Failed in Business

Well the subject says it all.

You tell me anyone who has not failed in business, or at something in their lives, and I will show you someone who has never tried, never been out of their comfort zone.

This subject is very close to my heart. Why? Because I have been there, I have failed in business, a couple of times. This is not surprising as statistically only 1 in 10 businesses make it through the first five years, in other words 9 out of 10 businesses fail.
Shock horror, this can't be can it?
I assure you it is!
Did you know though, that almost ALL of the great entrepreneurs also failed in Business? Shock horror again!! So what makes them different to the ones that did not succeed? Its easy, they kept trying!! Winning formula.

Do you know what the difference is between the top 5% of the world and the rest? The Haves and the Have nots? I feel like I am repeating myself here, so my apologies, its just that some people need to hear this over and over again!!
The difference is that the top 5% keep getting up and moving forward in spite of what is being said and done around them.
I did not take the decision to leave my family and friends in New Zealand lightly, in fact some might say I left New Zealand under a "cloud" this would of course be the uninformed among the masses. That is of course totally over to perception, or perspective, and whose you want to listen to or believe, hence the last post as to 'What will they think'.

The 'cloud' that I speak of, is that people are under the common mis-belief that I ran away, which really could not be further from the truth. I do not expect that everybody will believe or understand that, that is not my issue, it is theirs. I know why I left and I know exactly what it is I have to do.
For those of you reading this for the first time I invite you to read my very first post, and the following posts. I am sure most of you will be able to see that during the time I have grown, and learnt a lot about myself, and about people in general.

There will be people out there that would like to believe that they are the only ones who have 'circumstances' they are the only ones to ever have had hard times. Well boohoo to them, grow up and smell the coffee, I really do feel like I am repeating myself, however I will say it at least once more We are all responsible for where we are in life right now the same as I am responsible to all the people that were in my employ and all the creditors of my 'failed' businesses.
What these people really don't see is the big picture. It is probably because they do not wish too, they would rather see the negative in any situation, or would rather think the worst of someone. Well again I feel sorry for these people, and again, its not that I pity them, more so the people they come into contact with, as generally because of the hatred they project, they get more of it back.
Now the big picture, what is it? We are on a journey here, we are going to be millionaires in now 10 months, the reason for this is so that we are able to pay back all the creditors of these failed business, to pay out all the staff that are owed money, hell to pay the tax department, after all, who wants to be in debt to them?!
Why did we leave? Why did we not just stay in NZ?
Well the answer to that is easy, and it can be found in the text of this blog. If you read it, you'll know.

When it is all said and done in life, and we depart this realm for the next, we all stand before the creator. I know that I will be able to stand tall and say with my hand on my heart that everything I have ever done in business has been with good intention.
It may not have always turned out perfectly, as I said earlier 9 out of 10 businesses fail. That means you have to plan to fail 9 out of 10 times to succeed. It doesn't mean you will fail 9 out of 10 times.

As long as you can remember what it is you are trying to achieve and stay focused on your outcome and keep taking small consistent steps towards your outcome you will get there. That is why I know, with out doubt that we will succeed in what it is we are trying to achieve.

Until next time....I want to leave you with something that my father told me when I was young,
Love many, Trust a few, but always paddle your own canoe.

I am doing what it takes to put the perceived wrongs right, on my terms. That is all I can do, and it is all anyone can ask of me.

What will they think?

Hi all, sorry for no update in the last week, we have been moving into our new home, not that we had much to move in, I mean, we are starting from scratch, so, that really says it all.

Now the subject line, it will be thought provoking for the intellects amongst us and perhaps puzzling and frustrating for the not so intellectual. I have mentioned it before in this BLOG so some of you may well have read it, others, well enough said.

What it is, is this, it does not matter what others think or even say about you, its none of your business anyway, and if for some reason someone is hell bent on letting you know how they feel about you, it is generally because of their own short comings as a person. If of course you are concerned about how someone else feels, or what someone else is saying then you have already given the power away. I choose not to give the power away, I could not care less what people think about me, it is only narrow minded people that operate like this anyway. Small minded people who are not worth your time.
No one has the power to make you feel any particular way, unless of course you give them permission too. Permission too, I can hear most of you out there saying,
"I never give anyone permission to make me feel bad or unhappy!"
I do not necessarily mean literally going to telling someone that 'you now have my permission to make me feel bad' not at all, what I mean is that by not taking responsibility for where we are in life right now, and passing blame to someone else we are inadvertently giving who ever the power to make us feel a certain way. Lets take falling in love for instance, there is a certain chemistry that generally occurs and causes us to seemingly lose control of our emotions, therefore the object of our affection ultimately has the control of how we feel, if we are rejected, we feel upset and let down, if we are accepted, we feel happy and elated.
This is a fairly simple example, and it could be said that we are emotive when this sort of thing happens, this is my point exactly, when we make a decision emotively we in effect lose control of how we feel, thus giving the power away.
Now this may be a very hard fact for some people to come to terms with. These are the people I would suggest that have some work to do on themselves, until they are ready to take responsibility for where they are right now, and stop blaming someone else, then they will forever stay there.
Here is a scenario;
Lets say we were driving to work, we go the same way we always do, however today is different, today we get side swiped by someone that has run a red light.

Now, are we responsible for this?

If you answered yes, then you are absolutely correct!

If you answered no, then unfortunately you are wrong.

Now, note what was asked, 'are we responsible?' I did not say whose fault it is, and there is a big difference.
It may well have the been the other persons fault, however we still remain responsible for what has happened here, after all, we could have taken a different route, we could have taken the bus, there are a number of things we could have done to avoid the situation.

I am going to leave you with two things to think about;

• We are all responsible for where we are in life right now. Due to choices we have made and actions we have taken.
• No one has the power to make us feel any certain way unless we let them.

I have certainly made my share of mistakes in this life, and I am sure I will continue to make mistakes, you know what, I am happy about that, why? Because without the mistakes there is no learning, and as long as I have learnt from my mistakes (and believe me I have) then I have accomplished something and anyone that tells you otherwise is an idiot!

Until next time!