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Do you have any idea what is remarkable? Recently, I have been reading a few books on what is truly remarkable and how you can become remarkable. The few books I read are Think Out of the Box by Mike Vance, No B.S. Direct Marketing by Dan Kennedy and The Big Moo by Seth Godin and 33 other remarkable entreprenuer. Personally, I realized that being remarkable seems to be awesome compared to being normal as you bring up the discussion of others just like how Apple Company come out with their revolution iPhone and their great marketing plan that entice customers.

In this post, you are going to learn an extract from Seth Godin’s book (The Big Moo) on how to be remarkable?

REMARKABLE IS…

Remarkable is being unafraid to stand out.

Remarkable is having a fire in your belly and an idea that won’t quit.

Remarkable is knowing that is a risky idea might fail, but a boring idea will definitely fail.

Remarkable is failing often and then trying again.

Remarkable is more doing and less planning. More testing and less waiting. More dreaming and less sleeping.

Remarkable is when you stand for something and make it happen and change the world – or your business or your life – along the way.

Remarkable isn’t up to you. Remarkable is in the eye of the customer. If your customer decides something you do is worth remarking on, then, by definition, it’s remarkable.

After reading through the above list of how to be remarkable, I hope you can also be someone remarkable along your own journey to success and I will like to end this post with a few words from Psycho-Cybernetics written by Maxwell Maltz that we need to keep on trying and failing forward fast which means we should not give up on our potential.

Cheers

Javier

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I have been listening to Tony Robbins‘s audio books for quite some time and have been hearing about this great man named John Wooden. I did not really make any research at that time when I heard about Coach John Wooden until I saw the tweet from Tony that coach John Wooden had just passed away recently.

I went to download and listen to the power talk interview that Tony did with Coach John Wooden many years ago which Tony shared on his blog for his viewer. Coach John Wooden was a legendary UCLA basketball coach as he was not only the most successful college basketball coach in history (winning 10 out of 12 NCCA National Championships, at one point winning 88 games in a row!).

I was amazed by the interview that Tony did with Coach John Wooden and decided to share some quotes with you that I felt is meaningful for anyone who is on the journey to success too.

Coach John Wooden Quotes:

- Success comes from knowing that you did your best to become the best that you are capable of becoming.

- Success is never final, failure is never fatal. It’s courage that counts.

- Don’t let what you cannot do interfere with what you can do.

- Failure is not fatal but failure to change might be.

- It’s the little details that are vital. Little things make big things happen.

- What you are as a person is far more important that what you are as a basketball player.

- You can’t live a perfect day without doing something for someone who will never be able to repay you.

- Talent is God given. Be humble. Fame is man-given. Be grateful. Conceit is self-given. Be careful.

- Be more concerned with your character than your reputation, because your character is what you really are, while your reputation is merely what others think you are.

- Never mistake activity for achievement.

- Don’t measure yourself by what you have accomplished, but by what you should have accomplished with your ability.

- Consider the rights of others before your own feelings, and the feelings of others before your own rights.

- If you don’t have time to do it right, when will you have time to do it over?

- If you’re not making mistakes, then you’re not doing anything. I’m positive that a doer makes mistakes.

- Winning takes talent, to repeat takes character.

Here’s a video sharing on how lovely Coach John Wooden was:

I do not know whether you have seems this inspiring commencement speech by Steve Jobs before on youtube but I feel this is actually an inspiring words of wisdom by him. If you do not know who is Steve Jobs, make sure you go google it and find out how great this guy is.

Cheers
Javier

Recently, I have been reading a book called Sun Tze’s The Art of War Plus The Art of Marketing by Gary Gagliardi. If you know who is Sun Tze from the chinese history, you will be amazed by his work of art on warfare. Personally, I believe that you can use the tips on warfare on the world of marketing. Therefore, I picked up the book and started reading it as I have a love in marketing too. I have extracted a wonderful portion of text from the book and wished to share it here on my blog for my viewers.

Here’s the extract on The Art of War:

You can be stopped and yet recover the initiative.

You must use your days and months correctly.

If you are defeated, you can recover.

You must use the four seasons correctly.

There are only a few notes in the scale.

Yet you can always rearrange them.

You can never hear every song of victory.

There are only a few basic colors.

Yet you can always mix them.

You can never see all the shades of victory.

There are only a few flavors.

Yet you can always blend them.

You can never taste all the flavors of victory.

You fight with momentum.

There are only a few tpes of surprises and direct actions.

Yet you can always vary the ones you use.

There is no limit to the ways you can win.

Surprise and direct action give birth to each other.

They are like a circle without end.

You can exhaust all their possible combinations.

Here’s the extract on The Art of Marketing:

Yestersday’s failure can become tomorrow’s success.

Time your marketing correctly.

You can make mistakes and still recover.

Use the market’s trends correctly.

There are only a few basic marketing methods.

But you can combine them any number of ways.

You can always find a better way to promote your product.

There are only a few basic human needs.

But every group of customers feels them differently.

You will never exhaust all the types of desire.

Only a few types of value are important to customers.

Yet they can be blended in any number of ways.

You will never discover all the permutations of value.

You win markets with momentum.

Momentum is mixing creativity with proven practices.

You can combine both to make each campaign unique.

There are no limits to the ways you can win markets.

Creativity and proven practices are mutually dependent.

Standards inspire creativity, which inspires new standards.

Using both, you can never run out of good ideas.

Cheers

Javier

P.S Hope you learn something from this extract too.

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Today, we are going to look at a story that I have got from my working place which I felt is very meaningful to share with every reader of my personal journey to success blog. Here’s the story and it’s called

The Obstacle in Our Path

In ancient times, a King had a boulder placed on a roadway.  Then he hid himself and watched to see if anyone would remove the huge rock.  Some of the  King’s wealthiest merchants and courtiers came by and simply walked around it.  Many loudly blamed the King for not keeping the roads clear, but none did anything about getting the stone out of the way.

Then a peasant came along carrying a load of vegetables.  Upon approaching the boulder, the peasant laid down his burden and tried to move the stone to the side of the road.  After much pushing and straining, he finally succeeded. After the peasant picked up his load of vegetables, he noticed a purse lying in the road where the boulder had been. The purse contained many gold coins and a note from the King indicating that the gold was for the person who removed the boulder from the roadway.  The peasant learned what many of us never understand!

Every obstacle presents an opportunity to improve our condition.

Cheers
Javier
P.S This is a short sharing and hope you gained some meaningful stuff from this stories to learn.