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Second Try Is The Charm

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All of a sudden, I’ve become a Pinterest guy. I always had an account, but I ignored it. As I am learning now, that was a big mistake. I am making up for it though and pinning as much as I can. There is one main reason that I like Pinterest compared to the other social networks.

On Pinterest, I can add as many pictures and links as I want within a given time without getting in trouble. If I tweeted 10 times in a minute, I would flood everyone else’s timeline. On Pinterest, you can flood someone’s timeline, but people still see a lot of images. It’s not bad. In fact, many people pin as much content as they can at one time.

I can find content on the web and pin for hours. At first I wasn’t a big fan of Pinterest, but now I use it every day.

If you don’t like something at first, you might end up liking it when you give it a second try.

People Are Still Climbing The Vine

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Vine was a genius idea by Twitter which involved recording 6 second videos. Vine ended up becoming its own app and social network. Instagram jumped on the Vine video with an option for an Instagram video which records for 15 seconds and has more features than a Vine video. If you make a mistake on an Instagram video, you can take out some of the video. If you make a mistake on a Vine video, it’s time to start over.

Instagram videos are longer and have more features, but why is Vine still alive? In fact, the words ‘Vine Will Die’ were trending on Twitter when Instagram came out with its new videos. Some people were tweeting things like this:

“Vine (2013-2013).”

But people are still climbing the vine. People are still looking at Vine videos and sharing them with their friends. In fact, I was looking at my Facebook timeline and saw someone sharing a link to a Vine video.

There is a reason why Vine videos are still getting shared. Even though there are a lot of people now using Instagram videos, there is one prime reason that Vine videos are surviving. They aren’t getting shared as many times as Instagram, but when Instagram seems like the better option, why doesn’t everyone just move from Vine to Instagram?

The answer is that whether Vine is better than Instagram videos or not, Vine came first. The first option is the one that gets looked at the most. The second option, the Instagram videos takes time to get used to.

I don’t think Vine will be dying in 2013. The only way Twitter messed up with Vine was by making Vine its own social network. Instagram videos were added to Instagram which meant all 130 million users. Twitter has half a billion users which outnumbers Instagram..by a lot. If Twitter made Vine an application on Twitter, the conversation about Vine today might be different.

What comes first becomes habit. What comes second is different, and it takes time to get used to what comes second if it’s worth getting used to.

Break The Rules

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There are some rules that are necessary to keep, but there are also rules that must be broken.

One common rule was to work for 8 hours, sleep for 8 hours, and play for the other 8 hours. That sounds like the winning combination since all three activities are done within an even amount of time. At least, we think it’s the winning combination.

When people think of the work that involves the 9 to 5 grind and having a job, that’s work, not play (unless you like your job). However, entrepreneurs have a more flexible schedule. A 9 to 5 routine doesn’t exist.

Entrepreneurs get to break this rule. The 9 to 5 is an 8 hour workday. This rule is hundreds of years old dating back to the late 1700’s back when people normally worked over 10 hours every day. This rule was supposed to reduce the amount of time people could work so they could spend more time with their families.

Is the same rule applied to this day? For most people, that would be yes. Here’s a better question. Does it still work? In this day, entrepreneurs can get easily get work and play mixed up.

Writing is not a chore or work. It is a hobby. Tweeting is not a chore or work. That’s a hobby too. What about the writers who love to write or the people who love to record videos. Is that work or play? Is that work or fun activities?

I don’t count how much time I spend on the computer typing. However, I’m not going to do other things for 8 hours. Today’s version of play has turned into unproductive media. There are people who still bounce the basketball around and run as long as they can, but a majority of time is spent consuming unproductive media.

Work doesn’t have to boring. Work can be fun. Entrepreneurs have the power to choose what they want their business to be about before they start. I enjoy writing books, blog posts, tweets, and pins. I don’t spend 8 hours working on my business. I usually spend more. How much time I spend on my business is something that I don’t want to do the math for. I don’t want to set a daily standard for how many hours I spend working because then the focus shifts to hours, not having fun.

8 hours of rest, 8 hours of work, and 8 hours of fun. I follow the 8 hours of rest, but I don’t follow the other two. I work on my business for well over 8 hours (that’s an educated guess), and when I work on my business, I have fun.

When I’m not working on my business or sleeping, I’m either running, hanging out with a friend, reading a book, or writing goals for my business in my book. When I run, I think about my business. The only way I’m not even thinking about my business or doing any work for my business is when I hang out with a friend.

Here’s how I manage my time. 8 hours of rest and 16 hours of fun. I do have a business and do a lot to enhance that business, but when I do anything for my business, it isn’t work, it’s fun.

There’s other rules that are worth breaking. When we think of rules, we may think of the typical, “You can’t drive until you’re 18 years old,” or something similar. However, there are some rules that are very outdated.

According to the outdated Grammar rule, you can never start a sentence with ‘there are’ or ‘there is.’ There are many people breaking this outdated rule.

We Are More Dangerous Than Sharks

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We are all afraid of sharks. They’re the fiercest animals in the sea. We see them as creatures with their sharp teeth and as fast swimmers. Sharks have more reasons to be afraid of us than we have reasons to be afraid of them. Just take a look at this infographic.

I know the infographic is really long, but that’s just the comparison of how many times humans kill sharks versus how many times sharks kill humans. That small list of humans represents how many humans sharks kill every year. The big list of sharks that involved a lot of scrolling down represents how many sharks are killed every hour. It would take almost a millenium for sharks to kill humans equal to the number of times humans kill sharks in a given hour.

The reason we are all afraid of sharks is because we know what they can do. I have seen the movie Jaws multiple times. Each time I have watched the movie, I watch it on a beach late at night (every Thursday in the summer, a movie is played at the Cape May beach. I can hear the waves crashing in, and sometimes I look into the dark sea wondering what lurks.

That’s why we are afraid of sharks. There is also that movie Sharknado that was viewable in select theaters for one day. We have been taught that sharks will eat us if they see us and get the chance.

It’s time to look at both sides of the coin. It isn’t always easy to look at both sides of the coin, but when we do, it’s clear that humans kill way more sharks than the amount of sharks that kill humans. It’s not that sharks are killing humans as many times as they can. In fact, it’s the other way around.

 

There’s Always A Way Out

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But where are you going, and what are you trying to accomplish when you find a way out?

The entrepreneur who needs help finds a way out by looking at resources. This entrepreneur finds ways to promote his or her content and products as a way to get out of the situation they are currently in.

When you messed up, there is always the possibility of blaming one of your coworkers or someone else. That’s getting out of the fact that something was your fault. The blame game can be played all day, but in the end, everyone loses.

Let’s go back to the entrepreneur who isn’t getting the results he or she is looking for. There is a way out, and it doesn’t invovle turning the business around. It involves quitting and crawling back to a former boss. Don’t take that approach.

There’s always a way out, but what are you trying to get out of? An entrepreneur who is trying to escape a disappointing business by turning in around is the entrepreneur that goes far. However, by playing the blame game and quitting, entrepreneurs refuse to take responsibility or go the extra mile.

When entrepreneurs go to the extra mile, success greets them at the finish line.

You Can’t Go To The Top In 1 Day

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If there was a way to get on the peak of Mount Everest and back down in a day, more people would take the challenge on. Everyone would bundle up in all of their coats just for a day and nothing more. Then, they get to see the wonderful view.

There is no way to climb all the way up Mount Everest in 1 day. There are certain risks involved. Is climbing a mountain a necessary risk to take? Absolutely not, although people who actually climbed up Mount Everest may have a different opinion.

You get to the top by creating product after product and finding different ways to market those products. You get to the top by building connections and making yourself well-known. You don’t get to the top in 1 day. If we were all about to get to the top in 1 day, it wouldn’t be special. People would climb Mount Everest hundreds of times and get bored of the wonderful view all together.

You don’t get to go on the top in 1 day. However, when you get to the top, it makes the wonderful view memorable.