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You decide whether or not you get your goals accomplished. You are your own tool for success or your own tool for decline. It depends on how you use your talents and get them done. We all have unlimited potential, but showing off that potential is the challenging part.
Do what you want to do. Do your work. See the results. Make things happen.
You will get lost. The competition has more money to spend than you, and they also have more resources. Facebook copied Twitter’s hashtags and added videos to Instagram. It’s practically stealing an idea.
Although Facebook was able to get away with it to some degree, you won’t be able to get away with it. No one will publicly say what they thought about your decision because they won’t know who you are.
If anyone created cars and challenged Toyota by being just like Toyota, car buyers would go to Toyota over your car company. Copying someone else’s work won’t look good for your business, and people will forget about you.
Do something that none of the competition wouldn’t even dare to do. Being an entrepreneur does involve making some risks and hoping that they pay off. Cutting down client size or spending more time on Social Media instead of blogging are risks that some entrepreneurs will have to take.
Do all risks pay off? No, but they make you different from the competition. If you are different from your competition, you will get visitors and returning customers.
There are a lot of people who overwork to get what they want. Some people are putting in 15 hours a day to keep their businesses alive. Revenue could be pouring in, or there could be no revenue pouring in.
If you find yourself spending 15 hours a day on your business and making little revenue for yourself, you need to change the way you work. We are creatures of habit, and change can be annoying as I described in my post about dramatic changes.
However, those changes will have to happen. Cut off some hours you work by addressing how you waste your time working. Talking to the same person who doesn’t care for your business is unproductive.
There are plenty of things that you are doing wrong if you are working for 15 hours a day without getting much revenue. Overworking also prevents you from doing more important things such as growing your business.
There is always going to be a person who has more Twitter followers than you (unless you’re Justin Bieber). Even the people with over 10,000 followers may not be satisfied that their competition has over 100,000 followers.
Having 10,000 followers is a great accomplishment (if the followers are real). There are two attitudes that the person with 10,000 followers can have:
The first choice is the best because the person with 10,000 followers is grateful. This person will talk with their followers, and this person will gradually get more followers as well.
The second choice is not the path that you want to take. It is good to set goals such as getting 100,000 followers, but don’t look at the other people who already have 100,000 followers. By looking at people with the 100,000 followers, the other 10,000 people will be seen as insufficient. The person with 10,000 followers will not interact with their followers. Instead, they will simply tweet out more content and follow more people until they have 100,000 followers. Once they finally get 100,000 followers, they will see someone with 200,000 followers. The quest to get more followers, tweet out more content, and avoid interaction continues.
It is great to see goals, but don’t get greedy. Greed leads to envy which turns you away from what you already have.
Apple has become a powerful company because it was able to create a lot of great products and sell them. There are many devices Apple has sold such as the iPhone, Mac, iPad, a mouse for the Mac, and others as well.
There are a lot of things you can say about the devices Apple produces such as reliable, fast, easy to use, or incredible. I use 2 devices I got from Apple every day (my iPhone 4S and Mac Book Pro). However, when people describe Apple’s products, few will say something about the number of buttons.
The iPhone has only 1 button. The iPad has only 1 button. The Mac has a very small power button at the corner. The mouse has only 1 button as well. Apple’s competitors had buttons all over their devices, so why did Apple do things differently?
Having less buttons in my opinion allows me to do more on my Apple devices. I am able to find the exact button I am looking for since there aren’t many buttons to choose from. This could have been the reason why Apple avoided using a lot of buttons, but after doing some research on Steve Jobs, I figured out the answer.
Steve Jobs had button phobia. He couldn’t stand buttons. If you look up pictures of him doing a Keynote presentation about the newest Apple products, you won’t find any buttons on his shirt. As the CEO of Apple, his fear of buttons made an impact on the designs of Apple products.
Apple products have few buttons, but that doesn’t mean Apple’s devices aren’t useful. I use them every day, and I never have to worry about finding the right button to click.
Steve Jobs had a fear of buttons, and one of the many reasons Apple is a thriving company is because there aren’t many buttons on their devices. If Steve Jobs did not have a fear of buttons, more buttons would have probably been added to Apple devices.
I was recently at a business expo in New York City, and I was very impressed. All of the presenters knew what they were talking about, signed their books, offered discount, and shared their information naturally.
None of them paused. None of them forgot what they were going to say. They were all able to teach me something new about Social Media and the thinking style for a business. I got the two books The Pumpkin Plan (by @MikeMichalowicz) and It’s Your Biz (by @SusanSolovic) which I will begin reading over the weekend.
The presenters were able to do a great job presenting what they wanted to present. They were able to be themselves and provide quality information. People buy products from the people who know how to present because the presentation gives people a sneak peek of the content in the book.