For humans born in a time when resources were limited and dangers were great, our natural inclination to share and cooperate is complicated when resources are plenty and outside dangers are few. When we have less, we tend to be more open to sharing what we have. A Bedouin tribe or nomadic Mongolian family doesn't…
If you wake up chasing the morning because you woke up late, you'll always be in a rush mode the entire day. The first 10 minutes of how you start your day determines how you spend the next 10 hours of your day. The inability to manage time means you're always chasing time which means…
StartUp Tip #6: Losers have goals, winners have systems Focus your mind on “systems” instead of “goals.” This involves choosing projects and habits that, even if they result in “failure” in the eyes of the outside world, give you transferable skills or relationships.
Start-Up Tip #5: Make your bed If you make your bed every morning, you will have accomplished the first task of the day. It will give you a small sense of pride, and it will encourage you to do another task and another and another.
Start-Up Tip #4: There are no super heroes The superheroes you have in your mind [idols, titans, billionaiers, etc] are nearly all walking flaws who have maximized 1 or 2 strengths. Humans are imperfect creatures.
Start-Up Tip #3: Adopt a producer mindset When was the last time you created something? Wrote something from a blank page? Drew something from a blank canvas?
Appeal first to your customer's heart and you will have a customer for life. We live in a product flogging world. Products are pushed at us. Technology rains down on us through mass communications. We are bombarded with adverts, billboards, tweets, text messages, tv ads, newspaper ads, everywhere you look is adverts.
Entrepreneurs obsess with growing big. They obsess with the number of users, number of sign-ups, number of registrations, number of followers, number of branches all over the country or continent. They adopt the attitude of “If we build it, they will come.” Seldom do they talk about profitability. It is assumed that if we can…
Show up, do the work, and go home. That blue collar work ethic married to indomitable will. It is that simple. Nothing interferes. Nothing can sway you from your purpose. Once the decision is made to adopt a patience approach, simply refuse to budge. Refuse to compromise. Accept that quality long-term results require quality long-term…
We all get frustrated. I'm particularly prone to frustration when I see little or no progress after several weeks of working on something new. Dealing with the temporary frustration of not making progress is an integral part of the path towards excellence. In fact, it is essential and something that every single elite athlete has…
The StartUp Revolution: IE Workshop (Innovation and Entrepreneurship) is our 4th Annual Entrepreneurship Workshop. Last year we hosted 20 exceptional entrepreneurs and thought-leaders. The content changes and is updated every year, if you attended the previous workshops, even more reasons to attend this year's workshop. This year is going better: New thinking in imagining the…
The thing with being a spectator is that, at some point you become critical. In the long run a spectator becomes a critic. Not just an ordinary critic, but an angry bird. You can’t be a player and a spectator at the same time. Just like it's not good manners to eat and talk at…
