Oprah asked Jay-Z how he achieved success without having had a vision or plan. In the video below, Jaz-Z briefly explains. Videos 1, 3 and 4 follow below.

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Oprah: “Neither of us had a vision or a plan for all of this… so what do you think made all of this happen?”

Jay Z: “I think it’s the passion for what you do… and you finding something that you can be true to… something that’s really close to who you are as a person.

You have to have PASSION for what you do… I LOVE it.”

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Really liked this. 

Loving what you do is nice, but KNOWING what you REALLY like to do because you know yourself is even nicer.

That way, you won’t do what I did and choose something that was just a passing fancy.

Plato said, “Learn to KNOW THYSELF.” That means, take the time, make the effort, study. No idle speculation or spur of the moment decisions about this.

You will be living and working with YOU for the rest of your life - guaranteed. It’s the passion that will carry you through the tougher times.

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Thanks to Jay-Z and Oprah.

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Tags: jay-z, jayz, Oprah quote, passion

Happy Saturday All…

So I was sitting here frizzled and scattered, looking for that tidy list of productive things to do in my head that will help propel me towards my goal.

I asked Self:

“Aren’t you like that proverbial jackrabbit, hopping from one goodie patch to another? Aren’t you scattered, going 3 directions at once? Shouldn’t you be a single purpose FOCUSSED kind of turtle?”

Turtles wins the race as I’ve read repeatedly in my SBI lit.

So… if you are BORN a jackrabbit, but you need to win the race, what the He** do you do about THAT?

Okay. As a human kind of jackrabbit, I realize that we can CHANGE our rabbitty habittys.

We, as humans, have THAT kind of CAPACITY.

So, we FORCE ourselves to do what needs doing, we force ourselves to CULTIVATE inspiration, we DO what we SHOULD rather than what we WANT. We SKIP the next goodie patch and cultivate THIS ONE we’re sittin’ on.

The MORE we do it, the better we become at it. And then… usually… we actually begin to ENJOY it.

Yeah? Yeah. It’s worked for me in the past… And it still applies.

And more note to self: QUIT DREAMING AND SCHEMING, more PRAGMATIC PRACTICALITIES, please.

An entrepreneur’s work is chores are NEVER done.

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So… Self - want success? You may have to re-align your natural inclinations. Remember… we NEVER would have learned to read and write if we hadn’t been FORCED to go to school.

We only do what is best FOR us when we are FORCED. Either forced by others, or forced by circumstances such as HUNGER.

Not a one of us would have done much on our own without being forced. In a more tree languishing society, lazing about and following simple natural proclivities might have worked.

But not with Entrepreneurship. If our base nature destines us to a life of hip hopping and unfocussed unpurposed fun seeking, we must overcome.

It’s only the successful that control their inner rabbit, groom their inner wolverine and FORCE themselves to do what Needs Doing to Get Where They Really Want to Go.

Craps.

Tags: focus, FORCE, rabbit, scattered, stick to it, wolverine

My SPUNK has LEFT the building.

Yesterday and today, my getupandgo gotupandwent. When I told my friend, he said, “I feel that way all the time.”

Upon reflection… I need to grill my friend. That worries me… ALL the time?

Doood… Let’s talk.

If I were to feel this way all the time, I’d… turn to drink. Something. And I might as well put out ads to clean bathrooms. Just to survive.

why?

Because running a business online is driven by passion. You have to communicate… and if you lose the gump to thump, your content is going to smack of boredom. Ennui.

But cleaning a bathroom - no passion, communication, needed.

So, A Thought…

While feeling ennui’d and lackadaisical, why not go accounting? (You know the song - “Accounting we will go, accounting we will go, hiho the derryoh… “) Right.

I will bring accounts up to date, see about billing, tidy up some of my directory sites and investigate alternative methods of monetizing.

Otherwise, it’s over to Craigslist to proffer the following service…

“Will clean your bathroom with military precision AND sanitize with Grain Alcohol - Only $199.00…”

(One swig for me, one swig for the ole’ terlit…)

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LESSON: When your verve has vent, clean your bathroom. 

And as ALL bathroom cleaners know, This Too Shall Pass…

Just GO. DO it.

Tags: bored, ennui, give up, no spunk, tired