Do you let your fear control your passion?
Fear! I think it is only a natural instinct. Leaving the comfort zone for the unknown leaves us so often paralysed and unable to move….. Yesterday I had the opportunity to spend most day mentoring different entrepreneurs. It is what I enjoy doing and above all, I get paid for what I love to do....Continue reading→
Interpreting negative thoughts and signals. The human body driving license
In the last blog posts I have written about The Power of Failure. In this post I hope to make it clear why everything I have explained is simply powerful indicators that you need to learn to receive and interpret. Even if you don’t drive you are familiar with the above image. The warning indicators on...Continue reading→
7 Tips on how to use the power of failure to your Advantage. Tip 7. Emptiness
This is the final post on The Power of FAILURE. The letter “E” for Emptiness. In the past few posts, we have gone through: 1. Frustration 2. Aggression 3. Insecurity 4. Loneliness 5. Uncertainty 6. Resentment All of the above are tips on how to use The Power of Failure for us to achieve our goals...Continue reading→
7 Tips on how to use the power of failure to your Advantage. Tip 6. Resentment
Resentment is simply a mental resistance to accepting something which has already happened. It is made up from two latin words “RE” & “SENTIRE” meaning “BACK” and “TO FEEL”. Therefore resentment is an emotional rehashing or refighting of some event in the past. When things don’t go as planned it is only natural that we...Continue reading→
7 Tips on how to use the power of failure to your Advantage. Tip 5. Uncertainty
Will we ever know if something is going to work or not other than by trying? The only fact we know is uncertainty. We are continuously trying, whether it is new words, bicycle routes, marketing experiments, or new product development. Unfortunately, things always do not turn out the way we had planned or expected. Sometimes...Continue reading→
Who was the crazy professor? And for that matter why was he so crazy!
I know most of you think it was Albert Einstein. Errrr. Wrong. It wasn\’t Einstein. It was actually Kurt Godel. Apart from the fact that many of his colleagues and people who met said that he was kind of crazy, but also the fact that he was in and out of a sanitarium and routinely...Continue reading→
Dealing with Loneliness as a solo founder. Tips 4 of 7 on how to use the power of failure to your Advantage.
This article is the fourth in a series on how you can use the power of Failure to your advantage. In the last article, I spoke of how you can tackle the feeling of insecurity and in this article, I am going to write about the fourth letter in Failure, the letter L for Loneliness,...Continue reading→
7 Tips on how to use the power of failure to your Advantage. Tip 3. Repositioning yourself from Insecurity
We all have some concept of who we want to be and how we want to be, that perfected self image. The problem is how we view ourselves on this pendulum of the final image and where we are. And the problem is exactly when we consider the final image as a destination to reach....Continue reading→
7 Tips on how to use the power of failure to your Advantage. Tip 2. Dealing with excess Energy (AKA) Aggression
If I said that aggression is a normal human behaviour you and that even you as the calmest person on earth have this trait inside you, you may disagree with me, you may even jump at me and say that I am wrong. That’s good because then I have proved my point :-). Just disagreeing with...Continue reading→
7 Tips on how to use the power of failure to your Advantage. Tip 1. Understanding Frustration
I have extracted the following tips from the book “Psycho-cybernetics” by Maxwell Maltz, first published in 1969. It is one of the most interesting books I have read and I encourage you to read it. However, since many of you won’t have the time I have decided to extract some important parts and turn them...Continue reading→