If you’ve been following this blog, you will know that to get lucky, you must open yourself up to as many new opportunities as possible. Keeping your eyes open to see any changes that can lead to new opportunities and listening to as many people as possible to hear new points of view that can [...]
In my last post I wrote about people fighting change by signing a petition to get Facebook to drop their new interface and go back to what everyone is already “used to”. This article is going to describe the five basic types of consumers when it comes to adopting new products or change: Innovators – [...]
This is part 1 of a 2 part series on change. I got an invitation yesterday to join a group on Facebook called “Petition Against the “New Facebook”. I was not surprised in the least to get this invitation because: a) People make groups on Facebook for everything. and b)  People in general [...]
I recently read an article about Steven Jobs from Apple that joked about Steven having a plaque on his desk that read “my way or the highway”. The article gave Jobs a lot of credit and called him a genius but they  mentioned that he has gotten himself into a little bit of trouble with [...]
I have come to the realization that there comes a point in everybody’s life that they say “I am happy with where I am” and they just stop moving forward. The last two articles I wrote were about keeping up with change, this article is about continuing to change. A little while ago I was [...]
Yesterday I wrote an article about keeping up with change and not relying on what your father did before you or his father before that. I feel very strongly so I am going to write another post or two on the subject. In the last article I wrote about how people mismanage their businesses by [...]
Have you ever heard someone say something to the effect of “it’s worked for me this long, it will continue to work” or “my father did this, my grandfather did this, his father did this and so on”? In life there are many things that if you want to accomplish, you just have to find [...]