“If you
keep doing what you have always done you will keep getting what you’ve always gotten,
do hear what I’m saying you gotta do something different if you want to get
something different.” Eric Thomas
To get
ahead we have to step out into the deep, yea we have to take risks BUT make
sure they are calculated risks - This
means that you have done your due diligence
in reference to the risk you are willing to take, minimizing risk is one of the
best ways to get what you are striving to achieve. But to achieve success you
have to take some sort of risk along your journey, doing so may change the
destination *where you would reassess the situation*, or it may deliver
you to your goal
Last week, I
attended the Hackers and Founders Tech talk 2012, WOW is all I can say! The environment
was full of ideas and questions about what each other was doing. This talk
lived up to what I expected;
- Coming along to an event where
there was mostly developers was like travelling to a foreign country with
no guide book!
- Only knowing so much in Developer
talk I done my best to pitch our product to a few people, I was looking
for advice and or key contacts.
- Made some great mates and had a
good time! (What I went for)
As the Tech
talk began and several speakers had finished their speeches, like a sponge I
was listening and absorbing as much good quality content as I could. There were
some very colourful, funny and really dramatic speeches from the guest
speakers! I’m glad Guy Horrocks from Carnival Labs was the last to do a sort of
freestyle speech at the end! It gave me the boost to say, you can make it with
a quality a quality idea – they had been
making Apps for 5 or so months before the Apple App store was even out on jail
broken iPhones, Really impressive
At the end
of all the speeches, there was a truck load of pizza and drinks ready to be hooverd
down while the networking began, I done my best to get the name and idea out
there! a handful of I.T guys from Developers to Architects ask many questions
which I was able to give them an answer for satisfying their technical minds!
Funnily
enough, I had the best conversation with one man on the way out of the
building! Its funny that in New
Zealand
So, building
confidence to talk to complete strangers about something you are passionate about
is one of the hardest things to do yes! But if you have an Idea that believe is
GREAT, the best thing you can do is show
up to the events that are relative to your idea and GET it out in the open! Doing this will take you one step further
in taking you to the next level and achieving your goal!
As you can
see, I TOOK myself out of my own comfort
zone and stepped into the unknown, yes I was all nervous but also excited, Just
like most of the people in that room, but I kept thinking of the bigger picture
and how I have to do my best now to reap the benefits later. So get comfortable
with being UNCOMFORTABLE is you are on the road to SUCCESS because you wont get
there being comfortable.
So I challenge
YOU to find some sort of meet up (use www.meetup.com
) that fills you with your passion and go and execute it! there is no time like
the present.
“Impossible
is just a big word thrown around by small men, who find it easier to live in
the world that they have been given than to explore the power they have to
change it” – Eric Thomas
How do you
want to change it!
M
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