Tag: Persistence

The dirty little secret about free career coaching

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The top quotation is all I suggest in this photo

 

page from Icarus Deception
The last sentence is all I suggest in this photo

 

Fear helps us survive in the wild.

Not so much in business.

The dirty little secret about free career coaching.

We are the coach. And, it ain’t free.

It must be paid for with time and effort to conquer our fears.

This will last until we die.

It’s very expensive in effort and focus.

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The only thing easier than simply thinking up crazy ideas is this

clever Canadian bicycle shop doorway
quitting steals our success like a (bicycle) thief

 

The only thing easier than simply thinking up crazy ideas is this – abandoning them:

  • without ever trying
  • shortly after getting started
  • just a short unseen distance from a breakthrough

Crazy how that works. Knowing this, you’d think our strategy would be to never quit.

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Overnight Success? Whatever.

Overnight success? Whatever.
If I had something novel...I might be able to crack the market...

Was at One Man’s Dream the other night and was (re)inspired by Walt Disney’s amazing struggle to become successful. So much of a great success like Walt’s seems magical and wonderful. Reading the captions from the historic photos reminded me it’s anything but.

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