Dien Rice
August 19, 2007, 08:08 PM
Thanks, I am glad you liked it. I also like what you said about making things happen. That is so fundamentally important.
I learned years ago that my biggest weakness is TV. I did not have the willpower to turn the damn thing off.
My solution?
I gave away my TV. It was drastic but it worked. I found all sorts of "extra" time for working out, martial arts, my business and family functions.
I agree, TV can be a deadly force! I don't watch much TV. Though I do like the occasional comedy as a stress reliever. :)
MAKE THINGS HAPPEN.
I think we all need to card in our wallets with that written on it.
You're right! I'm gonna make a card with those words right away!
Here's the part on the motivations of successful people regarding "Making Things Happen" from Edward de Bono's book (with slight editing)...
Making Things Happen
If I had to choose the one motivating factor that seems to me to be operating in most successful people it is the wish to make things happen. ...
"I realized that money wasn't the be-all and end-all. I think everybody looks for money in the beginning," says Mark McCormack (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mark_McCormack). "Their initial financial requirements - their concrete requirements - are those of a family, but I think after you reach a certain level that's no longer the intriguing factor. I think trying to accomplish something that's unique and, in my case, that had never ever been done before, was very challenging and very exciting."
Diane von Furstenberg (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diane_von_Furstenberg): "It's the warmth that you get in the fruit of your work or in the fruit of your efforts. It fills you up with a warmth and you wink at yourself, you smile at yourself. you don't need to share it with anybody and it's not 'ha ha', it's just warmth."
...
Sir Clive Sinclair (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clive_Sinclair): "The main excitement is when you suddenly see a way of doing something that hasn't been done before. It's the moment of solution. What is also nice is the recognition that there is a solution; one has found the solution."
Nolan Bushnell (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nolan_Bushnell): "I think the most important factor in my life is boredom. I just hate boredom; I hate redundancy. I hate repetition. I think that has been a heavy motivating force. I just can't let ideas be ideas. I have to sort of push them until I've found how to make them real - how do you make things happen?"
From "Tactics: The Art and Science of Success" by Edward de Bono, pp.68-69.
(The book was written in the mid-1980s, and mostly consists of interviews with various successful people, divided into topics. I just included the entrepreneurs' quotes above. The two quotes I left out were from a bank vice-president and a researcher/strategic thinker.)
Even though de Bono's "Tactics" book is over 20 years old, it's a good one!
Cheers :)
Dien
I learned years ago that my biggest weakness is TV. I did not have the willpower to turn the damn thing off.
My solution?
I gave away my TV. It was drastic but it worked. I found all sorts of "extra" time for working out, martial arts, my business and family functions.
I agree, TV can be a deadly force! I don't watch much TV. Though I do like the occasional comedy as a stress reliever. :)
MAKE THINGS HAPPEN.
I think we all need to card in our wallets with that written on it.
You're right! I'm gonna make a card with those words right away!
Here's the part on the motivations of successful people regarding "Making Things Happen" from Edward de Bono's book (with slight editing)...
Making Things Happen
If I had to choose the one motivating factor that seems to me to be operating in most successful people it is the wish to make things happen. ...
"I realized that money wasn't the be-all and end-all. I think everybody looks for money in the beginning," says Mark McCormack (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mark_McCormack). "Their initial financial requirements - their concrete requirements - are those of a family, but I think after you reach a certain level that's no longer the intriguing factor. I think trying to accomplish something that's unique and, in my case, that had never ever been done before, was very challenging and very exciting."
Diane von Furstenberg (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diane_von_Furstenberg): "It's the warmth that you get in the fruit of your work or in the fruit of your efforts. It fills you up with a warmth and you wink at yourself, you smile at yourself. you don't need to share it with anybody and it's not 'ha ha', it's just warmth."
...
Sir Clive Sinclair (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clive_Sinclair): "The main excitement is when you suddenly see a way of doing something that hasn't been done before. It's the moment of solution. What is also nice is the recognition that there is a solution; one has found the solution."
Nolan Bushnell (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nolan_Bushnell): "I think the most important factor in my life is boredom. I just hate boredom; I hate redundancy. I hate repetition. I think that has been a heavy motivating force. I just can't let ideas be ideas. I have to sort of push them until I've found how to make them real - how do you make things happen?"
From "Tactics: The Art and Science of Success" by Edward de Bono, pp.68-69.
(The book was written in the mid-1980s, and mostly consists of interviews with various successful people, divided into topics. I just included the entrepreneurs' quotes above. The two quotes I left out were from a bank vice-president and a researcher/strategic thinker.)
Even though de Bono's "Tactics" book is over 20 years old, it's a good one!
Cheers :)
Dien
