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Why Everyone Can’t Make The Cut

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There are many people who try out for a sports team. However, there are only so many spots available. There’s never over 40 people on the MLB roster, and there’s only 9 of them on the field at a time. There’s no room for the 41st best player, and the really good back up can’t be on the field if there are already 9 players there. There’s only 5 pitchers in a rotation with a few exceptions.

The 40 people who made it are the ones that can be relied on. If one of them struggles badly, they are simply replaced. The 40 people who are on the roster right now won’t be going down to the minor leagues anytime soon.

The people who already have talent stay on. The people who aren’t on the roster that have talent are the ones that have to wait for a spot to open. On a professional level, they might not be able to deliver like they did in their high school. You can ask Billy Bean about that.

Not everyone makes the cut. There are more than 40 people who deserve to be on the roster. However, due to limited space, not everyone who deserves to play gets to play.

The only way to make the cut every time is to choose yourself. If you choose yourself, you already made it through the cut. If you got denied an entrepreneurial program, create your own entrepreneurial program. If you didn’t make the sports team, join another sports team and practice a lot. Choose yourself because there is no one better for you to choose.

Allow Your Mind To Wander

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One of the factors for good business that may never change is brainstorming. It’s always important to hear other people’s suggestions and carry out some of them. When we brainstorm, our minds are at work.

Once you are done brainstorming, allow your mind to wander. After a good brainstorming sessions, you will be more likely to come up with a lot of good ideas for your business.

When you think of good ideas, write them down quickly so you won’t forget them. Then continue to allow your mind to wander. You will list pages worth of ideas for your business to improve. Continue allowing your mind to wander until you have a big list.

Then, choose some of the best options. For a sports team, many people try out, but only a few of those people can be chosen. Most of the people who try out will have a lot of potential, but it is the best ideas that will survive.

By allowing your mind to wander, you will be able to find the best ideas faster. There will be some trial and error with your business, but by allowing your mind to wander, you are very likely to find the ideas that do work.

When you take a break, try allowing your mind to wander. You’ll think of more quality ideas that will improve your business.

Go Big, Go Home, Or Get Creative

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Everyone says go big or go home. The big question is why everyone has to go big or go home. Small businesses can get big, but they don’t have to get big by selling big products. Cell phones aren’t a foot tall, and most tablets aren’t big either. In fact, Apple created the iPad mini which is even smaller than their preceding iPads.

If you find a way to make something small very useful, you can be successful. You don’t have to necessarily go big in order to be successful. Creativity is better than any big product even if it’s ginormous.

Don’t focus on getting bigger. Focus on getting more creative.

When To Start

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The best time to start is when everyone is expecting something from you.

Or when you come up with a spectacular idea.

Or when you decide to commit yourself.

Or when your business needs help.

Or when your business is close to becoming the next multimillion dollar business.

Or when you get inspired.

Or when your ready.

Or when you have a big audience.

Or when you realize you have a small audience.

Or this year.

Or next year.

Or…how about now?

The World’s A Big Place

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The common saying goes, “When you create it, people will come.” Some things are just too good to be true. People automatically coming to see what you created is too easy.

You may have realized people don’t come automatically awhile ago, you might have just realized it’s true, or you don’t know yet since you haven’t launched a product. No matter how good your product is, people don’t know about you.

We are creatures of habit. You’ve visited the same grocery store for a while now, and other than some alteration, everything remains the same. You have that favorite website that you go on, or you buy products from your favorite seller.

The world is a big place, and with habit driving our decisions, we aren’t going to simply come and see what other people created. You have to make what you created worth sharing. What you created has to be spectacular so that people can proudly tell other people who you are.

The world is a very large place. When we think of inventors, most of us will think of Steve Jobs and Thomas Edison. The world has billions of people and 7 continents (and one of them is Antarctica). That’s a lot of people on each continent.

The people we remember such as Steve Jobs and Thomas Edison are the ones that did extraordinary things. They didn’t wait for people to come. They made sure that people came to see what they were all about.

In a big place like our world, people don’t come because they can’t see you. You have to make yourself be able to be seen.

Trick Yourself

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It is possible to trick yourself, and sometimes, tricking yourself can be beneficial. I read an article about how a young girl didn’t feel any pain when she got stitches. The reason she didn’t feel any pain was because the doctor tricked the girl (in a good way).

The doctor had a lot of coloring books. He told the young girl what colors to use to color the pictures. Eventually, the doctor would tell the young girl to use a different color. This got the girl distracted from what was really going on: the stitches.

The same girl who moaned about the stitches ended up not even knowing that the stitches even took place. The girl felt no pain. Her mind tricked her into focusing on the coloring books instead of the stitches.

I recently tricked myself by creating a book with a giant list. I ended up writing over 5,000 words in 1 day. The only reason I know is that I just happened to look at the bottom of the document to see my word count.

You can make the difficult things seem easy by tricking yourself. Then, when you realize you tricked yourself, look at what you were able to do. It really works.