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Cheated Out Of Growth

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When the caterpillar develops into a butterfly, it needs to break out of its cocoon. If you saw a butterfly struggling to get out of it’s cocoon, what would you do? Would you get some scissors to cut a big hole in the cocoon so the butterfly could get out faster?

The struggle is an important process for the butterfly because this struggle pushes the fluid out of its body and into its wings. Then, the butterfly emerges out of the cocoon and is eventually able to fly.

Let’s say you got the scissors and made a big hole in the cocoon. The butterfly would have come out with a swollen body and small, shriveled wings. The problem is without the struggle of getting out of the cocoon, the butterfly’s wings won’t grow in size. A butterfly who doesn’t have to go through the struggle of breaking out of the cocoon never gets to fly. The swollen body won’t go away either.

There are going to be struggles that we all must undertake. However, each struggle will be ended when we emerge victorious out of our cocoons. However, if you’re relying on someone else to cut out a portion of your cocoon so you can get out quicker, you are preventing yourself from growing.

What’s Presented And What’s Good

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100,000 followers may seem like a lot. If they’re fake, that’s not good. Even if all 100,000 followers are real, if they don’t share your content, subscribe to your blog, know who you are, or buy one of your products, that’s not good.

Virality shows up every once in a while. YouTube videos get millions of views. That Hump Day video from Geico is hilarious. Then, there’s the, “15 minutes could save you 15% or more on car insurance.” That’s good because Geico gets its message out, and people will continue to say, “It’s Humpppp Dayyyy!” The next question would be how many people actually buy Geico insurance just by listening to that commercial.

500 followers may not seem like a lot, but if 100 of those followers bought one of your products, that’s really good.

If the presentation looks good, that doesn’t always mean the quality is there. A first time speaker with an incredible Keynote proves my point. The Keynote is the presentation, but the first time speaker isn’t going to be as influential as the guy or gal who has been speaking for years.

Before you determine whether or not the presentation looks good, or if an idea fits your business, do the homework to find out if that idea is a good fit for your business.

There’s Never A Good Time To Panic

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By panicking, we get less done. We worry more. We lose sight of the present and focus on the future. By panicking, ideas get lost or modified in a way that prevents the idea from manifesting greatness.

Some experts say if you aren’t doing A, B, or C, now would be a good time to panic. However, instead of panicking, do the work that will prevent you from panicking.

Don’t stop what you are doing so you can panic. Stop panicking so you can continue with what you are doing.

The Power Of Choice

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If you were either forced to read a book, or if you got to choose which book you got to read, which option would be better? Which book would you read?

If you were either forced to use WordPress, or if you got to choose between WordPress and Blogger, which scenario would make you happier? If you ask me which one you should use, I’d say WordPress.

If you were either assigned an essay based on an assigned theme, or you could choose the theme, which essay would you rather want to write?

If you were either forced to use Business Method A, or if you got to choose among many business methods, which would make you feel more happy about working on your business?

We don’t always get to make our own choices. However, it is important to grasp every opportunity you get to make your own choices. The only way to control who you are and who you become is by making choices for yourself. You won’t always have the power to do this, but you can make as many choices as you want on your own.

What To Do When You Go Viral

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I recently went viral on Pinterest. I average about 5-15 repins depending on what I pin. However, I got over a hundred repins for one of my pins. Many of those repins came in a matter of hours, and they continue to come (although not to that degree).

Luckily for me, I was on Pinterest exactly when the pin was getting a lot of repins. The pin was an inspirational quote from Henry Ford. Since that pin was getting a lot of repins, I knew that my newest pins from my board, Inspirational Quotes, would get more repins than normal. I decided to pin some inspirational quotes to that board, and all of the new pins got repinned multiple times. They haven’t been pinned hundreds of times, but they did get a considerable amount of repins.

When you go viral on Pinterest, it’s important to push out more pins on the board that the pin is on. When you go viral, tell people about something else that you have done. This allows you to as they say, “spread the wealth.”

If a blog goes from 100 visitors a day to 400 visitors every day for 2 days, many of those 400 visitors are going to find someone else since the blog is no longer viral. However, that blog will easily get 150-200 visitors every day just because it went viral for 2 days.

 

Lead The Stampede

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When there’s a new idea, everyone heads for it. Each person tries to use that idea better than everyone else. Others try to use this idea in a unique way. Social media resulted in a stampede. There are hundreds of millions of people on various social networks while Facebook has over a billion users. Those users are in a tight competition.

3D printing resulted in a stampede. More people are learning as much as they can about this technology and using it. With a stampede comes chaos. Everyone is fighting for the top spot.

3D printing and social media are powerful, but they created stampedes. Too many people are competing for a small number of spots. The only way to become a leader of the stampede is to do something different. This doesn’t necessarily mean creating a new product. Doing something different can mean addressing a need and finding a solution for it. Instead of using social media to talk about as much as you can, specialize in a specific area.