To possess one million dollars sounds like a great goal and a one billion dollar goal often sounds one thousand times better.
These are two common goals fools choose before starting their own businesses. Click here to learn about the LIES.

The path you choose can make all of the difference in the world. Choose wisely and you will not only have your million dollars but a fulfilling life (a life well lived).

Learning

I had a fabulous conversation today with one of my colleagues, who is also at peace with his lot in life, about our respective paths.
As the conversation found its way around to cleaning toilets he admonished that as much as we were enjoying our conversation, cleaning toilets may not be as simple as it seems.

He then referred to the conscious competency learning model. This is important to all would-be-entrepreneurs so I will try to expand upon it a bit for you. The example statements may represent something you would hear from a person progressing through each stage of learning. Follow example 1 through to the end (same goes for example 2).

Example 1: I’m going to clean this toilet.
Example 2: I’m going to write a blog with three hundred thousand readers.

Example 1: This water tastes funny. Maybe I will try a brush next time.
Example 2: Only 15 people are reading my blog. What is going on?

Example 1: I have my toilet brush and I am ready to go!
Example 2:Click Here!

Example 1: I hate cleaning toilets! Maybe I can hire someone else to do this part of the job.
Example 2: My daily average income is ten thousand dollars!

Get started!
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Be dull?

Read, every day, something no one else is reading. Think, every day, something no one else is thinking. Do, every day, something no one else would be silly enough to do. It is bad for the mind to continually be a part of unanimity.
-Christopher Morley

Get it?

“Read, every day, something no one else is reading.”

Simply read and you have accomplished something. It is sad but true. Few people read anymore. Simply read. Try a book.

“Think, every day, something no one else is thinking.”

You’re weird. You’re a scientist. It should be easy to think something no one else in thinking. Right?
The problem is that your peers (your competition for jobs) are scientists too. You may be weird. You may think weird things. But so do they. (Well, the interesting ones do.) So you will have to think about something new; something different from what they are thinking.

“Do, every day, something no one else would be silly enough to do.”

Do this and you risk everything. You risk being a fool. You risk being isolated. You risk the very person you were when you woke up this morning. It may be the best decision you ever make.

“It is bad for the mind to continually be a part of unanimity.”

Dare to be different.