Freedomizing

Precursor, I'm writing this with my phone at a stealership  while my "covered" oil gets changed. So grammar might be worse than normal! Egos are a necessary concept in capitalism, you must have a reasonable amount of Ego in order to believe in yourself to promote your services in trade for dollars. If we had no egos you would be quick to admitting there are plenty of people that can do exactly what you do better, faster, cheaper, fill in the blank. However our ego gives us the sales pitch necessary to grow, to chalange and to believe in ourselves that we indeed are the best with a fill in the blank with a qualifier. I had a coworker just the other day say that she is the best Rep the company has to offer, yet quantitatively I had statistics that proved her incorrect. Her response was simple and egotistical, an excuse followed by a qualifier. She believed due to ego that she indeed is the best Rep, and by her qualifiying statement because it was a immeasurable statement ...

There are so many hurdles when starting a new business, you have to keep your focus. Easiest way to keep your focus is to change your perspective every now and then. Get out and get some exercise, hit the gym harder than you ever have, loose your mind in a game of basketball, racquetball, cycling, what ever it takes to wash your mind with endorphins so you can come back to the drawing table energized and free thinking.  Reach out to your trusted advisors, surround yourself with people that understand, and as for your friends and family, truly they are your first sale. If you can't sell them on the idea, (and they are fit to benefit from said idea, in other words, understand what you are doing) the market is going to chew you up and spit you out. Get the "rip the bandaid off" critisisms from family and friends, don't allow them to bring out the "kiddy gloves" have them rip holes in your dreams and aspirations of this new business. Then hit the gym, get the...

Not really much different than insanity! Do the same thing again and again and expect a different result defines insanity. Claiming that you have 10 years experience or 30 years expierence, but you've done the same thing year after year, that's not expierence that's insanity! Switch it up, learn new things, apply different perspective to what you are doing, "disrupt" your industry, or at least your clients. Be different, create different, create years of expierence! These are all coming to mind as I move forward on my newest business adventure.

I've taken quite a few risks in my time, and generally speaking I'd say I run along the same concept that 80% of business' fail in the first three years. So in theory, I'd say I've gone off on tangents of small business ideas probably about 9 times with 8 failures, 1 success. I'm due damnit! :-) So when a business idea comes to mind, I'm gonna go for it. It happened to be that that business idea came to fruition over the last week. The 1 in nine business' that was successful of mine, I dove in and didn't listen to the nay sayers, failure after failure, hardship after hardship, I had no choice but to keep going. And now that business, while very small, is finely tuned, and will theoretically supply for my family for the rest of our lives. I believe that it takes that type of gumption to have success in business, that and a lot of luck! But you can make your own luck, and it's time I started making my own luck. It started today with a website, It...

The ideal job comes up and you are looking to move up the latter in your company ... Now what? First things first, evaluate the position, is it something you want, and something you could succeed in? Upward mobility or moving you into a dark hole with no options. An example would be a highly specialized position that gives you a slight pay raise but once you are trained in that position you are effectively irreplaceable, thus they can't move you and the position may not be worth much more than they are offering in the first place. On the other hand it may be a position that is going to train you and give you experience in something many other companies are seeking, thus creating leverage and the sky's the limit if you become successful in said position. Once you have established the job is something you are looking for, ask for help! This is something that is so often looked over, so easily forgotten, and such a shoe in for a +1 prior to interviewing. In my opinion when looking...

In this politically charged cycle of the world one must take the time to decifer the bull shit from fact. And good effin' luck with that! So instead of trying to base your discussions and this is true based on all discussions just happens to be that politics is so "in everyone's face" right now that it is an easy target. The first concept to winning in a conversation is to have it! Having a good conversation is a win no matter what the result. Simply discussing, exploring, using conversation to both learn and educate will help both parties in the discussion assuming that's what it is, a discussion. Common sense would state that you must listen half the time in order to have a good discussion, I happen to disagree, and really you must listen 93% of the time. This assumption is based on the idea that you can listen with your eyes, it has been said that 55% of communication is rendered non-verbal, and another 38% is tone. I have the privilege of knowing some really...

Hammering a ride in the mountains I came to the realization that I will never be that good at anything physical. Which was kind of a bummer to admit to myself. However, on the same note I was high as a kite on endorphins for hours afterwords which proved to me that personal goals and aspirations are far more powerful than the beating of your peer. While we do live in a very competitive world, we must first understand our limitations, and then secondly grasp at our own convictions of success. What drove me up the mountain that day was competition to beat as many people as I could on "Strava" what will keep me riding is the data that I am improving. Utilizing the external forces of competition to your advantage can be a very uplifting way of pushing your very own limits. The dreadful realization that I am not even a top decile rider in the state was uplifting because I am not a top decile rider in the state, thus, never could I compete at a level that would ever be worth a nick...