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Well hello again everyone, how are you today? I hope you're doing very, very well. Again
my name is Jason Myles, for those of you that don't know me, and today I'm sitting in my
office here in Atlanta and I wanted to share a few things with you. In business there are
a lot of different things that people do or don't do that can cause them to be very, very
successful or fail miserably. Of course you know there's a lot to be learned from failing.
I always tell people that failure isn't truly failure, you know, its just you learning a
way not to do something. So today I wanted to share with you some very key business principles,
there's 13 of them. Now, it isn't just business, you can actually use this in your life as
well. They're very important principles and I try to practice them everyday; I work towards
them every single day and every thought that I possibly have, so I just wanted to share
them with you. Now I'm going to start from 13 and work my way down in the way that I
think that they're important. Now the 13th principle or key principle is that success
is never guaranteed. You never know when you're going to be successful, or you know, the level
of success that you may or may not achieve, you just never know. So it's important to
know that success is never guaranteed and when you're working towards your goals, you
have to set up default mechanisms, if you will; if "A" doesn't work, we'll take "B".
Sometimes you work towards "A" and "B" will show itself. So success is never guaranteed
and you have to know that before you get into it. The 12th principle is that success comes
by doing many things right, over a very long period of time. If you look at any extremely
successful company, before you heard of them, they had already been in business for a relatively
long period of time. There are a number of examples out there of companies that were
doing their thing before. Google for instance, those guys were working on those programs
for years before anyone had ever heard of them. So you have to consistently do the right
thing over a very long period of time so that you can achieve exactly what you want. You
know by doing that, it kind of gives you the ability to see where you don't want to go
and see where you can possibly go and you can begin to broaden your horizon, if you
will, in business. Now the 11th key principle is to never ignore the signs. What does that
mean? Don't ignore the signs. Sometimes it's a gut feeling. Sometimes it's every time you
try to get something done, you keep hitting the wall and a lot of people will continue
to push and push and push and push. Well that's not the right thing to do. Maybe you're going
in the right direction, but you're using the wrong vehicle to take you there. Maybe you
need to go over the wall or around the wall, or in some cases, under the wall. But trying
to break through the wall can be very, very difficult. So follow your feelings, if something
is not working, find another way to do it, or don't do it all. Maybe you need to switch
up what you're doing. Maybe you have a great idea but you have to refine it a bit. So never
ignore the signs, it's very important. Now # 10, opportunity is a liability, it's not
an asset. Now this is just my feeling on it. Now what does that mean, that opportunity
isn't an asset? Well, you'll hear people say that opportunity is once in a lifetime, or
this opportunity comes once in a lifetime; that's not necessarily true. You have to be
willing to consistently take chances and to make things happen by taking those chances
and putting yourself out there, and pushing and pushing and working towards your goals;
you're creating your opportunities. They're not just presented to you. You don't just
sit back and wait and wait and wait and maybe, maybe, maybe; you can't do that, that's not
the right way to think. So if you think that way, if that's how you believe about opportunity,
then for you opportunity is a liability and that's a liability that you can not afford
to have in business. You have to take chances, you have to put yourself out there. You've
got to get known, depending on what your business is, well any business for that matter. You
have to get out there. Now #9, success begins by surrounding yourself with who? Quality
people. You can't be the best in your team all the time. You have to have some smart
people around you. There are a number of great business people out here that will tell you,
"you know I'm not the sharpest tool in my shed". Russell Simmons for instance, he prides
himself on being the energy behind his ventures, but he knows how to pick great talent and
how to nurture that talent. A lot of the people that work for him, now independently, maybe
they don't have the charisma that he has, some of them do, some of them don't. But they
are extremely good at what they do. And great CEO's, great business leaders, great leaders
in general know how to find and pick and identify and nurture that talent. So surround yourself
with quality people, it's going to be a very, very key factor in your success. Now # 7,
don't ignore your problems. Now this is something that a lot of people, a lot of people do it
consistently for that matter. But why, why would you want to ignore your problems? You
know your little problems and your big problems. The big problems you can't ignore. A lot of
people try to run away from those large problems, but you can't do it. You can not run away
from your problems, you have to take them head on. The big problems you can't ignore,
but the ones that always wind up getting, the ones that always wind up creeping from
behind you, are the those little small seemingly insignificant problems that many of us chose
to ignore. And then they sit there and they fester and they fester, and they grow, and
resentment at times comes with it when there's emotional ties, you know just personal ties
to it; so you have to deal with them. As uncomfortable as it may be at times, you absolutely have
to deal with it. Don't ignore your problems, be consistent, stay with it, it's extremely
important that you do so.
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