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Why It’s Good To Say No

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Entrepreneurs don’t like to say no to a lot of poeple. They know what it was like to be rejected, and they don’t want to give someone else that feeling of rejection.

The ability to say no is a privilege. If you say no to an idea, that means you have a lot of other ideas as well. If you say no to an applicant, it means you have a lot of applicants.

Entrepreneurs say no to someone not because they want the other person to feel rejected. Entrepreneurs say no to someone because they have a lot of options.

Every home run derby consists of four players. There are many players who are worthy to play, but only four players from each league can be chosen.

Tweet A Book

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I decided to request my archive of my tweets today. At the time, I had 9,727 tweets. I remembered hearing that with all of the blogging, tweeting, and emailing the average person does, that average person can write a book every 15 days.

I decided to see how many words all of my tweets had combined. I imagined that there would be able 50,000 or 60,000 words or something similar. The result of all of my tweets was a staggering 132,078 words. That’s about 13 words per tweet done 9,727 times (and counting).

132,078 words is over 300 pages on the Kindle. This blog is currently up to almost 50,000 words. If you send someone a really long text, the person who got the text might say, “This person sent me a book.” It’s an exaggeration, but if you combine all of the texts, or tweets in this case, you can actually write a book.

There’s Always Enough Time

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The problem with new entrepreneurs is that they think there isn’t enough time to work on their business. The truth is that there is always enough time. Although no one is expected to stay up an entire day just to get some work done, it is possible to do some work.

Enough time to do some work doesn’t always mean working for hours every day. Working for a small amount of time is better than not working at all.

The go-to excuse is saying there wasn’t enough time to get the work done. There is rarely a moment when anyone really has no time at all to do some work.

Small Is Big

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When we think of a long distance, we all think of the big highway, big river, the state that is far away, or the long roadtrip that’s coming up. Too bad we don’t think of the brain.

There are over 7 billion people on Earth. That’s over 7 billion brains. Roads cover a lot of miles, but they don’t cover billions of miles. In fact, there’s barely over 10 million miles of road on Earth. Imagine a connected system that was much longer than all of the roads combined by a long shot.

In a fascinating infographic on Visual.ly, one of the facts about brains is that there are over 100,000 miles of blood vessels in each one. For a small structure, the amount of blood vessels is extraordinary. The entire human population combined has well over a trillion miles of blood vessel in all of the brains put together.

Another fascinating fact is that although a one pound spider web seems insignificant, a one pound spider web can circle the entire planet. That’s small, but it’s also big. Small is big; we just have to see it.

You’ll Probably Share This Without Reading The Whole Thing

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Since you are looking at this blog post, you are probably reading it. Chances are you will skim through important parts that are in bold. That’s because when people read a blog post, less than 20% of those people end up reading the entire blog post.

People want to learn as much as they can in a shorter amount of time. When they do that, they sort of get the message and the content. As long as the title looks really good, the content supports the title, and there isn’t anything inappropriate, most people will share it without looking through the entire blog post.

Chances are when you share a blog post, you probably didn’t read the entire blog post. A strong title with a link does the trick in getting clicks and making you the next big thing for a little while. If you didn’t read the entire blog post, chances are that most of your followers won’t read the entire blog post either. They will probably skim through the content just like you did.

There is going to be a blog post about fascinating research. The only problem is that the blog post is the size of a book. This is when most people skim through the important stuff similar to Cliff Notes. You get an idea of what the blog post is about and share it with everyone else. As long as the content you read matches the title, it’s all good.

Did you read this entire blog post, or did you skim this post for the important details?

Everyone Detects Jibber Jabber

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Not everyone calls it jibber jabber. Some people call it fluff while other people call it by what it is: a waste of time.

Either way, everyone detects jibber jabber. There is a difference between writing words that flow and words that are just meant to take up space on a piece of paper. The jibber jabber makes the research paper bigger than it really is. That book over there suddenly gets an extra 20 pages just because of tons of jibber jabber.

We can all see jibber jabber, so why do some people still do jibber jabber? Our generation wants answers, not road blocks.