Attitude And Mindset
We all need a daily check up from the neck up to avoid stinkin ‘thinkin’ which ultimately leads to hardening of the attitudes – Zig Ziglar
When I decided to included attitude and mindset in Webucation Australia, I had written a story which I was going to share with you.
It was my thoughts about the power of the mind, and the effects … both positive and negative … it can have in both our lives.
Then along comes one of my favourite mentors Perry Marshall.
You see, what Perry had to say in his email was worth putting right on this page. So, I decided to save my thoughts for a rainy day, and share with you instead … these grateful and wise words from Perry Marshall.
This is what Perry had to say in his email …
It’s the day before New Years Eve, I’ve been up since 6am getting all kinds of projects done. It’ll be at least a year before the best of this morning’s work sees the light of day, but it’s on the conveyor belt.
Snowflakes are drifting down from the sky outside my window and I just came back from a walk around the neighborhood. (I prefer a brisk walk outdoors to an exercise machine, personally.)
At my fingertips, access to most of the world’s information and the greatest minds, both living and dead.
At my fingertips, tens of thousands of awesome customers and virtual friends who give me the honor of their trust, with vital business and marketing decisions. They’ve given me permission to talk to them when I feel I have something worthwhile to say and that’s a high privilege.
Downstairs, a very close friend of ours is making lunch.
In Saint Louis, my wife is at a conference where she met a woman just yesterday who is helping former child soldiers in Uganda. Something can now be done to right something that for years has been horribly wrong.
On my headphones, jazz guitarist Stanley Jordan is performing a remake of Joe Jackson’s “Stepping Out” and he’s doing a superlative job, in my humble opinion.
Outside in the snow, my kids are playing some crazy game with their friends, running around with imaginary weapons and preparing for more serious games they’ll be playing decades from now.
The World Wide Web is the most radical technological development since fire, and 20 years ago it didn’t exist. The most influential company on the Internet didn’t even exist 12 years ago. In the next 10 years, companies will spring up even faster than Google, and make even more money.
5 years from now you may be in a business that has never been thought of in 2009.
What an incredible time to be alive.
Yes, I know about the problems. I know about the global warming and the slave trade and the earthquakes and tsunamis and Osama Bin Laden. I know about cancer and birth defects and the bloody 20th century and the pollution in China and the prostitution rings in Bangkok. I know about all that.
But you don’t get rid of bad things by obsessing about them. You create alternatives.
You don’t free enslaved people by enslaving free people. You work to make free people even freer.
This morning a guy named Steve posted a comment on my blog: “Your devotion to helping small time Entrepreneurs make it big is without a doubt the most noble profession any human being could take on and you should be praised for you commitment to helping your fellow man.”
Wow, what a high compliment. I’m thankful to be assisting a ragtag collection of geeks, freaks and misfits find their way in this crazy, digital world. I’m thankful to be surrounded by a community of passionate entrepreneurs who help each other and watch each others’ backs and build things together.
I’m thankful to have been taught principles by the world’s wisest people, both past and present. I’m thankful to live in a country that has a constitution and faith in right and liberty and human rights.
I’m thankful that despite whatever paranoia the media throws into the stir-fry today, I have the right to ignore them and charge forward and build a better world for next week and next year and the next century.
I’m thankful for customers who believe as I do, for people who face insurmountable odds (there are occasional days when NOBODY would ever choose to be an entrepreneur, right?).
I’m thankful for victories and resilience and the never-ending stream of innovations and ideas.
We truly live in miraculous times. Don’t ever let anyone make you forget that.
– Perry Marshall
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