The Profit Prophet

Highly confident people believe in their ability to achieve. If you don’t believe in yourself, why should anyone else put their faith in you? To walk with swagger and improve your self-confidence, watch out for these fifteen things highly confident people don’t do.  1. THEY DON'T MAKE EXCUSES Highly confident people take ownership of their thoughts and actions. They don’t blame the traffic for being tardy at work; they were late. They don’t excuse their short-comings with excuses like “I don’t have the time” or “I’m just not good enough;" they make the time and they keep on improving until they are good enough.   2. THEY DON'T AVOID DOING THE SCARY THINGS Highly confident people don’t let fear dominate their lives. They know that the things they are afraid of doing are often the very same things that they need to do in order to evolve into the person they are meant to be. They know they need to go where they don't know. 3. THEY DON'T LIVE IN A BUBB...

I recently read an excellent post by Seth Godin titled, "Understanding luxury goods"  where he goes on to talk about how the internet and luxury are coming into conflict, and this got me thinking about knowledge workers and those in the skills trades (think engineers, athletes, doctors, consultants, actors, etc.).   In Godin’s article he states, “ A luxury good gets its value from its lack of utility and value. A typical consumer would look at what it costs and what it does and say, "that's ridiculous." When a good like this comes to market, it sometimes transcends the value equation and enters a new realm, one of scarcity and social proof. The value, ironically, comes from its lack of value. ….” and he is correct.  It is NOT the utility of the item that gives its value, it is actually the fact that others admire you for owning it. So, as Godin goes on to say, “Discount luxury goods, then, are an oxymoron. The factory outlet or the job lot seller or the...

If you were born prior to our Country’s Bicentennial, you might find this quite, um illuminating and funny? When I was a kid, adults used to bore me to tears with their tedious diatribes about how hard things were. When they were growing up; what with walking twenty-five miles to school every morning.... Uphill... Barefoot... BOTH ways...yadda, yadda, yadda And I remember promising myself that when I grew up, there was no way in hell I was going to lay a bunch of crap like that on my kids about how hard I had it and how easy they've got it!   But now that I'm over the ripe old age of thirty five, I can't help but look around and notice the youth of today.  You've got it so easy!  I mean, compared to my childhood, you live in a dang Utopia!  And I hate to say it, but you kids today, you don't know how good you've got it! 1) I mean, when I was a kid we didn't have the Internet..  If we wanted to know something, we had to go to the library and l...