Posts Tagged ‘People’

How to Create Your Own Luck in Business

October 14th, 2009

We’ve all met people whom we thought were “so lucky”. We humans tend to think luck is behind our lives’ misfortunes and successes; however, deep inside, we know that luck has nothing to do with what happens in our existence, don’t we? What we so despairingly call luck is just the set of actions and beliefs of the “lucky” people, and how they apply them to business and their lives.

Individuals who are “lucky” in business and life, happen to share eight distinctive characteristics:

1. They talk to everyone

Strangers are intimidating to most of us, however, many great experiences can result from talking to people we don’t know. You never know… you might get ‘lucky’!

2. They love small talk

Many people disregard small talk because they see it as unproductive. What they forget is that small talk can lead to the big talk when they least expect it.

3. They ‘drop’ names

Although some may think that individuals that drop names are showoffs, one may find common ground and open doors when discovering you both know the same people. There is indeed a way of dropping names with class.

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Is Money the Source of Evil?

August 30th, 2009

Is money really the source of all the evil on Planet Earth. Well, this is a rather difficult question.
Let us consider two points of view and give pros and cons to each.

There are seven billion people on our planet. Modern global economy is impossible without money. Money is used as a special means that connects people in economic relations. Contemporary financial system is very complicated and its development has helped the humankind to advance further in its development. Life is impossible nowadays without money. From this point of view we may definitely say that money is good.

What about the other side of the coin?

Ironically, money is considered bad because of the same reason as we have mentioned before. Its wide-spread has influenced people’s relations. Everything on Earth is spinning around the money. Money means power. The more money you have the more you can afford. Even in the ancient Rome the rich person who had a lot of money could afford himself to possess dozens of slaves. High demand for this third means of economic relations make some people go crazy about it. Many of us forget about other much more important things.

Sincere human relations, real attitude, friendship, true love can never be bought with help of money. In pursue of wealth and high status in the modern society many of us neglect natural values that are present in every one of us since the moment of birth.

Why Some People Fail in Business

June 8th, 2009

I have seen too many people fail in business by complicating things and spending all there time trying to figure it out. I believe it is hard for anyone with a technical background to realize that why you are trying to figure out a system. The rest of us just go to work by setting our goals, managing our activity daily and do it.

People want information quickly and expect things to happen immediately. They keep searching for the new ways to get rich in 90 days while sitting on the beach. Every time they find a new system, they can’t wait to tell everyone, “I’m on my way to the top.” A few weeks later I ask them how they are doing and they tell me “That system is no good and I found this new system.”

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