial independence.

I would bet, that you will be interested in  A huge number of Backlinks to your site, In that case then Opt for Bookmarking Tool. When you care selling and promoting products online, content is a critical factor. There are multiple ways you can meet the needs of your target audience, however, there is little that can offer them as much value as quality content. Thus, irrespective of the fact that you are publishing articles on your site, compiling videos for your prospects or simply sending out a newsletter, it is critical that you focus on useful and unique content. Having good content benefits you in more than one way. It will gain you the trust of your audience and help you build a powerful brand. Your site will be respected more by search engines because you are giving your visitors compelling and relevant content. And last but not the least, the only way you can really stand out of your competition is by giving away content that no one else is. It’s a fail-proof way to reach success with your marketing efforts. Increasing the exposure of your blog/site should be your ultimate goal for your Bookmarking Demon efforts. So what better way to get a higher response than to promote your site’s URL in all possible places? You must be as inventive as possible when you are listing the URL of your site. You should ensure that it goes on everything from letter heads, gift cards, promotional materials, business cards and so on. More people will visit your site if you raise awareness regarding its existence. You often need to steer away from traditional methods of driving traffic and veer towards more original and innovative techniques.

Conducting webinars is a strategy that is being used by a lot of Bookmarking Demon experts to generate big profits. A webinar is merely an online class that is aimed at your target market. What makes it such a great system is that free webinars can be created on almost any subject in your niche and lots of people will come to take part. Its perceived value is really high, which is why you should try it out.

You need to remember that there is always a place for excellent internet marketers, even though Bookmarking Demon can be considered quite a competitive career option. Irrespective of what you are marketing, from ebooks and physical products to software, you will always have to promote them effectively to see results. Even though there is a learning curve involved when you’re starting out, with time you will realize that things get predictable and success becomes easy to duplicate. It depends a lot on how dedicated you are. In case you wish to be acquainted more about it, Go ahead and take a look at Social Bookmarking Tools.

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Size of the Internet,Data growth, Information overload, knowledge tsunami- all that.

First some statistics – because we love statistics because…I have no idea why…

At what rate is the Internet growing? According to a Chinese research, the internet doubles in size every 5.32 years.

The study was conducted retrospectively from December 2001 to December 2006, with the sample taken every six months

At what rate is the number of websites on the Internet growing? It has picked up terrific pace in the past couple of years. Here is the rate of growth since 1996:

1996 : 0.6%
1997 : 1.2%
1998 : 2.2%
1999 : 5.9%
2000 : 17.6%
2001 : 9.1%
2002 : -1.3
2003 : 10.6%
2004 : 12.1%
2005 : 17.1%
2006 : 31.6%
2007 : 48.7%
2008 : 29.9%

Three great reference sites:

http://www.zakon.org/robert/internet/timeline/

http://www.internetworldstats.com/stats.htm.

http://www.internettrafficreport.com/

What is the size  of the internet?

1) How many people use the Internet?

2)How many websites are on the Internet

3)How many bytes of data are consumed on the Internet

4)How much traffic per second?

1) how many people use the Internet?This can be viewed as the population of the Internet, and so would seem to be a decent gauge of its size. Many different companies try to measure Internet usage, ranging from Nielsen Ratings to the Office of the CIA to Serverwatch. The general answer seems to be that just over a billion people used the Internet in 2008. Of these, about 500 million use the Internet at least once a week, making them more-or-less permanent citizens of the Internet population.

2) There are thought to be some 155 million websites on the Internet, but this number fluctuates wildly from month to month, and one runs into a problem of what exactly constitutes a website. Is a person’s individual Facebook page its own website? How about their LiveJournal or blog? What if the blog is hosted by a blog service?

3)It may be that what most people mean when they ask the size of the Internet is how many bytes it takes up. Estimating that is a fairly difficult task, but one person made an estimate not so long ago who can probably be trusted to have a good idea. Eric Schmidt, the CEO of Google, the world’s largest index of the Internet, estimated the size at roughly 5 million terabytes of data. That’s over 5 billion gigabytes of data, or 5 trillion megabytes. Schmidt further noted that in its seven years of operations, Google has indexed roughly 200 terabytes of that, or .004% of the total size.

4)People estimate there are roughly 75 million servers worldwide, but this number may be off by up to a factor of five. The traffic that runs through the Internet in a single day might seem like it would be easily measured, but in fact it is very hard to find a reliable collection of this data, because of the sheer amount of computers, servers, and nations involved.

see: – http://www.internettrafficreport.com/

Domain Names

Verisign has revealed that around 11 million domain names were registered during the last quarter of 2009 pushing the total
number of domain name registrations to 192 million, 25 years after dotcom domain names were released.

The renewal rate of domain names reached 71 percent in the fourth quarter, a timid increase of half a percent.

This means that nearly 30 percent of all domain names registered are allowed to expire.

Amongst other data released by Verisign is the fact that 37 percent of domains (that’s almost two out of every five domain

names) either point to a single page (the homepage) or point to nothing at all.

Read more: http://www.itproportal.com/portal/news/article/2010/2/23/number-domain-names-registered-approaching-200-

million/#ixzz120uODfkC

Rate of Information Growth

http://www.kk.org/thetechnium/

The fastest increasing quantity on this planet is the amount of information we are generating. It is (and has been) expanding
faster than anything else we create or can measure over the scale of decades. That means that at the very edge of change,
where change changes the most, information is leading. Information is accumulating faster than any material or artifact in
this world, faster than any by-product of our activities. The rate of growth in information may even be faster than any
biological growth at the same scale.

Two economists at UC Berkeley calculated our total global information production for one year. In their study “How
much information?” researchers Hal Varian and Peter Lyman measured the total production of all information channels in the
world for two different years, 2000 and 2003. Their totals include the information found on all analog media such as paper,
film, and tape, as well as in all digital media such as hard disks and chips, and through all bandwidth such as TV, radio and
telecommunications. Their tally focused on unique information, rather than just bits, since a duplicate of a song (or photo, or
database) does not contain any real additional information. Therefore they counted a newly recorded song as new
information, but not all the copies of that song, even though those additional copies would require storage space and
transmission bandwidth.

Varian and Lyman estimate that the total production of new information in 2000 reached 1.5 exabytes. They explain that is
about 37,000 times as much information as is in the entire holdings Library of Congress. For one year! Three years later the
annual total yielded 3.5 exabytes. That yields a 66% rate of growth in information per year.Increasing yearly
The long-term trend is simple: the information about and from a process will grow faster than the process itself. Productivity
generates excess information, and so as we progress, information will grow faster than whatever else is being produced.

We can approach the question from the other side. If it isn’t information, then what other measurable quantity is growing
fastest in the world over the span of decades? What is growing faster than 66% for decades — that is not information based?

Economists peg physical production as growing at 3% a year in advanced countries, and maybe 7% a year in superstars like
China. That means that information grows 10 times as rapidly as physical production.

It is hard to imagine anything else in the world that could possibly grow that fast. Even with information it is hard to imagine
how it could continue to expand at that yearly rate, since humans are not reproducing at that rate. How could information
continue to accumulate at 66% per year for decades more? With machines.

Most humans can consume more information in an hour than they generate(so much easier to watch a video than to make one)

But machines can generate more information than they consume day and night.Embedded sensors, cameras with no human eyes, bots on the web, computer-run systems all generate enormous oceans of data outside of human view.

It is plausible to image the global sphere of information expanding exponentially as data generation becomes mechanical.

Great Post

http://www.kk.org/thetechnium/archives/2006/02/the_speed_of_in.php

And my point is: -

Yes it is Exciting to be in a world at this time when technology gives us the ability to watch technology and be amazed.

Where a business a minute is set up to peddle ‘information marketing’. Check your inbox if you like Internet marketing how many MBs is your Google or Yahoo  inbox up to now with ‘deals’ and secrets and specials and once in a lifetime offers.?

Gang there is only so many ways to get ‘traffic; to a web site, and its not a secret. There’s only so many ways to attractc search engines,and yes the algorithms change over time, but the ways to attract are broadly the same. There’s really only a couple of ways to set up your own website and get a domain name. And there’s only the same old ways to make money on the Internet. And its not a secret.

But we love new, and we love the hidden mystery and we want more. So welcome to world of ‘data’.

But most data is as they say ‘wild’ – a facebook post, a million facebook posts, five million facebook posts, infinite variations on itune/iPod play lists – these are classified, and counted as data.

The Most Important Data

How does you become successful? Same question – same answer – never changes.

How to you find love – same old question, answer never changes

How to do find happiness – answer hasn’t changed in recorded history

How do you learn to love your life – data or no data – answer had s never and will never change.

But maybe because all the answers to those questions are so ‘available’ so ‘ in plain sight’, maybe thats why we miss them, every time, as we make a new playlist and post a new cryptic facebook/twitter/buzz/digg/delicious post

The ‘data ‘ we need to have a wonderful life is a small amount, and freely available. No secret, no opt-ins, no paypal.

Its simpler than we think.

Breathe.

Repeat.

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• Clarify your goals and strategy. Be very clear about your aims and ambitions, both short and long term. Write them down. Once you know what you really want to achieve (and why) it’s easier to make decisions about what needs doing, and to plan accordingly.

• Focus on your top priorities. You’ll be more productive and profitable if you identify and.focus on the areas most important to your business. Work on the fundamentals first. The Latin word ‘fundamentum’ means foundation – so take action, build strong foundations and the rest should follow.

• Schedule time. Literally write an appointment in your work planner (you do have one of those, don’t you?) to set aside a realistic block of time for your priority actions. This reduces anxiety over not having enough time and keeps you focused.

• Say no! Consider Jim Rohn’s suggestion. “Learn how to say no. Don’t let your mouth overload your back.” Always check your schedule before committing to anything new. Don’t allow others to divert you from your objectives.

• Create supportive systems. This includes systems for filing, management information and communication.

• Take a reality check. Will your current activity have a positive outcome, or are you doing it to avoid something else? Ask yourself – will doing this take me towards my goal? As Peter F Drucker observed “There is nothing so useless as doing efficiently that which should not be done at all.”

• Delegate! It’s tempting to do something yourself when you think you can do it faster and better. But consider the long term – delegation now will save time in the future, and if done appropriately can motivate your staff, boost their confidence and help them develop their skills.

• Repeat your success. Remember the last time you went away on holiday, and how you got so much done in those few days before you left? What strategies and techniques did you employ that made you so effective and focused? Can you repeat them? Alternatively, imagine you are going away tomorrow and work through today accordingly.

• Balance your life. Formally schedule personal activities too, so you make time for family, friends, your health and fun because having a balanced life reduces stress and increases energy levels. Time management is really about life management!

• End the day. At the end of the working day, tidy your desk, make notes about what needs doing tomorrow and prioritise those tasks. You’ll worry less that evening and be prepared and focused the next morning.

And a final thought. “Don’t say you don’t have enough time. You have exactly the same number of hours per day that were given to Helen Keller, Pasteur, Michelangelo, Mother Teresa, Leonardo da Vinci, Thomas Jefferson and Albert Einstein.”

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Prospering

Online Dictionary: to thrive, succeed, etc., or cause to thrive, succeed, etc. in a healthy way

Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913):   . To be successful; to succeed; to be fortunate or prosperous; to thrive; to make gain. They, in their earthly Canaan placed, Long time shall dwell and prosper. –Milton

Doesn’t that sound good ‘Long time shall dwell and prosper“.

To thrive (in a healthy way).

live long and prosper

I like the concept of prospering. Success with a healthy moral component, perhaps.

Everyone wants to succeed, to make it. Who wants to prosper? It sounds more on-going that succeeding doesn’t it. Like its a life thing as opposed to an immediate thing. “Ok so I succeeded in doing that – now what?” But if you have prosperity or are prospering, its ongoing. Makes a journey out of effort.

Everyone wants just enough;

“I just want enough to be (fill in the blank)and  happy, comfortable, taken care of, that all”

And then when we have that- well we want more.Just enough more.

What if the goal was ; “I want to prosper” ?

That suggests something ongoing, and also something interactive. You cant ‘prosper’ and leave your friends and neighbours in the ditch. That creates success perhaps, but not prosperity. Prosperity suggests we raise ourselves and everyone else up at the same time doesn’t it?

America was once known as a prosperous nation, now its..what? The richest? The most powerful?. I would  like to be in a Prosperous nation wouldn’t you. It implies the nation is powerful, successful, of course, but also a nation that lifts up others.

How about a goal of prospering? When asked whats your goal in life – you can say – I wish to prosper.

How do you prosper?

Well prosperity is not necessarily about how much wealth/stuff/gold you can acquire, as much perhaps about how much good will you can build.

Prosperity is not so much about getting to the top. Maybe more about pushing your potential

Prosperity is not so much about being Number 1. It suggest more that you are part of a community that has become enriched through effort and mutual concern for wellbeing

Prospering isn’t working till you drop. But a balance of effort, goodwill and achievement.

To succeed – you win. You overcome. You beat the rest. You destroy the challenges. You kill the opposition.

To prosper – you are in a mode of constant achievement. You are aware you are part of a group, a species perhaps. You realize success only works if somehow your success has enriched others.

Its not that tricky to succeed – you just keep going. Its not complicated. Its just hard dedicated work towards a goal.

To prosper, perhaps, requires ongoing realization that one person making it alone, is one thing, but when you reach down to bring others along, even if it seems it will slow the journey, is something beyond imagining

5 Lucky steps is all you need

1) Be available.

There is the statement ‘success arrives to those who are prepared and available’. Be open to possibilities. If you want to succeed, in a financial fashion, don’t become so tunnel vision oriented that you miss opportunities. You may decide for instance that writing or selling books is the way you are going to make it, and you become so focused you miss an opportunity a friend is offering in say blogging. Or you want to sell real estate, but an acquaintance has an on line clothing store that he needs help with an will even give you equity in it, but you don’t give it a thought. Listen to the opportunities around you, there are always opportunities. Some are good for you, some aren’t. But be open. Here’s another truism when you look back from a successful venture it is never what you were looking for and it is almost always a collection of staggering coincidences that led you to that successful venture. Be open and aware

2) Say yes.

That’s it. Say yes. At least to the possibility. Take a chance to invest some time investigating the opportunity. Say no when it obviously will not work for you at this time. But initially say yes – you cal always say o later. But if you say no, or are fearful of even looking into the possibility. There’s no opportunity to say. There’s no ‘luck” in your life.

4) Be prepared.

Success happens when you are prepared and available. So be open, but also be ready to tun up, when it happens. They say 50% of success is turning up. 90% is turning up ready to play. Be ready for action, and act, immediately. A friend asks, or you see an ad, or there’s a message put out, and you think- that’s interesting, in fact that would work for me, I should get in touch with them. Tomorrow, and then its after the weekend, and then…its gone. Turn up, ready to play when you see an opportunity

3) Accept failure

The world is full of opportunities, not all are for you, and most will not work, because of timing or finances, or market changing or you cant get along with your partners. Success comes from failure – but in the words of Bob Dylan – “failure is no success at all”. Failure is to be expected. If everything worked all the time…well what a mess. And if everything worked the way it was supposed to , everyone would do it, and there would be no money in it. Success is rewarding and lucrative, because most will not get past the first failure. Failure if you will is the fence or guards around success. Its the filter that allows only the prepared an determined win. And thats why winning is so lucrative, because so few get there, not because of luck or talent or skill, but because of lack of determination and foresight to get past the first one or two or twelve failures. The more failures there are, the more profitable and rewarding is is when you get there. You can fail as many timers as necessary – but you only need to success – ONCE. A good number. Once

4) Believe in opportunity

Be available, be prepared, and expect opportunity. Millions were made in the 1920′s depression , not by many, but by the few who were ready prepared and expected to find opportunity. Its party of being available. If you don’t believe it, you wont see it, and opportunity and luck will pass you by. Believe it before its there. Its allows you to be available, and make you want to be prepared, and take away tunnel vision. Sets you up for success. Yes if you believe you can achieve it. Bit if you don’t believe there is an opportunity for you round every corner – you’ll never ever see it. Even when its staring you in the face.

and just for luck – an extra lucky step: -

6) Expect to work

“The harder I work the luckier I get”. Its seems like a golden opportunity then you see the work involved and you think – that’s not what I want that’s not how people become e successful – they’re just ‘luck’ into things. No-one licks into things that produce true success and value in their lives. There is the 10,000 hour theory, to become very good at anything – you have to put in at least 10,000 hours at the thing. Frank Kern in Internet marketing portrays himself as lazy and long haired and a goofball. If you believe that – you should buy my bridge I have -you’ll find it in Brooklyn where I left It for you. If you get a chance take a look at say Mass Control 1 or 2 that Frank Kern created – imagine how many hours of actually creating, and then how many hours of study of all the direct selling gurus he must have done – has done. Its always work. Luck is always work. The harder I work the luckier I get

Why are we here?

Why is there something rather than nothing?

Are we alone?

What is love?

Why does toast land butter side down?

Really the only answer, the only true answer is I don’t know. We don’t actually know.

We can guess, we can have theories. The theory of evolution. The theory of relativity. The theory of Internet dating.But let’s be honest if we didn’t see it, its hard to know.

However in this day and age it is like having a disease to say about some piece of information – i don’t know.

We can find out the answer to lots of facts- the wingspan of the (insert bird here) , the speed of the (insert noun here)

But if someones says – will this absolutely guaranteed work, make me rich, give em freedom, right all wrongs? -

The answer should be – I don’t know. Lets find out

If you ask John Reese will this email pull? Will this Header be noticed? Will this opt-in be the best possible? He will say ” I don’t know – lets try it, and learn”

When we ask “Should I do this or that (presuming neither are illegal or idiotic) – should I move here or stay there, should I commit or should I rest? The really smart answer is: – I don’t know – take the best action thats seems appropriate at the time and learn from the outcome.

The best thing about I don’t know is it enables progress. If the answer was always. Yes. I know. Then who would try new things. Who would take a risk, if supposedly it had already been tried? Why make the effort if the know-it-alls, know it all.

Scientists (except in the media)rarely say ‘this is absolute’ ‘this is true”truths. Scientists like theories,because they know all they can say is: -it worked like this so far, or the facts seem to be justified so far, but who knows things could change,lets keep our opinions open.

So when you or I, we, ask the gurus of our industry or profession: – will this new idea work, will this untried scheme fly? The answer should always hopefully be, ‘I don’t know, try it, let it happen and learn from the outcome’.

The best answer you could ever get. I don’t know.

Try the most sensible action first, and learn from the outcome, keep your options and opinions and outlook -Open.

The fact that you are making mistakes at least indicates the fact that you are in the process, are creating – Activity. As my dear old Dad used to say – you cant steer a parked car. (of course my dear old Dad never said that – some motivational speaker said that, over and over again. My dear old Dad was more likely to say – you are the laziest son I have ever had)

Nevertheless only activity can produce success. taking and thinking about ‘a plan is good. But unless there is activity there will never be an outcome. A result.

By the way this has to be the best (as in most complex ) mindmap I have seen for displaying, everything, I mean everything you need to know about Internet Marketing.

MindMapOfUltimateWoe from Andy Jenkins Blog.

Study it . It is a thing of beauty.

Back to the post at hand.

Only activity in the end will produce results. Only results produce success. And if in doubt do something, any activity will produce some result. Good or bad. Inactivity produces nothing.

Ken Robinson has a great video on creativity being weaned out of us through education

If you are just starting a business, you may fall into the ‘college/school’ trap of only doing things that produce ‘successful’ results, and become frozen by the thought of failure.(the pass fail syndrome) If that is the case – redefine, in your mind, a successful outcome. The New Definition: – all outcomes that come from directed effort are successful outcomes.

No effort,  no outcome, that is not allowable. All outcomes from directed effort count. And are important.

Success is merely a series of wrong steps continuously learned from,that eventually produces your desired result. Success.

John Reese always says you learn from activity. And no matter where your business is right now, as long as your are prepared to put in continued activity – this is the ‘worst’ your business is going to ever be.

If you have a business that’s moving along, you may become frightened to change anything or try anything new in case you disturb the little ‘success your business is producing.

You cannot get different results from the same effort. You cannot get more money from something that gives less money. So you have to change the business to produce a new result. Initially the change may produce less money or no money and you feel this is an unsuccessful step and stop doing anything else.

You cannot get more from the same, and you cannot ever, ever, ever expect to be right the first time or the second time or the third time. Success  is produced from a series of steps, most of which appear to be mistakes but are just learning steps. If you don’t learn the wrong way, you cannot find the right way.

To create a successful business requires effort, constant effort. And being willing to learn from that constant efort.’Mistakes’ are irrelevant,and actually dont exist. Rename your ‘mistakes’- your steps.You do not incur mistakes, you only have steps towards your desired outcome

Success is going from failure to failure without a loss of enthusiam.
Winston Churchill