Entreprenuers – Are you in a Prison?

Posted by WY on July 20, 2008

“People build their own prisons, incarcerate themselves in them, and make the environments every bit as bleak, stark, depressing and debilitating as the actual penitentiary I visited …. These peoples’ private prisons’ block walls are constructed of complaints and resentments, the mortar from excuses, the bars forged from pessimism and procrastination.”

From Dan Kennedy.

I only have heard from Dan Kennedy less than a year ago. This is just one of the many lessons I have learned from him. And he is right. Thomas Kuhn says in the infamous book “The Structure of Scientific Resolution”

“Almost every major scientific endeavor is first a break with tradition and old ways of thinking and old paradigms.”

So that said, let’s task ourselves from breaking with our tradition of pessimism and procrastination and have an attitude of …

“I Will” instead of “I Can’t” “Do it Now” instead of “Maybe Tomorrow” “Gratitude” instead of “Resentment” “Invention” instead of “Acceptance”

PS: If you haven’t heard of Dan Kennedy, this is what he thinks of himself …

“provocative, irreverent, sarcastic, and tells it like it is in a humorous, but chilling, serious fashion that cuts to the core of the issues in a way no other marketing ‘guru’ does.”

And he is right!!!