Home Business Gifts...Wisdom From the Past and Self-Belief For The Future with E-Commerce
Home Business Gifts...Wisdom From the Past and Self-Belief For The Future with E-Commerce
"One's mind, once stretched by a new idea, never regains its original dimensions." (Oliver Wendell Holmes)Two great gifts: Gift of wisdom from the 1900's and gift of unstoppable self-belief for home business success and e-commerce. In the spirit of sharing here is one gift of wisdom as we celebrate this one special holiday among many others. It is the story of how one man earned $5 million dollars in the early 1900's when the common working wage was about $400 a year, a lawyer earned $2500 annually, and a 4-cylinder, five-passenger car was $1250.He repeated one action over and over again.His fortune allowed him to found a small seminary to train Baptist ministers. That school soon grew into Temple University, one of the first universities to offer affordable education to working-class Americans: it stands today as the most visible example of his legacy and vision.His name was Reverend Russell Conwell. In an era when many Americans would pack public halls to hear speeches given by great citizens of their day, Russell Conwell read his world-famous lecture hundreds of times over and over again. It was titled "Acres of Diamonds," and it was delivered more than 6,000 times to audiences.His speech told the story of a farmer who sold his farm so he could travel overseas searching for diamonds. After a lifetime of searching, he returned home penniless, having never found treasure. In the meantime, one day, the man who purchased his farm noticed a sparkle in the stream running through the property. He waded into the water and found - a diamond!Turns out, the farm was sitting on one of the world's largest diamond mines, which made the new owner a fortune beyond his imagination or dreams.The point of Conwell's speech: you can find a fortune literally in your own hands, if you just take the time to ask and share for it.The reverend concluded his talk by saying: "Your diamonds are not in far distant mountains or in yonder seas. They are in your own backyard if you but dig for them."So what gems can we evaluate from this story a century later?Several, actually, if we dig deep enough. Gem #1: the perennial lesson that the rewards of work, education, and finding the riches of life can be found "in one's own back yard." I would add "within your personal belief systems." It doesn't matter what your direction in life. There are no physical obstacles to stop you.Gem #2: the resources to achieve all good thingsopportunity, service, achievement, and fortune are in your handsno need for a futile search to emulate them in other backyards. Gem #3: just imagine how the resources of our Information Technology are infinitely more available now than compared to a 100 years agoWe now have an electronic virtual transmission of the power of knowledge or "intellectual distribution" without boundaries or limitations. Within the reach of our fingertips, we can share valuable social networking, a new brilliant logic to a standard way of networking, a compelling video, a webinar, an unprecedented opportunity. What if, you repeated one action over and over again with the power of a phone or keyboard and shared a link to a couple of expert videos.But it's not the Grinch we must avoidbut rather the "kink to the link"...if you wish. This gift of information is invaluable only if you see the purpose and value. This first gift of wisdom is priceless only if we also offer the second gift of self-belief both to ourselves and to others. We need to avoid the "kink" of assumption of not looking or negation by inaction. The second gift is something we can only open from within. Imagine if you can wrap yourself as a present and "present" yourself to your family, your community and, now essentially, the world. What would your "presence" offer to those who "open" your thoughts and actions? Is it heroes of hope or enemies of fear? Once more, let Jim Rohn's wisdom help to "face the enemies within" and secure the reasons to discover change, hope and success. He is considered one of the foremost business philosophers and no one can say it better. Here is what he says:We are not born with courage, but neither are we born with FEAR. Maybe some of our fears are brought on by your own experiences, by what someone has told you, by what you've read in the papers. Some fears are valid, like walking alone in a bad part of town at two o'clock in the morning. But once you learn to avoid that situation,you won't need to live in fear of it. Fears, even the most basic ones, can totally destroy our ambitions...fortunes...relationships...left unchecked, it can seriously inhibit our lives. Fear is one of the many enemies lurking inside us. Let me tell you about four other negative emotionss we face from within.1. INDIFFERENCE...What a tragic disease this is. "Ho-hum, let it slide. I'll just drift along." Here's one problem with drifting: you can't drift your way to the top of the mountain.2. INDECISION....It will steal your chances for a better opportunity, enterprise and future. Take a sword to this enemy. 3. DOUBT...Sure, there's room for healthy skepticism. You can't believe everything. But you also can't let doubt take over. Many people doubt the past, doubt the future, doubt each other, doubt the government, doubt the possibilities and doubt the opportunities. Worse of all, they doubt themselves. 4. WORRY...We've all got to worry some. Just don't let it conquer you. Worry can be useful. But you can't let worry loose like a mad dog that drives you into a small corner. Whatever is pushing on you, you've got to push back. Build your courage to fight what's holding you back, what's keeping you from your goals and dreams. Now you received two gifts for every day.First is the gift of valuable information...how to be an entrepreneur...why you need to check out a powerful new internet technology and harness the booming e-commerce. Second is the gift of self-belief with no timidity, no worry, no doubt, no indifference, no indecision. The mental apparitions of excuses and fears will no longer constrict your physical abundance. What would you do if you weren't afraid? 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