Continue thinking believing, and motivating others, self

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An individual I have been guiding motivating ran into problems (where to get his funding -  his supporters did not make true their commitments) and looked exhausted and helpless  But this post reminded of the great wealth that comes to him and what he has is rare opportunity.  But examining his resources, he has lots:

     1.  His receivables from a contract has not been forthcoming because he accepted the wrong

          computation of his billing, 

    2.  He has retention for collection;

    3.  Then found out that one of the partners has receivables still 10 years old, and we can discount                      future receivables.

Never ever2 quit, believing...

Dont stop believing

Soc media replete with Chinese shorts/reels on how to treat employees, inlaws, have nots properly

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Chinese work culture

There a lots of reels/shorts on soc media about how Chinese treat in laws, employees, and abusive supervisors who mistreat their staff:   collect bribes for being employed, asks them to submi proposals and then take credit.   Then about parents:    driving away parents due to wifes insistence, or favoring  other children

Of course, they could be part of the silen warfare by the Chinese PLA vs the west to project that they are kind and good.  

But whose side are you on? 

I am on the side of right, fairness, and also kindness.

I would be fair and jsut rather than kind.  

Money can disappear, but the ability to create wealth remains forever

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It is a common story that just when the old man or woman is to die, the heirs quarrel as to who gets the lion share of the inheritance.   Quarrels arise.  If there is no quarrel, the heirs surely have taken up the MBA on how to squander and dissipate the wealth that took so hard for the parents to gather and grow.

So there was story of father who gave his eldest son one cow;   the other one, a hundred cows plus a dairy.  Of course the eldest was aghast on his one cow gift from his father.   So the father said you will see that I gave you a better inheritance ie how to build wealth.  Thus the eldest milked the cows, sold the milk ot neighbors saved the money, then bought more cows.  Eventually he bought more cows and eventually had a dairy.  The younger one of course simply enjoyed the wealth and eventually lost his money.  

So would you prefer the inheritance of experience and knowledge how to build wealth?

No nos if you are to be successful

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To be successful:

1.  xxx to complain;

2.  xxx to blame game

3. /// to staying calm

4. ///humble

5. ///listen

6. /// be kind respectful

Over estimating the capabilities of understudy/protege

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This post did two people decision blunders... I overestimated.  While overestimating promotes positive vibes and promote growth,  such reality when they bite can halt growth and result in disaster.

1.   One concerned a top position to head a business unit.  He lacked leadership and was unable to act on other concerns like negotiation, finance, documentation and on time management.  He did not act fast and was unable to ascertain the urgent and important

2.   One was candidate for financial controller.  She was lazy did not act fast, was not reliable and was unable to understand the chores of a financial controller although she represented herself to be one.

One has to ask difficult question from the candidate and ascertain in the interview whether she /he understands you and the task at hand...

Always bring something for social gathering, especially for a business meeting - MEDAL(a)

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This post noted elsewhere that when invited to a social gathering, especially where you want to establish business ties, it pays to bring a gift, or something to share for that occasion:     wine, fresh fruits,  pancit, fried chicken in a barrel.  Its a no no to just come with bare hands and feet.

I remember we had a midwife agent before and she always brought something for the kids whenever she visited the house -  candies, biscuits what not.

Its taught in business school.  This establishes bond, a connection which the other party may not forget.   It gives you an image of leadership, generosity, and high stature

They must be grateful remembering my achievements/legacy

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They say that when you do not have money you  have problem with scarcity.   If you have plenty even more problems...

One of the reasons whey I aspired to be an entrepreneur was to lift our family out of poverty... specifically so as not to let my brods and sis suffer poverty as I did while growing up.  My father was a laborer,  My mother was a washer woman and jacks of all trade.

However, as the family accumulated wealth (through my efforts) the tides turned.   After I distributed the wealth among the siblings after all my parents died, the 4 other sibilings conspired to remove me from th organization.   Over the last 3 decades, I was invited to join board meetings, and worse, they removed me from GIS and lately they have been changing corps reorganizing maybe to remove my 20% share surreptitiously....

Yesterday, they reopned the mall which this post started.   Was not invited.   Erasing my achievements from history.  This is historical revisionism at its best...  Talk about gratitude.   God bless them all.  More power to them....

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Be like the eagle

Be better than before, than yesterday...

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

....

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.

Be better than before, than yesterday...

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

Be better than before, than yesterday...

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