Cavas Gobhai has consulted with some of the world’s largest companies. He helps them implement ideas. Over the years, he has noticed something about business ideas that succeed BIGG. Here’s a quote from The Wall Street Journal:
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You choose a career. You get a job. It pays the bills. Life is good. You live happily ever after. If you’re lucky. Because …
If you’re lucky, you love your job. If you’re lucky, your work is stimulating. If you’re lucky, there is room for growth in your chosen career. If you’re lucky, you earn enough from your job to support your desired lifestyle. If you’re lucky, your job also affords you time to enjoy the fruits of your labor. If you’re lucky, you realize that luck is only a small part of all of these things.
As the old saying goes, “It’s better to be lucky than smart.”
Lifestyle costs affect career decisions However, smart decisions often increase your chances of getting lucky. And who doesn’t like to get lucky?
You get a job to support your lifestyle. But how does your lifestyle affect your career?
If the costs of your lifestyle put too much of a demand on how much you have to make, you may have to take a job that you don’t love just to pay for your lifestyle.
If your lifestyle consumes every penny you make, you may have to jump at the first offer that comes along instead of being able to select the job that fits you best.
You may have to take a job that takes up all of your time. You have no time to do anything else including things you love to do or spending time with people you love.
Find harmony between the two The two are completely interdependent. Your career choices affect your lifestyle. That’s certainly true. But the piece that’s missing is that your lifestyle also affects your career decisions.
In other words, how you spend your money may determine how you earn money.
Bigg success is life on your own terms. The five elements of bigg success are money, time, growth, work and play. The bigg idea behind bigg success is that there is synergy between these five elements.
You are the entrepreneur of your life. It’s implicit in our definition of bigg success. You and you alone are in charge. Successful entrepreneurs understand that their business finances and their personal finances are linked.
Their business has to make enough money support them. But that’s only half the story. They also have to be careful that they don’t put too much of a burden on the business with their personal financial decisions.
Even if you aren’t an entrepreneur in the traditional sense, it’s helpful if you see yourself in business for yourself. You may have just one customer – your employer. Your lifestyle affects your career and your career affects your lifestyle. Find the harmony between them and you’ll find bigg success!
Thanks for reading our post today. Please join us next time when we discuss the one thing you need to face challenges with confidence. Until then, here’s to your bigg success!
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The latest research supports the notion that happiness can buy money[PDF]. It comes from a team effort with researchers from the University of Virginia, Michigan State University, and last but certainly the most, the University of Illinois. Okay, we’re biased but at least we admit it.
Happiness buys an extra $8,263 a year!
The researchers surveyed incoming freshmen at 25 elite colleges. We’re not sure how they defined “elite”, but we’re pretty sure it’s the schools we attended!
The participants reported their cheerfulness. 19 years later, when the participants were about 37 years old, the researchers asked them to report their annual income.
On average, the participants in the highest 10% on the cheerfulness scale earned over 15% more than those in the lowest 10%. In 1995 dollars, this was a difference of $8,263 a year, on average ($62,681 vs. $54,318).
Attitude to altitude
That’s a bigg difference. So not only can happiness buy you money, it can buy quite a bit of it! Apparently attitude does determine altitude!
That’s one of the bigg takeaways here. If we approach the days of our lives with the right attitude, we’ll be more productive. We’ll show more initiative. We’ll get more opportunities.
More money, less risk
We also found it interesting that the most cheerful participants were one-third less likely to ever be unemployed than the least cheerful. It appears that being of good cheer not only helps you be more prosperous, it reduces your risk as well. That’s a slam dunk!
And it flies in the face of conventional wisdom. We learn in business school that you have to take more risk to make more money. But as this study shows, you can make more money and actually have less risk with the right attitude!
That’s the bigg idea behind bigg success – to get all areas of our lives working harmoniously by finding synergy like what we see here.
Being too happy is costly
Here’s a surprising twist from this study: People who were moderately cheerful (above average on the researchers scale but not in the top 10%) earned the most on average.
They made almost 6% more than those in the top 10% and about 22% more than the bottom 10%. In 1995 dollars, that means they earned $3,563 and $11,826 more than the highest and lowest deciles respectively.
So being really happy leads to much better income than being really unhappy. But being happy instead of really happy is even better yet!
It turns out that Droopy had it right. He never said, “I’m really happy.” Just “I’m happy.”
Bigg Success is the community of bigg goal-getters. People who are usually happy, but never content. This research supports the notion that this “happy, not content” attitude leads to bigg success.
Here’s a way to integrate your personal and professional lives – work with your spouse. It’s a great way to spend time together while building a business and your careers.
Of course, just because you have a happy marriage doesn’t mean you’ll have a successful partnership. Not all couples can or should work together.
So how do you know if it might work for you? Sit down with your spouse and have a frank discussion about the following questions about your personal dynamic. How did previous projects go? Look at projects you have done together in the past. Two common ones are building a house or tackling a major home remodeling. These projects can be very stressful so they make a good test of how you will handle the rigors of business. Was it a smooth process? If things went smoothly, that may be a good sign that you are cut out to work together. Business partners have to be able to get along to get ahead. You need a large degree of harmony if two people are going to work well together.
Do you agree too much? If you agree about everything, one of you isn’t needed! Disagreement on how to proceed often leads to a better strategy than either partner originally imagined. It’s good to disagree; it’s bad to be disagreeable. That leads to our next question.
Was it rife with conflict? As we just said, a certain level of conflict is good. However, if you fight each other every step of the way, it won’t work. Don’t even try to go into business together. You may consider each starting your own business, but you shouldn’t work together. How did you handle conflict? If you had a little conflict, that’s good. Now think about how you handled it. Were you able to discuss issues rationally? Did you reach an agreement on how to proceed? Were you both able to move on once you did? If so, you may be a good fit.
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Here’s a story we’ve been told our whole life: 
We’ve heard it again and again … money can’t buy happiness. According to the Beatles, it can’t buy love either! 