Anointed CEO

“Entrepreneurship is living a few years of your life like most people won’t, so that you can spend the rest of your life like most people can’t”
- Warren G. Tracy

“I am not judged by the number of times I fail, but by the number of times I succeed. And the number of times I succeed is in direct proportion to the number of times I can fail and keep trying!”
- Tom Hopkins

“There is no such thing as failure, only feedback.”
- Brian Tracy

“If you think you can do a thing or think you can’t do a thing, you’re right.
- Henry Ford

“When you come to the end of your rope, tie a knot and hang on.”
- Ben Franklin

“Some people dream of great accomplishments, while others stay awake and do them.”
- Constance Newman

In the last 10 years of my life, I’ve been into several business and leadership seminars and heard great inspirational and motivational speakers in our land in the likes of Francis Kong and Anthony Pangilinan.

Every time after the seminar, my spirit is really high in the roof and ready for action to do what I suppose to do. It feels good and I am empowered. Few days or weeks past, the motivation has died down and I wonder why.

To be sure that it will not happen again, I searched for an answer and I share it with you my dear readers.

Motivation will not come from the seminars. Neither expensive books nor high profile speakers can motivate you. Nobody! They can only teach you how to motivate yourself.

Motivation always comes from within you. That is the key.

Ok, I know the title is an overstatement but I just recently discover the Philosophy of Google in building a website and company that will change the world. No wonder why Google is now more than a search engine but becoming a behemoth technology company.

Here is the summary of Ten Things Google Has Found To Be True.

1. Focus on the user and all else will follow.
2. It’s best to do one thing really, really well.
3. Fast is better than slow.
4. Democracy on the web works.
5. You don’t need to be at your desk to need an answer
6. You can make money without doing evil.
7. There’s always more information out there.
8. The need of information crosses all borders.
9. You can be serious without a suit.
10. Great just isn’t good enough.

For Netrepreneursout there, consider that 10 things as a check list in launching your next website and as Google has said it, “All Else Will Follow”.

As a struggling entrepreneur, I always ask myself, What I am missing?. Why can’t I just think of a great idea that will hit big? The business idea that will bring real reward and fulfillment that I am looking for.

Guy Kawasaki, the author of a bestseller “The Art of Start” has the answer. He mentioned 5 GIST (Great Ideas For Starting Things). These are:

1. Make Meaning
2. Make Mantra
3. Get Going
4. Define your Business Model
5. Weave a MAT (Milestones, Assumptions, and Tasks)

Among the five, I should say “Making a Meaning” is the missing link from all the ventures I had in the past. Here is an excerpt from the book that defines “meaning”.

Meaning is not about money, prestige, or power. It’s not even about crating a fun place to work. Among the meanings of “meaning” are to

- Make the world a better place.
- Increase the quality of life.
- Right a terrible wrong.
- Prevent the end of something good.

Now that I am focus on Internet Entrepreneurship, this is something that I’ll put on top before launching any business or website. Kawasaki explained it convincingly well in his book and I felt more empowered ever since.

This also made me realize, Is not this life is all about? Making a meaning here in on earth and on eternal.