There is no denying it.
Things are now changing so fast that what used to take decades to achieve can be accomplished in years, and what used to take years to accomplish can be achieved in months.
Far from being the mere slogan of President Obama during his election campaign, change is a constant that is now rapidly accelerating.
Change is going on right now - for good and ill.
What drives change is usually ideas put into action. Ideas inspired by visions of a better possible future.
ConstructZero is one such idea.
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Tags: Problem Solving
What will you call yourself at that moment, when you have committed yourself to a challenge that you know is beyond your capabilities and limits?
What would you call it
I did that two weeks ago and I was given the ‘privilege’ of choosing either “very brave” or “recklessly naive”. The only reason why it was a privilege is that I get to determine how others are going to judge me for it and this is actually very significant. The importance of this privilege will be discussed later, but first, let’s shed some background information on what happened two weeks ago.
Although I am still a Life Science undergraduate, I have long made the decision to walk down the path as a researcher, so it is to my advantage to get exposed to an actual research environment before I graduate with my B.Sc. Just two weeks ago, I decided to sign up as a trainee researcher working in a genetic research project under a certain professor. However, given the nature of the project (which requires long hours of commitment) coupled with the fact that I had just completed my freshman year, I know that I am not exactly the best man for the job.
Of course there are always other research opportunities under other professors, but I know the professor is an excellent mentor from both my personal experience and rave reviews from the senior students. If I want to learn anything well, it makes sense to learn from the best teacher.
During an interview with him, he did questioned my qualification and amount of commitment I can give. It became apparent soon that he was extremely cautious about letting me join his team. The main reason being that he is looking for students who are more experienced in laboratory work and he has likened the freshman year’s laboratory work (the only lab experience I have) as “playing masak-masak (a make-believe game of cooking usually played by children)”. In short, I was pathetically under qualified in his eyes.
Luckily, I was prepared for this.
Since a week before this interview, I have been visualizing the two most possible ways that he could reject me (based on qualification and commitment) and brushing up on my counter-rejections with The Simple Process.
As it turned out, he was more concerned about my well-being, due to the extra effort I had to put in, rather my qualification hindering his work. In the end, he promised to consider my application and before I took my leave, he said these exact words, ” You know what I’m thinking? You’re either very brave, or just recklessly naive”.
His words struck something in me.
It was a USOS moment.
“What draws the line between a very brave person and a recklessly naive guy?”
“Is it the amount of planning I have to do? Is it my motive? Is it my passion? Is it my decision? Or is it my underestimation of the project?”
“Which one am I, the very brave person or the recklessly naive guy?
These questions shuttled in my mind for that moment and I know I found the answer.
(For the sake of reciprocating the professor’s sudden philosophical outburst, I just shrugged my shoulders while giving a “I-know-that-you-know-that-I-know the answer” grin and bid him goodbye.)
Your Choice Matters
A recklessly naive guy will choose to take up challenges without an inkling of what to expect and not to mention that his confidence is based upon ignorance of his limits. He knows that whatever he needs to do is theoretically feasible and he may already has everything he needs in his arsenals to tackle the challenge, but he is still missing something important.
Tags: Success
In my previous post, I outlined how we could overcome the problems everyone is facing because of the recession. One of the solutions I proposed is to start a part time business from home selling products and services on the Internet. I recommended a simple to follow report that teaches you how you can make $100 a day online. Click here to earn $100 a day online (NOT a free report)
Today I am suggesting another method that many online entrepreneurs have used to also rake in passive income in their spare time from home. This method takes advantage of a booming market that really started to get popular some time in the year 2004 - 2006 and has now grown into a billion dollar market - and the people who are earning from this strategy don’t even need to convince anyone to spend their money on any product or service at all.
It is called CPA Marketing. CPA means ‘Cost Per Action’ or ‘Cost Per Acquisition’ (I’m not sure which is the correct one - maybe both are valid).
All they need to do is to give away free products or information to people who are looking for them and if these seekers enter some simple information such as their name and email address or their local zip code, these CPA Marketers get paid anywhere from $1 to $20 (some even $40 to $50 in really ‘hot’ markets) for every person they refer.
They don’t need to bring in customers in this business, they just need to attract ‘leads’ - people don’t even have to pay a cent; if they enter their information, the companies pay these resourceful marketers generously.
And it doesn’t take much actually to be one of these CPA Marketers - you can join such CPA affiliate programs for free and, if you know how, get started immediately. Most CPA programs have a stringent filtering process, though, but if you are honest and forthcoming about your lead generation methods, you should do just fine.
Gauher Chaudhry, a friend of mine who’s an expert on CPA Marketing, has just released a free report that teaches beginners how to profit from this CPA business.
He asked my help in giving away this free report to as many people as possible, and to be honest, there is something in it for me also for giving this away to you. Don’t worry, once you get this free report, he won’t force you to buy anything, that’s for sure. He said that if I do him this favour, he will reveal even more ‘insider secrets’ of how the CPA Marketing experts who are earning 5 to 6 figure incomes go about their business, to me. And in turn, I will be sharing these precious nuggets of information to you in due time.
So I need you to do me a favour and Click here to make money online without selling anything to anyone (FREE report) right now…
Note: The video on the above page may load a bit slowly so bear with it for a moment, or if you can’t wait, just go ahead and enter your name and email into the form on the right of the page. You’ll get your free report in a short moment.
Tags: Business