Be like the eagle

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1.  Fly alone like the eagle

2.  Have a vision.   Look far away.  Think long term.

3.  Eagles are fearless..     

4.  Eagles are tenacious

5.  Dont eat dead things.  

6.  Prepare the young, leave comfort zone

7. They possess vitality

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A wonderful song to remind how great this day is, and anticipate the best, and be the best....

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Very motivating.   Evokes spirit (that we are divine that the Lord is in us) that we are capable of great things and even miracles (God made us in in his image and likeness)

You just call out its name: Money flows into me effortlessly.

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By Florence Shinn studied metaphysics

.  You words are your wand.      You command money.      "Infinite spirit come to me and fill me with abundance."  I release every word about block I have in my.   life.  

Money is symbol of infinite abundance.    Endless supply.  

   Affirmation does not happen because there is a block, and it cancels every positive you have.    Cancel the negative within you.  Change your story.  

    Money has spirit.    

   Denying( the block)   and affirming abundance....

I now release every thought of lack. Every belief in limitation. Every word I have ever spoken against my own abundance. They are dissolved they are gone. I am free Infinite spirit open the way for my immediate and endless supply. Let all that is mine by divine right now reach me in great avalanche in abundance. I give thanks for my immediate and endless supply. Not someday Now. Not limited. Endless.

Discipline attracts, keep money, not merely studying and working hard

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It was not part of our training early on.  

Thus having money by inheritance, or by luck (lotto) will not assure that we will keep that money      

Challenge yourself everyday, be better than before.

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This is the essence of the site:   how to be better than before.   WE call this by other names:   self improvement, personal improvement....

The art of thinking ahead - reverse engineering, anticipation; begin with the end in mind

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You cant be reactive, you must plan ahead and anticipate ahead.   Some say that to know the future, you cant wait for it, YOU MUST CREATE IT.

Its like chess game.   As beginner, you select one move which you think will beat the opponent;   a pro will think of 3 to 5 moves the other party will make to beat you.   Thus you need chessboard type of thinking.    You should get paid for the 2nd third 3rd order thinking.    Predict what the counter move of your boss, and other internal and external factors.  

Anticipate.    Be proactive.  Reaction will not get you far

The idea is to reverse engineer the whole process -  the goal setting, of what you want to be.

In most companies, to follow this rule, you have to create the final press release for the launch.  You have to establish with microscopic clarity 1.  how to remove the pain, 2.  how the product willl be outstanding.  

The amateurs will not be able to do this:

1.  This involves two things:

      1.  The planning part

      2   The reality of execution.

Business reality will tear down your plan:   competitors, the regulators,  your own board that changes its mind....

Think long term..  Go scenario mapping.  What if.....

Should making wealth be the only reason a man a man desiring success work hard for?

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It would seem so that is why men franntically study hard, put up businesses, run for govt offices -  to be wealthy, wealthier than others, grandiously wealthier than others.  It would seem to be the only definition that men have for success -  to make and accumulate more money.

However that seems to be a dangerous purpose, and serves as a reason why the statement that money is the root of all evil is relevant.   Hence corruption, crimes become a byproduct of that sense of mission to accumulate wealth

This post suggests as others have been saying that our real purpose is to advance humanity.  To make a better world,  To make a dent in the universe.   

We exist for others.  We must discover our gift, cultivate it sharpen it and use this for the benefit of others.  That is why Buffett, the wife of Bezos, the founder of Duty Free, Bill Gates do nothing except to give away their wealth.  Harrison Ford bought a  USD 30 million, hospital for the benefit of the poor people

Our politicians our country leaders here think it is their mission to plunder and steal trillions of taxes.   They should go to jail...

Give man power and wealth - this is the best way to test him/her

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That is what sages say.

I gave an understudy the title of chief, and made him incorporate  for the pupose of wealth accumulation.  Howver one of the core staff, a founder also found himself without shares and was complaining that he could be left out  with no share in the founding of the firm, while he was doing all the hard pioneering work.    He long have asked him to clarify this and said he would not fool anyone.  

But when time passes by, everything said is forgotten and when everything passes, agreements in the past are forgotten and memories dim.

I was witness to a family drama where a son said a car dealership was bequeathed to him by the mama.  But in the end the elder brother showed the articles of incorporation which did not show anything of that sor..

Can people be trusted to keep their word,  and or that the incident all ready told me everything about the understudy?

A lot more has to be done in terms of self development

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I have a business protege whom I thought will inherit the knowledge about business.  But I noticed some weaknesses that need to be addrressed:

     1. He seeks and wait for permission.   He constantly needs to be followed up;

     2. He threfore needs reassurance and instruction, and hesitates when problem comes up;

     3.  He lacks focus and seems to be as a young person concerned with many other things:   avocation,

          friends;

    4.  He needs a lot of things to understand more in business.

I hope and pray he will improve further

Wealth is not a result of pursuit, wealth comes to you because of reframed identity

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1.  Wealth is something not pursued, it comes to you. becomes of your identity - YOUR MINDSET.

     Wealth will leak out if your identity is not matched with the laws of universe

2.  Wealth is not result of luck or hard work or external environment

3.  Two things at work:   abundance and scarcity

4.  What happens when there is scarcity:  

     1.  You are not calm;

     2.  You react to events rather proactively/ creatively

     3.  Your mindset is in a closed loop and rejects new things;  you act because of safety

5.  Wealth frequency:

    1.  Thougts words and action are aligned.

    2.  Steadiness is your baseline frequency

    3. With scarcity comes seeking money to relieve anxiety..

    4.  Wealth frequency is about delayed gratification

    5.  With wealth frequency comes patience and not giving up and taking the long view.    

6.  Wealth comes to you because your identity is aligned with the Universe.

7.  Your identity defines the outcome (your self image-  psychocybernetics)     

8   You alone, not money, not inherited wealth or lotto winnings create wealth:

        1.  You spot the opportunity

        2.  You study and exploit it;

        3.  You negotiate

        4.  You act, raise funds, organize the enterprise;

        5.  You market, and operate the business

 No one else, but YOU    

You have to do it alone

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There was a story of a village who experienced drought.  Their only source of water to drink, the village well dried up.  And one of the villagers William experienced the drying up while fetching water for his old mother.   People were desperate and left the village for places where there could be sufficient water.

Desperate William went up to mountain to reflect.  He met George.  And he discussed the problem with George.  Well George said there is a spring up the mountain.  But William said it is so far away and up the mountains.  About 20 km away.  Up in the mountains  But George said you are looking for a solution to the village plight.  

And so William discussed the plan with his fellow villagers.  No one listened no one cooperated.   William was not disheartened.  He surveyed the best route for a canal between the spring and his village.  He drew the plan and made sure the elevation was right so that water would freely flow from the spring to the village.

All he had as a tool was an old rusty shovel of his deceased father.   He started digging No one bothered him nor joined him   His hands bled from peeled palm on his first day and his mother nursed his blooded hands    He kept on digging.  He dug and dug.  Days passed.  Weeks and months.

Until one day it rained heavily (good for their dried well)  and destroyed portion of his digging.  Thus the defects of his digging were exposed.  He strengthened the walls of the portion that collapsed.  Widened some portion, dug some areas deeper.  

And then he continued to dig.   Weeks, months, months  Until one day he reached the portion of the mountain that was near the spring.  But an immovable large boulder separated his canal and  spring.  His shovel seemed puny compared to the boulder.   He struck the boulder  again and again.   But his effort seemed to be worthless.  He struck the rock again and again and again until finally a trickle, a flow and then a deluge.    And the water cascaded down to his canal....  

And then the flow stopped.  A portion had collapsed soil and rock blocking the flow.  He had to remove the blockage.   But his strength and energy seemed to have left him.    He nevertheless struggled to remove the block until early morning   And then the flow continued until it reached his village.   

At last he solved the water problem   Only then did people appreciate his effort.   But he did it alone.  People dont join you until the results are visible.       

Learning from top 0.1 of top business leaders..

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 They are advice from  Vishna.  He is author of several books

What he learned and his advice

1.  Tolerate pain.

     E.g.  Elon Musk applied at Netflix but was not invited for interview.  The best way to do this was

              to create his own company.  But the journey from there to Spacex was just like eating glass

              its painful...

2.  Know why.  Its the greater motivator (others say have assets and system but this is more permanent than systems or assets and easier to do)

            Business is not about making money.  The business of business maybe to push forward the

           frontier of humanity.  As with Navea Jain.      His vision is to extend the life of humans, not to

           get  sick

           

          Big vision gets big people, Great people come with great ideas.   You do not need more money.

3.  Stay in the vision zone

          Its not about PHP or profit

          According to Richard Branson,  its all about getting people aligned with your vision, and once

         clear make them do this...

         He served burgers to 50 interns in his house.  To get them hooked with his vision and work                     towards that

4.  Bring an upside to the downside  (from Paul McKenna)      Paying more for an apartment?  You can host parties that bring in investors and customer, and save on hotel  

     Ricihard Branson got stranded in Carribean.  on the way to UK.   He thought of getting a chartered

flight and invited others to join and split the bill.  That gave him an idea of setting up Virgin Islands airline.   So  he leased an old 747 from Boeing which they  initially refused.  Later on they agreed.   Pay the lease 30 days after.  In the meantime he earned revenues from the flight...

5.  Failure is curriculum

     From Michael Beckewith

    Kensho - learning from failure

70- 80% match for qualifications for Linked in recruitment

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I saw a number of jobs that are available all senior in nature for me.  SVP, COO, Managing Directors.  However this post dare not join for being a senior citizen (75 all ready) and I have busineses that I love that I cant leave.    This post should be the one recruiting.   

This post is glad that we have non stop self improvement actions

Setting the narrative right for lifes achievement

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Sometimes the greatest motivation for a man is his sense of achievement, ie that he developed his gift for the good of humanity.   However it was not the case for me... Although this post tried very hard to develop himself for the good of his family and the community the sense of achievement was stolen from him.  The narrative that persisted when the family assets were divided that the same was an inheritance was from the parents (true because what the documents say)and this was concretized in the tombstone.    However the rest of the heirs did not see (as they were still  in school then) the every contract, every agreement every plan, every vision, strategy originated from this post.  The father did not like business or signing agreement as he was a govt employee;  the mother could not have not done this because of limited knowledge.

The father died early, the mother feted her barkada and brod and sis to casino resto, hotels, travel abroad, as anyone who would have enough money  knows when he she has some money...

There is no gratitude from those who are benefitted from this largesse coming out of my thoughts and sweat.   The narrative was that which I supported then was that the mother was the genius and the entrepreneur.  

May the Lord bless them all

The march to progress continued even when the father died, and even when the mother died iin 2008

Personal improvement link

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Personal improvement

How do you win in a job interview?

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1.  Practice articulation (of words and thoughts)

2  Delve into the future -  what you can do solve, move on, close a deal, or a sale

    Focus on result.  Innovation, What can hapapen to the company 1 year, 2 years, 5 years hence

   Especially for high value jobs

Ads: articulation training

Challenges in dealing with family members and inheritance

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No money problems, with money bigger problems.

Some old rich say (and even late mother) say do not talk about inheritance (or give out inheritance while alive)    It will be source of quarrels and even crimes.  

If you announce inheritance, the family members simply wait for the principals to die, and no longer work nor study.   This post committed mistakes:   gave out the inheritance and announced the race for the successor..

So my family is in turmoil right now.   So follow the advice:

     1.  Be secretive dont announce your wealth

     2.  Dont announce inheritance

Alot of groups make a lot of money talking about family intramurals solutions

What kind of working relationship should you have in a business or government? Based on merit or based on relationship (SS?)

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Sciene and HR practices tell us it should be based on merit and performance.  However in practice it is based on relationship.   For most part I think our decisions on promotions, decisions preferences are based on human relations.   Thus among govts of nation, Singapore would tend to base decisions and actions based on merits and results (Meritocracy)   Govt of countrie like PHL would rely more on relationships:   hire more relatives, favor relatives and friends as suppliers.   In some cases they term it sipsip   In a family owned organization, this system prevails    Thus conflicts and quarrels arise.  Sometimes it is not the corporate goal that counts but self interest, authority, turfs, mini empires.     It is sometimes deragatory.

Both have theri upsides and downsides

Merit means stricter hiring standards, justice in evaluation   However  we are not clear and authority and power structure could be shaky.

There is dishnesty, tayo2 in relationship despite trust.     Abuse comes in.

WHAT WOULD YOU CHOOSE AS SYSTEM:   MERITOCRACY OR RELATIONSHIP

Performance based evaluation

You cant really fathom what people harbor in their hearts; even when there is a formal surrender, or on boarding, there could be defiance or resistance

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This post thought that I learned a lot of things.  But watching this video made me realize that really one of the most wondrous object of inquiry is the human being - it defies being captured in abstraction or theory.   Though in this case the officers were clearly defeated, they were defiant and what persisted is their pride, tradition,  and identity.  During the flag ceremony they gave a Hitler salute.  Patton thought this to be highly disrespectful  They were vanquished and in effect they being in their HQ, they were in US territory   

Therefore as a means to leverage and force the issue, Patton gave them a punishment.    He lined them and up gave them a choice:  remove their uniforms by themselves or the MPs will do it for them.   And will be exposed to the cold and elements.   Being in uniform gives a person dignity

You cant just talk and presumed that being vanquished in battle means that you have vanquished the spirit of man

They also found out that getting the enemies in concentration camp did not destroy the comman structure even of those outside the camps.    The Allies found out later on.     And of course the US intelligence has countermeasures

Patton gave the same threat to a nurse who refused to treat a Negro officer in a hospital because they were indoctrinated that only white people are superior race and dont deserve the care of white nurse. Patton, as shocking as theatrics it could be, threatened her to remove her uniform and clean latrines in the hospital.   

That is why it is important to build culture and tradition in your group:

    1.  Uniform

    2.  Id 

    3.  Rewards, ribbons, commendation

Then it becomes matic and more difficult to remove, deculture

Do we still have leaders like this? Who punishes petty thieves? Will he reincarnate and punish the evil big time thieves here in PHL?

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What did the late Gen Patton do to his colonels and officers whom he caught stealing the foods and rations for his troops and selling the same for profit?  

He made sure evidences were gathered, asked JAGO to file charges against them.  They were stripped of their ranks and spent time in jail....  Do we accept that in wartime, there is really a black market (for thieves?)    Do we allow that taxpayers money be stolen just like that?

Will he be reincarnated and render justice to all of us Filipinos who suffered from the super THIEVES

What will you do if you catch one of your staff who is engaged in petty thievery?  Or worse super thievery?

One thing I can conclude, Theory x though how much you try to be good to your people

3 competitive advantages

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Your competitive advantage cant be longer due from more and better talents because AI has made skills and knowledge available to everyone.   A recent post that I read said that there are 3 important competitive advantage and they come from personal improvement:

      1.  Integrity -  doing what you say, and saying what you do, are you honest, ?   Can you be trusted

      2.  Character -  are you just like one of hte popular guyrs who has 5 ladies with so many panganay

                               na ank and who tips 6 numbers for a one night stand, are you like a goon.

                               Do you have vices, are you hard working, do you wake up early are you determined

                               and persistent

     3.   Insight and/or vision -  the ability to see things in scenarios or events where all see nothing.  The 

                               ability to integrate all separate elements into one workable deal

    This post notices that in many deals, they still look for me maybe because of the 3.

 I have seen seome students in serependeity walk see businesses in crowded cbds, or see glorious big businesses in tracts of cogon grass.

For instance you see municipalities now having difficulties with solid waste and at the same time soaring electricity prices

Are you one?

Unbridled criticism of govt officials

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This post has seen posts by a relative and former staff, criticizing and ridiculing some famous or high ranking govt officials.  As of now, they can freely do this as this is a free country.   And perhaps those high ranking officials will ignore their rantings now and dismiss their nega posts about them

How they talk the personalities down is something I can not stomach.  

I rather improve myself than devote time on things I can not change.   What a waste of time and talent

But what if they are listed down and they take a revenge.  

This is one of the advice of Dale Carnegie not to condemn, criticize, or complain.

What comes, comes around and comes around hard.  Karma is real.    For every action there is an equal opposite reaction.      Someone should remind or tell them

Clarity of purpose - begin with the end in mind

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In my readings and discussion with JP last Sunday, we should be clear at the start on why you need to make money.  Without money, you have nothing to help the world become a better world.  

Thus if you ever want to be wealthy, you have to partake or use the money for the right purpose ie make the world a better place.

This has to come first rather than making money first and then donating what is excess Always the first fruit.

       Tithing...

       Scholarship

       Social welfare

       Building churches

       Spreading the word

       School room donation

We were able to do this before.  We hope to do this again till our last breath

       

Before:     (though it is wrong to announce what ever good works you are doing)

      1.  Sent poor but deserving students free on their college education -   30 in all

      2.  Established a rescure operations and patient transport - bought 2 ambulances

      3.  Bought firetrucks and established a volunteer fire brigade because there was no firetruck at that

           time in Angono

      4.  Helped finish 2 churches:   one nearby, and other in SJ del Monte

      5.  Helped and donated flood struck areas

      6.  Helped hospicio

      7.  In Taytay provided free intermetns to indigent residents of floodway

      8.  Bible donations

Amado M. Saguinsin Memorial Foundation

Jorge S

Often said Filipinos are trained to be employees to be job hunters rather than entrepreneurs

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I just watched a video decrying the fact that Chinese Bombay, Japanese, Koreans, come over to the Philippines to do business,  because they say there is a lot of money to be made in the Philippines.  And we Filipinos leave the country to what?   Work abroad as DH and as employees.  It may be in the mindset.   Chinese value being a business owner, the head of a lion rather than a hair of a dragon or elephant.

""Anak, mag aral ka para maging negosyante" Chinese"

"Anak mag aral ka para pagdating ng panahon, may maganda kang trabaho.   Fil"

Sadly again for a time, gusto ng nanay makapag Japan mga anak na babae.  (While during the Japanese occupation, parents advice their daughters to avoid Japanese because they may be assaulted)

A debate: being free and kind, or demanding respect and importance

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There are two conflicting thoughts:    one is to be kind and helpful - tell to the world.   And this post would like to live by that paradigm.  All that was given to you free shall be re given to others free .  A certain religous and ethnic group likes to live by this and are truly blessed.

However there is another point of view the Machiavellian point of view that others must give respect and honor to your unique talents and leadership.  

Which is better?

For the first one, I could not get any consultancy because I give the secret to all those who ask.  And my distinct advantage over others do not get more noticed.  Others take advantage of my generosity.  Even our business partners.   They pick my brains and then proceed to do it on their own.  No respect. No NDA

I would like to tell of a story of a business person who got the best deal out of me/us: (and  abused us)

     1.  Sued us  constantly

     2.  Made it hard to give us ROW.  It had been pending for 20 years +

     3.  Having an appointment with her takes ages and is extremely difficult

However a member of the family got critically ill and has 7 number bill at the hospital and would want me to give her aid.

Should we or not.   Or the person reaps what she has sowed

The problem with being unsuccessful is unupdated mindset

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Last year and lately I have encountered people who have not moved forward because their mindset were static

1.  A relative approached me and was looking for livelihood.   So I offered her to be an agent of a project but said it was too far away and the locals would have advantage.   So let it be   Now the project is 50 % sold out.  We have just two remaining inventories for the large lots and 50% remaining inventory for small lots.  As for the other agents who persisted they are now enjoying the fruits of their labor

2.  We offered our staff a small but substantial com for selling lots (they are salaried) and reaching targets

They have not responded positively to this

3.   There was this contractor whom I guided to have a business deal.  I helped him close the deal.  But he remained to be a guy who stood behind my pants and shadow.  He need to be reminded and followed up and lacked guts.  He was aftraid of pre selling and moving ahead.  He is awaiting for validation and approval.   At age of junior no such approval are needed..   FSA.  Full speed ahead.

Signs that the Lord is blocking money due to you unless you correct these thing

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How many times you experience that money that must come to you are being blockec becasue some of the things due you are being blocked ?   Signs

1.   Losses:    medical bills theft hound you

2    Broken financial relationships

3.  Ingratitude -  you are not happy with what you have.

Your actions must be spiritually aligned.  Not simply to be personally prosperous.  

You have to remove these blocks

1.  Are you arrogant selfish always angry?

2.  Are you entirely 100% honest and not taking advantage of others?  Are you paying your employees on time?   Your suppliers?  Your partners?

3   Are you grateful.    The tithing test  Can you give 10% prior to receving the 90%

     Each day, say thank you to the Lord each morning, Each evening, list down 10 things to be grateful to       the  Lord

     May you and your dealing be blessed by the Lord.  Act with wisdom and act with humility.  You are a co creator.  Use these learning wisely.  

Why writing down is magical and becomes real?

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A thought is just an electron, a pulse a wave of energy .  and then its gone. But when you write this down, and capture and write it down.  It becomes a particle

From the ether to physical universe. It becomes write.   When you write, the neuro transmitter fires off, the impression is in thousands of location.     (when you type there are less)

Why writing down is magical? From ether to the physcial world

Walmart bought the brains behind Jetcom to be on board ecommerce adding $80 billion to its sales

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Doug MacMillan was panicking  and ordered to buy Jet Com, headed by Mark Lor. for $3.2 billion.   Jet.com is losing money.  But it was not Jetcom that was bought.  It was the talent of Mark   Mark starts digital platform for Walmart.  (The same like NXT bought by Apple -  a ploy to bring back Steve Jobs to Apple)

Today Walmart does $80 billion in ecommerce

Walmart buys Jet.Com to join ecommerce bandwagon

Walmart

Why rejection produces the next big things

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Rejection is a billion dollar asset

Enzo Ferrari applied for a job at Alfa Romeo.  He got rejected.  So Enzo put up his own car company Ferrari. Its worth $79 billion

 Ferruzio Lamborghini complained to Ferrari about his car, and he got rejected.   Lamborghini put up his own car company.

It happened that  Horation Pagani wanted to build cars made of carbon fiber. at   He was rejected at Lamborghini.  So Pagani made his own car company

At Pagani John  Henessy asked for super engines for faster car and was rejected.  JOhn  Henessay also put up his own car company

You could be an operator, a maker and multiplier

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There are three things that you can progress through in your life:    as an operator, a maker, or a multiplier

    1.  An operator -  you follow the work rules, the job description and do what you are told;   you dare not

         venture beyond the four squares and you get your pay  8 - 5 and then you retire.  Nothing ever                     changes

    If you ever one wants to go beyond himself he must ask himself:

    1.   Does this thing challenge me?

    2.  Can this affect other mans life

    3.  Can this change the world

  2.  A maker -  an inventor, an innovator.  A participant in Genesis 1:28  Somebody who goes beyond the

       four lines.    He participates in the continuing creation.  He is out to create an impact to the world.

       He realizes the impact of his life in the community and for others

  3.  A multiplier  - Somebody who is a sower and multiplies his impact to the community and the world

       This applies to a teacher, a leader, a community worker, a company CEO, an author.  An influencer.

       His value goes beyond his own community  and locality

WHICH ONE ARE YOU?

Can you stand receiving $2K per day just standing within the 4 lines?

Strive to be the best

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Also:     We are the Champions    

Forceful and smart selling advice by Machiavelli

Forceful and smart selling advice by Machiavelli

The sales advice was probably adopted from the lines taught at Machiavellis Prin

There are 5 tactics:

The Illusion of Choice Technique (advanced closing strategy) ✔️ How to create scarcity and urgency in sales ✔️ The power of psychological triggers in marketing ✔️ Narrative control and authority positioning ✔️ The Strategic Retreat Method (reverse psychology in selling)

1. The illusion of choice

Control the choice. Do not give the customer unlimited choice

But actually the choice has been made. By employing the good

better strategy. Good is the more expensive and then presenting the

more affordable. It is often a used word: decision becomes inevitable

2. Creating scarcity:

Fear sells. It is better to be feared rather than loved

Either by telling shortage in inventory, or time frame. When there is risk or danger, a person rush to make decision We are adopting this in Temu marketing promos beginning March 16. Limited promo items, and campaigns running 4 weeks at most.

FOMO (fear of missing out)

3. Psychological triggers

Mask of authencity. Perceived authencity. Skill appears trustworth.

One who can give a good advice to build trust.

Appear to be one with them, but actually pushes own agenda

4. Narrative control of authority

Ask question vs defending. Stay on offense.

Appear to be the expert

5. Strategic withdrawal

Dont be desperate. Appear to be not needing tthe agent.

1. Now is not the best time

2. Maybe you need to have more research

Do you appear to be manipulative? But are you not selling everyday. ?

Machiavellis thought on selling

Firehose situation; hell week at MIT, how to raise P100,000 in one month - they force you to be resilient and entreprenuerial, and resourceful

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The MIT monk mentions his stint at MIT about firehose, (and or Hell Week)  Having a situation where there are so many tasks that seem to be impossible to finish.    Then you learn to delegate, collaborate, and have a system.  Otherwise you will fail.

Then at Golman Sachs, their assignment in real world (and this is for the sellers) to raise P100,000 in your personal income in one month.  That is tough if you are not resourceful and you are thinking 8-5 worker.  I am happy that when this was assigned to the latest batch of trainees, they came through.   Marketing people should be subjected to that kind of situation or given that exercise

Hacks that could have been learned earlier for earlier success by MIT monk

Be better than before, than yesterday...

The author became a street boy (a runaway) monk, MIT student, later a CEO of tech company (even AI)

He lists down in this video hacks that should have been learned earlier.

Some of them:

1.  Differentiate between savings and investment.    Or you can have both.  Savings let you earn 1/4 of 1% while investment tied to S & P can get you more, Compounding plays out better.

2.  Stop believing in the American dream.  Limited opportunities now,  less jobs, heavy taxation.   

    Only 4% make it through and become successful, the 96% suffer. 

3   Practice practice practice in what you are good at.   (There is no inherent genius.  Only practice creates geniuses.    Some people who are determined are good in practice.  Athletes, musicians, actors practice this  Even doctors.  What are you good at?  Do you practice constantly

4.  Look at yourself as an investment portfolio.  Do you spend on your education and self improvement?   Are you gettting desired returns.  Wilkinson said that fortune are preceded by education and intelligence

5.  Move where the opportunites are:

     NY, Boston, SF, Chicago. Where the talented and fortunate are.  They are not in  the boondooks

6.  Equity and salary. 

    You become rich early.  You behave differently when you are the owner.    Salary is a trap is an addiction.  

7.  Humble yourself.  Get a mentor

     Not the coaches who are paid exorbitantly.  Be coached by someone who has made it.  Some will coach you free if he can get an action of your venture.  

8.  Have an emergency fund

       1.  For medical emergency

       2.  When you are laid off

       3.  Acts of God:   flood, typhoon, 

9.   Have your own FBI.   (Financial Bureau of Investigation) to find out where your money goes.  

     In this priority/order:

     1.  Emergency

     2   Equity

     3.  Essential

     4.  Enjoyment

     Allocate $ or PHP first in 1-3 before going to # 4

10.   American dream can become the American debt.  Avoid debt at all costs.   Buying homes early while young can be a catastrophe.           

11.  Be financial literate.   There are apps you get into or YT videos .    There is no excuse.  There are books:    Psychology of Money, and the Algebra of  Wealth Compounding.  These are precious guides. 

12  Automate personal finance.  There are apps that can do this for you.

13.  Go analog.  Read read read books.

14.  Failure as a teacher like as on the spot firing being jobless, being homeless.  Be prepared and develop resilience from that.  Find something positive in bad experiences to bring out the best in you.  Find the strength that you have missed.  It can let you see the road beyond the corner and find the best you

15.  Find the krypto in you (what destroys Superman)  find the antidotes and seek people who can support you and give your strrength.  

16.  Dont play victim

       Dont hold grudges.  Stay friendly even with those people who wronged you.  

17.  Find the right partner.  Who can give you support in the worst of conditions.

18.  Forgive yourself and live away from the past -   Abusive parents, bad employers, misfortunes.  Stay in the present find something positive and be a good person now.

19.  Think of yourself as someone living for others to be their best   Find out how can that happen  By finding love and service.  What impact can we have on others lives.   

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20.   Happiness =      Resources/need   Thus increase your resources and decrease need   If your need is 0 your happiness becomes infinite

Why smart people do not become rich?

Be better than before, than yesterday...

They are so analytical, sees more than 15 downsides in an opportunity, and prefers to be analytical.  The less educated, less analytical fail to see the risk breeze through the process, and gets the roi...

I saw this.  The educated PO dumped two multi billion projects which we passed on to other allies.

Mindset needed at the Board Room by MIT Monk

These are the things we need to be qualified for the Board Room

1.  Find the missing note  the ghost note  (the missing data)

    Ask for the data that you do not see.    E.g.  the bombers that made bank saw the bullet homes decided to provide armor for the 

   Upgrading your mind for data that do not show up.   

   Look behind the curtain and do nto look into things that are shown.  Be curious

   Look at the silent ghost.

   How the 1%  must think

2.  Optimize mistakes

     Learn from mistakes.  Mistakes and learning from them create new neural networks.    Those who do not make mistakes plateu

   1.  Define metric -  What does better  mean -   faster, better, more accurate, 

    2.  Define the outcome

    3.  Deliver

    4.  Find exact failure point

    5.  Change one thing iterate  

3.  Find the hard.  

     Explore difficult challenges and learn from this  Say difficult nego.

     Stay with it.  

     High tension conversation:  how to navigate hard conversation nego later

     1  From people to facts ;  where do we suggest  we change 

     2  Lesson the tension   are we with you or against us

     3.  No poinitng fingers   -  we want to work together

     4.  Acknowledge their presence;   appreciate what you are doing.  We care about the outcome and you

      Later you will be known as the person 

 4.  Time horizon - say  7 years.   Your action differs if you think long term

      Beams from dining room;  started to rot  The original architect all ready grew the oak so that the beams can be made in the future.  Cathedral thinking. 

     Hedge funds investors invest in long term.  Warren Buffett focussed on the long term.    40 years that passed is very fast

               90 day timeline -   be visible

              12 - 18 months -   decision that willl contribute to the company

              5 years be visionary

             ARE YOU PLANTING FLOWERS OR TREES.  ?

 5.  Your identity  -  you can architect  what yourself 

     Getting more than you deserve

      Deserving more than you get

     When you make a decision?    

     1  What will I be if I make decision?

     2  Is it a decision that is safe but will not make your better.

     You do not see around the corner.  You were made to make the world better.

     You will be better You will be for the world that will be better

     You will be better if someone believe you and sponsor you

Important learnings at MIT that makes their alumni entrepreneurs and CEOS - e.g you do not graduate alone!!!

Be better than before, than yesterday...

The author became a MULTIMILLIONAIRE.  Do you want to be one.  Just like him ?  (He became CEO of his company.)

I worked under one such grad when I became an EVP of Savings and Loan Assocation.   I used to hate him, but adjusted him and we became a friend in Land Rover club where we now show our own vehicles and as equals.  Learned a lot from him on leadership and management

Learning from MIT (an Ivy League School)

1.  Understand and love the system

 There were many hacks committed at the top of dome of MIT:   cars assembled on top, flags, and many more done by the students.  They beat the system and they had fun.

    You must love the system and then have fun.  You cant beat and hate the system.

(We have people who say we dont have system.

    Be even able to hack the system.  (Many do cross the line and become criminals.or our competitor)

2.  Firehose test.

    Students were exposed to loads of work that they cant seem to finish.   This develops ingenuity of what should          be finished.   You ask the question, how can I cope?

    It develops ingenuity.  

    1.  Time management

    2.  Prioritization

    3.  Cooperation and collaboration

    Effort  is NOT EQUAL TO  PURPOSE.

     Purpose is:

                 1  Impacful

                 2  Important

                 3.  Irreversible

   We have recruits who complain at slightest hint of hard work, and complexity

3.  Find the first principles

     Problems, challenges can be daunting.  Especially innovation.  Find the first principle.   Break down everything into basic parts.    And then it becomes easier.

     Steps:   Find   1.  Facts

                            2.  Aspiration (your goals)

                            3.  Do tests (experiments)

      Elon Musk used this in changing the business/rocket science.   He found out that

      single use rocket launches are very complex and expensive (NASA made it so)  and found out that rocket                  launchis only 2% of what NASA spends.  And from therEM built a multi million Space ex business

 4. Mind and hand approach

     Being practical.  Leave the academic and book part.  Do something practical

     FInd the MVP (Minimum Viable Product and improve on this)  An MVP is better 

     than no product at all.  You can improve a prototype but not on nothing.  Do it now 60% is better than doing it

     105% tomorrow

     Practice

     1    Building the product

     2.   Test

     3.  Go to the first principle

      At MIT they have a one month period where students do this to present to the VC.  And they end up owning new venures, financed by Venture Capital

  5.  You do not graduate alone even if you are the smartest guy in the room.  

      You need a team, you need collaboration. you need a mastermind.  though

     how smart you are.  John Maxmell term it as the Law of the Lid.  All of major

     discoveries and invention now are results of team effort.

     This idea makes you humble  and become less of pain in the ass. of others.    Your group becomes better

     and successful.   

Think and its shall happen Think about your reality - Nuero science

Be better than before, than yesterday...

This post read in an FB post about neuro science, things CIA wont tell you.  It is about your brain being programmed in 24 hours to see reality as the brain sees it in and not matching reality.  This can be used in creating spins and recruiting agents or conspirators.  There are several steps:

1.  Write down what you want to see

2    Read it aloud 

3.   Sleep on it.

There are several names given to this by experts:  sublimimal  autosuggestion.

Thus when an Indian soothsayer predicted that I would create wealth for family that would last for several generations my brain, or I sincerely believed that is true.  And my body worked hard for it for the last 40 years.  And they all came true.

All things that were created came from your mind other peoples mind. 

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