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How Technology Is Affecting Our Mindset

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The mindset is the decisive factor of how far you will go in your lifetime. Money, fame, wealth, and fortune have nothing to do with how far you go. There are people with money who spend it wildly. There are famous people who have been arrested because they were caught using illegal drugs. The wealthy people had to become wealthy somehow. The people of good fortune could lose that fortune if everything went wrong. In fact, more lottery winners than you would think have ended up going bankrupt after winning the lotto.

The mindset is unquestionably the decisive factor of success. Having a powerful mindset allows those rags to riches stories to actually happen. Having a powerful mindset also allowed people to come up with new innovations, be persistent, and do remarkable things.

With the giant shift in technological advancements, it is important to question how much of an impact technology has on our mindsets. There are many people who are finding more opportunities because of the web. Some people are using the web to create businesses and build powerful social media presences at young ages (like me, but Houston Gunn, Jeet Banerjee, and many other teenagers are creating their own businesses as well). Other people are using technology to completely halt their progress. This comes in the form of a 5 hour YouTube video watching spree or something similar.

In addition, technology has made everything faster. I become very impatient when I see the five second ad on YouTube, and I know I am in the majority on this one. Technology has resulted in some people losing their patience. When a certain task takes a week to complete, one week seems like years. The people who are able to complete several tasks and stick with something for years are the people who looked at success stories. We all see the success story of the blogger who started with nothing a few years ago and now makes a solid $100,000 a month.

Technology has the power to dramatically strengthen or cripple the mindset. There is no in between. It is important to accept that technology has had a big impact on this world in several ways. Improved communication and organizing hundreds of documents on one computer are some of the ways that technology has had a big impact on the world. Technology has also had a big impact on our mindsets, and the people we become is dependent on how we look at and respond to the technology around us.

 

How To Keep The Momentum Going On Your Social Networks

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The growth of a social network is a slow process. However, when a social network starts to see a big pick-up in growth, you want that growth to either last as long as possible or for that growth to not stop at all. I remember when I went from gaining 50 followers every day to gaining 300 followers every day, I wanted that growth to last.

I ended up implementing the same tactics that resulted in me gaining 300 followers on a consistent basis. As a result, I was consistently gaining 300 followers every day. My following count rose dramatically.

After you get a momentum, you want to keep that momentum going. In fact, you want to get better results as well. Ever since I decided to tweet every 30 minutes, I have been getting more engagement for my tweets. My retweets, favorites, and Klout score have all gone up ever since I decided to tweet every 30 minutes.

In order to get better results after you master keeping the momentum, you need to dig deep into the facts, statistics, and articles on the web. The method I used to get 300 followers every day was following a highly regarded person’s followers in my niche. This person was also gaining 300 followers a day. However, my results became dependent on that person. When this person gained 150 followers for the day, I usually gained something close to that (this does not apply for famous people who gain thousands of followers every day). This 300 followers a day increase suddenly went down to a 150-200 follower increase every day.

I did some research and found the #1 most influential social media expert. This person gains over 500 followers every day. I decided to follow this person’s followers instead. Now, I am gaining over 500 followers every day as well. Now I have a stronger momentum which will most likely catapult me onto Forbes’ next Top 50 Social Media Power Users List.

How could I keep the momentum going? I could tweet every 15 minutes. Although that would require a colossal amount of time, I am considering pursuing the task. In addition, I am deeply considering buying access to HootSuite Pro to make scheduling tweets much faster. I could send out more tweets at the moment with pictures to get more retweets and favorites. Building strong presences on Vine and Pinterest will allow me to get even more followers on Twitter.

In order to keep the momentum going, you need to have a big goal in mind. For me, that goal is to be gaining 1,000 followers on Twitter every day before 2014 comes to a close.

 

How To Retain Knowledge

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Knowledge is powerful. With the right knowledge, we can change the world. With the bad knowledge, we can harm others. In order to get the full power of knowledge, we need to put it all together.

Learning certain facts and letting them get scattered in our minds is not putting all of our knowledge together. If you put all of the knowledge together that you learned in all of the science classes you took, you would have enough knowledge to become a scientist. However, that is not what everyone wants to do in life, and as a result, some of those knowledge gets scattered.

Although you may not want to become a scientist, there is something that you want to do. In addition, you could already have a job that you love. The job you are in or the niche you want to pursue is the area where you need to put all of your knowledge together. It is possible that you work at the same or similar jobs (or stay in your niche) for the rest of your life. You do not want the knowledge you learn to go away. Once you choose what you want to become, you need to focus a good portion of time and energy into what you decide.

In order to become the best in the world at what you do, you need to retain knowledge. By retaining knowledge, you will be able to obtain more knowledge with ease. In school, flash cards are a commonly used resource to remember material. However, writing definitions on flash cards and testing yourself seems beneath the real world. The best way to remember certain things about your niche and retaining your knowledge is by writing things down that you want to remember. I have a notebook with notes about my niche. I occasionally look back at the notebook and look at I wrote down. As a result, I am able to remember all of the important things about my niche that I need to remember. Instead of forgetting about a tactic to get an extra 100 followers every day, I have it written down in my notebook.

If you do not have a notebook, then you need to get one. Although flash cards are not the best study methods for people in the real world (because flash cards are easy to lose and scatter knowledge), keeping all of your knowledge in one notebook will allow you to look back and remind yourself of important facts and methods revolving around your niche.

 

The Hardest Thing To Do

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Taking responsibility for a mistake. Sometimes, we do not know we made a mistake. At other times, it is obvious that we made a mistake. Eventually, we learn to admit that we made a mistake. However, admitting that we made a mistake is not the same as taking responsibility for that mistake.

Admitting that you did wrong is acknowledging that you are not perfect. This is the right step towards freeing yourself from the shackles of perfectionism. However, this is not the hardest thing to do.

John F. Kennedy admitted that he made a mistake. He also took responsibility for that mistake. The public loved him for the fact that he took responsibility for a big mistake he made. For the time he was alive, John F. Kennedy proved to be an effective and charismatic president. To this day, we remember him from his saying, “Ask not what your country can do for you. Ask what you can do for your country.”

It is a lot easier to point fingers and accuse others. Taking responsibility for something you did is the hardest thing to do. I am fully aware that there are other hard things to do such as going vegetarian–or the opposite: going from vegetarian to eating meat. However, the option to take responsibility commonly gets presented but rarely gets implemented.

The easier, safer, and ‘better’ option is to play the blame game or at least not take responsibility for a mistake. However, the people who take responsibility for their mistakes are the ones who win respect, and in John F. Kennedy’s case, taking responsibility for a big mistake won him nationwide respect.

 

What The New York Times, Apple, Twitter, Lego, and JetBlue Have In Common

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They all started as ideas. Implementing the idea was the hardest step towards making these businesses thrive. The people who created these businesses knew that an idea is flaky until it gets implemented. You can think of the next Facebook, but that does not mean anything if the idea does not reach the real world.

Thinking of the winning idea is easy. All you need to do is make a small innovation on something that already exists (much easier). You can also think of something revolutionary that has the ability to change the world (don’t limit the realm of possibility).  The only way the small innovation or revolutionary innovation is going to have an impact on your business is by implementation.

Implementation is the most challenging part of business there is. Implementation forces us to get up and do work. Although many do not like the implementation phase, that’s what The New York Times, Apple, Twitter, Lego, JetBlue, and countless others did to get noticed.

 

20 Thoughts To Live By

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We always need motivation in order to get the challenging goals accomplished. Having the right mindset is an important factor towards channeling motivation into productivity. The mindset affects how you view goals and the work you need to do to accomplish them. In order to develop a stronger mindset, you need to live by these 20 thoughts.

  1. The grass may be greener on the other side, but instead of switching over, you can make your side greener.
  2. A goal that is 99% complete is a goal that is 1% incomplete.
  3. The more practice we put in, the better we do on game day.
  4. Leaders get to where they are by making it happen, not watching it happen.
  5. The only limitations we have are the ones we put on ourselves.
  6. We are able to do more if we believe we can do more.
  7. Success comes as a result of taking action.
  8. The only bad mistakes are the ones we do not learn from.
  9. It’s better to make a choice than it is to ponder on the choice for years.
  10. Quit on the things you do not want to do so you can focus on what you are good at.
  11. One person can do so much. Many people can do more.
  12. No one became successful in 1 day. It took many years to build Rome.
  13. Power comes from within the individual, not from someone else.
  14. Be better than you are expected to be.
  15. Putting in the work will allow you to become what you want to become.
  16. We do not need more. We need to start.
  17. 99 is a big number. It can either represent your problems or your successes.
  18. Each struggle you go through gets you closer to success.
  19. We all have great potential. We just need to unlock it.
  20. All of the hard work you put in pans out one way or another.

Which one was your favorite? Do you have any others to add? Please share your thoughts and insights below.