October 2016

30 Oct

Be A Volunteer In Your Own Business

by Jeremy Chance

Money never motivates you.

Sure, we love to have it. We think about it a lot. But it’s not money we seek – it’s freedom.

It might be freedom from a past. It might be freedom from a situation. It might be freedom from an identity.

Many successful entrepreneurs – enough to establish a pattern – have an origin story of epic proportions. Often one of their parents died or disappeared on them at an early age. Another is abject poverty: the “rags to riches” story. Another is a clever, misunderstood kid out to prove something.

Whatever.

23 Oct

Are You Killing Time? (or How To Revive the Dead)

by Jeremy Chance

Ikigai (生きがい) is a Japanese word derived from ikiru (生きる) which means “to live”. It is usually translated as “reason to live” although in common everyday usage “gai” is often heard as “I like this.”

Therefore it can literally mean: “living like”.

In a country which averages more than 70 suicides a day, have a “living like” in your heart becomes pretty important. In Okinawa, where Japanese live well into their 100s, ikigai has been adopted as an everyday concept that prolongs life.

But is it only Japan that needs this?

17 Oct

Never Give Up, Then Die in Your Sleep

by Jeremy Chance

Recently I was staring at my Mac’s screen, listening to a distressed man wonder if he had got it all wrong for the last 10 months. He had joined ATSuccess Pro to discover how he could share the work with an aged community living in close proximity to his home.

It took a while for me to recognize the fact that this man was himself in his 80’s!

07 Oct

Give the Grocer A Wink! (and see what you get)

by Jeremy Chance

On July 4th, 1907 Willie Keith stood helplessly in Battle Creek, Michigan watching a fire consume his precious factory.*

Willie was 46, yet he had launched his company barely a year before. He’d already worked for 25 years as the unofficial business manager for a famous Seventh-day Adventist Sanitarium (re-invented from the word ‘sanatorium’) under the shadow of his gregarious and extroverted brother Dr John Henry.