Sometimes you win sometimes you learn.

Re: Sometimes you win sometimes you learn.

Don:
The ironic thing is our ONLY distribution channel was a few Gift
Shows. We were taking orders at the Show. Just think if we would
have stayed on our course, we probably would have built the place one
or two bricks at a time. My partner wanted massive results? One or
Two times out... come on! your idea or customer base is, keep focused and believe in what you
are doing, also believe in the process the course teaches and
customize as well, we are human> John is a very resourceful and smart
teacher and businessman, I mean what better way to create a global
community in trading and commerce than to maximize all the tools of
the internet. I am sure that it took him a while to ponder this
concept. Then one day bam! The idea comes to you.

One method of idea generation is (only one of many) immerse yourself
in first a general area of information. Start with a problem fires>
etc.---
Gather as much information as possible from whatever medium.
Reading,talking with people,internet. Really study and immerse
yourself and continually ask yourself, how can I better this? How can
I make it available? etc. The longer you focus on that "process" the
more likely your mind will spring into action.

Someone suggested that I write down 2 ideas each morning for making
money and keep a journal of it. The concept being,eventually it
should be a natural thing of idea generation- There is no such thing
as a bad idea.

One last thing, the trading course taught by John uses the concept of
synergy, which is documented in a book called "Think and Grow Rich"
by Napolean Hill. Mr.Hill, talks about forming a "mastermind" group,
which the course essentially is, with people who think
sympathetically and harmoniously towards a single minded goal or
outcome. The group meets twice a month and brainstorms, problems,
goals in spirit of synergy. 1+1=3. The ideas that can come out of a
group is oftentimes more substantial than that of a standalone person.

My friend was in the hospital pondering his upper neck injury. He
wore a neck brace. From here he starting thinking about how he could
use this misfortune. A few months later he developed a card board
neck brace that immobilizes a victim's neck at the scene of an
accident. If you are ever watching the news and you see people being
put into an ambulance or being moved with a stretcher, that's his
idea. The idea came from a broader perspective...The rest is history.

Don that will be my total response. My 2 cents at least for another
year or so. Also, a hard lesson: don't be afraid of falling down, get
back up go meet a buyer,sketch chicken scratches until it makes sense.
Focus on your outcome not on the problem> I don't have ideas>
experience> money>. Focus on the target. Start your own mastermind.

To me the course is not only a course in Trading it is a course
generally in doing business well and staying in business by avoiding
the pitfalls of overspending and most of all being extremely
imaginative. Using our own abilities and instincts.
I will continue to pursue ideas and use my accumulated knowledge
towards creating "good business".

Thanks again, John.

In spiers@y..., "corpdesignusa" wrote:
> At the time of the class I started importing, art glass from
Eastern
> Europe.
> The shipping cost and breakage worries was not conducive to
> continuing and my partner went back to Europe. We spent money on
> printing and probably some unnecessary things that could have gone
> toward the company. $3000 in orders was not our idea of success,
> first time out...Had I appled some of the cost-saving
> recommendations from John, we probably would still be going. The
> course provided a valuable forum for ideas and hands on execution
of
> ideas. Some of the assignments were full-time activities. Even if
the
> idea did not exist prior to the class it directed me to look at
ways
> of getting ideas from customers.
> I feel, one must engage fully in the process and continually pursue
> that avenue until success is achieved.
>
> A friend of mine, invented an emergency medical device and ran his
> company for 8 years before it was bought out by a Danish company.
He
> got his house on the island, but it took him that long.
>
> I am simmer on some new ideas that I could apply more of this
> information from making mistakes and readjusting for the future.
>
> Glen, Orange County, California
> gkponcho

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