Entries from May 2008 ↓

I am currently reading “The Power of Focus” and in the section called “Your Habits Will Determine Your Future” there is an interesting part about developing a habit of listening to motivational and educational audiotapes while driving, walking or exercising. 

If you listen to an audiotape for thirty minutes each day, five days a week, in the years you’ll have been exposed to over thirteen hundred hours of new and useful information. This ia a habit that almost all of the successful people we know have developed - they listen to audiotapes. 

So, to help you to get into the right state of mind I recommend you three podcasts I have recently listened to (one of them is actually a video podcast):

Complimentary men@pause seminar to listen

In the interview with Mr. Steven Pressfield, Matthew Scott asks many great questions regarding being an entrepreneur and you will have an occasion to learn what is the difference between a professional and an amateur business person. I learned a lot from this podcast and I am sure you will be glad to find out why it is all right to be miserable sometimes. Really down-to-earth audio.

How to develop an entrepreneurial mindset

Great podcast prepared by Pamela Slim where she talks to Gary Schoeniger, founder of the Entrepreneurial Learning Initiative. The following piece of advice from Gary is a selling point to me:

“Find a problem. Figure out how to solve the problem. Find more people with the same problem and you have a business.”

Simple but not so obvious for everybody. Download the podcast and if you are not familiar with Pamela’s blog, have a look on: http://www.escapefromcubiclenation.com

How To Generate Mass Interest in Your Business During Tough Times

Leveraging educational techniques to pull in high quality leads: http://www.marketingwhitepapers.net/. Make sure you watch the video and sign up for more.

And that is it! I hope you enjoyed and please share your thoughts about them in comments.

When I saw the first video presentation from TED I quickly realised why there are so many people eager to pay $6,000 per year to attend this conference. For many years it was only available to the small group of people who could afford it. It changed in April 2007 when TED conference became open to everyone with high quality videos published on its website presenting many inspiring, funny, jaw-dropping talks of the “world’s brightest minds”.

It presents “Ideas worth spreading” by the best speakers in the world talking about variety of topics from Technology, Education, Design to Arts and Global Issues. I believe that TED changes the world. I really do. There is so much inspiration, passion and enthusiasm in the air about all presented topics and life in general. I have just created a category called TED and will share with you the most interesting presentations. I am sure you will enjoy watching them and that they will push you more towards living the life you love.

Sir Ken Robinson - “Do schools kill creativity?”

Instead of introducing this presenter I will just quote one of his lines:

“If you’re not prepared to be wrong, you’ll never come up with anything original.”

Enjoy this entertaining talk (source)!

It is worth mentioning that in February 2009 TED will have its 25th anniversary as it began its journey in 1984.