You can get what you want in life if you help others get what they want.
If nobody will pay you to do what you love, you have a hobby, not a career.
Too many people dream too small. Remember, you’ll never achieve more than you think you can. So create a big dream.
Today’s post is about five lessons I learned from the book The One Minute Entrepreneur: The Secret to Creating and Sustaining a Successful Business
authored by Ken Blanchard and Don Hutson. I got the book for P100 in one of National’s booksale. It is originally priced at P845 so I really got a bargain.
The book is an easy read. True to its title, it will really take a few or more minutes to complete a chapter. The learnings are presented thru the story of a couple who started their own business.
Don’t stress yourself trying to learn things on your own. Ask someone who knows about it.
Mentors will always tell me “do what you love and you never have to work for the rest of your life”. Well, that is not entirely true. These mentors missed the part that people should pay you for doing that thing that you love to do.
If people won’t then it is time to look and reassess the things you love to do and do whatever it is the people will pay you. You will lead yourself to bankruptcy if you do not earn doing that thing you love to do.
Same thing with quotes. There are quotes that really helped me turn my emotional state of mind from being pessimistic to optimistic just by rereading the quotes. I also took a further step and printed those that really motivates me. I have some in my bedroom and work station. Whenever occasion calls for it, I read them aloud just to remind myself what I need to do.
When I was a kid, it is so easy for me to do pretend play. Let my imagination run wild and think of things that might not physically exist yet. However, as I grow older, that skill disappeared.
So now, every once in a while, I do what I have read from the Personal Excellence blog. If I can do anything (no ifs, no buts) what will I do?
Success lives in the effort, in the experience, in the learning, in the growing, not in the rewards
P.S. One of my goals for 2013 is to complete reading twelve books. Minimum. If you haven't read the other posts, sharing the links below
If nobody will pay you to do what you love, you have a hobby, not a career.
Too many people dream too small. Remember, you’ll never achieve more than you think you can. So create a big dream.
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Today’s post is about five lessons I learned from the book The One Minute Entrepreneur: The Secret to Creating and Sustaining a Successful Business
authored by Ken Blanchard and Don Hutson. I got the book for P100 in one of National’s booksale. It is originally priced at P845 so I really got a bargain.The book is an easy read. True to its title, it will really take a few or more minutes to complete a chapter. The learnings are presented thru the story of a couple who started their own business.
Takeaways
Associate with people you admire and can learn from
If you learn something, learn it from someone who already did it. One with experience doing what it is you wanted to do. That is the quickest way to learn.Don’t stress yourself trying to learn things on your own. Ask someone who knows about it.
You can get what you want in life if you help others get what they want
This is the same lesson I got reading the book “How to Win Friends and Influence People” which I have written here. Two different books with the same message. Coincidence? I don’t know but it must be working.If nobody will pay you to do what you love, you have a hobby, not a career
This is the second time I encountered this phrase. I heard it first from one of the podcasts my wife was listening to and I absolutely agree to this statement.Mentors will always tell me “do what you love and you never have to work for the rest of your life”. Well, that is not entirely true. These mentors missed the part that people should pay you for doing that thing that you love to do.
If people won’t then it is time to look and reassess the things you love to do and do whatever it is the people will pay you. You will lead yourself to bankruptcy if you do not earn doing that thing you love to do.
Keep a notebook of the wisdom you read, hear and learn and distill that learning into One Minute Insights
This I am now doing. I don’t do this before and I realized that having a journal where I write all the learnings help me remember them and go back whenever necessary.Same thing with quotes. There are quotes that really helped me turn my emotional state of mind from being pessimistic to optimistic just by rereading the quotes. I also took a further step and printed those that really motivates me. I have some in my bedroom and work station. Whenever occasion calls for it, I read them aloud just to remind myself what I need to do.
Too many people dream too small. Remember, you’ll never achieve more than you think you can. So create a big dream.
This is a never ending goal for me.When I was a kid, it is so easy for me to do pretend play. Let my imagination run wild and think of things that might not physically exist yet. However, as I grow older, that skill disappeared.
So now, every once in a while, I do what I have read from the Personal Excellence blog. If I can do anything (no ifs, no buts) what will I do?
Success lives in the effort, in the experience, in the learning, in the growing, not in the rewards
P.S. One of my goals for 2013 is to complete reading twelve books. Minimum. If you haven't read the other posts, sharing the links below
- The Happiness Project
- The Secrets of the Millionaire Mind
- The Winning Attitude
- How to Work a Room
- The Coffee House Investor
- Eat That Frog!
- Awaken the Giant Within
- Fish! Omnibus
- How to Win Friends and Influence People
- The Milionaire Next Door
Summary
- Associated with people you admire and can learn from
- You can get what you want if you help others get what they want
- If nobody will pay you to do what you love, you have a hobby, not a career
- Keep a notebook of wisdom you hear, read and learn
- Dream Big
