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Think Social Media Is A Fad?

steve — Fri, 27 Aug 2010 22:33:52 +0000

One of my coaches sent this over to me this week.

We have invested a lot of energy discussing the importance of Social Media in my monthly Coaching Mastermind.

Take a few minutes and watch this video. It will unquestionably stimulate your creative thinking as you start your weekend.

Be sure to tell me what you think of the video and its implications on your business or business concept by commenting below.

If you’ve not been using social media previously can you see how this changes the game?

What questions does it beg for you and your business?

How about which social media ‘channel’ do I pursue?

If social media is all about being “social”, how do you monetize your investment in it?

If what the video portends to be true, what, if anything, do you think is missing from this (dare I say) paradigm shift?

I look forward to reading your thoughts.

I’m standing for all that’s possible for you in life and business.

Sincerely,

Steve

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Web of Stupidity?

Steve Little — Sat, 07 Aug 2010 18:35:50 +0000

Christopher Chabris is a psychology professor at Union College in New York. Daniel Simons is a psychology professor at the University of Illinois. They are the authors of the new book “The Invisible Gorilla: And Other Ways Our Intuitions Deceive Us.”

I saw this article while traveling with my daughter last week. I was intrigued by it and wonder what you think. Read through it an let me know by commenting below.

Web of stupidity?

By CHRISTOPHER CHABRIS and DANIEL SIMONS

The latest attack on the Internet and on computers in general is Nicholas Carr’s book “The Shallows: What the Internet Is Doing to Our Brains.”

Carr and other digital alarmists make a case that seems plausible, at least on the surface. They argue that the advent of the Internet and the proliferation of new communication tools trap us in a shallow culture of constant interruption as we frenetically tweet, text and e-mail. This, in turn, leaves us little time for deep reading, reflection and serious conversation – pensive activities traditionally thought to build knowledge and wisdom.

The alarmists cite the concept of “neural plasticity” and talk of technology “rewiring” the brain to convince us that the new distractions make us not just less willing but less able, on a physiological level, to focus.

Whenever you hear that something is changing your brain, you ought to be worried – or at least the person telling you wants you to be worried. But does a cultural change such as this necessarily entail a fundamental change to the brain?

Most of the evidence these critics offer is anecdotal: They report feeling less able to concentrate and think clearly now than they did before they started frequenting the Internet. But it could be that they are less able to concentrate now simply because they are 10 to 15 years older.

The appeals to neural plasticity, backed by studies showing that traumatic injuries can reorganize the brain, are largely irrelevant. The basic plan of the brain’s “wiring” is determined by genetic programs and biochemical interactions that do most of their work long before a child discovers Facebook and Twitter.

There is simply no experimental evidence to show that living with new technologies fundamentally changes brain organization in a way that affects one’s ability to focus. Of course, the brain changes any time we form a memory or learn a new skill, but new skills build on our existing capacities without fundamentally changing them. We will no more lose our ability to pay attention than we will lose our ability to listen, see or speak.

The idea that the Internet might make us dumber has some intuitive appeal because it is easy to see how the cognitive performance of people around us drops when they are distracted. Who among us is not scared to see a driver chatting on a phone and looking back at the kids while weaving through city traffic?

Focused on reading

But the notion that prolonged focus and deep reading mark the best path to wisdom and insight is an assumption, one that may be an accidental consequence of the printing press predating the computer. To book authors it seems a heretical notion, but it is possible that spending 10 or more hours engrossed in a single text might not be the optimal regimen for building brainpower.

Before the computer age, chess grandmasters used to study chess books before matches. But now they use laptops to review hundreds of games in rapid succession, in effect “downloading” into their minds knowledge that is customized for their next opponent. They access the knowledge as they need it, discarding it after the match, and the result is that today’s grandmasters play the game better than their predecessors did.

Visual perception and attention work the same way: They grant us conscious but temporary access to the information in our world that we need at any moment, then quickly discard it as we shift attention to other places, objects or events.

If we consider all the implications of this “just in time” approach to acquiring and using information, we may be forced to re-evaluate the nature of knowledge, wisdom and intelligence.

Collective brilliance

It may make less sense to focus on the capabilities of an individual person and more sense to think about the individual plus the cloud of technology and information that he or she has access to at any given moment.

This human-computer-Internet collective is more knowledgeable and arguably more intelligent than a single human being could be alone. By this view, as more and more information becomes available on the Internet, we become not dumber but smarter.

For every way the Internet gives us to waste time, there is a way to increase the scope and diversity of our knowledge and to work collectively on problems.

It was not long ago that scientists worked mostly within their own laboratories, collaborating only with students and assistants. Today, scientists are more likely to collaborate in larger, more diverse teams that often span the globe. With rapid access to diverse information online, ideas, data and resources can be shared faster and on a scale that was impossible at any point in history.

The real danger

Although the case that technology increases our intelligence is at least as plausible as the gloomy idea that it is changing our brains for the worse, there are real downsides to the instant availability of torrents of information. The danger comes not from the information itself, or from how it could rewire our brains, but from the way we think about our own knowledge and abilities.

As the psychologists Leon Rozenblit and Frank Keil discovered, people tend to suffer from an illusion of knowledge: a tendency to mistake surface-level familiarity with deep understanding.

As more information becomes readily available, that sense of familiarity grows and grows, and with it the illusion of knowledge. On-demand access to reams of data can also trick us into mistaking knowledge we could obtain quickly for knowledge we already have and can act upon.

And if the illusion leads us to neglect the acquisition of true knowledge, we as individuals could become dumber as a result.

Additionally, the more different ways technology gives us to multitask, the more chances we have to succumb to an illusion of attention – the idea that we are paying attention to and processing more information than we really are.

Each time we text while we are driving and do not get into an accident, we become more convinced that we can do two (or three or four …) things at once, when in reality almost no one can multitask successfully and we are all at greater risk when we do so.

Our capacity to learn, understand and multitask hasn’t changed with the onslaught of technology, but our confidence in our own knowledge and abilities have.

So Google is not making us stupid, PowerPoint is not destroying literature and the Internet is not really changing our brains. But they may well be making us think we’re smarter than we really are, and that is a dangerous thing.

So what do YOU think?

How does this relate to your business strategy?

If this true, do you see any new opportunities emerging from this perspective?

I’m standing for all that’s possible for you in life and business.

Sincerely,

Steve

Exponential Times

steve — Sat, 17 Jul 2010 02:07:44 +0000

One of the coaches from my PerfectBizBuilder Coaching team sent this over to me and I thought it offered a pretty amazing perspective on just how much opportunity actually exists for us all.

I KNOW times SEEM tough right now for many. But I’ve got to tell you that just as in the past, economic turmoil always creates opportunity. You may just need a pair of expert eyes to help you see it.

One BIG difference though is the rate at which this opportunity is coming at you and how positively explosive it is.

Check this out and let me know if it excites you as much as it does me:

What do you think?

If change creates opportunity (and historically it always has), then do you see how the accelerating pace of change as illustrated in this video becomes the biggest motivator of all?

Can you see why some of the “old-school” methods for entrepreneurial business success strain to deliver and how having the ongoing support of professional business success experts becomes so valuable?

What else comes to mind for you?

Please share your thoughts by commenting below:

I’m standing for all that’s possible for you in life and business (even at this pace).

Sincerely,

Steve

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Belief Patterns Behind Self Deception

steve — Thu, 24 Jun 2010 16:05:31 +0000

By now it is clear to you that much of what determines your ultimate success is 'in your head'.

Naturally there are outside circumstances and challenges like the economy, competition, relatonships, your health and so forth. But its the extent to which you are able to 'manage' your thoughts and beliefs that actually determines how to generate the success you seek.

I came across this really outstanding video on TED earlier this week and wanted to share it with you. In it, Michael Shermer, author of "Why People Believe Weird Things" and "The Mind and The Market" talks about the hard-wired brain habits that make us believe strange things. Shermer's work offers cognitive context for our often misguided beliefs.

I am absolutely certain you will be enlightened and entertained. Check it out:

Be sure to let me know what you think by commenting below.

As a companion to this video I'd also like to introduce you to Morty Lefko of the Lefko Institute.

Eliminating the subconscious beliefs that curtial your success is vital to your accomplishment. There are hundreds of techniques for identifying and clearing them. Morty's system is amazingly effective and requires very little 'effort' on your part. Click on the link below and he'll proove it to you personally:

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I’m standing for all that’s possible for you.

Sincerely,

Steve

Drive: The surprising truth about what motivates us.

steve — Fri, 18 Jun 2010 00:34:57 +0000

One of our members shared this with me and I was so captivated by it I wanted to share it with you.

This animated video presentation is adapted from Dan Pink’s talk at the Royal Society of Arts (RSA), and reveals the hidden truths behind what really drives and motivates people. It is quite similar to the content in the article I published: The Surprising Science of Motivation.
This is a vitally important set of principles for you to understand as you go about developing your perfect business.

Whether you are employing people or outsourcing to contractors and service providers you need to understand how to ‘motivate’ them to excel.

This will help you get build a motivated and driven winning team!

Isn’t it fascinating?

“The Purpose Motive” is emerging to the top of the motivational priority pyramid for even the largest corporations.

This is precisely why I have you begin with discovering and defining it for yourself in ThePerfectBizFinder Program. Based on the feedback from program participants this first program exercise is one of the most powerful AND empowering experiences in the entire Program.

What do you think?

Does this notion of a ‘purpose motive’ inspire any fresh ideas for how you might accelerate your success?

I’m standing for all that’s possible for you.

Sincerely,

Steve

PS – How effective the animation is in focusing my mind on the content and I wonder if it does the same for you. Seems like the surprising science of animation to me. =0)

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There IS Still Hope For The Kid In All Of Us….

steve — Sat, 05 Jun 2010 01:58:38 +0000

I’m a movie buff. I like movies of all kinds.

I often notice scenes that are relevant to the work we’re doing with business builders here at ThePerfectBizFinder.

I saw this one recently, really enjoyed it and thought you’d be encouraged and motivated by it.

By now it’s pretty clear to you how important it is in terms of the experience of success that’s really possible for you that you do what you’re really passionate about doing.

But that’s not what most of you have been taught, is it?

For all the right reasons most have been taught to pursue success along linear path that, by definition, requires you to defer and compromise what you’re passionate about and instead do what makes the most money…

Or, Provides the most security…

Or, offers the best benefits…

Along this linear path you compromise your true interests and passions and eventually bury them beneath a mountain of “shoulds” and “shouldn’ts”, “can’ts, won’ts and don’ts” and so forth.

In many cases you get so tied up and involved in traveling this road that you lose touch all together with what you really always wanted to do…what really matters to you…where THE REAL experience of success is found.

In fact we now have an entire generation of people who find themselves awakening to a stark truth that after deferring and compromising for 30 to 40 years the promise of prosperity on that path turned out to be a myth.

I’m calling it ‘The B-Myth’ for all the baby-boomers who are already arriving at this challenging transition. (I’ll be announcing a new web site real soon =0) )

Add the recent economic downturn and double digit under-employment and things can appear bleak.

Even if you make money…even a lot of money…if it is not by doing something you love…I promise you, you will not experience the success you seek.

But this can be a bigger challenge than it sounds.

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This is the single biggest reason I create ThePerfectBizFinder and ThePerfectBizBuilder Coaching programs.

In ThePerfectBizFinder Program you’ll literally smash the barriers keeping you from the success you seek and will learn how to design and build the business that delivers the lifestyle and financial rewards you expect and deserve.

ThePerfectBizBuilder Coaching Program engages our dedicated team of experienced and professional coaches to provide hands-on support to get and keep you laser focused and accelerate your success.

Both are completely unique and produce extraordinary results….FAST! We have over 2,000 testimonials to prove it.

You owe it to yourself to own ThePerfectBizFinder Program and partner with the very people responsible for many of my greatest successes in ThePerfectBizBuilder Coaching Program

I’m interested in reading your thoughts about ‘Mr Deeds’ moving presentation. Let me know what you think by commenting below.

I’m standing for all that’s possible for you.

Sincerely,

Steve

Passion Is Success Fuel

steve — Fri, 28 May 2010 14:50:17 +0000

I came across this video today and can honestly say I can not have communicated it any better than ‘MotivatorMan’ did.

Enjoy!

Great stuff isn’t it? Simple, direct, effective.

I’ve been exploring the power of illustrations recently. Mostly as an alternative to the ‘talking head’ approach to my presentations

What do you think?

Let me know by commenting below.

I’m standing for all that’s possible for you.

Steve

The Learning Revolution and Your Perfect Business

steve — Tue, 25 May 2010 19:15:11 +0000

In an almost unimaginable ‘coincidence’, two days after I (re)posted Sir Ken Robinson’s 2006 TED presentation on learning and creativity, I received a notice of this poignant, funny follow-up to his fabled 2006 talk.

Sir Ken Robinson makes the case for a radical shift from standardized schools to personalized learning — creating conditions where everyone’s natural talents can flourish.

Does that sound familiar?

You may recall that my purpose is: “I create to makes others lives better”. Here is the poem Sir Ken shares at the end of the video. I believe Yates says it well.

Cloths of Heaven

Had I the heavens’ embroidered cloths,
Enwrought with golden and silver light,
The blue and the dim and the dark cloths
Of night and light and the half-light,
I would spread the cloths under your feet:
But I, being poor, have only my dreams;
I have spread my dreams under your feet;
Tread softly because you tread on my dreams.

I want to know what you think of Sir Ken’s video.

Let me know by commenting below.

I’m standing for all that’s possible for you in life and business.

Sincerely,

Steve

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PS – ThePerfectBizFinder Program is designed to provide you EXACTLY the learning environment Sir Ken describes in this video. It will escort you from where-ever you are to the successful and rewarding life you intend to live.

ThePerfectBizBuilder Coaching Program is designed to provide you the personal one on one coaching support you’ll need to breakthrough the beliefs formed by years of the programming Sir Ken describes so you can enjoy the lifestyle and financial rewards you expect and deserve.

Sir Ken Robinson On Cultivating Creativity

steve — Mon, 24 May 2010 19:21:15 +0000

I’m a big fan of Sir Ken Robinson and his work on creativity and education. Because much of what I am teaching here on ThePerfectBizFinder Blog has to do with ‘re-thinking’ what’s possible for yourself, I believe his material, is relevant.

I found this 20 minute presentation about a year ago and think it puts the importance of allowing yourself to “excavate” and “cultivate” your creative genius from beneath years of ’shoulds’, ’shouldn’ts’, can’ts, and ‘don’ts’ in order to truly experience success in life.

Ken’s presentation is both comical and thought-provoking and I look forward to reading your thoughts below

Take a look:

Did Ken get you thinking?

Let me know what came up for you by commenting below.

I’m standing for all that’s possible for you in life and business.

Sincerely,

Steve

PS – Breaking the models you’ve learned and beliefs you’ve formed over the years about how things have to be in order for your to experience success can be very difficult to do.

If you’re finding it a challenge to find that creative spark, be sure to check out the “Release Your Inner Genius“ article to pickup your free report which contains 4 powerful methods for igniting it.

Success Tips From Young Mogul Derek Johnson

steve — Fri, 14 May 2010 16:29:19 +0000

Here is a great new video interview with Derek Johnson, young mogul entrepreneur and founder of Tatango.

It’s great stuff. Enjoy

Be sure to let me know what you think by commenting below.

Did you learn anything?

Have any inspirations?

Let me hear them.

I’m standing for all that’s possible for you in life and business.

Sincerely,

Steve

PS – I interviewed Derek recently for the Entrepreneur Guru Secrets Audio Interviews Series. It’s included in ThePerfectBizBuilder Membership you get with ThePerfectBizFinder Program