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The 7 (New) Habits Of Effective Entrepreneurs

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This week I appeared on the Entrepreneur on Fire podcast with John Lee Dumas, the 34-year-old entrepreneur at the helm of the daily iTunes podcast show that has garnered nearly $2 million in net incometo date as I reported this Spring.  Two years in and with more than 700 interviews under his belt Dumas has observed some recurring themes among the successful entrepreneurs who’ve been on his program.

With all respect to the 7 Habits of Highly Effective People (of which I am a fan), Dumas and his content manager and partner in life and business, Kate Erickson, compiled the seven newest habits they hear about most on EOFire. With Dumas’ permission I am sharing them here, as they likely apply to us all:

1. Don’t keep your email tab open (or your cell phone volume on) 

Distractions are the bane of entrepreneurial existence, and the greatest culprits are cell phones and email. Have you ever thought to yourself, “Oh yeah, let me just check real fast to see if that email come through,” or “Just making sure there are no emergencies” and then discovered 30 minutes later you’re still in your email? (Worse still are the times you forget why you came.)

Practice putting aside specific times during the day to check your email and phone, even if the time you set aside to begin with is once every 30 minutes or hour. Having the mail and phone open and on right next to you is far too big of a temptation for most. Remove the temptation, and you’ll be surprised how easy it is to set the distractions aside once you’re fully focused on the project at hand.

EOFire host and entrepreneur John Lee Dumas

2. Prepare for the week ahead (or day, if you prefer)

Yes, this habit harks back to Stephen R. Covey’s 7 Habits, however, the ability to plot out the things you most want to accomplish over the next week or day continues to be one of the top success habits of thriving modern-day entrepreneurs. Be sure that you are not just creating a list, but that your game includes priorities and timelines as well.

“I can guarantee that if you plan out your schedule, you will get a lot more done in a lot less time than if you leave the process at simply asking yourself, ‘What should I work on next?’” says Dumas.

3. Celebrate the little successes

Too often we get wrapped up in the craziness of entrepreneurship and we forget to celebrate the incremental successes we have during each week, each month, and each quarter and year. These little successes can strengthen us for the big goals that are exceeding difficult to come by, and by doing so can make it easier to abide the life of an entrepreneur.

Make time for hard work, but also make sufficient time for relaxation and play. By allowing for relaxation and celebrating your successes you allow yourself to recognize progress, which is key for continued inspiration and growth.  Entrepreneurs seldom fully retire, so enjoy your journey.

4. Don’t stress the small stuff

As easy as it is to think that our lives and our current businesses are the end-all of the world, they aren’t. Some days are difficult. Not every entrepreneur is meant to save the day every day, and humans make mistakes. Everything will be okay.

5. Throw fear (and frustration) to the wind

Fear and frustration are two of the biggest roadblocks to success as an entrepreneur. Get rid of them!

Practice telling yourself that it’s not that scary to experience fear. You’ve felt it before, and you’ve found your way through.  Remind yourself that frustration is only playing a game with your head, and it wants to win really bad.

6. Learn to focus on the task at hand

“I love this word, focus, and it’s for good reason,” says Dumas. “Without focus, we find it difficult to take a step forward, and being able to start and complete an accomplishment–whether it be a huge project or a simple task–is integral to our success.”

The next time you find yourself getting distracted, Dumas says, remind yourself that FOCUS stands for this: Follow One Course Until Success.

7. Ask for help

No entrepreneur has all of the answers, and this is a good thing. But there are other people we can collaborate with who can help us move forward in all of the ways we have need. Don’t hesitate to reach out to others and ask for help. You’re an entrepreneur in your own niche for a reason. No one expects you to know everything beyond your area of specialization, so there’s not need to act like you do.

None of these habits are overly difficult. They simply require a bit of motivation, dedication and passion for your overall goal, along with a bit of practice each day.

“Practicing these simple habits will propel your business forward,” Dumas says.

And for a diet of daily reminders, you can find all 700-plus of the EOFire podcasts on iTunes or via the Entrepreneur On Fire website here.

Kutipan tentang Kreatifiitas & Inovasi

Salah satu kekuatan pikiran entrepreneur adalah kreatifitas dan inovasi. Inilah kutipan2 terkait hal itu.

"When all think alike, then no one is thinking."

— Walter Lippman

"Capital isn't so important in business. Experience isn't so important. You can get both these things. What is important is ideas. If you have ideas, you have the main asset you need, and there isn't any limit to what you can do with your business and your life."

— Harvey Firestone

"Great is the human who has not lost his childlike heart."

— Mencius (Meng-Tse), 4th century BCE

"Doing the same thing over and over, yet expecting different results, is the definition of crazy."

— Unknown

M. A. Rosanoff: "Mr. Edison, please tell me what laboratory rules you want me to observe."

Edison: "There ain't no rules around here. We're trying to accomplish somep'n!"

— Thomas Edison

"Creativity, as has been said, consists largely of rearranging what we know in order to find out what we do not know. Hence, to think creatively, we must be able to look afresh at what we normally take for granted."

— George Kneller

"It isn't the incompetent who destroy an organization. The incompetent never get in a position to destroy it. It is those who achieved something and want to rest upon their achievements who are forever clogging things up."

— F. M. Young

"It's easy to come up with new ideas; the hard part is letting go of what worked for you two years ago, but will soon be out of date."

— Roger von Oech

"We all operate in two contrasting modes, which might be called open and closed. The open mode is more relaxed, more receptive, more exploratory, more democratic, more playful and more humorous. The closed mode is the tighter, more rigid, more hierarchical, more tunnel-visioned. Most people, unfortunately spend most of their time in the closed mode. Not that the closed mode cannot be helpful. If you are leaping a ravine, the moment of takeoff is a bad time for considering alternative strategies. When you charge the enemy machine-gun post, don't waste energy trying to see the funny side of it. Do it in the "closed" mode. But the moment the action is over, try to return to the "open" mode—to open your mind again to all the feedback from our action that enables us to tell whether the action has been successful, or whether further action is need to improve on what we have done. In other words, we must return to the open mode, because in that mode we are the most aware, most receptive, most creative, and therefore at our most intelligent."

— John Cleese

"The best way to have a good idea is to have a lot of ideas."

— Dr. Linus Pauling

"Discovery consists of seeing what everybody has seen and thinking what nobody has thought."

— Albert von Szent-Gyorgy

"To raise new questions, new possibilities, to regard old problems from a new angle, requires creative imagination and marks real advance in science."

— Albert Einstein

Without the playing with fantasy no creative work has ever yet come to birth. The debt we owe to the play of imagination is incalculable."

— Carl Jung

"When Alexander the Great visited Diogenes and asked whether he could do anything for the famed teacher, Diogenes replied: “Only stand out of my light.” Perhaps some day we shall know how to heighten creativity. Until then, one of the best things we can do for creative men and women is to stand out of their light."

— John W. Gardner

"To be creative you have to contribute something different from what you've done before. Your results need not be original to the world; few results truly meet that criterion. In fact, most results are built on the work of others."

— Lynne C. Levesque

Breakthrough Creativity

"We shall not cease from exploration, and at the end of all our exploring will be to arrive where we started and know the place for the first time."

— T. S. Eliot

"Once we rid ourselves of traditional thinking we can get on with creating the future."

— James Bertrand

"There's a way to do it better—find it."

— Thomas Edison

"The essential part of creativity is not being afraid to fail."

— Edwin H. Land

"Creative activity could be described as a type of learning process where teacher and pupil are located in the same individual."

— Arthur Koestler

"There is no doubt that creativity is the most important human resource of all. Without creativity, there would be no progress, and we would be forever repeating the same patterns."

— Edward de Bono

"Creativity is not the finding of a thing, but the making something out of it after it is found."

— James Russell Lowell (1819-1891)

"The creative person wants to be a know-it-all. He wants to know about all kinds of things: ancient history, nineteenth-century mathematics, current manufacturing techniques, flower arranging, and hog futures. Because he never knows when these ideas might come together to form a new idea. It may happen six minutes later or six months, or six years down the road. But he has faith that it will happen."

— Carl Ally

"The things we fear most in organizations—fluctuations, disturbances, imbalances—re the primary sources of creativity."

— Margaret J. Wheatley

"Too much of our work amounts to the drudgery of arranging means toward ends, mechanically placing the right foot in front of the left and the left in front of the right, moving down narrow corridors toward narrow goals. Play widens the halls. Work will always be with us, and many works are worthy. But the worthiest works of all often reflect an artful creativity that looks more like play than work."

— James Ogilvy

"The achievement of excellence can only occur if the organization promotes a culture of creative dissatisfaction."

— Lawrence Miller

"When the 'weaker' of the two brains (right and left) is stimulated and encouraged to work in cooperation with the stronger side, the end result is a great increase in overall ability and ... often five to ten times more effectiveness."

— Professor Robert Ornstein, University of California

"Innovation— any new idea—by definition will not be accepted at first. It takes repeated attempts, endless demonstrations, monotonous rehearsals before innovation can be accepted and internalized by an organization. This requires courageous patience."

— Warren Bennis

The way to get good ideas is to get lots of ideas and throw the bad ones away."

— Linus Pauling

"The uncreative mind can spot wrong answers, but it takes a very creative mind to spot wrong questions."

— Anthony Jay

"Success is on the far side of failure."

— Thomas Watson Sr.

"You don't understand anything unless you understand there are at least 3 ways."

— M. Minsky

"To have a great idea, have a lot of them."

— Thomas Edison

"Companies have to nurture [creativity and motivation]—and have to do it by building a compassionate yet performance-driven corporate culture. In the knowledge economy the traditional soft people side of our business has become the new hard side."

— Gay Mitchell

Executive VP, HR, Royal Bank

"That so few now dare to be eccentric marks the chief danger of our time."

— John Stuart Mill

“Creative thinking is not a talent, it is a skill that can be learnt. It empowers people by adding strength to their natural abilities which improves teamwork, productivity and where appropriate profits.”

— Edward de Bono

"The secret to creativity is knowing how to hide your sources."

— Albert Einstein

"Anxiety is the hand maiden of creativity."

— Chuck Jones

Warner Bros. animator

"An inventor is simply a person who doesn't take his education too seriously. You see, from the time a person is six years old until he graduates from college he has to take three or four examinations a year. If he flunks once, he is out. But an inventor is almost always failing. He tries and fails maybe a thousand times. It he succeeds once then he's in. These two things are diametrically opposite. We often say that the biggest job we have is to teach a newly hired employee how to fail intelligently. We have to train him to experiment over and over and to keep on trying and failing until he learns what will work."

— Charles Kettering

"All human development, no matter what form it takes, must be outside the rules; otherwise we would never have anything new."

— Charles Kettering

"Anyone can look for fashion in a boutique or history in a museum. The creative explorer looks for history in a hardware store and fashion in an airport."

— Robert Wieder

"He who would be a man must therefore be a non-conformist."

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

"Discoveries are often made by not following instructions, by going off the main road, by trying the untried."

— Frank Tyger

"The law of floatation was not discovered by contemplating the sinking of things, but by contemplating the floating of things which floated naturally, and then intelligently asking why they did so."

— Thomas Troward

The Dore Lectures on Mental Science 1909

"Every act of creation is first of all an act of destruction."

— Picasso

"If you do not the expect the unexpected you will not find it, for it is not to be reached by search or trail."

— Heraclitus

"The organizations of the future will increasingly depend on the creativity of their members to survive. Great Groups offer a new model in which the leader is an equal among Titans. In a truly creative collaboration, work is pleasure, and the only rules and procedures are those that advance the common cause."

— Warren Bennis

"Genius is one percent inspiration, and ninety-nine percent perspiration."

— Thomas Edison

"The business world sees a measurable and growing intelligence gap - with need for intellectual expertise constantly expanding. Available talent is decreasing even though the population is increasing. Being bombarded with information - be it in Nintendo or shogi - and being able to process it, find patterns etc., is a vital skill. One way to increase this talent potential is through games."

— Leif Edvinson

Skandia at the MindSports Olympiad 1997

"Don't worry about people stealing your ideas. If your ideas are any good, you'll have to ram them down people's throats."

— Howard Aiken

"Some men look at things the way they are and ask why? I dream of things that are not and ask why not?"

— Robert Kennedy

"In every work of genius, we recognize our once rejected thoughts."

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

"The human body has two ends on it: one to create with and one to sit on. Sometimes people get their ends reversed. When this happens they need a kick in the seat of the pants."

— Roger von Oech

"Creativity is thinking up new things. Innovation is doing new things."

— Theodore Levitt

"Innovation is the process of turning ideas into manufacturable and marketable form."

— Watts Humprey

"The innovation point is the pivotal moment when talented and motivated people seek the opportunity to act on their ideas and dreams."

— W. Arthur Porter

Creativity Killers:

"Everything that can be invented has been invented."

— Charles H. Duell, Director of US Patent Office 1899

"Sensible and responsible women do not want to vote."

— Grover Cleveland, 1905

"Who the hell wants to hear actors talk?"

— Harry M. Warner, Warner Bros Pictures, 1927

"There is no likelihood man can ever tap the power of the atom."

— Robert Miliham, Nobel Prize in Physics, 1923

"Heavier than air flying machines are impossible."

— Lord Kelvin, President, Royal Society, 1895

"Ruth made a big mistake when he gave up pitching."

— Tris Speaker, 1921

"The horse is here today, but the automobile is only a novelty - a fad."

— President of Michigan Savings Bank advising against investing in the Ford Motor Company

"Video won't be able to hold on to any market it captures after the first six months. People will soon get tired of staring at a plywood box every night."

— Daryl F. Zanuck, 20th Century Fox, commenting on television in 1946

"What use could the company make of an electric toy?"

— Western Union, when it turned down rights to the telephone in 1878

"Innovation is the specific tool of entrepreneurs, the means by which they exploit change as an opportunity for a different business or a different service. It is capable of being presented as a discipline, capable of being learned, capable of being practiced. Entrepreneurs need to search purposefully for the sources of innovation, the changes and their symptoms that indicate opportunities for successful innovation. And they need to know and to apply the principles of successful innovation."

— Peter Drucker

"Imagination is everything. It is the preview of life's coming attractions"

— Albert Einstein

"I roamed the countryside searching for the answers to things I did not understand. Why shells existed on the tops of mountains along with the imprints of coral and plant and seaweed usually found in the sea. Why the thunder lasts a longer time than that which causes it and why immediately on its creation the lightening becomes visible to the eye while thunder requires time to travel. How the various circles of water form around the spot which has been struck by a stone and why a bird sustains itself in the air. These questions and other strange phenomena engaged my thought throughout my life."

— Leonardo da Vinci

"Slaying sacred cows makes great steaks."

— Dick Nicolose

"In the modern world of business it is useless to be a creative original thinker unless you can also sell what you create. Management cannot be expected to recognize a good idea unless it is presented to them by a good salesman."

— David M. Ogilvy

"Innovation is fostered by information gathered from new connections; from insights gained by journeys into other disciplines or places; from active, collegial networks and fluid, open boundaries. Innovation arises from ongoing circles of exchange, where information is not just accumulated or stored, but created. Knowledge is generated anew from connections that weren't there before."

— Margaret J. Wheatley

Leadership and the New Science

"When you are completely absorbed or caught up in something, you become oblivious to things around you, or to the passage of time. It is this absorption in what you are doing that frees your unconscious and releases your creative imagination."

— Dr. Rollo May

"A person might be able to play without being creative, but he sure can't be creative without playing."

— Kurt Hanks and Jay Parry

"The achievement of excellence can occur only if the organization promotes a culture of creative dissatisfaction."

— Lawrence Miller

"Replace either/or thinking with plus thinking."

— Craig Hickman

"[I]in 1913, the first assembly line was implemented at Ford Motor Company. The process grew like a vine and eventually spread to all phases of the manufacture of Ford cars, and then through the entire world of heavy industry. There can be no doubt that a powerful revolution occurred at Highland Park—but it was not the assembly line itself that provided the power. Rather, it was the creation of an atmosphere in which improvement was the real product: a better, cheaper, Model T followed naturally. Every man on the payroll was invited to contribute ideas, and the good ones were implemented without delay."

— Douglas Brinkley

Wheels for the World: Henry Ford, His Company, and A Century of Progress

"Observe what is with undivided awareness."

— Bruce Lee

"History can’t give attention to what’s been lost, hidden, or deliberately buried; it is mostly a telling of success, not the partial failures that enabled success."

— Scott Berkun

"Imagination is more important than knowledge."

— Albert Einstein

On Science

"Creativity requires the courage to let go of certainties."

— Erich Fromm

"It's the same each time with progress. First they ignore you, then they say you're mad, then dangerous, then there's a pause and then you can't find anyone who disagrees with you."

— Tony Benn

British politician, in the Observer

"The world is but a canvas to our imaginations."

— Henry David Thoreau

"Creativity can solve almost any problem. The creative act, the defeat of habit by originality, overcomes everything."

— George Lois

"If you’re not prepared to be wrong, you’ll never come up with anything original."

— Sir Ken Robinson

"The joy is in creating, not maintaining."

— Vince Lombardi

"Nothing is so embarrassing as watching someone do something that you said could not be done."

— Sam Ewing

9 Tips untuk Entrepreneur gunakan LinkedIn

9 Pro-Tips for Entrepreneurs on LinkedIn

LinkedIn is more than a handy way to sort through connections and make introductions — it's also a powerful platform to supercharge your content marketing efforts (even if you're not a LinkedIn Influencer just yet).

To find out exactly how other founders are using the network to get more eyeballs on their content, we asked a panel of successful entrepreneurs to share their best tips and tricks. Here's what they had to say:

SEE ALSO: 10 Creative Social Media Resumes To Learn From

1. Join Discussions in LinkedIn Groups

Every time I write an article that is relevant to a specific audience, I start a conversation around the article in a LinkedIn group I'm associated with. I make sure to ask a question or pose a discussion topic with the article and not simply link to an article.

- Kelsey Meyer, Influence & Co.

2. Engage Employees With Email

LinkedIn is a person-to-person network. The key to an effective LinkedIn strategy is engaging your employees to share your content. Want to know how to get your employees to share to LinkedIn? Email them. Most of the working day (and night), they stare at computer screens and smartphones looking at emails that come in. If you can make an email that is simple and has a strong call to action, professionals are likely to share it. Since launching employee engagement programs for companies like PwC and Sun Life Financial, we've seen employees average five to 25 clicks every time they share to LinkedIn, with many popular employees averaging 50 to 180 clicks. Ask your advertising team how much they pay for cost-per-click ads on LinkedIn, and you can count the value (hint: it's $2 per click).

- Alexander Gibson, Elevate

3. Use LinkedIn Product and Service Pages

LinkedIn company pages all have built-in product and services pages that will amplify your business content. Within the pages, you can list details about all of your specific offerings, highlight customer recommendations for the product and add images to make these products really stand out. LinkedIn has also built in the number of impressions these products and services pages receive, so you can see how many people are researching your company and what your most popular services are.

- Brett Farmiloe, Digital Marketing Agency

4. Promote Your Brand With Groups

Dr. Seuss reminded us, "There is no one alive who is you-er than you." LinkedIn helps you promote the you-er in you! One way we self-promote is by joining groups. By joining them — up to 50 at a time — you can expand your reach while sharing your expertise. For example, there are 746 groups under our target keyword "writer." One group has more than 13,000 members with more than 230 discussions happening. Joining several of these conversations helps strengthen your brand and boost your expertise. It's a great way to network!

- Nicolas Gremion, Free-eBooks.com

5. Simply Create a LinkedIn Page

When I launched a networking event in my city, I started all of the obvious social networking groups. To my surprise, the one that has picked up the most traction in members (almost 3,000) and poignant posts from users was the LinkedIn group. This has helped draw more people to the page, the event company, and it has helped create content for our other social media platforms.

- Darrah Brustein, Finance Whiz Kids | Equitable Payments

6. Capitalize With Status Updates

LinkedIn is often thought of as that place you go when you’re looking for a job. Savvy business professionals are now using it as a place to establish themselves as experts within their fields by creating and sharing authoritative content. One way to do this is to capitalize on LinkedIn’s content sharing ability. Through status updates, users can upload their business content to be shared to their networks and further establish the brand voice they’ve worked hard to build on their LinkedIn company and professional pages. By using LinkedIn to amplify their business content through their sharing platform, they can get content in front of the business professionals who find it most relevant and useful. When it’s useful, they gain clout and authority in their industry.

- Jay Wu, A Forever Recovery

7. Share Content and Measure Engagement

I share one to two pieces of content on LinkedIn, and the engagement rates vary wildly. Most will receive one to two interactions, while a recent post received over 20 interactions. I'd peg LinkedIn's ability to amplify content below Facebook, slightly higher than Twitter and dramatically higher than Google+.

- Brent Beshore, Adventur.es

8. Gain Deeper Connections With Others

A person spends 10 to 14 percent of his lifetime working. Seeing how you spend those many hours helps you connect on a more personal level. Because my company is all about personalized interactions, I'm a careful study of the experiences and interests implicit in that old curriculum vitae. And, when I express that depth of interest in others, they respond in kind towards my business. For example, I once found an early story written by a contact through LinkedIn. It revealed her dreams and fears about pursuing writing as a career. She is now an editor. Because I followed her career and was able to share appreciation for her early work, I was able to get published, and a press hit followed.

- Manpreet Singh, Seva Call

9. Update Your Status on LinkedIn Rather Than Facebook

People often forget that LinkedIn is a social network that can be leveraged just as much as Facebook, Twitter and Google+. For my company, we receive higher quality visitors to our website from a status update on LinkedIn than from other social networks because of the various groups and connections we've established.

- Andrew Saladino, Just Bath Vanities

Image: Flickr, Mars_Discovery_District

SCOTT GERBER

Scott Gerber is the founder of Young Entrepreneur Council, an invite-only organization comprised of the world's most promising young entrepreneurs. In partnership with Citi, the YEC recenty launched ...more

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