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When we want to remember something, we usually tell other people that we were there. However, more people need proof. Anyone could have said they were at the MLB All Star Game yesterday. When someone says something like that, the other person needs to have some kind of proof.
I was at the All Star Game yesterday, but not everyone is going to believe I was there. There are some things that just sound too good to be true, and those are the things that are harder to believe.
“You will be satisfied with our services. Trust us.”
Trust is something that we don’t give to a lot of people. Trust is valuable, and if we don’t know someone, we don’t give it to them right away. Trust takes a lot of time to develop. It may even take years to fully trust someone.
It seems like every company is saying how much you can trust them. However, what is there to trust? Some companies don’t even know who you are or what you look like. Other companies know what you look like, but their customer service is lousy. The few that can be trusted jump the gun by asking you to fully trust them right from the start.
Trust is something that develops over time. We choose the people who we think are the most trustworthy out of all of the other options, and if they are trustworthy enough, we show them that we trust them. We trust them with a pet or sibling. Then the other person starts to trust you.
It takes time to build trust, but companies are asking you to trust them overnight. It takes a lot of time to become a successful entrepreneur, but no one can be a successful entrepreneur overnight.
Entrepreneurs need to trust each other, but they must also trust the right people. The only way an entrepreneur can make a good decision about who to trust is with patience.
We all have goals to complete. Some of those goals are easy to complete while others are very difficult. How about doing two of them at the same time. That does not mean reading two books at the same time with super vision and a good memory. It means taking two things that are different and doing them at the same time.
I read other people’s blogs, but I don’t read them all in the morning. The morning is the most productive time of the day, and that’s when I write. Instead, I read them in the afternoon. However, when I read those blogs, I’m not reading them while sitting on the couch or chair. I read them while running on a treadmill.
It is possible to do two things at once. Those two things that you are doing could be two goals. Want to take a break? You can take two breaks at the same time. I haven’t tried it yet, but playing video games while running on the treadmill would be interesting.
Put the remote down. It’s not important. Television has given us a false sense of power. You can flip to the channel you like, and if you don’t see anything, you can always flip to the next channel. If you like what you’re watching, you keep watching it.
That’s a lot of watching. At a basketball game, the people who are watching are the spectators. They watch the athletes take shots, get rebounds, block a shot, pass to each other, and basicaly, be successful at what they want to do. The athletes aren’t watching the game; they’re in the game.
We keep on watching other people who are successful. The people who are a part of the TV show get paid. The choices we make while watching television have no impact on who we become.
Have I fully given up television? Not yet, but I only watch 2 shows. I don’t bother surfing or trying to find something else that is entertaining. Television has given us a false sense of power. You have the power to change the channel, but when you put the remote down, how much have you accomplished?
I’m not asking anyone to give it up for good. I do believe that there are too many people watching their favorite shows too long. That’s procrastination up and productivity down.
Give up 30 minutes a day. Then give up an hour every day. What you will be able to accomplish with that extra time will be incredible.
I was reading one of Seth Godin’s posts, and I looked at the number of times people shared his post on social networks. The numbers for the post I was looking at and all of the others are impressive. I also knew his statistics are up on Quantcast.
If you type in the URL for Seth’s Blog into Quantcast, you will see how many visitors he gets in a day. Most of the time, he is getting over 10,000 visitors every day, but I decided to look deeper into the statistics. There were some moments when Seth’s traffic skyrocketed. I took a look.
I identified the days when he went from a constant rate of 10,000 visitors a day (or something like that) to over 30,000 visitors on a single day. That traffic stayed on his blog for a few days which meant more subscribers and more sales. I looked at three days in particular.
On the first day I saw Seth’s traffic spike up was when he was giving away a free book to download. The book included advice from many well-known entrepreneurs. The book was over 70 pages long, and at the end of his book, Seth advised his readers to share it.
What happened? According to Seth’s blog post, the book was trending on Twitter for 7 hours, and there were 20 tweets a minute about the book. That’s almost 10,000 tweets about a single book. The place to get Seth’s free book was on his blog.
Seth’s book was also about getting your goals done in the New Year, and since he started giving away the book in December, a lot of people wanted to know how to keep their New Year goals alive.
Another time when Seth’s traffic spiked was when he shared a fascinating picture. There were 3 blocks that compared the death rates per watts produced involving nuclear energy, oil, and coal. The death rate for nuclear energy was by far the lowest. Coal was the highest. It was a stunning picture, and the post was able to sum up the picture nicely.
If we guessed, we all would have thought nuclear energy would have caused the most deaths. The answer ended up being coal. I had to look at the picture twice to see the tiny square for nuclear energy. No one expected it, and that created a lot of buzz.
The other post that got a lot of traffic was an April Fool’s joke about the Kindle Zero which was a free Kindle. By the way, you could also make money with the Kindle Zero by reading challenging books. A lot of blogs featured this post from Seth Godin among the other April Fool’s tricks.
So those were three posts that resulted in a skyrocket of traffic for Seth Godin. There is something we can all take away from this knowledge: be clever, stunning, and give stuff away for free.
All of the successful entrepreneurs have one thing in common: determination. In order to be successful, you have to be consistent for a long period of time. Patience is vital towards becoming successful, but so is the determination.
I knew what the word meant, but I decided to look up its definition on Google anyway. Determination is defined as a firmness of purpose. You give yourself a goal to complete, and you do everything you can to achieve that goal.
What kind of results will you get? If you are really determined, you will get all of the results you were looking for. Maybe you were looking forward to creating a new product or getting twice as many clients. With determination, you will be able to see those results and other results you didn’t even think of; the surprises.
Determination will bring you far. Adopt it now, and propser in the future.