PROPHET,PRIEST&KINGS IN THE MARKET PLACE

PROPHET, PRIEST & KING

CRAWLING BACK UP THE MOUNTAIN, ONE INCH AT A TIME ...

CRAWLING BACK UP THE MOUNTAIN, ONE INCH AT A TIME …

HOW TO THINK & DREAM CREATIVELY

Creative thinking is simply finding new, improved ways to do anything. Step one: Believe it can be done. Here is a basic truth: To do anything, we must first believe it can be done. Believing something can be done sets the mind in motion to find a way to do it. Your mind will create a way if you let it. Eliminate the word “impossible” from your thinking and speaking vocabularies. Impossible is a failure word. The thought “It’s impossible” sets off a chain reaction of other thoughts to prove you’re right. “Average” people have always resented progress. Traditional thinking is personal enemy number one for the person who is interested in a creative personal success program. Traditional thinking freezes your mind, blocks your progress, and prevents you from developing creative power. Be an experimental person. Break up fixed routines. Expose yourself to new restaurants, new books, new theatres, new friends; take a different route to work someday, take a different vacation this year, do something new and different this weekend. Be progressive, not regressive – not backward, regressive thinking but forward, progressive thinking. Successful people, like successful businesses, live with these questions: “How can I improve the quality of my performance? How can I do better?” The successful person doesn’t ask, “Can I do better?” He knows the can. So he phrases the question: “ How can I do it better?”

Dream Big with a Vision

1. Dream Big If you want to be larger than life, you need a dream that’s larger than life. Small dreams won’t serve you or anyone else. It takes the same amount of time to dream small than it does to dream big. So be big and Bold! Write down you One Biggest Dream. The one that excites you the most. Remember, don’t be small and realistic; be bold and unrealistic!! Go for the Gold. the highest you can possibly achieve in your field. Aft 2. Vision Without a vision, we perish. If you can’t see yourself winning that award and feel the tears of triumph streaming down your face, it’s unlikely you will be able to lead yourself or others to victory. Visualize what it would be like accomplishing your dream. See it, smell it, taste it, hear it, feel it in your gut.

Capital and Your Business

What’s particularly interesting about the critique is that as businesses grow, owners often have to– cede some degree of control. This is the case whether taking on equity or debt. The reality is very few businesses are wholly-owned successes that continue to fund themselves through their business savings or cash flow alone. I think both the investor/equity community, from angels to venture capitalists, to the lending community from banks to alternative lenders, when putting aside their respective business interests, all agree that self-funding is the way to go if you have the option. But very few companies live in that world.

Many would argue that outside investors with an equity stake are no more incentivized towards the desired outcome of the business owner than the lender who seeks repayment on the loan. All of us who study business know that equity investments can come in the form of strategic investors or simply cash. We also appreciate that often equity investors enjoy privileges like rights to first profits or exits/payouts, which owners may not. A tough pill to swallow for the business owner.

Thoughts are Everything!

These are my thoughts... Put into a diagram. What do you think of it?

I Can Help You

"Success in business requires training and discipline and hard work. But if you’re not frightened by these things, the opportunities are just as great today as they ever were." David Rockefeller.

FROM EUGENE KRUGER:

I have walked the path. I started out from humble beginnings. I made millions…and I lost it all.  I am now making my way up to the top again. I know about business.  I have lived through good times and bad.

I know what to expect regarding situations – personal and professional - and how to deal with BOTH. I know how to rise from the ashes. I can help. I can protect.

Getting business advice/strategy building/life coaching is only one part of the business consultancy process. Implementing the advice/strategy/life coaching is the REAL difficulty.

How many people go away after a business advice meeting or a life coaching and don’t know how to implement what they have just been told? They very often don’t know where to begin! Advice – personal or professional --  is nothing without a guiding hand. I can help you with both advice AND arrange the implementation of the necessary ACTION.

Opportunity

Sometimes, giving your opponent the opportunity to walk away with his head held high, is all that’s needed to get him to relinquish control. It’s the ultimate mind-fuck. Make him feel trapped and desperate, and then become his rescuer.

I read an interesting analysis and opinion piece of why Grant beat Lee in the American Civil War. I’m sure you will find these points interesting as applicable to business strategy.

Regret Nothing

Regret is such a wasted emotion. Every experience you have ever had, has added value to your life. You may not have seen the value, but that is not proof that it had no value, it is merely an indication that your perspective at the time had blinded you to its value.


You will often be faced with choices and, being human, you will probably screw it up from time to time. I certainly do. Know this, this is the nature of life, and if you accept this and don’t beat yourself up about your mistakes, you will remain clear in your thinking and free from energy sucking, mind f**** (oops, sorry!!), mind destroying regrets.

At some point in the various journeys we embark on in our lives, we get to a part where we feel like giving up. Sometimes we give up before we even start and other times we give up just before we are about to make that huge break-through that we have been putting so much effort in to achieve.

Here is list of 22 reasons why you should never give up and I hope that you will read it before you give up, and be inspired to keep going!

1-            As Long As You Are Alive, Healthy and Free, Anything Is Possible

The only valid excuse you have to give up is if you are dead. As long as you are alive (and healthy and free) you have the choice to keep trying until you finally succeed.

 you will only experience financial freedom if you DECIDE that it is going to bring you financial freedom. KNOW THIS: WINNERS BECOME WINNERS BECAUSE THEY DECIDED TO WIN. They decide in advance that they are going to pay no attention to those with negative attitudes. They decide in advance never to give up. They decide in advance that they will do what others have proved works, even on those days when they don't feel like doing anything. What have you decided?

Richard Branson

Richard Branson was overheard making the following comment:

"To me, business isn't about wearing suits or pleasing stockholders. It's about being true to yourself, your ideas and focusing on the essentials."

These words resonate with me and I thought I would share my interpretation of them with you. Perhaps they will inspire you too.

The 2 key elements in the quote are: