Ambition: Why Some People Are Most Likely to Succeed…
this is a great article from Time.com; well worth reading…
For every person consumed with the need to achieve, there’s someone content to accept whatever life brings. For everyone who chooses the 80-hour workweek, there’s someone punching out at 5. Men and women — so it’s said — express ambition differently; so do Americans and Europeans, baby boomers and Gen Xers, the middle class and the well-to-do. Even among the manifestly motivated, there are degrees of ambition…
Wealth by Marketing… what an entrepreneurial way to do it!
A quick one today…
I have just enrolled in a 1-day event called “Wealth from Marketing”, so I thought I would share it with you also…
This event is bringing together 3 marketing legends including:
* Jay Conrad Levinson – the father of Guerrilla Marketing and
* Joel Roberts, one of the best Media & Communications experts in the world.
It’s a once-in-a-lifetime event. If you want to join me, I have organised a free ticket for you, valued at $597.
Just click on the link below to get your tickets, with my compliments:
http://www.wealthfrommarketing.com.au/?af=CLO2037965
I hope to see you there
DeniseHall
the entrepreneurial mother®
Focus and brilliant execution…so much more effective than a Big Idea!
The Fallacy of the Great Idea By Trevor Ginn for ChangeThis.com is right on the money. Not only will focus and brilliant execution get you a long way, being bold and opportunistic will get you that much further again. None of which require a Big Idea, just lots of small adapted ones, that keep you progressing towards your ultimate whatever!
Many entrepreneurs feel that they cannot start a business without a great idea. They believe it will be impossible to succeed without a completely new concept, as the market will already be cornered by established businesses. Only by venturing into uncharted territory can they achieve their dreams. This is the fallacy of the great idea.
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The simple truth is that it is quite possible to create a thriving business without a big idea. In fact, starting up with a tried and tested concept is very sensible. The real key to success is focus and brilliant execution. Yes, the world needs people with grand ideas who are willing to take big risks to further progress, but the world also needs small businesses creating jobs, and entrepreneurs should not be embarrassed about not having a claim on originality… read on
trends…from a consumers point of view
A little while back, trendwatching.com gave us a light-hearted yet insight-heavy video edition of their trend report, featuring consumers from all over the world speaking their minds on a variety of trend topics. After all, one consumer video sometimes says more than a 20-page Trend Briefing 
Enjoy!
Source: www.trendwatching.com. One of the world’s leading trend firms, trendwatching.com sends out its free, monthly Trend Briefings to more than 160,000 subscribers worldwide.
DREAM, DARE, DO!
…another gem by Ben Tiggelaar for ChangeThis.com
What does it take to go from Dream to Dare and, eventually, Do? What are the secrets of real and lasting change?
You know exactly how it feels: you are frustrated, angry and unhappy. It’s time to make that change. It’s time to improve your relationships, start your own business, get that promotion, lose that weight, get those abs tuned, stop smoking, see your friends more often, start saving for your kids education, start applying for a different job… etc,etc.
Good luck! You will need it, because the odds are against you.
Of all people who consciously start personal change, more than 80% will have returned to their old habits within two years. No wonder the world is filled with cynical people, that are still in the same job they have hated for over 10 years, still smoke 2 packs of cigarettes everyday and still spend too little time with their kids.
It’s time for change… keep reading!
Innovation Insanity is Upon Us!
another must read from the team at trendwatching.com
take notes!
We all agree that innovation is the only way to survive in an ever more global, competitive business arena. We’re talking basically anything that will get consumers spending, and preferably the kind of spending that involves sustainable goods, services and experiences.
And since everyone from Seth Godin to the Harvard Business Review is providing you with excellent, inspiring insights and theory on innovation as a mindset, a process, a way of life, we’d like to contribute to the conversation with examples of actual B2C innovations. Tons of ‘em.
As we see it:
INNOVATION INSANITY | There will never be a shortage of smart new ventures, brands, goods and services that deliver on consumers’ wants and needs. In fact, with the entire world now engaged in creative destruction, INNOVATION INSANITY is upon us. So yes, the dozens of innovations we’ve rounded up for this briefing, courtesy of our sister-site Springwise, are just the tip of the iceberg. Invent, improve, copy… or perish.
The link between INNOVATION INSANITY and consumer trends? As focused as we are on emerging consumer trends, we never tire of pointing out that trends are only good for one thing: inspiring you to innovate, to come up with new goods, services and experiences for (or even better, with) your customers… keep reading
The latest book reviews from The Keen Thinker… Tough Love!
More brain food for you…the latest from The Keen Thinker… features:
Tough Love!
Less is More
Plenitude
Exceptional Service, Exceptional Profit
Delivering Happiness
The Rational Optimist
The Why of Work
Retirement Breakthrough
Retirementology
and so much more… find them all here
The Keen Thinker is your monthly source for information on the newest business books you should be reading (both publisher recommendations and our own), current trends in business thought, advice to make your work life more successful and satisfying, music recommendations to make your work day more enjoyable, and the chance to win free books!
A Serial Entreprenuer talks about Achieving Predictable Success
For changethis.com by Les McKeown
As a serial entrepreneur who has personally launched over 40 businesses, and as a consultant and coach to hundreds of business leaders, I’ve come to realize that the ‘growth code’ is out there, in plain view for anyone who knows where to look. There is indeed a code, a pattern, a DNA if you will, to achieving predictable success. The difficulty is that because most business leaders work in a limited number of business environments during their career, they don’t have the opportunity to see the pattern recur often enough to successfully decode it….read on
There’s some fabulous stuff in this article.
Best you go make a cup of tea (or whatever tickles your fancy), sit down and have a long hard read… enjoy!
JK Rowlings… now there’s an entrepreneurial mother
even if she didn’t realise it at the time…
as JK tells it…
An easy life? Between 1993 and 1997 I did the job of two parents, qualified and then worked as a secondary school teacher, wrote one and a half novels and did the planning for a further five. For a while, I was clinically depressed. To be told, over and over again, that I was feckless, lazy — even immoral — did not help.
Is this resonating with you?
It did me, hence why I’ve blogged about it.
The fact remains that the first time I ever met my recently retired accountant, he put it to me point-blank: would I organise my money around my life, or my life around my money?
What a great question.
Seriously think about that one, and if you can truly answer it to your satisfaction, then good on you. This in some respects in the essence of being an entrepreneurial mother…
JK, if I ever get to meet you, I’ll certainly thank you for sharing on this gem of wisdom.
Whilst the bulk of the article is politically driven, it’s worth a read it you want to understand some of the finer detail around the UK system of “benefits”. My hope is that you don’t know it, or any variation, to intimately. Or if you do, now might just be the time to start your own entrepreneurial mother journey…
Want to know more? here’s where to go
http://www.theentrepreneurialmother.com
Enterprise by Tom Peters…
by Tom Peters for ChangeThis.com
Enterprise* (*at its best):
An emotional, vital, innovative, joyful, creative, entrepreneurial endeavor that maximizes individuals’ growth and elicits maximum concerted human potential in the wholehearted service of others.
On the one hand, this definition is pretty high-stepping. Idealistic beyond the realm of common sense. But examine it … one word at a time.
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