Posts Tagged ‘Mike Michalowicz’
An Email Worth Remembering
Found this email in my inbox this morning. (I wish I remembered who sent it to me?) +++++++ Dave - I wrote a blog post that I think you are gonna go bananas over. This is the link --> http://bit.ly/PhotographicMemory A huge challenge entrepreneurs have is remembering those fleeting thoughts of genius. Great ideas constantly get forgotten when a pen and paper aren't handy. I mean, just think about all those lost thoughts you had in the shower. Any who, this is a method I use to remember everything from the "honey-do" list to rattling off stuff when I am on TV. It is an amazingly powerful method. I think you'll get tons of value out of it and never forget a thing again: http://bit.ly/PhotographicMemory Enjoy! And, I can never say this enough... I am wishing you a tremendously successful 2010!!! - Mike, the author of this thingy-dingy-do-thingy http://3.ly/amazon The Toilet Paper Entrepreneur, 239 Myrtle Avenue, Boonton, NJ 07005, United States Email re-printed without permission (tee-hee).
The Business of Being Yourself.
Learn how to turn WHO YOU ARE into WHAT YOU DO. Authenticity is important and building a business that reflects your values and passions will reek of sincerity. Also, if your business is all about your favorite subject (hint: YOU) you'll never lose your commitment. You will easily celebrate the great times and press forward in the tuff times. There's only one YOU. It's time to let the world know! --Dave Charbonneau, Guy Who Does Stuff www.SelfEnterpriser.com Note: This post has been submitted to be featured at www.TheToiletPaperEntrereneur.com.
Know What You Do, and Do It
As any bruised and battered Self-Enterpriser will tell you: Know what you do and don't divert. As you're following along your road map, whether it's Gary Vaynerchuk's Crush It! or Guy Kawasaki's Art of the Start, or Mike Michalowicz'sess's The Toilet Paper Entrepreneur, folks will want to do stuff with you. Heck, they may even want to do stuff TO you. And you may want them to. It may sound exciting. But check the Opportunity Costs: What will it prevent you from doing instead? Weigh your options first, and only then move forward. (I've heard it said: Say YES now; you can always say NO later. This is a good way to burn a lot of relationships fast if you start allowing people to count on you but end up leaving them hanging. Also true about how much time you take to 'decide' whether or not you'll participate with someone). Define what it is you do, the meaning you want from it, and the meaning you want others to experience. Then, stick to that. Take on additional opportunities only when it will compliment what you're already doing. In all of this opportunity weighing, ensure you remain self-sufficient. In other words, don't jump on board with things that "could MAKE you"; cuz those opportunities have a tendency to pull you away from your core, and any reputation your new partner earns, you may end up with as well. All this said, people will want to partner with you, and this is a great thing. The best types of partnerships are with those who are already making money without you, you're making money without them, and the relationship won't change that. Also, talking from my own experience, the value that both you and your partner will gain should result in dollars (or gold, or something of exchangeable value). Okay, I'll add to that, eyeballs (preferably attached to people, and - unless you're in the mortuary biz, they should also be at least somewhat living). There are plenty of individuals who will absolutely LOVE what you're doing, and just want to be a part of it for the joy of it all. If you cave and decide to work with these people (and they're very nice people), ensure the tasks they're providing are only sprinkles on your cake; this way if they don't come through for the project, the project will still advance without missing them. Keep on Rockin' Your World, you Self-Enterpriser, you. --Dave C. Photo Credits: http://www.flickr.com/photos/sally_12/ / CC BY-SA 2.0
