Month: July 2010

The best time to start a new business is now. When everybody is moaning and groaning about how bad things are and how this economy is and how high the unemployment is they are looking down at their shoes.
If anyone has a new idea people will gravitate toward it like crazy. NObody likes to look down and anybody who looks up and moves will get noticed big time.

A new business is a ray of hope and that is what people want when things are seemingly bad and getting worse. That is when to strike and hit and run and go. Now now now is the best time. There is no better time than than now. If twenty people believed that , things would change dramatically overnight. Hope inspires movement and growth and that creates momentum.

The entire economy is built on a wave of people acting the same way. Everybody does not think this is a good time to move so no one does. Everybody thinks this is a good time to move and everybody does. Everybody is just you and me times a million. That is all just a bunch of folks who believe one thing or another.

New Business= Best time is now

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People that are expecting something to happen usually are right. People that expect things to go well are usually right. People that expect things to go wrong are usually right too.

What is the power of expecting?

I know for a fact that I am more likely to respond to somebody who is open and alive and excited about living than someone who is not. It is too much work to get to know someone who is not sitting there expecting something great to happen. I love being next to somebody who is looking at the door of opportunity and has wide open eyes in expectation of something big to walk right through that door.

Now my question is – is everybody else like me? Well what do you think?

Non-expecting people suck energy out of a room. Yup. And people jumping out of their skin with expectation are like a screaming energy source. Is that just for me?  Heck no, it is for everybody on planet earth.

Therefore go forth and expect great things and give what you got back to every body who has the extreme pleasure of knowing you!!

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You just never know when things will change./ Whatever is going on right now we think it will never stop. That is because there is a hint of eternal in every second.

Last night a friend died. He was here and now he is gone.  He was healthy and no one expects a 56 year old who is totally healthy to have a massive heart attack and be dead in five minutes.

Everything is eternally happening all the time.

We never expect things to change till they do and then we are shocked out of out wits. But it was there all along.
Therefore, don’t think you have forever now. Forever now could be forever then in one second.

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Was the depression a bad time to build a Grand Coulee Dam?? No it was the best time. It employed thousands of people and town was created that was not there before. And the electricity made there powered houses all over the country. From then on.

We got to visit there and had an inspirational time.

What a big idea, what a lot of cement. This is all before all the modern equipment that they have today. It is like a cathedral. It took several lifetimes to built them yet they were built.

We are a spoiled society now. We want everything now. We want everything to make money now now now. for the short-term gain.

Get in and Get out. Flip houses. like pancakes.

I like to think about the ideas that required so much vision and sacrifice that you who thought of the idea probably would  not see the end result.

Nobody  thinks like that anymore, We are getting to be more and more of a tabloid society,

Why am I going on about this and what does this have to do with what I usually talk about.???

Everything. Purpose that is beyond your life is a hard thing to think about. You want to have left something for others when you live. You want your art to last and have value long after you are gone. Whatever your art is. What a gift it is to see something that is still wonderful after years and years and years.

there is a great video on youtube of 4 guys on treadmills singing and dancing to a song they wrote. they are ok go.

I love that name. Its like get on your mark, get ready, go.

Now I like to play what if with ok go.

What if every idea you had you immediately did?

What if you had no time for fear of failure??

What if you had no one to stop you but yourself??

All of the above can be true and doable if you do these three things. Ask yourself

What is the biggest brightest idea you ever had. What is the most impractical idea, What is the most logical idea.

Mix them together and ok go.