Category — Changing Your Mindset

This is part 2 in the series of “How to Succeed in 2007.” This series is about my thoughts on the CNN Money Article “How to Succeed in 2007.” You may want to start with part 1.

Eric Schmidt
CEO, Google
SUCCEED WITH SIMPLICITY

“Silicon Valley companies have a tendency to develop these systems that rely on complexity. But it produces things like the personal computer running Windows. Google from the beginning focused on the simple search box, the simple search page.

We have the tiger by the tail in that we have this huge phenomenon of personalization. Now we need to make it simpler for people. We are trying to shape the innovation going forward from here and get things more integrated, make Google more integrated. [Read more →]

CNN Money has posted an article called How to Succeed in 2007 – “We asked 50 of the brightest minds in business how they do what they do – and how you can cash in on their advice in the year ahead.”

I though it was interesting, so I’ll posting a few of my favorites (and my comments on them) over the next few days.

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Rachael Ray
Chef, Author, and Entrepreneur
Turn Your Passion Into an Empire

“You have to be open-minded when those early opportunities present themselves. Take advantage of them, whether they’re going to make you a lot of money or not. I did 30 Minute Meals for five years on local television, and I earned nothing the first two years. Then I earned $50 a segment. I spent more than that on gas and groceries, but I really enjoyed making the show and I loved going to a viewer’s house each week. I knew I enjoyed it, so I stuck with it even though it cost me.

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As you can see from the time stamp on this post, it’s way too early. My alarm went off at an astounding 5:00am (yawn.)

Normally I am a night person. If I didn’t have a job I would probably stay up until 2:00 or 3:00am every night and sleep in until noon. However, I’ve discovered that that schedule doesn’t really work in the ‘real world.’ So here’s the plan…

I intend to learn how to become an early riser.

I guess this is a little off topic from my usual financial articles, but I think it’s important nonetheless. Financial freedom goes hand-in-hand with personal discipline. So here’s my theory, if I can become an early riser I will be more productive, if I’m more productive I will stay caught up with everything that I have to get done, if I’m caught up with everything that I have to get done then I’m less stressed, if I’m less stressed then I will be less inclined to make those ‘feel good’ shopping trips, the ‘I’m to tired to cook’ food runs, and my most used excuse ‘I worked all day and the last thing I want to do is update my finances.’ [Read more →]