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The Hare And The Tortoise: A Story Of Focus

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The Hare And The Tortoise story isn’t about speed. It’s about focus. The hare is much faster than the tortoise, but the hare loses focus of its task. The hare decides to take a nap. Then the tortoise slowly walks past the hare and wins the race.

In business, it is important to be consistent. Although the tortoise goes slow, the tortoise is consistently focused on achieving its goal–winning the race. You shouldn’t go as slow as the tortoise, but you should be consistently focused on achieving your goals.

The hare is a representation of the unsteady business person. The hare gets a really great start, but as the race progresses, the hare decides to sleep. The hare sleeping could easily relate to someone who decides to procrastinate.

The tortoise is a representation of the business person who constantly delivers. This person does not get the great start but ends up being better than the person who got the great start.

As procrastination builds, less gets done. If you are consistently productive, you will move past the sleeping hare. Then, the hare wakes up and tries to catch up, but alas, it’s too late. The tortoise just crossed the finish line.

Where To Go From Here

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You can achieve greatness at any point at any time. There is always a way to get even better and to succeed even more. We can only go as far as we let ourselves believe. We can go many places, but we along with outside forces control our fate.

There are many great opportunities. There are many ways to allow your business to grow. There are infinite options of what you can do or what you can become. You are the only one who decides where you go, and outside forces will help you reach your destination.

Your business may be profiting greatly or suffering great losses. Either way, you decide if your business progresses or declines. You decide where to go. Making the right decisions will allow you to get far.

Why People Vote

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People vote to make a difference. When Presidents are being elected, every vote counts. There won’t be an election until 2016, but voting will still be a part of our lives in one way or the other. We can vote for good business ideas or who is the best athlete. Can everyone get picked? No. There will be some winners and other people who don’t get enough votes.

The main factor when it comes to voting should be skill and the ability to be useful. If a business idea is very useful, it should be voted on, but if there is another business idea that isn’t as good, it shouldn’t get as many votes.

There are more people voting for something or someone because they like that person or idea. In my opinion, this is a bad approach to take because skills become less important. As skills become less important, the final product is less than it could have been. Skills and usability will be able to get a business far, but a business based on favoritism won’t get very far.

You will have the power to vote, and that power won’t only be tested during the election in 2016 and others as well. Your vote has the power to impact a group of people or to impact your business.

Are You Committed?

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You either are or you aren’t. There is no in between. You either want to be successful or will let the opportunity pass by. Success comes to no one who lies on the coach expecting things to happen. Success comes before work only in the dictionary, and no other place. If you aren’t sure about your business, ask yourself, are you truly committed to see your business succeed and will you do the required work?

Show Your Talents, But Not Your Pride

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What are you good at? The question gets asked to many people just like that or through a paraphrase. No one answers by saying nothing. Everyone will say what they are good at. People will say they are really smart, do a lot of sports, have a blooming business, or anything else that they might want to say. It’s okay to tell people what your talents are, but that’s it.

The problem with talking more about your talents is that you’re also talking more about yourself. You can say you have a great business, but don’t say how much better it is than someone elses or emphasize that you started it from scratch. When people ask me what I do online, I say that I’m a blogger and write lenses on Squidoo. I don’t say that I started from scratch and did everything else (I’m not going to take the time to brag because bragging isn’t right). People want to know what your good at, so answer the question. Only give extra details about yourself if they want to know more about you.

As I have said multiple times, if you keep on talking about yourself, you will only be able to talk with yourself.

Yahoo! Offered $1 Billion To Someone ELSE Back In 2006

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Yahoo! made a great move buying Tumblr for $1.1 billion. Advertising will allow Yahoo! to make more money from Tumblr, and combined with Flickr, Yahoo! is definitely something to watch for. Yahoo! took on the challenge of turning Tumblr into a profit. Tumblr made about $13 million in revenue last year, but that won’t be enough to get a profit, especially since the price was $1.1 billion.

Google was able to buy YouTube back in 2006, and it has turned into a big success story. Google has profited immensely from buying YouTube. Yahoo! offered someone $1 billion for his Social Media website–Mark Zuckerberg.

Buying Facebook would have led to a huge profit assuming Facebook would have been the same either way. However, Zuckerberg turned down the $1 billion even when Facebook wasn’t the Social Media powerhouse it is today. When Zuckerberg was offered $1 billion, Facebook did not have over a billion members. By the way, Facebook now easily generates billions of dollars every year.

There are times when we have to back off and let a deal be done. Tumblr wasn’t going to make $1.1 billion in the direction it was going. Tumblr still continues to be successful, but with Yahoo’s purchase, Tumblr can be monetized more properly. There are also times when you have to stick it out and say no to a really good deal. Zuckerberg said no to Yahoo’s offer, and it was a great decision for him.