I love hearing the backstory to how successful businesses are started from scratch and turned into uber-successful enterprises. Sara Blakely is the founder and principal owner of Spanx, a company which changed the game in women's hosiery, and made her a billionaire in the process.
Sara's taken her show on the road and now speaks at multiple events regarding her struggle to build the company. After listening to her story here are five key takeaways I got from her story that all us aspiring
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Work and Rewards
Most of the time, the effort and the rewards don't come at the same time. Well, the critical rewards at least.
As Steven Pressfield teaches us, the REAL reward of our work is the work itself. As a true professional we never truly own the money, fame, or accolades of our work. We "lease" all that stuff and make payments on it each and every day with the hours of hard work we put in. I agree with Pressfield wholeheartedly when he says the only thing we have a right to is the work itself, not
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TEDx Presentation: Pressure and Personal Growth
The video above is my talk at TEDx MillRiver back in late April. The talk was inspired by a previous post of mine called "How to tell if an endeavor is right for you" relating to pressure-filled situations and knowing which ones will bear fruit. The TEDx event itself was a beaming success with 100+ attendees, great presenters with revolutionary ideas, and some great conversations being held during the intermissions amongst a diverse crowd of professionals.
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How to tell if an endeavor is right for you
Does it scare you? If no, then you can stop right there. It's not worth it.
If yes. How much does it scare you? Is it a completely debilitating fear? Or does it give you a queasy feeling where you stop breathing and forget your name for a split second?
If you list the worst things that can happen should you fail at this endeavor, and it still gives you that debilitating fear that the world will be over, then maybe it's not yet time for you to tackle this. But if you feel like you'll
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Bumps (ramps) along the way
When starting to do something new, the seemingly obvious problem is never the real problem. It's always the extra step, the extra coordination, the extra red tape that becomes the last frontier to getting a project off the ground.
The reason is that when we venture into something, we always tell ourselves "the reason no one has done this before is because they don't want to deal with X." X in this case being the obvious roadblock that seemingly prevents competition from entering the fray.
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