Project Planning 4 Entreprenuers –”Fail to Plan, Plan to Fail”

When in a corporate environment planning is the key to accountability and execution. If things are not planned for they have a tendency to have “unforeseen” possibilities and delays.

Well you’re not a corporation but you may spend more time than needed surfing the web or doing other things. You can wake up in the morning and check mails, surf by accident, and then by lunch time you’re ready to do some work. At this time you have to spend a while catching up where you are on everything and figure the best way forward for the day.

Planning with a planner can save you the time floundering by caching some of the vital planning and analysis already done by you. You don’t have to spend the next morning the same way if you have planned and know exactly where you are and what needs to be completed to keep you on schedule. In other words, you can get up in the morning and continue on the planned path.

I like to use two systems. A general planner that breaks down everything I need to do into sizable chunks of months, weeks or days.
And a another weekly planner for finer details in “Traffic Light System.” Tasks to be completed for the week are in Green, Amber are those task that are in process and I’m awaiting a response etc.. and the Red for tasks completed. I develop the system in a word document or Excel document and then easily move tasks from one area to another.

This should keep you on track and motivated about the items that will continue your progress.

Best of luck all. Plan ahead!

Back Up Your Work

I thought I did not really need a system for this but I am wrong. Files are easily deleted by accident, viruses can ruin your computer and any other number of things can occur that will loose or save over your previous work. If the error lies in the new work that was saved over the older work then you are screwed.

Here’s the system I recommend

Have an external hard drive from day one of your new venture. That includes the research. I mean as soon as you’ve made the decision to start your own company.

On you hard drive create a back up folder. From which one folder from your laptop will be transferred to every two days.

Within the backup folder create two additional folders.

One folder will be labeled “old” and save your data there. The other folder should be labeled “recent.”

I suggest you rename “recent” to “oldV2″ before backing up your work. Then back up to a new folder and name it “recent”

I you do this you will always have two copies of your data. One version two days old and another one day old. This way, if you have saved a error over your most recent backup you won’t be stuck. You’ll have an older version available without the error.

The “old V” can be iterative by just changing the number to 3, 4, 5 and so on.

I recommend you back up your work every day. It seems like a pain but believe me I’ve just lost 2 weeks worth of work by saving an error over my older work and now I’m stuck with the error.

So above is the system I’ve developed to ensure this doesn’t happen to me again. If my business was up and running I would have lost two weeks worth of revenue from a downed website and had the costs of labour of reworking the site.

Understand that this applies to more than a website, a sales presentation, a business plan and so forth..

Best of luck!

Anger: A Silver Lining?

How easy is it to get really pissed off about something?

I often see, in the world, people angered by the smallest of things. Things that seem huge at the time but over the distance of a lifetime are very minute. Maybe one would go as far as to say even non-memorable: An instance in your life where you got really pissed off about something that ruined your day yet 10 years, 5 years, 2 years, a week ago seems now to matter not at all! No real emotional baggage taken with it. Amazing!

So what?

Well, if we can put into perspective our distant future while the action occurs i.e getting pissed off then we maybe able to sooth our emotions. To relax in a traffic jam or to find a learning from accidentally deleting 480 hours worth of solid continuous work!

I say this now because I face the choice of getting pissed off or I can realize that there is an alternative. There is a learning from it all. Various things like. Backing up work in separate locations in the future. Learn about new file recovery technology. Enhanced learning.

Sure I’m still breathing. I’m a freeman. I have choice. I choose happiness.

By the way the technology I am trying at the moment to recover this lost work is

http://www.filehippo.com/download_recuva

Enjoy life.

What Do You Have Before You Die?

We say that we only get one shot of this life here on Earth. Do we really live like that?

I only ask because I have a health issue with my lungs, which i’m sure will heal soon, but what if it didn’t?

What if it got worse and killed me. What if I could never breath without trouble again?

I reallise just how important my lungs are to me. A deep sense of appreciation for what they do for me. A sense I’m sure we all agree that we have. However, I can whole heartily say that I’ve never appreciated my lungs as much as I do now.

Do we punish our bodies without proper consideration for our futures? Alcohol, drugs, fast food, sweets, cigarettes, and no exercise.

Do we truly appreciate ourselves.

Let’s face it, death reminds us that we are fragile and that we never do or say what we really wanted to say or do.

Amazing life’s are led by those people closest to death. They shrug off all fears and connect with themselves and others continuously.

I vow to do the same with this life of mine. Regardless of health and money issues. To have that connection with life and have your full health and strength is truly a gift.

A shooting star kinda gift. Something we’ll only ever remember and do once.

Die having lived.

Go get it folks, go get it.

Know ThySelf “γνῶθι σεαυτόν”

It’s interesting. This journey to wealth that I am on.

Interesting because it has not at kept in line with how I thought it would run.

You know, when I began this journey, I was in a very safe environment. I had a corporate job, a beautiful fiancée, a Dalmatian and Mancunian terrier, and two spare rooms in a big house.

It’s funny. We were on a cruise-ship, at the front. It was late at night. The stars sparkled and we made a commitment to go after the dream together. It was a “Titanic Moment.”

For some reason, I thought that it would be a simple journey my partner and I would make together. I’m not exactly sure why she didn’t take the leap with me. I took a look down the line and seen heartache. I seen myself blaming her for not working with me to achieve our dreams.

I soon found out that they were my dreams. Hers were different. I think. I suppose we both went through some emotional times over the last year together. And I suppose we both felt like the other was letting us down in some way.

I made the leap alone. Now I live with my grandparents and use a back room as an office. It’s lovely. But it’s still the grandparents place. Not at all how I envisioned life only a few short months ago.

So why am I telling the world this. Some day. Some day, people are going to be interested in this journey I have taken. They’ll make similar decisions. Decisions to chase the dream. I’ve watched maybe a dozen interviews with successful entrepreneurs on a site called CMYPITCH.COM and I have to admit it helps to keep me sane.

It’s would be easy to look at this specific moment in time and say “What the hell am I doing?” but fortunately I have wisdom imparted with me from these people that have made the journey. Frequent comments from them are statements like “It’s a lonely road being an entrepreneur” “Everyone, even your family, will tell you that your mad”

Luckily I have a supportive family, but when I reminisce about the woman I loved, the woman I was prepared to spend my life. My entire life. I remember watching the cartoon “Up”, holding my woman’s hand and looking into her eyes 40 years from now. It’s a dam shame. It really is.

Luckily I found that she was not as committed as I was to our life together as I was. I was truly lucky to have found out the truth before I got married. How lucky am I?

It’s wise not to rush into things in life. Words only mean so much. Action say the rest.

Anyhow, the learning from all this is that your life will change. Your environment will change. Your time will be spent in a different way. Everything will change. So be careful. Be sure that you want the dream. Because it will more than likely change your entire life before bringing you to your landing zone. Enjoy the journey. And always remember who you are along the way. Don’t forget why you wanted it and why you were willing to sacrifice. Even when times seem low!

Best of luck on your journey. Your adventure.

By the way Know Thyself is a Greek aphorism though to be attributed to at least six ancient Greek sages including Pythagoras, Socrates and Heraclitus. Rest assured the journey you are on is one that other great men have traveled.

What is Reality?

Funny question is this one.

We can often perceive our reality as a what our external environment shows us.

So if you’ve no money, no job and prospects for an up and coming shot at the big time seem a little dim, be sure to realize in your head, what exactly is your reality.

When Donal Trump set out on his mission to develop a five star hotel in socioeconomic deprived area, do you think he looked around and said there was no hope?

How about Edison when he wanted to create man made light. Do you think he thought there is no hope for me, my friends laugh at me?

How about Nelson Mandela? Do you think he seem himself as a prisoner with no future after the first 20 years locked in a cell 6ft long?

Your reality is not what you see on the outside, it’s what you see and believe on the inside.

When you are ready to change your external world, you must begin by changing the inside world. I don’t mean pay notice to it. I don’t mean try to positively affirm alternative things in your life.

You can’t say to yourself everyone likes me and expect everyone to like you. Saying something and realizing the need for a change does not mean that your world will change for you. You must become who everyone likes through the proactive giving of your time and energy, if being liked by everyone is what you want.

The concept applies to every facet of life. What you want, you must earn through the change in your own life. A change in the direction towards obtaining your true desires and wishes.

Act Now folks. It’s the only time it can happen for you. It’s your only doorway to parallel world you wish to live. Act Now Always.

Trust Your Entreprenuerial DNA

This is a great article about the law of attraction and works in our lives. There were five core beliefs of a good entrepreneur.

1) It’s never to late for a new beginning
2) Be real and gain trust
3) Take smart risks
4) Pay attention to serendipity
5) Take time to think

Release your self from your self limitations. Those thoughts in your head that say that I don’t know how, I can’t, I’m too old, I’m not smart enough, whatever your self imposed barrier is shrug it off. See life through I’ve accomplished it already mindset. Do this and everything seems to just fall in place

“Trust in faith, you don’t have to see the whole staircase, just take the first step”
—– Martin Luther King Jr

I think making the jump, as I call it, the most freeing of all the human experiences. It means that you’ve finally taken responsibility to explode through the layer of impossibilities and inabilities that the secret societal storytellers of human history have glued across the eye of mans consciousness.

It’s a beautiful world every. Every moment off it. Engage yourself in your life. Let your truth set you free.

Reference to: http://www.womenentrepreneur.com/2010/03/trust-your-entrepreneurial-dna.html

Shhhhh I’m a secret.

This is what we tend to do each day. We keep ourselves not only from the world but also from ourselves.

We have grown up pretending to be this or that. Protecting this identity that we think we are.

We don’t realise that in time and space we are a constantly evolving: a changing entity.

That it is illogical for us to defend who we are because we may not be who we were just a short time ago.

If we continue to defend who “we think we are” then we continue to defend who we “were”, without just notice to who we “are” just now.

There’s a chance that we could be defending a character or identity that was developed as a child, one type of insecurity screen that filters everything through our consciousness before being admitted into our subconscious.

We imprison ourselves from learning more about who we “are” when we defend who we “were.” Progression and enlightenment can not occur in a mind that thinks that it knows all it needs to know about a subject.There are always more new ways at looking at something with the gaining of more experience we witness in our own life’s this truth. We see that how we used to feel about certain subject changed as we grew older and wiser.

Major breakthroughs in my life using this philosophy recently. I am being thanked and finding so much more love in my life because I am destroying the screens that I’ve created through my life. I am stopping the filtering process and allowing me to be me. Others in my life, three specifically, each have experienced a renewal and rebirth along with my journey.

Literally, I am creating my environment. It is manifesting into the vision I desire.

The very important note to all of this is that: I did not realize that the manifestation of my desired vision or state would also mean that does people around me would also change in accordance to how I want my relationship to be with them. In other words, they are changing into the people I envisioned them being. They go through a change. I thought previously that It would be my perception that would change but I’m wrong, they are actually changing into alignment.

Powerful stuff……try study, ask your own questions before responding or judging. I’ve nothing to prove. So an attack or a defensive result caused from reading this will solely be your own emotions not mine. They are your responsibility.

If stuff intrigues you head over to Jerry Stocking. The awakening web. Him along with movies like the secret, what the bleep do we know and BBC’s The century of the self, Barnay, Sigmund Freud, Carl Jung and most importantly the real people…..The Baka People: People of the Forest.

I hope this helps in your journey of self discovery. It’s instrumental to mine.

Go Get Em

Don’t Tell Anyone

You know what it’s like to keep a secret?

Maybe it’s just me but have you ever felt like when you want to tell the truth about something you can’t. Either it will hurt their feelings or they wouldn’t understand or simply don’t want to know. It’s almost like you’ve to keep the truth a secret.

I started out this blog to guide those who want to follow a journey to wealth. A key to it all or a system that has worked. Not one thrown together after it has worked just to sell books or courses.

Anyhow, there is just so much to learn. It’s almost like I can’t explain it.

I’ve studies Roman History, Christainity, The Masons, The Illuminate, Plato, Napolean Hill and the list goes on right.

But the learning or path that someone must take may be very different because they will only be receptive to certain learnings when they are ready for them.

There’s no point in me discussing the String theory with someone that has not knowledge or desire to learn anything about quantum mechanics.

The answer to life’s questions I believe all reside in the below theory