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“Genius is one percent inspiration and ninety-nine percent perspiration.” – Thomas Alva Edison
There’s an old saying, “Work hard play hard.” (Good to keep in mind)

Take for example, popular statements like “Don’t work hard, work smart” and “work smarter instead of harder.” I don’t totally disagree with these statements and can understand where they’re coming from and from who. Don’t think that hard work isn’t ever going to cross your path again though. Working smart is definitely the way to go, however you need to work hard on what works(working smart) and stop working on what only partially works.

Using the famous GOYA formula

Tom Hopkins says, when you get in a slump, apply the GOYA formula. It seems to work like magic to. What’s the GOYA formula? Simply this: When you’re not getting anywhere … Get Off Your ASS! Often times people don’t slow down because they’re working too hard, it’s because they outperform one week, then slack for while expecting to coast. Eventually they have to work for three weeks to make up for the lost time. Remember a time in your life when you worked really hard at your job or your business or maybe something non-work related: did it take some hustle and some guts? Maybe you had to get up 2-3 hours earlier than you normally would. But whatever it took, you were going to get there. Usually, going ahead isn’t about learning more, or reading more books or taking another breather. The answer is just getting off your ass. “Nobody ever drowned in their own sweat!”

Look back on a time when you were employed at a job other than you’re own business. You had to work the hours on the schedule, take a brief coffee break, a lunch break and then get back to work. Sometimes the managers would bitch and sometimes you were pressured to work twice as hard. You’d go home, go to sleep and wake up the next morning and, whether you felt like it or not, you drove back to work. There was no question, just get to work. If you worked as hard at your current business as you did at your payroll job would your business be flourishing? If so, then get off your ass!

“There’s a time for work, and there’s a time for play, don’t mix the two.” – Jim Rohn

How many hours a day do you REALLY spend actually working and producing results? If you’re self employed this can be a tough one to answer. You could say, “well, I don’t know exactly how many hours I work because I’m self employed and I make my own hours.” But how many hours do you really make? You could use the old manager mentality, “well as long as shit gets done, that’s all that matters.” Or you could ask yourself, am I doing everything I could be or just passing the minimum? Honestly, based on my results would I hire myself? If you’re in business for yourself and your answer is no, I wouldn’t hire myself, than why the hell are you in business for yourself? The problem with us self-employed people is that we can’t tell the difference between fun, relaxing and actual work. Separate them! Relaxing does not equal work. Your work may be fun but don’t get work and fun, as in non-lucrative fun, mixed together. Because what you get is non-lucrative work.

Don’t allow play to take over work time, because work time will end up taking over play time.

When things get worse, you gotta work harder!

What do most people do when there’s a recession? They whine, complain and get depressed. There are always rumors that they are going to laid off. Every day at work is a reminder of how dim the future is for them. The problem is, almost everyone gets by in the good times. The so called bad times or depressions or slumps are golden opportunities to separate the wheat from the shaft. These times bring down the people with poor mentalities and rise up the champions who are up for a challenge. Tom Hopkins, who was a real estate agent in the 60’s and 70’s, made record sales during a down economy–hitting record sales that were almost unsurpassed of until the turn of the century. Mr. Hopkins said, “When we hit a slump, I just worked harder than anyone else.” He didn’t say leverage was responsible for his success. He didn’t tell us that a certain technique was critical to his success. Even though time management, the proper techniques and practice are critically important, he said “I worked harder than anyone else.” Should it come as a surprise? I think not. Take what you know and work hard with it.

• Do you work hard to find ways to work smarter?
• Do you work hard on yourself, building character and self discipline?
• Do you work hard to educate yourself, and work hard blocking out what doesn’t help you in the least?
• Do you work hard to build, work harder to maintain what you’ve built and work even harder to ward off what threatens what you’ve built?
• Do you work hard on simplifying, balancing the time scales and making life more manageable?
• Do you work hard to better yourself, to become better suited and more skilled, higher in effectiveness and a better performer?

“I have been impressed with the urgency of doing. Knowing is not enough; we must apply. Being willing is not enough; we must do.” – Russell C. Taylor:

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John Maxwell explains that talented people have to work as hard, or even harder, than anyone else to make use of their talents. Talent is not a free pass; it takes choices in order for your telent to be maximized. Every person on this earth has talents to some extent. Some find their talents at a young age and some never find them. John Maxwell says, whether you’re a highly talented person or not, you’ll make or break yourself through the choices you make. There are 13 choices you must make to become a “talent-plus person”:

1. Belief Lifts Your Talent.
2. Passion energizes your talent.
3. Initiative Activates your talent.
4. Focus directs your talent.
5. Preparation positions your talent.
6. Practice sharpens your talent.
7. Perseverance sustains your talent.
8. Courage tests your talent.
9. Teach-ability expands your talent.
10. Character protects your talent.
11. Relationships influence your talent.
12. Responsibility strengthens your talent.
13. Teamwork multiplies your talent.

John Maxwell goes through deep detail for each choice and how to you can apply it to your own life. I’d suggest your listen to the audio CD or read the book, it’s more than worth your time.

Most of us know that negative thoughts can be very destructive, it’s nothing new. However, the more I look into it the more I understand how extremely important optimism and positive thinking really is. Our attitudes towards life changes everything

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It determines our future, influences our thoughts and effects our personality. If you tell yourself that your stupid and won’t amount to anything then what else will you be? What else are you capable of if you don’t first have the attitude Hallowed Grounds film Out of Africa buy

to go after something better?

The last time you were around a negative person did you ever notice how they try to make excuses to continue being negative? They’ll use the argument, it’s the truth. There are a lot of truths, lots of the negative truths have to be brought out and talked about—because they’re important. Positive people don’t ignore the bad parts of life, but unlike pessimists, they don’t let it take over

they’re lives.

When you get too involved in the negative and neglect the good parts of life you put a dark curse on your self. You can’t see past the fog and your life gets blocked off by this black wall. However once you look around and start being thankful for what you have, you can enjoy life. You see a new light and at the same time a world of possibilities open in front of you. So while the pessimist doubts him self to death the person with a positive attitude is going to go places where no one thought was possible.

Positive thinking shouldn’t be a religion, it should be something we use because we’re born with it. It’s just another part of our personality, though some of us just don’t use it…and suffer the consequences.

Lets face it, web design ain’t easy. But it can be made easier with a few adjustments to you attitude. Let me just say this first: don’t touch web development if its not your thing. The reason people get into web design is to build stuff for themselves or get paid to do it.

If your going to succeed at developing for the web there are a few things you should know:

1. Web design takes a lot of hard work and dedication.

2. You need the drive and passion for it or else you’ll always be the slowest, no matter what skills or tools you have.

3. You need to be constantly trying to improve your self. The web is changing every day. To be a web designer you need to be caught up with all of the new standards, versions, etc. Don’t be a afraid to give up an old method just because your used to it. Open your mind, improve your self!

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You need to use your inner creativity. Everyone is creative, its just that some people don’t use their creativity and come to the conclusion that their “not creative”. Everyone on earth is creative, you just need to know how to channel it.

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You need to have patience…trust me! If you give up to easily it means you need to learn a LOOOONG lesson in patience. Try to follow through, its a great feeling.

6. Learn to gauge your time to save time. e.g. I finish the titles and meta tags now and at 3 I’ll…

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Experience. I can’t stress how important this is. You can learn tons by just doing. You can also learn a lot about your self that can’t really be put into words.

8. Do your best, even if its not your project. Think of every thing you do as a time capsule, a frozen snap shot in time that you can tell other people about and be proud of it. In everything you do, do your best, because it all contributes to your overall skill.

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11. Last but not least, try to be organized. The information age is upon us and its too complicated as it is. Stay organized and you’ll find that it will be easier to handle the craziness of the IT age.

These are some of my thoughts on the subject, hope you enjoy reading it.