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With back to school upon us, we are beginning a 10-part series on lifelong learning on The BIGG Success podcast by focusing reading. The summary is below.
Summer is about over. For the kids, that means it’s time to crack the books again. But they shouldn’t have all the fun!
So we’re going to focus on lifelong learning in a 10 episode series, which we’ll kick off with the basics – the 3 R’s we learned in school – Reading, wRiting, and aRithmetic. In this episode, we’ll look at how to get more out of reading.
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Do you suppose that we are reading more today than we’ve ever read before? It sure seems like it as much as many of us read online – constantly. But how much are we retaining?
Let’s go to The Professor’s Whiteboard for 3 easy ways to get more out of reading…
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Creativity is a critical skill today. Both persistent problems and new problems require innovative solutions.
You’re probably familiar with the old saying, “If at first you don’t succeed – try, try again.” It’s not that hard to come up with a solution.
The second one is harder; the third even more difficult. In order to “try, try again”, you have to be able to think creatively.
Through the eyes of a child
Why is it that many people just don’t seem to be creative? Is it a natural ability or is it an acquired skill? Here’s one expert’s answer:
“When children are very young, they all express creativity, but by the end of the first grade, very few do so,” says Robert Epstein, former editor-in-chief of Psychology Today and author of The Big Book of Creativity Games.
So how do you become more creative? Go back to kindergarten!
Improve your creative thinking skills by allowing yourself to daydream. Don’t force yourself to stay on task.
Ask questions, even if they seem silly. Have you ever grown tired of the incessant “Why” question by a toddler?
Drive people crazy! Act like a toddler again. Ask “Why.”
But don’t stop there. Take a note from Robert Kennedy and ask, “Why not?” Then let your imagination run wild!
Albert Einstein, the person most branded with intelligence, recognized that it was much less important than imagination.
So pour yourself a glass of milk. Pull out a few cookies. Then think like a kid!
Note: The quote above comes from a great article on creativity. It has to be purchased. It’s long. But it’s a great read so we highly recommend it to you.
A child learns a lesson in business
Bill Rosenberg was nine-years old. He often tagged along to work with his dad, who owned a grocery store in Boston.
One hot summer day, Bill’s dad made the boy responsible for selling watermelons. If the nine-year old didn’t sell them, they would go bad.
Bill set up a stand in front of the store. He stood there. And stood there. And stood there.
People weren’t buying! The young man realized he needed to get creative.
He positioned himself by the streetcar stop. He barked out, “Bring a watermelon home! Surprise your family!”
People were impressed with the boy’s enthusiasm. Before long, all the watermelons were gone. Bill was a BIGG success!
What happened to Bill Rosenberg? He went on to start Dunkin’ Donuts, a chain that sells over $5 billion of food and coffee through its nearly 9,000 stores. Source: Time to Make the Donuts, William Rosenberg
It’s 11.11.11. So we thought we’d share 11 + 11 + 11 = 33 ways to be a BIGG success.
11 terms
BIGG success is life on your own terms. Here are 11 terms that help you take control to build the life that fits you perfectly.
1) Believe: Belief is hope internalized. Believe you will reach BIGG success. Then let your mind go to work to help you get there.
2) Design: Your purpose is the place where your passions, proficiencies, and preferences all intersect with opportunity. Find your reason for being.
3) Live: Always remember that your career is part of your life, not the other way around. Your career is what you do, not who you are. Work to live!
4) Love: Relationships are critical to a fulfilling life. Love is a verb. So actively show the people around you how much you care about them.
5) Innovate: Innovation is imagination in action. Don’t accept the status quo. Discover ways to make your corner of the world a better place.
6) Act: You won’t fulfill your purpose just by thinking. Action turns intangible thoughts into tangible results.
7) Learn: Action creates advantage. But only if you learn from the situation at hand. The future belongs to the learning, not the learned.
8) Adapt: The whole point of learning is to know when to adapt. In uncertain times, flexibility is critical to your BIGG success.
9) Endure: Most people fail because they give up too soon. Remember that the journey is part of the reward. Press on!
10) Experience: Try new things. Go to new places. Experiences make you more interesting to others and ramp up your creativity.
11) Give: Giving implies abundance. So tell your brain you have more than enough by sharing some of what you have.
11 Quotes
We love inspirational quotes. So here are eleven that resonated with us as we prepared this post.
1) “The greatest strength is gentleness.” ~ Iroquois Proverb
2) “Expecting the world to treat you fairly because you are good is like expecting the bull not to charge because you are a vegetarian.” ~ Dennis Wholey
3) “Opportunities multiply as they are seized.” ~ Sun Tzu
4) “Life is what happens to you while you’re busy making other plans.” ~ John Lennon
5) “Do or do not. There is no try.” ~ Yoda
6) Only those who attempt the absurd can achieve the impossible. ~ M.C. Escher
7) “I have not failed; I’ve just found 10,000 ways that won’t work.” ~ Thomas Edison
8) “Always forgive your enemies; nothing annoys them so much.” ~ Oscar Wilde
9) “Not a shred of evidence exists in favor of the idea that life is serious.” ~ Brendan Gill
10) “You laugh at me because I am different, but I laugh at you because you are all the same.” ~ Author Unknown
11) “A person who knows how to laugh at himself will never cease to be amused.” ~ Shirley MacLaine
11 funny thoughts
We often try to be a little lighter with our posts on Friday. So below you’ll find the final third of our 11.11.11 installment. Hopefully, they’ll provide a chuckle or two.
1) Today is the tomorrow you worried about yesterday.
2) Warning: Dates in calendar are closer than they appear.
3) After all is said and done, more is said than done.
4) The sooner you fall behind, the more time you’ll have to catch up.
5) If you understand what you’re doing, you’re not learning anything.
6) The only job where you start at the top is digging a hole.
7) Some cause happiness wherever they go. Others whenever they go.
8) Never, under any conditions, take a sleeping pill and a laxative on the same night.
9) Even when you feel poor, you can still pay attention.
10) A smart man covers his ass. A wise man leaves his pants on.
11) Don’t sweat the petty things. And whatever you do, don’t pet the sweaty things.
Thanks so much for stopping by. Until next time, here’s to your BIGG success!
People who reach bigg success aren’t constrained by the same forces we are.
Baloney!
It’s a myth that we all aren’t constrained in the same ways. But there’s a bigg difference between the average Joe or Jane and people who ultimately reach bigg success.
The average person gives in to those constraints. Bigg goal-getters don’t see themselves as constrained so they don’t allow themselves to be constrained.
They don’t waste time telling themselves all of the reasons why they can’t do something. They focus, instead, on why they can do it and how they will get it done.
There’s a key lesson for us: By changing your focus – from “can’t” to “can” – you open your mind to all sorts of possibilities.
Your mind follows your lead
Your mind will let you take it wherever you want. Think about why something can’t be done and your mind will come up with all kinds of reasons to prove you right!
Think about how it can be done and your mind will start figuring out any number of ways to overcome every challenge that holds others back.
Sure, some ideas won’t work out. You won’t care. You know one of them will lead you to bigg success.
But if you never get out of the gate – if you just assume that you can’t win the race – you won’t.
The first part of the killer combo: Child-like imagination People who reach bigg success dream bigg. You must dream again. You must dream the kind of dreams you dreamed when you were young.
Your dreams probably won’t be exactly the same as they were then. But they will be as bigg as the dreams you saw through the eyes of a child.
When the world was your oyster. When there was nothing you couldn’t do. When you could imagine all of the bigg things that you would accomplish. When you knew that nothing could stop you. When you couldn’t wait to grow up so we could get to all these wonderful ideas.
The second part: Experiential wisdom But you’re not a child anymore and that’s good. You’re better equipped now to achieve your bigg dreams than you were then.
Combine that child-like imagination with the wisdom you have gained from your experiences. Together, they will help you achieve things that other people only fantasize about, if they allow themselves to think about them at all.
That’s the difference. That’s why you should celebrate your age. You have gained an asset that you didn’t have when you were young.
You have learned from your experiences, haven’t you?
Celebrate them! Take joy in all of them – the good, the bad and the ugly!
You have the killer combination to achieve bigg success! Because of it, the possibility of achieving the impossible is more probable!
Believe
But too much of the time, we don’t think about that. We stopped dreaming bigg dreams. We accepted being average and ordinary.
Deep in your soul, you know that you’re excellent and extraordinary. You have to believe again!
Believe that you can achieve what you can conceive! Then find a way to do it.
It only takes one person discovering one way to do anything that’s never been done before. Then people marvel at the accomplishment.
You’re still the one!
You are that one person! You were born to dream bigg dreams. You know it because you’ve done it. You were born to be excellent and extraordinary.
But first you must remove the limits that keep you from dreaming bigg. Dream.
Then think of ways to make your dream your reality.
Believe that you will win. Did you hear that? You will win. You will achieve your dream. You’re still the one!
Thank you so much for the gift of your time today. Please join us next time when we’ll talk about why it pays to be small in business today. Until next time, here’s to your bigg success.
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People who reach bigg success aren’t constrained by the same forces we are.