While fighting for attention, new customers, a job, a collaboration, you will have to stand out from the crowd. If everyone chose to do what everyone else is doing then it would all be up to chance. Leaving things to chance is the worst thing you can do. If you want to succeed you have got to …
Monthly Archives: March 2012
Assume responsibility
This is one of the best things you can do. Once you fail take full responsibility for it and for your actions. Don’t try to find excuses, don’t try to see only the good part in it, and most of all don’t ignore it. I have seen companies ignoring the mistakes they made or even worse, refusing to assume responsibility. …
Changing your routine
People tend to build a routine. It consist of what you do when you wake up in the morning, have coffee, get ready to leave, the road/ route to work, starting your work, finishing work and going back home or going out. Doing the same things over and over again. The advantage is that by …
Supporting your local businesses
People would go to the local supermarket to save 1 dollar instead of going to the local store owned by someone from the community. People would rather buy clothes from a big fashion retailer just because of its brand, even if they could get the same or even a better quality for a local brand which …
Work vs play time
In the dream case scenario, people love their work, everything is fun, they play all day long doing what they enjoy. In real life, no matter how much you love your work there are always things that you don’t enjoy that much, things that you are afraid to do, but go ahead and do them …
If you…
make a promise be sure to keep it. have a dream follow it to the end. make a mistake admit it and learn from it. fear something go do it. Now! fall, get up and try again, fail, fall, get up. make a commitment to deliver then do it, and do it on time. Everything you …
What makes you memorable
That is going to be the key to our success. This is the element you have to focus your attention, time and skills on. Being memorable will make the difference between you having to fight for everyone else’s attention and having everyone else fighting for your attention; it will make you stand out in the crowd. Don’t …
A thing Elvis once told me
On a late Saturday night while having an interesting conversation about the future of the world and the human race, political systems, technology, marketing, motivation, authenticity, leadership and relationships, Elvis told me something that stuck with me. Even if it’s not something new, it’s something everyone who is an achiever, who has high goals and wants to …
What people pay extra for
Someone buying a bottle of wine from the supermarket will pay 10$ for it. If they go to a restaurant they will pay for the same bottle 30$. Still, I never heard someone complain about the price of the wine bottles in restaurants. While in the example above people will pay more for a product …
Talking about success
As I said before in Success vs happiness, success can be personal or social. Even if personal success is the one more likely to bring you happiness, social success comes with a lot of benefits. Successful people are always in the spotlight (getting a lot of attention which feeds their ego), get more offers of collaboration …