Entrepreneurial Skills

The vast majority of people, especially entrepreneurs often face issues with productivity from time to time. Sometimes, it can become a very serious issue with many people finding that they spend hours or even days without actually producing anything useful. I know, I was once there too. It is often an accumulation of many years of bad habits that naturally build up and build up to cause us problems. Sometimes it can be a certain life events that knocked us out of shape. Sometimes it could just simply be that we need to take stock of where our lives are ...

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Few films have some many insights as the animated film ‘Kung Fu Panda’. Although quite an enjoyable story it has many lessons which are both relevant and inspiring. So whilst sitting here watching the film I thought it would be prudent to write about all the life and business reminders intertwined within this entertaining adventure. Enjoy this Christmas day blog post:

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Successful entrepreneurs are different from aspiring entrepreneurs, not least because they are successful but because they share a common series of characteristics or perhaps traits of successful entrepreneurs.

Here is a list of 10 things successful people do differently. If you can adapt, maybe you can become a successful entrepreneur too:

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Todays lesson is one I learn over a very tough year. Having been a entrepreneur for most of my life, it is very difficult for me to define one thing that I am good at, one thing that I should be known for, or one thing that people should think he is the right man for the job. You see, I’m pretty good at most things, making me a good CEO, but that does not help people to help me.

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I place my feet upon the cold surface. So tired that my lethargic mind does not even register the sensation which my feet are surely feeling. I turn the dial and wait there almost like a zombie, staring blankly at a wall. Seconds later the warmth of the water hits my body from above and I feel life awaken inside me. The shower has always been my safe place. The place where I feel at one with nature, standing there in all my glory for no one else to see. The sounds of the droplets pounding of surfaces all around ...

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It’s been an eventful week in regards to traffic to my blog. Some of my articles hit the Digg homepage and resulted in thousands of visitors hitting my home page. (Digg is a user voted site with over 20k website submissions a day all hoping to hit the main page and receive massive attention) But for me there is a downside to hitting the front page of Digg, besides the fact that the flood of visitors crashed my site (yep it did and I’m a little gutted about the thought of all the people who could not reach my site ...

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After some eventful days, I have decided there will be a new approach to my writing here on the blog. There will be a number of different tones or styles of writing I will use in various situation. I love the business analysis writing very much, it’s what I seem to have a good eye for and I like connecting thing back to each other to learn lessons and then share these lessons with my readers. And as my RSS readership shows, a lot of people are liking this style too. However, that was never really what this blog was ...

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One of the big problems that many other serial entrepreneurs (including myself) face, is staying focused on one task at that time. It seems as though when working on a project and making good progress suddenly 1 million other ideas spring to mind. All such ideas seem to have massive potential which I shall be working on straight away. Perhaps you know the feeling.. This is a common trait for entrepreneurs, as the very art of being creative means that often we get bored very quickly or that our minds are springing lots of new ideas all the time. I ...

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Most people know that alongside my IM work I do a lot of offline work. I was just sitting at my desk when the phone ring. Here is the conversation: Caller: Hi, I’m blah blah, can I speak to Mr x, from company xxx (not my company which I founded )… Me: Well, he’s not here, it’s just me! caller: oh, so who are you. Me: Well my company’s ‘Double your success’

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Boredom is good for creativity. Yes, you read that right, I advocate boredom in your life to help improve your creative potential. Lets explore this in a little more detail. Look at life today. For most of us, being busy is a sign that we are achieving something in life or that we are progressing. Constantly keeping ourselves busy doing something, whether that be: working hard in our jobs shopping or other household chores organising something Looking after the family or even ‘researching on the internet’ – as no doubt you are doing now. You see, we keep our brains ...

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