By Gary I Cooper
One of my favorite subjects is on finding or choosing your true passion. One reason it's one of my favorites is because I'm the worst case there ever was of when-to-do-it! When is the best time to make your move? How are you going to tell your boss? How are you going to tell your wife? What can you say when your not happy with the $75,000 a year job? Of course the amount is not important. It could be $25,000 a year or $180,000 a year.
The important thing is it's just not you. You're always working for someone else. There is always a ceiling on the dollar amount. You're not calling the shots. How many times have you had to bite your cheek; I better not say anything or I might get fired! My mistake to me was I waited too long. I felt I would wait until the time was right! I wish I had not waited until twenty-five years later, instead of a couple.
I'll mention a few lines here just in case you had not heard my story. I'm sure it's floating around on the internet somewhere. But, anyway. I quit high school at the age of 15 and ran off to Sunland Park a racetrack in El Paso Texas. Now mind you that was a long way from Dallas Texas. You know, just a kid, it could have been just as well the circus or board a ship to be a sailor, or be a rock star, but whatever, it's what I decided to do! And, no one the face of the earth could change my mind once I decide I'm going to do something. How do you say it? Hard heads!
I rode up until I was about twenty-six. When I started I weighed about 95 pounds. I was a late bloomer just one to not finish growing until a later age. It just got to where I couldn't make weight any longer. Then, they came out with digital scales making it harder and harder to cheat. You know two fingers on top of the scales trick.
I was what you call a free-lance jockey. I didn't just ride for one stable. I rode for many. I never wanted to be tied to just one stable. One source of income. My checks came from eight to twenty or more different sources. If I and a trainer didn't see eye-to-eye about something, there was always another trainer down the shed role. It wouldn't break my bank. I hand my exercise-money coming in.
Some jockey's thought they were too good to exercise day mounts. They just rode the races. Then I had my race checks coming in. I also did a lot of off the main racetrack circuits at training farms. Breaking the yearlings and two-year olds getting the young ones ready for the racetracks.
This was another bad habit of mine that the injuries have came back to haunt me in later years. I would always ride the crazy's, the mounts that no one else would ride. One to not have very good sense (me). Go find that Coop guy, that's what they called me. He'll ride anything!
One thing I did do is to prepare myself for another occupation because I knew I would not always be able to ride. One winter I took up a technician school for the day I could no longer ride. The only problem is, there is a limit to how much you can make. There are, just so many hours in a day.
So as a young man I knew to have your income coming from multiple sources. I was far more a better businessman then. What happened to my own theory? Well, listening to other people and not doing my own passion. Of course I can no longer ride. But, it took me more than twenty-five years to come back around to what I want to do!
In network marketing, another jungle in itself, but with specialized knowledge it can be learned. And, there is no limit to your income. You can take any hobby or skill or art or whatever! There is a way to turn, that to income. I myself, the absolute worst at writing, see what I mean? It gets better with practice.
Turn your passion into bucks. I thought I would share some of my path, to the internet. And, hope that some of my reader's take from my experience, because I spent thousands in trial-and-error on the internet. Whatever your deepest core desire will surface. Until next time . . . the rest of the story!
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Wednesday, 27 August 2008
Monday, 18 August 2008
If You Want to Do Something - Do It!
By Melanie Keveles
How many times do I have to learn this lesson before it doesn't surprise me each time I encounter it? Years ago I learned that if I wanted to become a career consultant (that was before I trained to be a coach), I had to simply find an audience and start practicing my craft.
I rounded up a group of people in New York, led a workshop based on materials I borrowed from my mentor and could truthfully say I was a Career Consultant from that day forward. It was as important for my self-esteem as anything else that I had that experience under my belt. That gig led to my consulting at Monsanto, which led to my outplacement job with the first outplacement company in St. Louis. That experience led to my own business, a book deal for Fired for Success: How to Turn Losing Your Job into the Opportunity of a Lifetime! By simply doing something, I started a chain of events that extends more than 25 years into the future!
So yesterday, when I saw two stories on CBS Sunday Morning that contained the same lesson, it didn't take me long to make a note to myself to write about this issue.
Being Discovered on YouTube
You might like the music of the rock group, Journey or even have purchased one of their 70 million albums sold over the years. If you are a fan, you might know that this group has been in decline since its lead tenor, Steve Perry, left in 1996 to have a hip replaced and never returned. Two other lead singers who joined the group in the past decade never captured the magic Perry had created.
This difficult situation put the whole band in disarray for years. Yet when their 1981 signature hit "Don't Stop Believin" played last year at the end of the final episode of the popular HBO series Sopranos, the band saw a great opportunity for a comeback ... if only they had a lead singer!
Dean Castranovo, one of the band members, told Sunday Morning he was driven nuts by not having a singer and being able to go out on the road at that point.
Not leaving the situation to chance, another member of the group, Neal Schon used the Internet to search for a new lead singer. He was looking for a "legacy sound, a tenor voice... with soul and emotion."
After two days of surfing YouTube, he came upon a video of Arnel Pineda, a 40 year old Filipino who sang with a group called The Zoo, mimicking everybody from Sting to Led Zeppelin.
When he heard the young singer belt out Journey's own "Faithfully," Schon picked up the phone and called the Philippines, inviting Pineda for an audition in the United States. After he arrived, Arnel Pineda was immediately asked to join the group - there was no doubt in his talent.
A Remarkable Background
Arnel Pineda has been singing from an early age, remembering at five how his mother would ask him to sing along with her as she crooned with Barbara Streisand and Karen Carpenter on the radio.
His parents, both tailors, would create outfits for him to use in performances as they sent him out to participate in singing contests. Being shy, he would often run away as they chased after him with a tape measure.
Sadly, his mother died when Arnel was 13 after a long illness which bankrupt the family. For some period he was homeless, with no more than a piece of biscuit to eat for three days at a time.
But he used the gift his mother gave him, crooning in Hong Kong nightclubs.
Like the line from the song, Pineda's advice to all of us is not to give up - "don't stop believin."
What his story reinforces is the power of just doing what he wanted to do - not hoping to sing with a big band and waiting around for his ship to come in - but getting into action and grabbing whatever singing opportunities he could find. Providence honored a man who was already doing what he intended to do - sing.
Starting From Scratch
Another story exemplifies the same lesson: Whoopi Goldberg, a high school dropout from the projects of New York today is one of only 13 people who have won an Emmy, a Grammy, an Oscar and a Tony Award.
She too started from humble beginnings even though she had a sense from an early age she wanted to act. In her case, she actually got caught up in drugs on the streets of New York. After a stint in rehab, she reoriented herself to her dream. Her experience growing through her naivety on the streets grew into various character sketches she wove into her own one woman monologue performance she called The Spook show.
Taking the initiative to create and perform her character sketches brought Whoopi Goldberg notice. Little by little she made her way from stage to stage until she ended up impressing director Mike Nichols who was instantly taken in and offered to bring the show to Broadway. Among the 156 sold-out performances which were also taped and shown on HBO, she caught the attention of director Steven Spielberg who cast her in The Color Purple.
Again, the moral of this story is that Whoopi did herself her biggest favor by getting into action and creating her performance - doing what she wanted to do by just doing it!
The question is: What could you just do - get into action on - that will propel you into the future that's awaiting you?
Melanie Keveles, Master Certified Coach, helps people live their dreams instead of dreaming of living. Do you have a secret dream that you yearn to make real? Discover how Melanie has helped others achieve success, change their careers, and rediscover joy. Visit website at http://www.startingfreshcoaching.com
Article Source: http://EzineArticles.com/?expert=Melanie_Keveles
How many times do I have to learn this lesson before it doesn't surprise me each time I encounter it? Years ago I learned that if I wanted to become a career consultant (that was before I trained to be a coach), I had to simply find an audience and start practicing my craft.
I rounded up a group of people in New York, led a workshop based on materials I borrowed from my mentor and could truthfully say I was a Career Consultant from that day forward. It was as important for my self-esteem as anything else that I had that experience under my belt. That gig led to my consulting at Monsanto, which led to my outplacement job with the first outplacement company in St. Louis. That experience led to my own business, a book deal for Fired for Success: How to Turn Losing Your Job into the Opportunity of a Lifetime! By simply doing something, I started a chain of events that extends more than 25 years into the future!
So yesterday, when I saw two stories on CBS Sunday Morning that contained the same lesson, it didn't take me long to make a note to myself to write about this issue.
Being Discovered on YouTube
You might like the music of the rock group, Journey or even have purchased one of their 70 million albums sold over the years. If you are a fan, you might know that this group has been in decline since its lead tenor, Steve Perry, left in 1996 to have a hip replaced and never returned. Two other lead singers who joined the group in the past decade never captured the magic Perry had created.
This difficult situation put the whole band in disarray for years. Yet when their 1981 signature hit "Don't Stop Believin" played last year at the end of the final episode of the popular HBO series Sopranos, the band saw a great opportunity for a comeback ... if only they had a lead singer!
Dean Castranovo, one of the band members, told Sunday Morning he was driven nuts by not having a singer and being able to go out on the road at that point.
Not leaving the situation to chance, another member of the group, Neal Schon used the Internet to search for a new lead singer. He was looking for a "legacy sound, a tenor voice... with soul and emotion."
After two days of surfing YouTube, he came upon a video of Arnel Pineda, a 40 year old Filipino who sang with a group called The Zoo, mimicking everybody from Sting to Led Zeppelin.
When he heard the young singer belt out Journey's own "Faithfully," Schon picked up the phone and called the Philippines, inviting Pineda for an audition in the United States. After he arrived, Arnel Pineda was immediately asked to join the group - there was no doubt in his talent.
A Remarkable Background
Arnel Pineda has been singing from an early age, remembering at five how his mother would ask him to sing along with her as she crooned with Barbara Streisand and Karen Carpenter on the radio.
His parents, both tailors, would create outfits for him to use in performances as they sent him out to participate in singing contests. Being shy, he would often run away as they chased after him with a tape measure.
Sadly, his mother died when Arnel was 13 after a long illness which bankrupt the family. For some period he was homeless, with no more than a piece of biscuit to eat for three days at a time.
But he used the gift his mother gave him, crooning in Hong Kong nightclubs.
Like the line from the song, Pineda's advice to all of us is not to give up - "don't stop believin."
What his story reinforces is the power of just doing what he wanted to do - not hoping to sing with a big band and waiting around for his ship to come in - but getting into action and grabbing whatever singing opportunities he could find. Providence honored a man who was already doing what he intended to do - sing.
Starting From Scratch
Another story exemplifies the same lesson: Whoopi Goldberg, a high school dropout from the projects of New York today is one of only 13 people who have won an Emmy, a Grammy, an Oscar and a Tony Award.
She too started from humble beginnings even though she had a sense from an early age she wanted to act. In her case, she actually got caught up in drugs on the streets of New York. After a stint in rehab, she reoriented herself to her dream. Her experience growing through her naivety on the streets grew into various character sketches she wove into her own one woman monologue performance she called The Spook show.
Taking the initiative to create and perform her character sketches brought Whoopi Goldberg notice. Little by little she made her way from stage to stage until she ended up impressing director Mike Nichols who was instantly taken in and offered to bring the show to Broadway. Among the 156 sold-out performances which were also taped and shown on HBO, she caught the attention of director Steven Spielberg who cast her in The Color Purple.
Again, the moral of this story is that Whoopi did herself her biggest favor by getting into action and creating her performance - doing what she wanted to do by just doing it!
The question is: What could you just do - get into action on - that will propel you into the future that's awaiting you?
Melanie Keveles, Master Certified Coach, helps people live their dreams instead of dreaming of living. Do you have a secret dream that you yearn to make real? Discover how Melanie has helped others achieve success, change their careers, and rediscover joy. Visit website at http://www.startingfreshcoaching.com
Article Source: http://EzineArticles.com/?expert=Melanie_Keveles
Thursday, 14 August 2008
What Do You See - Problems Or Opportunities?
By Scott Hove
Scott Hove
Level: Platinum
Scott Hove is a professional speaker, consultant, trainer and coach - as well as an author. Hove was born in Grafton, ND and raised ... ...
How is your vision?
That is; what do you see?
Our nation is currently (this is being written in August 2008) facing an economic downturn defined by falling home values, high energy prices, volatile stock prices, rising unemployment, the credit crisis and more!
If all you do is read, listen and watch the media stories it seems as if we should just shut everything down for a few months and see if things turn around.
However, not everyone is experiencing "bad times." Not all businesses are failing. Not everyone is out of work. Why is that the case? Do these people see something others don't or can't see?
I had the opportunity to attend Dan Kennedy's "Super Conference" in April of 2005 in Chicago, where he said, "Most people don't see opportunity everywhere they look!" Notice that he just didn't say, "see opportunity" but added these critical words: "everywhere they look."
Kennedy then elaborated on this thought by giving an example from Disney World in Florida. They had a problem. Actually, they still do!
It rains in Florida (even at Disney)!
Often!
Kennedy correctly said that most people would see the rain as a problem. However, Disney World implemented a "rain parade" and decided sell rain ponchos for $8-12 so tourists could view the parade comfortably! As a result, millions of dollars are added to the bottom line yearly because of the "problem" of rain.
Disney turned their problem into an opportunity.
Danny Deutsch talks about this same thing during his show on CNBC called "The Big Idea." He regularly asks his guests about the problem(s) they had and how they solved them. He then looks into the camera and tells the viewers to actually look for problems that need solving because that's where there are business opportunities!
Deutsch is right, of course; but that isn't how most people are wired. But you can be! You just need to do some of your own inner electrical work to get re-wired. It is a shift of sight. That is, shifting from "seeing" only problems to "seeing" opportunities that exist exactly because there is a problem. This change can happen almost immediately if you decide to let it happen.
Here are five questions to ask yourself the next time you see a problem:
1. Who else experiences this problem? (Determines market size/viability.)
2. Does a solution currently exist? (Determines competition.)
3. If there is no current solution to my problem, what does the solution look like? (Turns the problem upside down to determine the possibility of a new product, strategy, or business.)
4. If there is a solution I'm not currently implementing what is stopping me? (Determines personal or corporate roadblocks to moving forward.)
5. What do I do now? (Incorporates action rather than remaining stuck.)
When you are faced with a difficulty, do you see a problem or an opportunity? What happens when the rain falls in your life?
Begin, today, to see the opportunities that lie within your problems!
Scott Hove is a Las Vegas-based inspirational speaker. His most requested presentation "The World's Most Valuable Real Estate" will soon be available as a book. To get his FREE REPORT, "Six Things You MUST Know About the World's Most Valuable Real Estate," simply go to http://www.MostValuableRealEstate.com
Article Source: http://EzineArticles.com/?expert=Scott_Hove
Scott Hove
Level: Platinum
Scott Hove is a professional speaker, consultant, trainer and coach - as well as an author. Hove was born in Grafton, ND and raised ... ...
How is your vision?
That is; what do you see?
Our nation is currently (this is being written in August 2008) facing an economic downturn defined by falling home values, high energy prices, volatile stock prices, rising unemployment, the credit crisis and more!
If all you do is read, listen and watch the media stories it seems as if we should just shut everything down for a few months and see if things turn around.
However, not everyone is experiencing "bad times." Not all businesses are failing. Not everyone is out of work. Why is that the case? Do these people see something others don't or can't see?
I had the opportunity to attend Dan Kennedy's "Super Conference" in April of 2005 in Chicago, where he said, "Most people don't see opportunity everywhere they look!" Notice that he just didn't say, "see opportunity" but added these critical words: "everywhere they look."
Kennedy then elaborated on this thought by giving an example from Disney World in Florida. They had a problem. Actually, they still do!
It rains in Florida (even at Disney)!
Often!
Kennedy correctly said that most people would see the rain as a problem. However, Disney World implemented a "rain parade" and decided sell rain ponchos for $8-12 so tourists could view the parade comfortably! As a result, millions of dollars are added to the bottom line yearly because of the "problem" of rain.
Disney turned their problem into an opportunity.
Danny Deutsch talks about this same thing during his show on CNBC called "The Big Idea." He regularly asks his guests about the problem(s) they had and how they solved them. He then looks into the camera and tells the viewers to actually look for problems that need solving because that's where there are business opportunities!
Deutsch is right, of course; but that isn't how most people are wired. But you can be! You just need to do some of your own inner electrical work to get re-wired. It is a shift of sight. That is, shifting from "seeing" only problems to "seeing" opportunities that exist exactly because there is a problem. This change can happen almost immediately if you decide to let it happen.
Here are five questions to ask yourself the next time you see a problem:
1. Who else experiences this problem? (Determines market size/viability.)
2. Does a solution currently exist? (Determines competition.)
3. If there is no current solution to my problem, what does the solution look like? (Turns the problem upside down to determine the possibility of a new product, strategy, or business.)
4. If there is a solution I'm not currently implementing what is stopping me? (Determines personal or corporate roadblocks to moving forward.)
5. What do I do now? (Incorporates action rather than remaining stuck.)
When you are faced with a difficulty, do you see a problem or an opportunity? What happens when the rain falls in your life?
Begin, today, to see the opportunities that lie within your problems!
Scott Hove is a Las Vegas-based inspirational speaker. His most requested presentation "The World's Most Valuable Real Estate" will soon be available as a book. To get his FREE REPORT, "Six Things You MUST Know About the World's Most Valuable Real Estate," simply go to http://www.MostValuableRealEstate.com
Article Source: http://EzineArticles.com/?expert=Scott_Hove
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