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Thankful
Image by orvalrochefort via Flickr I am thankful for everything
That you two have done
I am sure it was quite stressful
And at times, not much fun
From the ninja turtle phase
To all the baseball gear
You always found a way
To make sure I never finished in the rear
I know I don’t show it often
But most of your knowledge was caught
And now that I am raising my own kids
I find myself quoting you a lot
I know sometimes it was tough
And we may of said some things we didn’t mean
But even to this day
I wouldn’t change a thing
Are There Any New Ideas?
In your last Successful Marketing Strategy I wrote about creating a fundamental checklist of success by using Napoleon Hill’s book Think and Grow Rich as a template.
A second type of checklist to construct and use is what I call a ‘Practical Creativity Checklist.’ There are a number of methods for rearranging the existing and old into the different and new that actually account for most innovations in the world. There may not be anything new under the sun.
In a later I’ll talk about Disney. Disney is often called the ‘Inventor of the Theme Park’ but actually he changed the amusement park. Now here are some of the things that belong on this practical creativity list.
A Man Is Like A Tea Leaf
A man is like a tea leaf. A tea leaf, put in boiling water, becomes a cup of good tea. It can change the world.
— Chinese author Yu Dan on how social change starts with the self
Sell Your MAGIC
This magic can work wonders for you:
- Mindset. Change your thoughts and you would have changed your world.
- Action. Action makes hope rise.
- Goalset. Goal Mind is Gold Mine.
- Initiatives. Take the 1st step to realize your dream.
- Challenge. The sky is the limit.
— From the Selling magazine published by Sales Excellence Academy
Life Changes With Latte
Michael Gates Gill, who once made about $160,000 a year as an advertising executive and who now earns around $10.50 an hour making coffee at Starbucks, has written a book called “How Starbucks Saved My Life: A Son of Privilege Learns to Live Like Everyone Else,” and it is so admiring of the firm, one fears he has drunk of the Grande Iced Kool-Aid.
“What you are doing is trying to help other people enjoy something,” he says. “It’s not doing Iraq policy, it’s not even doing a serious multimillion dollar ad campaign. It’s just trying to serve a good cup of coffee.”