‘Failure will do one of two things to you - toughen your resolve to try again with more intelligence or break you. Choosing the former is a "not-so-secret" secret to success, but that doesn't make it any easier when you're struggling. You've got to make a conscious choice to not let the failure stop you. There's a definite magic in being "hell-bent" on making something work.’
Try This:
1.Pick some place in your life where you're not happy with the level of progress you're making
2.Answer this question at least 5 times - "If I were "hell-bent" on making this work what would I do differently than I'm doing now?"
3.Then finish this sentence at least 5 times - "If in 6 months I still haven't made progress, the reasons I'll give are..."
4.Get to work doing what you wrote in #2 and ensuring what your wrote in #3 doesn't happen
5.Repeat as necessary
Doug Sundheim at the FC (Fast Company) Expert Blog quoting Elon Musk, CEO of Space – X in the blog of 1/13/10 titled ‘Get hell-bent on making it work’.
http://www.fastcompany.com/blog/doug-sundheim/leading-ideas/get-hell-bent-making-it-work
Wednesday, January 20, 2010
Monday, January 11, 2010
Capitalism
‘Along with bringing prosperity to millions, democratic capitalism has undermined political tyranny and promoted democracy and peace between nations of the world. It is, without doubt, the world's most moral system.’
Steve Forbes in "How Capitalism Will Save Us."
Steve Forbes in "How Capitalism Will Save Us."
Wednesday, January 6, 2010
Standards
Standards are important. Why have we lowered ours as a society?
‘Whether character can be taught is an age-old question; usually we refer to its being built. West Point does not pretend its cadets are immune from the normal temptations of our culture. After all, they come from the same towns and high schools other universities draw from. The difference is that at West Point, words such as duty, honor and country are spoken without irony—and a scandal is a scandal because behavior is still measured against standards’
Wall St Journal of 1/5/10 - By WILLIAM MCGURN – ‘A Salute to West Point - The school tries to build a military led by officers of character’
‘Whether character can be taught is an age-old question; usually we refer to its being built. West Point does not pretend its cadets are immune from the normal temptations of our culture. After all, they come from the same towns and high schools other universities draw from. The difference is that at West Point, words such as duty, honor and country are spoken without irony—and a scandal is a scandal because behavior is still measured against standards’
Wall St Journal of 1/5/10 - By WILLIAM MCGURN – ‘A Salute to West Point - The school tries to build a military led by officers of character’
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