Category: Inspiration

Tactics For Taking Risks

“You can work your whole life to keep risk at bay, but it comes at the cost of boredom. You can elect safety, but you’ll pay for it with your life’s biggest desires.”
– Tyler Tervooren

Risk is a four-letter word these days and I don’t think it gets the respect it deserves. If you ever want to realize your dreams – if you want to start that business, find that true love, go on that adventure, or anything else – risk is going to become an intimate part of your life.

Tyler suggests in his article 5 things anyone an do to take on enormous risk.

  • embrace uncertainty
  • forget about the odds
  • plan, but not too much
  • take the first step
  • throw away plan b

Read the full article here.

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Links of Interest – 12Oct2010

  • The Innovation Secrets of Steve Jobs: Insanely Different Principles for Breakthrough SuccessApple, represents the anti-business school philosophy. It’s approach is to put its resources behind a few products and commit to making those products exceptionally well. “I’m actually as proud of many of the things we haven’t done as the things we have done” says Steve Jobs.
  • For me, Google’s Android has always been “geeky”. You might still love it, and this cool application could be one reason why.
  • More Google news: this time it’s about them investing (as much as $ 1.5b) in offshore wind farms. Yesterday it was about Google investing in self driving car technology, today it is wind farms, what next in line? A storm is already brewing in the academic circles about these investments.
  • World’s youngest CEO (at 14) of a multi-national company. On the board of the World Bank. Youngest ever member of the World Economic Forum. Who is this it?

You don’t have to win to WIN!

“Strength does not come from physical capacity. It comes from an indomitable will.”
– Mahatma Gandhi –

“Strength does not come from winning. Your struggles develop your strengths. When you go through hardships and decide not to surrender, that is strength.”
– Arnold Schwarzenegger –

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Goals – To Tell Or Not?

There are two schools of though wrt sharing your goals with others. The conventional wisdom has been to share your goals with others (if not the whole world). The more recent contradictory idea of Derek Sivers is to keep your goals to yourself.

“Telling someone your goals makes them less likely to happen”

vs

“Tell everyone what you want to do & someone will want to help you do it”
W.C.Stone

I personally am in favour of the school of thought that encourages one to share her goals. I believe this practice builds accountability and increases the chances of others helping you reach your goal. The one take away for me from Derek Sivers idea, is that we need to be aware that our minds can be tricked into a state of inaction by sharing our goals with others.

What works for you?

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