Tuesday, February 15, 2005
The One Minute Millionaire – the Enlightened Way to Wealth
The One Minute Millionaire – the Enlightened Way to Wealth
© 2002 by Mark Victor Hansen and Robert Allen
You have inherited a million dollars in cash. The key is in a safety deposit box posted with bank within a silver container hidden at the summit of the mountain McKinley, at 20,000 feet the tallest mountain in North American. You must personally climb the mountain and retrieve the key yourself and complete the task within 12 months from today. Thousands of climbers have made it the summit. You will need to follow a training regime.
Almost any one can become a millionaire. In fact our goal is to help create one million millionaires. We have learned that people have different learning styles. Generally they are either artists or engineers. The artists among you are right brain visual learners. The engineers are left brain logical learners. We encourage you to visit www.oneminutemillionaire.com.
Start with the dream, sign a team and use our themes. Millionaires have a special pattern in unique way they spend money. During each money transaction they invest an extra minute. This extra minute makes them rich. Positive precession, abundance, innovation, charity, expansion, new opportunities, lower prices, altruism, nobility, fulfillment, joy, happiness, honesty, selflessness. We want to inspire million millionaires to give 10% of all they earn each year back to their community. The first step is desire. The second is faith.
What is the most stressful condition a person can face? It is unexpected response not having something to believe in. I hereby decide to become enlightened millionaire so I can eliminate my money pressures, enjoy life of complete financial freedom and share my abundance with others. Commitment will balance to behavior. To earn a million dollars quickly you must be willing to take similar committed action directly towards becoming an enlightened millionaire. To become a millionaire in your lifetime all that is required is the ability to find investment that you have at least 10% annually after taxes and a discipline to keep up the process year on and year out. You can invest $1.00 per day to grow into a million dollars over 56 years at 10% interest.
1. Decide that it’s okay for you to become a millionaire.
2. Practice imagining yourself enjoying the lifestyle.
3. Spend less than you earn. Pay yourself first deduct 10% of the top of your income and deposit into your investment accounts and less the difference.
Master one of these areas investments, real estate, business, Internet. Everyone thinks that the principle thing to the tree is the fruit but in point of fact that principle thing towards is the seed nature. Everything begins as a thought. The word for turning thoughts into things is to manifest. It comes from the middle most word manifestos meaning visible and the Latin word manis meaning hand.
You are the fruit of the thoughts you have planted and nourished. If you want a better harvest you must plant better thoughts. Think positive thoughts intensely. Speak only wonderful words to yourself constantly. Feel fantastic now. You must first be an enlightened millionaire. Abundance comes from making others better off and the primary reason to get is to have more to give. When both the being and doing are correct you will have your desired outcome. You will have riches beyond your wildest dreams.
When we blame someone it gives that person power over the situation. If we avoid the track of laying blame we sometimes tend to justify what happened. This is just another form of blame. Instead of blaming a person we blame the circumstances.
Where then is the optimal place to view life experiences from the point of personal responsibility from above the line? By operating above the line each of us have optimal control, direction and command over our existence. In fact sharing always creates more.
I am abundant in every good way. Infinite money is mine to earn, save, invest exponentially multiply and share. My abundance is making everyone better off. I embrace abundance and abundance embraces me. Give and it will be given to you. Give a step. Give your time, your approval, your smile, your advice, your wisdom, your complements, your sense of humor, your talent, your attention, your encouragement, your love. All these things will flow back to you in abundance. Turn up the volume of your positive voice.
Notice your negative internal voice, just turn the volume down. Find a thick rubber band in your home or office. Wear it on your left wrist and every time you are thinking a negative thought, smack the rubber’s ends. Yes it causes pain, the pain causes a pattern interrupt mentally and perhaps vocally you say ouch. Smack yourself every time you find yourself saying something negative. Wear the band 24/7 for the next 30 days. No one needs to know what you are doing except to you. It works rapidly within a month. People have to be responsible for their thoughts so they have to learn to control them. It may not be easy but it can be done. First of all if you don’t want certain things we don’t say them. We don’t have to eat everything we see and we don’t have to say everything we think. So we can begin by watching our words and speaking with good purpose only. Speak with good purpose if it doesn’t serve don’t say it.
What are some of your invisible aspects? Creativity, imagination, vision, generosity, courage, boldness, persistent, integrity, expert connections and customer databases, valuable skills, selling, persuasion, marketing, time management. Every resource I need is possessed by someone somewhere at this very moment. How can I find these individuals and persuade them to provide me with these resources. Life is a seminar. You are enrolled at birth. You can’t get out of it even by dying so enjoy it. You came in for the seminar with no inscription manual. Money freedom, you want to have enough money so that all your future days are prepaid. You work in case you want to work not because you have to work. You are free to risk to be who you really are and become the greater server you were meant to be. You can set big goals. You can assemble your dream teams. You are masterpiece in process becoming ever better more fulfilled and totally happy. You want a time freedom. Your play becomes your work. You build up by taking a off a week for month or equivalently three months per year. When we can forget about work totally and completely, let your income continues to expand and increase. Now you can pursue relationship freedom, spiritual freedom, physical freedom, and ultimate freedom.
How good could your life be five years from today? Give yourself permission to dream a big dream. Tonight as you drift off for sleep imagine its bright future. Tomorrow when you wake, awaken inside your dream world. See it, taste it, hear it, smell it, feel it. Do this everyday for the next 90 days you will notice the amazing things that will start spontaneously happening in your life.
Don’t think of your goals think from your goals. In other words rather than thinking of your future dream home think from your dream home. Imagine yourself actually living in that dream home as if you are already there. That’s why it’s so critical to visualize your goals clearly.
We recommend you start a special notebook for your goals. Whenever you think of something you would like to accomplish in your life write it down in your goal book. Then on a daily basis write your six major goals. To keep your self balanced record your top six goals and each of the six major areas or resources of your life, body, brain, aim, time, people, money.
In addition affirm each of these six goals daily as if you had already achieved your success in writing on a 3/5 card. For example, I am so happy and grateful that I am earning $400.00 per day working only 250 days this year. I am providing excellent value by selling x number of products to x numbers satisfied customers each day. Keep this 3/5 card with you as you go throughout your day. On the single car affirm all six of your major goals. Read these goals aloud four times a day at breakfast, lunch, dinner, and just before you go to sleep. This last step is the most important as your mind never sleeps. Sign and date this card and get one other person to whom you are committed to do the same. Follow up weekly to prove you are in track. Change and upgrade your card at least monthly. Think only of what you want never what you don’t want. Write it, read it, say it, see it. Notice how goals magically materialize into your life.
Here are four characteristics of people who are expressing their genius: Passion, talent, values, destiny. Passion, what do I love to do? Talent, what I am good at? Values, what is important to me? Destiny, what is I go on to do? Do what you love at moments value, leverage it because people actually do read your mind what you think is projecting through the airways to the person you are meeting with. They pick it up subliminally. So if they are going to be reading your mind anyway, make sure that what they read is worth reading. Questions predetermine the answer. The size of your question determine the size of your answer. A difference is 1, 0. But that means is that individuals who ask the wrong question are living below their true potential. They change the economic future of the world we need to create jobs. So as you ask yourself another set of questions the results will vastly improve the world.
The first is desire - you got to want it. The second is belief; you’ve got to believe that you can make money lots of it. The third is self-acceptance you got to believe that you deserve to be wealthy since you are very poor. You are money magnet. Each of you possesses magnetic properties. Dormant powers of attraction. Since like attracts like, you attract the things you like or want. People who are aligned or congruent are attracted magnetic even charismatic. The more congruent you are, the wider the magnetic field around you. When you are fully congruent you are irresistible. Our brains become magnetized with the dominating thoughts which we hold in our mind.
Whatever you can do or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius, power and magic in it. When you are committed the cells in your body you are energized by the passion of your purpose. Enlightened millionaires are committed.
How do you transcend you old habits and move to new level in your life? First start focusing on your future visions. The vision must be so strong that it dominates your thoughts, your choices, and your activities. Now write those commitments and put them where they can be seen each morning and each night.
The First Manifestation: Today I am enough I am smart enough, wise enough, clever enough resourceful enough, able enough, confident enough. I am connected to enough people to accomplish my heart’s desire. I have enough ideas to go out match the miracles. Enough is all I need enough is what I have. I have more than enough. As I do all that I can do I am able to do more and more. I am excited to be alive. I rejoice everyday to make my life better. I am happy, healthy, prosperous, successful, rich, loving, loved and beloved. I am comfortable with myself so I am comfortable with all others. I confidently greet each day with a smile on my face and love in my heart. Everyone who meets me is warmed with the radiance of my attitude. I work on my attitude continuously I read positive inspiring and uplifting books. I listen to audiotapes and CDs during my driving and exercise time. I associate with friendly curing nurturing people who are involved doing important things. The people with whom I associate want more for me than I want for myself. I am passionately on purpose to do good be good and help others to do the same. I am enough I have enough I do enough.
Leverage equals speed. You want to create wealth. You need leverage. There are three parts to leverage. The first part is the objective the dream that you intend to bring into reality. The second part is the fulcrum that is you. The third is the leveraged self. A movie star makes the movie once. The money comes when millions of people pay to view it. A baseball player plays baseball when tens and thousands of fans at stadium and view nationally on television. Teachers on the other hand usually have 25-40 students per class they have very little leverage and thus their salary is relatively low. Nothing down if you put 10 percent down on a $200,000.00 home that grows up in value by 5 percent in one year then the property is worth $210,000.00. Your $20,000.00 investment has earned you $10,000.00 a 50% return on your money.
There are five kinds of leverage.
OPM Other People’s Money.
OPE Other People’s Experience. Learn all they know use all their contacts and do what they do, do it even better. Therefore absorb lifetime bodies of information and insight compressed into instant usability just for you in the forms of books, tapes, CDs, films, videos and seminars. This is the cheapest and quickest way to gain OPE.
OPI Other People’s Ideas.
OPT Other People’s Time.
OPW Other People’s Work. Most people want a job; they want security rather than opportunity. Hire and delegate to them everything that you don’t want to or can’t do as well. Leverage yourself to other people and grow.
Your first form of leverage is to acquire a mentor. Your second form of leverage is to acquire a team. Your third form of leverage is the network; each team member knows at least 100 valuable contacts. The value of a network is the square of the number of people in it. Your fourth form of leverage is the infinite network that’s the spiritual connection. Your fifth form of leverage is the use of tools and skills. Your sixth form of leverage is the system. Every millionaire has systematized streamlined and organized the processes of wealth.
The second manifestation. I am a money magnet. I like money and money likes me. I attract money. I attract money 24 hours a day. I earn bountiful amounts of money. I wisely know how to create money. I know that I will always have more money in my future than I do now. The money that I create keeps multiplying duplicating and replenishing itself. I am forever enjoying more and more money. I have infinite money more than enough for my every want and need. I cheerfully save money. I faithfully save at least 10% of all the money I earn. I wisely invest my money. I see my money recreating itself effortlessly. I cheerfully give money to good and worthy causes and philanthropies that make a lasting and ongoing difference. My stake is in perfect updated order and will be a lasting legacy that makes an important and memorable difference. Money rushes to me in every form and fashion. I have lots and lots of money. I have money in my mind, in my future, in my pocket, in my wallet, in my safe, in my bank accounts, in my businesses, in my investments and wherever it keeps growing. I enjoy money and money enjoys me. Money and all its equivalents are attracted to me. Money is forever making me infinitely better off. All that I do creates surplus abundant and plenty for me and for everyone else.
A single conversation across the table with a wise man is worth the month’s heaviest book. At age 25 plus I returned home to Omaha, Nebraska and launched with seven investors Buffet Associates. Buffet’s original stake was $100.00 within five years Buffet was a millionaire. From Stephen Covey Bob learned the power of goals. One of Bob’s original goals was to write a book. Decide on the distinct that you want to master. When the student is ready the teacher appears.
If people know how hard I worked to get my mastery they wouldn’t seem so wonderful after all – Michelangelo.
Make a list of missing resources. Write down the resources that you feel you lack to help you reach your goal. Network within your own circle of contact. Widen your search.
If you can tell me who your heroes are I can tell you how you are going to turn out in life - Warren Buffet.
Read the biographies and autobiographies of people you admire. Form an imaginary counsel of life consisting of your selected leaders to drive inspiration and wisdom from your own person counsel of life.
Lesson one: The fishing is safe where only the brave dare go.
Lesson two: Always take a guide.
Lesson three: Face your fear. To marry the princess you have to slay the dragon. The greatest dragon you will ever face is your own fear. If you can learn to live with the fear the world is yours. Face your fear today.
Search out a millionaire a month. Pick the millionaire’s brain. How did you make your first million? How long did it take you? How long would it take you to do it today? What is the system that used to make it? Is this system transferable? How long would it take you today to mentor somebody to your same level of success? What would you recommend that I do to become a millionaire? What’s the most important lesson you ever learned? How do you win a great spiritual value into your life? What is the legacy you want to leave? What’s your most important habit? What opportunities do you see that you don’t have time to take advantage of?
Ask yourself three questions. These questions: What’s most fascinated me about this millionaire encounter? What insights do I have, what specific actions am I going to take as the result of this interview? What trait or quality about this person can I emulate?
The third manifestation: I attract millionaire mentors. I attract successful mentors. When I am ready they suddenly appear. My mentors offer to mentor me and guide me to the success I desire. My mentors enjoy sharing with me their most important success secrets. I feel confident in asking my mentors for advice. My mentors intuitively know how to help me make the most important breakthroughs. I am able to glean from the relationship with my mentors exactly what I need to launch me toward the goals that I seek. My mentors enjoy the relationship with me. They take time to be individuals to profess the truth that I am seeking. My mentors willingly share, encourage and coach me to experience and express my full genius abilities talents and resources. They see more in me than I see in myself. My mentors know how to bring up the best in me. I study them up-close and personal if possible. I cheerfully apprentice and pay my dues to my masters as they did with their masters. I read study and learn all that they have written and what they recommend. I need all my mentors’ friends’ colleagues and loved ones and make them part of my ever-growing millionaire million dollar Rolodex. My life is made infinitely more meaningful. My life is made infinitely more meaningful with the mentor teacher who wants to be in service for my greater growth and development. I catch my mentor’s passion for life and living fully and richly. I realize that no one has ever achieved greatness that did not have mentors. I am willing to have great and inspiring mentors throughout my life. I am learning from my mentors how to be a mentor myself. I am prepared to mentor others when the opportunity presents itself.
Negative peoples are like holes in a balloon, how high does the balloon go with a hole in it. Make regular team meetings a life enhancing priority. Meetings need to be upbeat, enriching, encouraging helpfully beneficial to each member and the collective group as a whole. When Mr. Edison’s New Jersey factory burned to the ground Mr. Ford arrived the next morning and handed Edison a check for $750,000.00 and encouraged him to start building again. Ford would not accept interest on his loan. Team is an acronym that means Together Everyone Achieved Miracle. List the names of the people you would like on your ideal dream team. Prepare this list down to a half a dozen who would agree to play on your team. Most people’s lives are a direct reflection of their peer group. All it takes is a dream, a team and a theme to create a stream of perpetual income.
Most project oriented work breaks down into four categories: Solutions: Brain storming options. Strategy: Picking the highest priority ideas and making a plan of action. Analysis: Figuring out what could go wrong with your solutions. Results: Converting the plan of action into a concrete system and getting it done.
Four types of workers correlate with these four type of work. Hares: Idea people who think randomly. They usually get bored with the idea once they follow it through. They are creative. Owls: These people love to prioritization and plan a strategy for success. They are go-getters who like to make action plan. Turtle: These people believe that slow and steady wins the race. They are suspicious of new ideas. Squirrel: These detail-oriented people are great at step-by-step work they think and act in a methodological way.
You should ideally have either one hare-owl and one turtle- squirrel or one hare-turtle and one owl-squirrel. No man becomes rich unless he enriches others. They delegate work that they don’t do well. There is no dirty work just the wrong person doing the work. Everyone delegates his or her dirty work to someone else who loves it. What we hate to do bores us and what bores us slows us down. Speed is the new currency of business. Here is how you can dramatically increase your team’s speed. Conduct a positive brainstorming session. Except for the owl the whole group spends ten minutes writing down all their ideas. Next everyone leaves the room except the owl. The owl has a special instinct for priorities and what will practically work, owls recognize brilliance identify the drawback. The turtles join the owl without the hares or squirrels present and are asked to use their strength to blow holes in the idea tell me everything that could go wrong with this idea. Problem solved. The hares come back and join the owl thereafter solve these problems.
The Fourth Manifestation. I attract my dream team. I attract the perfect dream team, with the right dream and the right team I know I can accomplish miracles. I attract people who are unique where I am weak. My dream team is composed of individuals who are dedicated to the same goals. We are like-minded. We respect depend on and trust one another. Accomplishes my dream team had access to all the resources we need. The capital, the information, the markets, the insights and the contacts. We work together seamlessly with effortless effort. I am supported I feel supported from the top down and inside out because I positively and correctly exploit myself and others. All others lovingly correctly and completely support me. My life’s work is full of miracles. I am a reverse paranoid, I expect everyone to benefit me. I favor my relationships, friendships and family. I just keep getting better all the time.
The bigger your network the more leverage you have. Make yourself eminently likable, develop an above average handshake a magnetic eye contact and a radiant presence. Choose to serve greatly for the sake of serving, help everyone who needs some help, always go the extra mile and put the universe in your debt. Create relationship the hinges of which never rust but get deeper and more meaningful overtime, stay in touch personally by phone and fax, have outings parties, events or seminars to which you remember to invite your clients and friends.
Create a list of the 200 people you want to meet, study, grow, and talk with to spend time with and imitate until you can emulate their action or paths. You will be astounded how fast you synchronize and time and space would do so. You automatically become part of the who’s who by association. From networking it to who you know, who they know, and who knows you, choose to make yourself well known. Networking with millionaires and love is killer app to win business and influence friends. The average person knows at least 250 people and they know another 250 peoples so instantly you have access to 60,000 people. Set a goal to build your Rolodex working on it weekly if not daily add at least one name a day of someone you want to work with grow with and get rich with. Your goal is to have multiple contacts in multiple fields. Stay in touch at least twice a year. Rate each person in your Rolodex with a letter form A to D. A’s are those with the largest databases and the greatest potential for opportunity. Narrow you list to your 100 eagles your A list of top contacts. The person with the largest network of Rolodexes wins.
The fifth manifestation. I am a millionaire. I think like a millionaire, I talk like a millionaire, I walk like a millionaire, I believe, feel and act like a millionaire. Like a radio that’s tuned to one frequency I am tuned to the millionaire’s frequency. I continually condition my mind to think rich abundant and prosperous thoughts. I talk about the endless possibilities to all of who will listen. I read what millionaires read. I soak up biographies and autobiographies of millionaires and billionaires. I drink in their wisdom insight and deep understanding. I think about creating valuable multi-million dollar business enterprises during the day. I dream about them at night. I enjoy creating million dollar enterprises. I am creating multiple millions honestly ethically and morally. I am a wise steward for my money. I master my money. My money does not master me. I love to serve. I realize that it’s the quantity and quality of my services rendered with a positive mental attitude that grants me unlimited ever-flowing compensation. I am constantly rendering increasingly better service. The better I serve the more I make. I love challenges. I conquer my wealth creation mountains with glee and joy in my heart. There is banquet of prosperity ready and waiting for each of us. I cheerfully help others on their journey to wealth riches and true spiritual abundance. Being a millionaire means I live the abundant balanced life growing serving sharing. It’s great to be a millionaire.
Three secrets to persuasion are brightness darkness and frequency. Paint bright word pictures that describe the positive exciting future. Paint dark word pictures that describe the gloomy future, what if a person doesn’t follow your recommendation, you then repeat your message until your audience is captured. You can have everything you want if you help enough other people get what they want.
Money skill number one: Value. They value each dollar bill as a money seed.
Money skill number two: Control. They control their money down to the penny. They shop for the best value they ask for and expect a discount. They examine their receipts. They attempt to turn each expenditure into a legitimate tax-deductible business expense. They balance their checkbooks to the penny. They file the receipts upon returning home to their office. Money skill number three: Save. Money skill number four: Invest. Let your 10% savings flow into the emergency bucket until you have at least three months of living expenses saved in an insured bank account. Money skill number five: Earn. They have multiple streams of income outside their job. Money skill number six: Shield. They protect themselves with trusts corporations and other legal entities. Money skill number seven: Share It. They are generous. Donate at least 10% of their income.
An enlightened millionaire values time. The following 10 tips can give you more opportunities to add additional activities to your day.
Tip number one: Focus on the critical few. Work only on critical things.
Tip number two: Learn how to procrastinate. Put off the 85% and tackle the 15%.
Tip number three: Throw away your to do list. Instead create a 85-15 list. Write your top priority items at the top in the 15% box. Only work on the top of your list.
Tip number four: Reward. Reward yourself for doing the right things.
Tip number five: Do your FTF Feared Things First. What activity on your list do you fear the most? That’s your FTF. What’s my FTF today? By training yourself to do your FTF you unconsciously urge yourself to tackle toughest task.
Tip number six: Do daily power hour. Take a few minutes everyday. It doesn’t need to be an hour for planning. Planning is life’s rehearsal.
Tip number seven: Exercise.
Tip number eight: Layer your activities. Use your waiting time productively. Do two things at once.
Tip number nine: Write out your goals daily.
Tip number ten: Just say no. Don’t let other people dump their monkeys on you. Sometimes you just have to say no.
System - Save Yourself Time Energy Money. Are you the owner of one of the six million businesses in North America? Which of the following benchmarks have you crossed?
Your total lifetime business revenue exceeds one million dollars.
Your lifetime net profit exceeds one million dollars.
Your annual revenue exceeds a million.
Your annual net profit exceeds a million dollars.
Your monthly gross income exceeds a million.
The total value of everything you own exceeds a million.
Multiple streams of income have five characteristics. Zero cash is required. Zero risk. Zero time once it’s running and. Zero management.
Prosperous people have always known two truths. Truth number one: The importance of having multiple streams of income. Truth number two: The power of residual or recurring revenue.
Real estate. Look for sellers who are forced to liquidate their real estate to solve the cash need. Look for mortgage holders who are anxious to liquidate their mortgages at a discount to solve an immediate cash need. Look for sellers who are anxious to unload properties that are in crisis. Look for properties that are ran down and even need a fix-up. Only buy property within 50 miles. Set a target territory about one mile square and become an expert there.
Use one of nine methods to locate motivated buyers. Management problems, out of area, out of work, out of luck, out of time, transfer, illness, inheritance, ignorance, vacancy, variance of climate, attorney problems, tax problems, ergencies, delinquent payments, divorce, death, dissolution of partnership.
As an investor you are searching for the one to five percent of the sellerswho need to sell now who are willing to accept unconventional solutions.
I told you to invest 250 hours to find buy fix up and manage this one investment property. You would now have an equity profit of $30,000.00. Don’t wait to buy real estate. Buy real estate and wait.
There are six million businesses in North America and 98% have fewer than 100 employees and have average annual gross incomes of less than a million dollars.
Complete this four-step marketing plan. Review it one minute each day. The big picture: What’s my ultimate advantage? What’s my sensational offer? What’s my powerful promise?
Step number one: Look for addicts. Addicts make the best customers.
Addicts buy quickly and more often they talk to other addicts.
Attracting perfect customers: What does my perfect customer look like?
What makes my perfect customer tick? What do I want my perfect customer to expect of me? What do I need to improve about my business to attract more perfect customers?
There is a book in you. You have enough information and experience in your head right now to turn into a lifetime stream of income. Your book can become the cornerstone of an information empire. What’s your story? Everything in your life has value. The failures, the successes it’s all part of the equation.
If each customer spends just $100.00 per year for your information you can make $100,000.00 a year with those 1,000 customers. You too can turn your expertise passion hobby into lifetime stream of cash flow. There is a book inside you and there is an audience for that book. You can crate an endless variety of products from the same information. The income is residual you produce at once that keeps paying you back sometimes for decades.
The only diploma that counts is a million dollar idea. The only qualification you need is a burning desire. The only credential required is fearless action.
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© 2002 by Mark Victor Hansen and Robert Allen
You have inherited a million dollars in cash. The key is in a safety deposit box posted with bank within a silver container hidden at the summit of the mountain McKinley, at 20,000 feet the tallest mountain in North American. You must personally climb the mountain and retrieve the key yourself and complete the task within 12 months from today. Thousands of climbers have made it the summit. You will need to follow a training regime.
Almost any one can become a millionaire. In fact our goal is to help create one million millionaires. We have learned that people have different learning styles. Generally they are either artists or engineers. The artists among you are right brain visual learners. The engineers are left brain logical learners. We encourage you to visit www.oneminutemillionaire.com.
Start with the dream, sign a team and use our themes. Millionaires have a special pattern in unique way they spend money. During each money transaction they invest an extra minute. This extra minute makes them rich. Positive precession, abundance, innovation, charity, expansion, new opportunities, lower prices, altruism, nobility, fulfillment, joy, happiness, honesty, selflessness. We want to inspire million millionaires to give 10% of all they earn each year back to their community. The first step is desire. The second is faith.
What is the most stressful condition a person can face? It is unexpected response not having something to believe in. I hereby decide to become enlightened millionaire so I can eliminate my money pressures, enjoy life of complete financial freedom and share my abundance with others. Commitment will balance to behavior. To earn a million dollars quickly you must be willing to take similar committed action directly towards becoming an enlightened millionaire. To become a millionaire in your lifetime all that is required is the ability to find investment that you have at least 10% annually after taxes and a discipline to keep up the process year on and year out. You can invest $1.00 per day to grow into a million dollars over 56 years at 10% interest.
1. Decide that it’s okay for you to become a millionaire.
2. Practice imagining yourself enjoying the lifestyle.
3. Spend less than you earn. Pay yourself first deduct 10% of the top of your income and deposit into your investment accounts and less the difference.
Master one of these areas investments, real estate, business, Internet. Everyone thinks that the principle thing to the tree is the fruit but in point of fact that principle thing towards is the seed nature. Everything begins as a thought. The word for turning thoughts into things is to manifest. It comes from the middle most word manifestos meaning visible and the Latin word manis meaning hand.
You are the fruit of the thoughts you have planted and nourished. If you want a better harvest you must plant better thoughts. Think positive thoughts intensely. Speak only wonderful words to yourself constantly. Feel fantastic now. You must first be an enlightened millionaire. Abundance comes from making others better off and the primary reason to get is to have more to give. When both the being and doing are correct you will have your desired outcome. You will have riches beyond your wildest dreams.
When we blame someone it gives that person power over the situation. If we avoid the track of laying blame we sometimes tend to justify what happened. This is just another form of blame. Instead of blaming a person we blame the circumstances.
Where then is the optimal place to view life experiences from the point of personal responsibility from above the line? By operating above the line each of us have optimal control, direction and command over our existence. In fact sharing always creates more.
I am abundant in every good way. Infinite money is mine to earn, save, invest exponentially multiply and share. My abundance is making everyone better off. I embrace abundance and abundance embraces me. Give and it will be given to you. Give a step. Give your time, your approval, your smile, your advice, your wisdom, your complements, your sense of humor, your talent, your attention, your encouragement, your love. All these things will flow back to you in abundance. Turn up the volume of your positive voice.
Notice your negative internal voice, just turn the volume down. Find a thick rubber band in your home or office. Wear it on your left wrist and every time you are thinking a negative thought, smack the rubber’s ends. Yes it causes pain, the pain causes a pattern interrupt mentally and perhaps vocally you say ouch. Smack yourself every time you find yourself saying something negative. Wear the band 24/7 for the next 30 days. No one needs to know what you are doing except to you. It works rapidly within a month. People have to be responsible for their thoughts so they have to learn to control them. It may not be easy but it can be done. First of all if you don’t want certain things we don’t say them. We don’t have to eat everything we see and we don’t have to say everything we think. So we can begin by watching our words and speaking with good purpose only. Speak with good purpose if it doesn’t serve don’t say it.
What are some of your invisible aspects? Creativity, imagination, vision, generosity, courage, boldness, persistent, integrity, expert connections and customer databases, valuable skills, selling, persuasion, marketing, time management. Every resource I need is possessed by someone somewhere at this very moment. How can I find these individuals and persuade them to provide me with these resources. Life is a seminar. You are enrolled at birth. You can’t get out of it even by dying so enjoy it. You came in for the seminar with no inscription manual. Money freedom, you want to have enough money so that all your future days are prepaid. You work in case you want to work not because you have to work. You are free to risk to be who you really are and become the greater server you were meant to be. You can set big goals. You can assemble your dream teams. You are masterpiece in process becoming ever better more fulfilled and totally happy. You want a time freedom. Your play becomes your work. You build up by taking a off a week for month or equivalently three months per year. When we can forget about work totally and completely, let your income continues to expand and increase. Now you can pursue relationship freedom, spiritual freedom, physical freedom, and ultimate freedom.
How good could your life be five years from today? Give yourself permission to dream a big dream. Tonight as you drift off for sleep imagine its bright future. Tomorrow when you wake, awaken inside your dream world. See it, taste it, hear it, smell it, feel it. Do this everyday for the next 90 days you will notice the amazing things that will start spontaneously happening in your life.
Don’t think of your goals think from your goals. In other words rather than thinking of your future dream home think from your dream home. Imagine yourself actually living in that dream home as if you are already there. That’s why it’s so critical to visualize your goals clearly.
We recommend you start a special notebook for your goals. Whenever you think of something you would like to accomplish in your life write it down in your goal book. Then on a daily basis write your six major goals. To keep your self balanced record your top six goals and each of the six major areas or resources of your life, body, brain, aim, time, people, money.
In addition affirm each of these six goals daily as if you had already achieved your success in writing on a 3/5 card. For example, I am so happy and grateful that I am earning $400.00 per day working only 250 days this year. I am providing excellent value by selling x number of products to x numbers satisfied customers each day. Keep this 3/5 card with you as you go throughout your day. On the single car affirm all six of your major goals. Read these goals aloud four times a day at breakfast, lunch, dinner, and just before you go to sleep. This last step is the most important as your mind never sleeps. Sign and date this card and get one other person to whom you are committed to do the same. Follow up weekly to prove you are in track. Change and upgrade your card at least monthly. Think only of what you want never what you don’t want. Write it, read it, say it, see it. Notice how goals magically materialize into your life.
Here are four characteristics of people who are expressing their genius: Passion, talent, values, destiny. Passion, what do I love to do? Talent, what I am good at? Values, what is important to me? Destiny, what is I go on to do? Do what you love at moments value, leverage it because people actually do read your mind what you think is projecting through the airways to the person you are meeting with. They pick it up subliminally. So if they are going to be reading your mind anyway, make sure that what they read is worth reading. Questions predetermine the answer. The size of your question determine the size of your answer. A difference is 1, 0. But that means is that individuals who ask the wrong question are living below their true potential. They change the economic future of the world we need to create jobs. So as you ask yourself another set of questions the results will vastly improve the world.
The first is desire - you got to want it. The second is belief; you’ve got to believe that you can make money lots of it. The third is self-acceptance you got to believe that you deserve to be wealthy since you are very poor. You are money magnet. Each of you possesses magnetic properties. Dormant powers of attraction. Since like attracts like, you attract the things you like or want. People who are aligned or congruent are attracted magnetic even charismatic. The more congruent you are, the wider the magnetic field around you. When you are fully congruent you are irresistible. Our brains become magnetized with the dominating thoughts which we hold in our mind.
Whatever you can do or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius, power and magic in it. When you are committed the cells in your body you are energized by the passion of your purpose. Enlightened millionaires are committed.
How do you transcend you old habits and move to new level in your life? First start focusing on your future visions. The vision must be so strong that it dominates your thoughts, your choices, and your activities. Now write those commitments and put them where they can be seen each morning and each night.
The First Manifestation: Today I am enough I am smart enough, wise enough, clever enough resourceful enough, able enough, confident enough. I am connected to enough people to accomplish my heart’s desire. I have enough ideas to go out match the miracles. Enough is all I need enough is what I have. I have more than enough. As I do all that I can do I am able to do more and more. I am excited to be alive. I rejoice everyday to make my life better. I am happy, healthy, prosperous, successful, rich, loving, loved and beloved. I am comfortable with myself so I am comfortable with all others. I confidently greet each day with a smile on my face and love in my heart. Everyone who meets me is warmed with the radiance of my attitude. I work on my attitude continuously I read positive inspiring and uplifting books. I listen to audiotapes and CDs during my driving and exercise time. I associate with friendly curing nurturing people who are involved doing important things. The people with whom I associate want more for me than I want for myself. I am passionately on purpose to do good be good and help others to do the same. I am enough I have enough I do enough.
Leverage equals speed. You want to create wealth. You need leverage. There are three parts to leverage. The first part is the objective the dream that you intend to bring into reality. The second part is the fulcrum that is you. The third is the leveraged self. A movie star makes the movie once. The money comes when millions of people pay to view it. A baseball player plays baseball when tens and thousands of fans at stadium and view nationally on television. Teachers on the other hand usually have 25-40 students per class they have very little leverage and thus their salary is relatively low. Nothing down if you put 10 percent down on a $200,000.00 home that grows up in value by 5 percent in one year then the property is worth $210,000.00. Your $20,000.00 investment has earned you $10,000.00 a 50% return on your money.
There are five kinds of leverage.
OPM Other People’s Money.
OPE Other People’s Experience. Learn all they know use all their contacts and do what they do, do it even better. Therefore absorb lifetime bodies of information and insight compressed into instant usability just for you in the forms of books, tapes, CDs, films, videos and seminars. This is the cheapest and quickest way to gain OPE.
OPI Other People’s Ideas.
OPT Other People’s Time.
OPW Other People’s Work. Most people want a job; they want security rather than opportunity. Hire and delegate to them everything that you don’t want to or can’t do as well. Leverage yourself to other people and grow.
Your first form of leverage is to acquire a mentor. Your second form of leverage is to acquire a team. Your third form of leverage is the network; each team member knows at least 100 valuable contacts. The value of a network is the square of the number of people in it. Your fourth form of leverage is the infinite network that’s the spiritual connection. Your fifth form of leverage is the use of tools and skills. Your sixth form of leverage is the system. Every millionaire has systematized streamlined and organized the processes of wealth.
The second manifestation. I am a money magnet. I like money and money likes me. I attract money. I attract money 24 hours a day. I earn bountiful amounts of money. I wisely know how to create money. I know that I will always have more money in my future than I do now. The money that I create keeps multiplying duplicating and replenishing itself. I am forever enjoying more and more money. I have infinite money more than enough for my every want and need. I cheerfully save money. I faithfully save at least 10% of all the money I earn. I wisely invest my money. I see my money recreating itself effortlessly. I cheerfully give money to good and worthy causes and philanthropies that make a lasting and ongoing difference. My stake is in perfect updated order and will be a lasting legacy that makes an important and memorable difference. Money rushes to me in every form and fashion. I have lots and lots of money. I have money in my mind, in my future, in my pocket, in my wallet, in my safe, in my bank accounts, in my businesses, in my investments and wherever it keeps growing. I enjoy money and money enjoys me. Money and all its equivalents are attracted to me. Money is forever making me infinitely better off. All that I do creates surplus abundant and plenty for me and for everyone else.
A single conversation across the table with a wise man is worth the month’s heaviest book. At age 25 plus I returned home to Omaha, Nebraska and launched with seven investors Buffet Associates. Buffet’s original stake was $100.00 within five years Buffet was a millionaire. From Stephen Covey Bob learned the power of goals. One of Bob’s original goals was to write a book. Decide on the distinct that you want to master. When the student is ready the teacher appears.
If people know how hard I worked to get my mastery they wouldn’t seem so wonderful after all – Michelangelo.
Make a list of missing resources. Write down the resources that you feel you lack to help you reach your goal. Network within your own circle of contact. Widen your search.
If you can tell me who your heroes are I can tell you how you are going to turn out in life - Warren Buffet.
Read the biographies and autobiographies of people you admire. Form an imaginary counsel of life consisting of your selected leaders to drive inspiration and wisdom from your own person counsel of life.
Lesson one: The fishing is safe where only the brave dare go.
Lesson two: Always take a guide.
Lesson three: Face your fear. To marry the princess you have to slay the dragon. The greatest dragon you will ever face is your own fear. If you can learn to live with the fear the world is yours. Face your fear today.
Search out a millionaire a month. Pick the millionaire’s brain. How did you make your first million? How long did it take you? How long would it take you to do it today? What is the system that used to make it? Is this system transferable? How long would it take you today to mentor somebody to your same level of success? What would you recommend that I do to become a millionaire? What’s the most important lesson you ever learned? How do you win a great spiritual value into your life? What is the legacy you want to leave? What’s your most important habit? What opportunities do you see that you don’t have time to take advantage of?
Ask yourself three questions. These questions: What’s most fascinated me about this millionaire encounter? What insights do I have, what specific actions am I going to take as the result of this interview? What trait or quality about this person can I emulate?
The third manifestation: I attract millionaire mentors. I attract successful mentors. When I am ready they suddenly appear. My mentors offer to mentor me and guide me to the success I desire. My mentors enjoy sharing with me their most important success secrets. I feel confident in asking my mentors for advice. My mentors intuitively know how to help me make the most important breakthroughs. I am able to glean from the relationship with my mentors exactly what I need to launch me toward the goals that I seek. My mentors enjoy the relationship with me. They take time to be individuals to profess the truth that I am seeking. My mentors willingly share, encourage and coach me to experience and express my full genius abilities talents and resources. They see more in me than I see in myself. My mentors know how to bring up the best in me. I study them up-close and personal if possible. I cheerfully apprentice and pay my dues to my masters as they did with their masters. I read study and learn all that they have written and what they recommend. I need all my mentors’ friends’ colleagues and loved ones and make them part of my ever-growing millionaire million dollar Rolodex. My life is made infinitely more meaningful. My life is made infinitely more meaningful with the mentor teacher who wants to be in service for my greater growth and development. I catch my mentor’s passion for life and living fully and richly. I realize that no one has ever achieved greatness that did not have mentors. I am willing to have great and inspiring mentors throughout my life. I am learning from my mentors how to be a mentor myself. I am prepared to mentor others when the opportunity presents itself.
Negative peoples are like holes in a balloon, how high does the balloon go with a hole in it. Make regular team meetings a life enhancing priority. Meetings need to be upbeat, enriching, encouraging helpfully beneficial to each member and the collective group as a whole. When Mr. Edison’s New Jersey factory burned to the ground Mr. Ford arrived the next morning and handed Edison a check for $750,000.00 and encouraged him to start building again. Ford would not accept interest on his loan. Team is an acronym that means Together Everyone Achieved Miracle. List the names of the people you would like on your ideal dream team. Prepare this list down to a half a dozen who would agree to play on your team. Most people’s lives are a direct reflection of their peer group. All it takes is a dream, a team and a theme to create a stream of perpetual income.
Most project oriented work breaks down into four categories: Solutions: Brain storming options. Strategy: Picking the highest priority ideas and making a plan of action. Analysis: Figuring out what could go wrong with your solutions. Results: Converting the plan of action into a concrete system and getting it done.
Four types of workers correlate with these four type of work. Hares: Idea people who think randomly. They usually get bored with the idea once they follow it through. They are creative. Owls: These people love to prioritization and plan a strategy for success. They are go-getters who like to make action plan. Turtle: These people believe that slow and steady wins the race. They are suspicious of new ideas. Squirrel: These detail-oriented people are great at step-by-step work they think and act in a methodological way.
You should ideally have either one hare-owl and one turtle- squirrel or one hare-turtle and one owl-squirrel. No man becomes rich unless he enriches others. They delegate work that they don’t do well. There is no dirty work just the wrong person doing the work. Everyone delegates his or her dirty work to someone else who loves it. What we hate to do bores us and what bores us slows us down. Speed is the new currency of business. Here is how you can dramatically increase your team’s speed. Conduct a positive brainstorming session. Except for the owl the whole group spends ten minutes writing down all their ideas. Next everyone leaves the room except the owl. The owl has a special instinct for priorities and what will practically work, owls recognize brilliance identify the drawback. The turtles join the owl without the hares or squirrels present and are asked to use their strength to blow holes in the idea tell me everything that could go wrong with this idea. Problem solved. The hares come back and join the owl thereafter solve these problems.
The Fourth Manifestation. I attract my dream team. I attract the perfect dream team, with the right dream and the right team I know I can accomplish miracles. I attract people who are unique where I am weak. My dream team is composed of individuals who are dedicated to the same goals. We are like-minded. We respect depend on and trust one another. Accomplishes my dream team had access to all the resources we need. The capital, the information, the markets, the insights and the contacts. We work together seamlessly with effortless effort. I am supported I feel supported from the top down and inside out because I positively and correctly exploit myself and others. All others lovingly correctly and completely support me. My life’s work is full of miracles. I am a reverse paranoid, I expect everyone to benefit me. I favor my relationships, friendships and family. I just keep getting better all the time.
The bigger your network the more leverage you have. Make yourself eminently likable, develop an above average handshake a magnetic eye contact and a radiant presence. Choose to serve greatly for the sake of serving, help everyone who needs some help, always go the extra mile and put the universe in your debt. Create relationship the hinges of which never rust but get deeper and more meaningful overtime, stay in touch personally by phone and fax, have outings parties, events or seminars to which you remember to invite your clients and friends.
Create a list of the 200 people you want to meet, study, grow, and talk with to spend time with and imitate until you can emulate their action or paths. You will be astounded how fast you synchronize and time and space would do so. You automatically become part of the who’s who by association. From networking it to who you know, who they know, and who knows you, choose to make yourself well known. Networking with millionaires and love is killer app to win business and influence friends. The average person knows at least 250 people and they know another 250 peoples so instantly you have access to 60,000 people. Set a goal to build your Rolodex working on it weekly if not daily add at least one name a day of someone you want to work with grow with and get rich with. Your goal is to have multiple contacts in multiple fields. Stay in touch at least twice a year. Rate each person in your Rolodex with a letter form A to D. A’s are those with the largest databases and the greatest potential for opportunity. Narrow you list to your 100 eagles your A list of top contacts. The person with the largest network of Rolodexes wins.
The fifth manifestation. I am a millionaire. I think like a millionaire, I talk like a millionaire, I walk like a millionaire, I believe, feel and act like a millionaire. Like a radio that’s tuned to one frequency I am tuned to the millionaire’s frequency. I continually condition my mind to think rich abundant and prosperous thoughts. I talk about the endless possibilities to all of who will listen. I read what millionaires read. I soak up biographies and autobiographies of millionaires and billionaires. I drink in their wisdom insight and deep understanding. I think about creating valuable multi-million dollar business enterprises during the day. I dream about them at night. I enjoy creating million dollar enterprises. I am creating multiple millions honestly ethically and morally. I am a wise steward for my money. I master my money. My money does not master me. I love to serve. I realize that it’s the quantity and quality of my services rendered with a positive mental attitude that grants me unlimited ever-flowing compensation. I am constantly rendering increasingly better service. The better I serve the more I make. I love challenges. I conquer my wealth creation mountains with glee and joy in my heart. There is banquet of prosperity ready and waiting for each of us. I cheerfully help others on their journey to wealth riches and true spiritual abundance. Being a millionaire means I live the abundant balanced life growing serving sharing. It’s great to be a millionaire.
Three secrets to persuasion are brightness darkness and frequency. Paint bright word pictures that describe the positive exciting future. Paint dark word pictures that describe the gloomy future, what if a person doesn’t follow your recommendation, you then repeat your message until your audience is captured. You can have everything you want if you help enough other people get what they want.
Money skill number one: Value. They value each dollar bill as a money seed.
Money skill number two: Control. They control their money down to the penny. They shop for the best value they ask for and expect a discount. They examine their receipts. They attempt to turn each expenditure into a legitimate tax-deductible business expense. They balance their checkbooks to the penny. They file the receipts upon returning home to their office. Money skill number three: Save. Money skill number four: Invest. Let your 10% savings flow into the emergency bucket until you have at least three months of living expenses saved in an insured bank account. Money skill number five: Earn. They have multiple streams of income outside their job. Money skill number six: Shield. They protect themselves with trusts corporations and other legal entities. Money skill number seven: Share It. They are generous. Donate at least 10% of their income.
An enlightened millionaire values time. The following 10 tips can give you more opportunities to add additional activities to your day.
Tip number one: Focus on the critical few. Work only on critical things.
Tip number two: Learn how to procrastinate. Put off the 85% and tackle the 15%.
Tip number three: Throw away your to do list. Instead create a 85-15 list. Write your top priority items at the top in the 15% box. Only work on the top of your list.
Tip number four: Reward. Reward yourself for doing the right things.
Tip number five: Do your FTF Feared Things First. What activity on your list do you fear the most? That’s your FTF. What’s my FTF today? By training yourself to do your FTF you unconsciously urge yourself to tackle toughest task.
Tip number six: Do daily power hour. Take a few minutes everyday. It doesn’t need to be an hour for planning. Planning is life’s rehearsal.
Tip number seven: Exercise.
Tip number eight: Layer your activities. Use your waiting time productively. Do two things at once.
Tip number nine: Write out your goals daily.
Tip number ten: Just say no. Don’t let other people dump their monkeys on you. Sometimes you just have to say no.
System - Save Yourself Time Energy Money. Are you the owner of one of the six million businesses in North America? Which of the following benchmarks have you crossed?
Your total lifetime business revenue exceeds one million dollars.
Your lifetime net profit exceeds one million dollars.
Your annual revenue exceeds a million.
Your annual net profit exceeds a million dollars.
Your monthly gross income exceeds a million.
The total value of everything you own exceeds a million.
Multiple streams of income have five characteristics. Zero cash is required. Zero risk. Zero time once it’s running and. Zero management.
Prosperous people have always known two truths. Truth number one: The importance of having multiple streams of income. Truth number two: The power of residual or recurring revenue.
Real estate. Look for sellers who are forced to liquidate their real estate to solve the cash need. Look for mortgage holders who are anxious to liquidate their mortgages at a discount to solve an immediate cash need. Look for sellers who are anxious to unload properties that are in crisis. Look for properties that are ran down and even need a fix-up. Only buy property within 50 miles. Set a target territory about one mile square and become an expert there.
Use one of nine methods to locate motivated buyers. Management problems, out of area, out of work, out of luck, out of time, transfer, illness, inheritance, ignorance, vacancy, variance of climate, attorney problems, tax problems, ergencies, delinquent payments, divorce, death, dissolution of partnership.
As an investor you are searching for the one to five percent of the sellerswho need to sell now who are willing to accept unconventional solutions.
I told you to invest 250 hours to find buy fix up and manage this one investment property. You would now have an equity profit of $30,000.00. Don’t wait to buy real estate. Buy real estate and wait.
There are six million businesses in North America and 98% have fewer than 100 employees and have average annual gross incomes of less than a million dollars.
Complete this four-step marketing plan. Review it one minute each day. The big picture: What’s my ultimate advantage? What’s my sensational offer? What’s my powerful promise?
Step number one: Look for addicts. Addicts make the best customers.
Addicts buy quickly and more often they talk to other addicts.
Attracting perfect customers: What does my perfect customer look like?
What makes my perfect customer tick? What do I want my perfect customer to expect of me? What do I need to improve about my business to attract more perfect customers?
There is a book in you. You have enough information and experience in your head right now to turn into a lifetime stream of income. Your book can become the cornerstone of an information empire. What’s your story? Everything in your life has value. The failures, the successes it’s all part of the equation.
If each customer spends just $100.00 per year for your information you can make $100,000.00 a year with those 1,000 customers. You too can turn your expertise passion hobby into lifetime stream of cash flow. There is a book inside you and there is an audience for that book. You can crate an endless variety of products from the same information. The income is residual you produce at once that keeps paying you back sometimes for decades.
The only diploma that counts is a million dollar idea. The only qualification you need is a burning desire. The only credential required is fearless action.
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The Art of War
The Art of War
© 1998 by Thomas Cleary translation
More than 2000 years ago a mysterious Indian philosopher taught his methods to an obscure herdsman soldier. The herdsman soldier rose in the world and ultimately succeeded in founding the greatest Indian empire in history. He incorporated much of Kashmir and Afghanistan driving invading Greeks in Alexander’s wake back as far as Persia. The dynasty ruled for one and a half century from about 325 to 182 B.C. Emperor Ashoka grandson of the founder reigned further eventually converting to Buddhism and renouncing warfare Emperor Ashoka became a distinguished patron of culture. The ethics of Ashoka pious exhortations inscribed on stone pillars throughout the empire are one of the great monuments of the old world.
There is no wealth like intelligence and no poverty like ignorance. Sovereignty begins with the self with self-mastery the sovereignty extending to the social and material environment in proportion to inherent element of the human faculty. The root of sovereignty is control of the faculty. Self-control enables the individual to work in the world with a blank heart not subject to deviation by temporary attraction or diversion. Self-mastery enables one to avoid being deviated from long term goals by the seduction of short-term gains. Setbacks can actually stimulate determination and improvement. There is no task like fulfillment one who walks with fools will follow a long way.
Successful warriors are those who secure victory first and only then go into battle. A single wheel does not make it possible to move around. Strategy of headquarters determines success abroad.
Cooperation focus determination and efforts are all elements of the king’s success. When the mind is calm and quiet then brilliant measures are conceived. When thought is deep and far reaching then strategic plans are perfected. When brilliant measures are conceived then the world cannot be disturbed. When strategic plans are perfected then achievements amass these laws.
One who is attached to lust does not accomplish what has to be done. Violence of speech is worst than the burning of fire by harassment and punishment one becomes odious to all people. Prosperity abandons one who is satisfied by material wealth. People refrain from what they should not do on account of a punishment.
Action results from power. Acquisition of wealth is rooted in action. Do the great while it is still small. The most difficult things in the world must be done while they are easy. The greatest things in the world must be done while they are small.
Waste of an opportunity is torment. The unfocused cannot act decide first then set to work. Focus is practical action. Ideal people are consistent in their deeds. The most massive tree grows from a sprout. Highest building rises from a pile of earth. A journey of ten thousand leaps begins with a single step.
One who knows the right timing will get the job done. Everyone who has been overtaken by death asks for more time or everyone who still has time makes excuses for procrastination. It is the accomplished work that is being made known. A change is believed on the day of completion. If an undertaking is announced and then fails the effect on general morale is more negative. If an undertaking is accomplished and then announced the effect on general morale is more positive.
One who seeks to accomplish something must be ruthless. One who does not seek work to be done is blind. The mouth is the door of calamity. The essence of Taoist philosophy is balancing flexibility and firmness. The world does not think much of one with little strength even if he is learned. Someone who has lots of ideas but never accomplishes anything rarely gained popular respect.
A single fault eclipses a multitude of virtue. Don’t be aggressive toward a great adversary. The suspicious are not to be trusted poison is always poison. Until you see an adversary’s weakness action or combat are to be avoided. One should strike an enemy’s weak spots but should not reveal one’s own weakness. Adversaries aim at weak spots. A skillful attack is one against which an enemy does not know where to defend while a skillful defense is one against which an enemy does not know where to attack.
Work that is to be done by oneself alone is to be examined. The first thing to examine is whether a particular task could be delegated or calls for cooperation of others or should be done by oneself alone. Evil people look for people’s faults ignoring their good qualities just as flies look for rotten parts of a body ignoring the wholesome. Aristotle said a malicious person is an enemy to himself then how can he be a friend to another.
Those who have accomplished their purpose have no fear of death. No interest should be taken in the possession of others. Interest in others’ property is the root of ruination.
Knowledge is better than wealth. Wealth is diminished by funding while knowledge grows by you. Confucius said he could find a teacher even in a group of three people. When he found something good he would emulate it himself and when something bad he would correct it in himself. One who is himself impure is suspicious of others.
The one free of anger overcomes all. In Buddhist philosophy anger is considered one of most basic poisons of the human mind. When angry at a wrongdoer there would be anger at which one should be angry.
Build up virtue and master all. Don’t cast your lot with bad people don’t join up with the successful if they are waste minded. That enemies and illnesses should be eliminated completely. One who speaks prudently has no enemy.
If you know others and know yourself you will not be imperiled in a hundred battles. Pride is not a basis of virtue. Virtue means efficacy a small scale operation may be more efficient than a large one. Society does along with what has already happened. The essence of discipline is control of the faculty. Liberation is the cure of sorrows.
Buddha said be free of the past be free of the future be free of the meantime be transcendent. When your mind is completely liberated you no longer suffer birth and old age. There is no greater pleasure than contact with one’s children.
It is often hard to think straight when hard pressed. That is no doubt why it is better to think ahead when with free time. The company of the good is paradise. The noble ones think of others himself. One’s place is where one can live happily. An irrational man is equivalent to a demon. One should not reveal one’s own weakness. Do tomorrow’s tasks today do the afternoons in the morning. Do it before it exists govern it before there is disorder.
When a man wants to do a task great or small let him do it with all dispatch. This is called the one thing learned from the lion. Lao Tzu speaks of doing the great while it is small even of doing things before they exist. A ruler who has suffered misfortune should not be anguished.
Untrained employees, ill-bred ruler, false friends and an immodest wife these four are painful sorrows spikes to the head. A ruler should give up indulgence and diversion those who are devoted to pleasure are manipulated by existing enemies. Gambling, hunting, women, drinks, touring and slumber a king perishes quickly through addictions. One should abide in a place where there is abundant respect and abandon where there is lack of respect.
Association with good people is the basis of success above all. Ability to survive destruction regains equilibrium and ultimately prevails by adapting to changing conditions depends upon the capacity to perceive and predict situations and possibilities accurately and to act in such a way as to effectively make best of each time and condition.
Do not let another know your own shortcomings and note others’ shortcomings. The deed conceived in the mind should not be revealed in words. The secret should be preserved in code and applied in action. One should abandon a wife with an angry face.
Without associates no undertaking derives success therefore association is the way for a ruler to deal in all endeavors. Hope evaded people consider problems and present them. Buddha said if you do not find a prudent companion a wise associate leading a good life then journey alone like a king abandoning the domain he has concurred like an elephant roaming the forest. Walk alone like an elephant in the forest who desires doing no evil.
Those who overcome others are powerful, those who overcome themselves are strong. Whatever the personal conducts of the rulers so does the conduct of the populace become. The quality of the leader is like wind the quality of the people is like grass. When the wind blows the grass bends. An ideal mentality combines firmness with flexibility.
One should tolerate minor errors and be satisfied with a small income. Tolerating minor errors increases the capacity to progress on overall aim. Do the great while it is still small the most difficult things in the world must be done while they are easy. The greatest things in the world must be done while they are small.
There is hardly one amongst thousands who can be a leader. One should always associate with those who advance in discipline in order to develop discipline for that is the root of discipline. Keeping the company of people who are more accomplished or more developed is the fundamental educational strategy based upon the principle of learning by osmosis as well as formal instructions and informal conversations.
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© 1998 by Thomas Cleary translation
More than 2000 years ago a mysterious Indian philosopher taught his methods to an obscure herdsman soldier. The herdsman soldier rose in the world and ultimately succeeded in founding the greatest Indian empire in history. He incorporated much of Kashmir and Afghanistan driving invading Greeks in Alexander’s wake back as far as Persia. The dynasty ruled for one and a half century from about 325 to 182 B.C. Emperor Ashoka grandson of the founder reigned further eventually converting to Buddhism and renouncing warfare Emperor Ashoka became a distinguished patron of culture. The ethics of Ashoka pious exhortations inscribed on stone pillars throughout the empire are one of the great monuments of the old world.
There is no wealth like intelligence and no poverty like ignorance. Sovereignty begins with the self with self-mastery the sovereignty extending to the social and material environment in proportion to inherent element of the human faculty. The root of sovereignty is control of the faculty. Self-control enables the individual to work in the world with a blank heart not subject to deviation by temporary attraction or diversion. Self-mastery enables one to avoid being deviated from long term goals by the seduction of short-term gains. Setbacks can actually stimulate determination and improvement. There is no task like fulfillment one who walks with fools will follow a long way.
Successful warriors are those who secure victory first and only then go into battle. A single wheel does not make it possible to move around. Strategy of headquarters determines success abroad.
Cooperation focus determination and efforts are all elements of the king’s success. When the mind is calm and quiet then brilliant measures are conceived. When thought is deep and far reaching then strategic plans are perfected. When brilliant measures are conceived then the world cannot be disturbed. When strategic plans are perfected then achievements amass these laws.
One who is attached to lust does not accomplish what has to be done. Violence of speech is worst than the burning of fire by harassment and punishment one becomes odious to all people. Prosperity abandons one who is satisfied by material wealth. People refrain from what they should not do on account of a punishment.
Action results from power. Acquisition of wealth is rooted in action. Do the great while it is still small. The most difficult things in the world must be done while they are easy. The greatest things in the world must be done while they are small.
Waste of an opportunity is torment. The unfocused cannot act decide first then set to work. Focus is practical action. Ideal people are consistent in their deeds. The most massive tree grows from a sprout. Highest building rises from a pile of earth. A journey of ten thousand leaps begins with a single step.
One who knows the right timing will get the job done. Everyone who has been overtaken by death asks for more time or everyone who still has time makes excuses for procrastination. It is the accomplished work that is being made known. A change is believed on the day of completion. If an undertaking is announced and then fails the effect on general morale is more negative. If an undertaking is accomplished and then announced the effect on general morale is more positive.
One who seeks to accomplish something must be ruthless. One who does not seek work to be done is blind. The mouth is the door of calamity. The essence of Taoist philosophy is balancing flexibility and firmness. The world does not think much of one with little strength even if he is learned. Someone who has lots of ideas but never accomplishes anything rarely gained popular respect.
A single fault eclipses a multitude of virtue. Don’t be aggressive toward a great adversary. The suspicious are not to be trusted poison is always poison. Until you see an adversary’s weakness action or combat are to be avoided. One should strike an enemy’s weak spots but should not reveal one’s own weakness. Adversaries aim at weak spots. A skillful attack is one against which an enemy does not know where to defend while a skillful defense is one against which an enemy does not know where to attack.
Work that is to be done by oneself alone is to be examined. The first thing to examine is whether a particular task could be delegated or calls for cooperation of others or should be done by oneself alone. Evil people look for people’s faults ignoring their good qualities just as flies look for rotten parts of a body ignoring the wholesome. Aristotle said a malicious person is an enemy to himself then how can he be a friend to another.
Those who have accomplished their purpose have no fear of death. No interest should be taken in the possession of others. Interest in others’ property is the root of ruination.
Knowledge is better than wealth. Wealth is diminished by funding while knowledge grows by you. Confucius said he could find a teacher even in a group of three people. When he found something good he would emulate it himself and when something bad he would correct it in himself. One who is himself impure is suspicious of others.
The one free of anger overcomes all. In Buddhist philosophy anger is considered one of most basic poisons of the human mind. When angry at a wrongdoer there would be anger at which one should be angry.
Build up virtue and master all. Don’t cast your lot with bad people don’t join up with the successful if they are waste minded. That enemies and illnesses should be eliminated completely. One who speaks prudently has no enemy.
If you know others and know yourself you will not be imperiled in a hundred battles. Pride is not a basis of virtue. Virtue means efficacy a small scale operation may be more efficient than a large one. Society does along with what has already happened. The essence of discipline is control of the faculty. Liberation is the cure of sorrows.
Buddha said be free of the past be free of the future be free of the meantime be transcendent. When your mind is completely liberated you no longer suffer birth and old age. There is no greater pleasure than contact with one’s children.
It is often hard to think straight when hard pressed. That is no doubt why it is better to think ahead when with free time. The company of the good is paradise. The noble ones think of others himself. One’s place is where one can live happily. An irrational man is equivalent to a demon. One should not reveal one’s own weakness. Do tomorrow’s tasks today do the afternoons in the morning. Do it before it exists govern it before there is disorder.
When a man wants to do a task great or small let him do it with all dispatch. This is called the one thing learned from the lion. Lao Tzu speaks of doing the great while it is small even of doing things before they exist. A ruler who has suffered misfortune should not be anguished.
Untrained employees, ill-bred ruler, false friends and an immodest wife these four are painful sorrows spikes to the head. A ruler should give up indulgence and diversion those who are devoted to pleasure are manipulated by existing enemies. Gambling, hunting, women, drinks, touring and slumber a king perishes quickly through addictions. One should abide in a place where there is abundant respect and abandon where there is lack of respect.
Association with good people is the basis of success above all. Ability to survive destruction regains equilibrium and ultimately prevails by adapting to changing conditions depends upon the capacity to perceive and predict situations and possibilities accurately and to act in such a way as to effectively make best of each time and condition.
Do not let another know your own shortcomings and note others’ shortcomings. The deed conceived in the mind should not be revealed in words. The secret should be preserved in code and applied in action. One should abandon a wife with an angry face.
Without associates no undertaking derives success therefore association is the way for a ruler to deal in all endeavors. Hope evaded people consider problems and present them. Buddha said if you do not find a prudent companion a wise associate leading a good life then journey alone like a king abandoning the domain he has concurred like an elephant roaming the forest. Walk alone like an elephant in the forest who desires doing no evil.
Those who overcome others are powerful, those who overcome themselves are strong. Whatever the personal conducts of the rulers so does the conduct of the populace become. The quality of the leader is like wind the quality of the people is like grass. When the wind blows the grass bends. An ideal mentality combines firmness with flexibility.
One should tolerate minor errors and be satisfied with a small income. Tolerating minor errors increases the capacity to progress on overall aim. Do the great while it is still small the most difficult things in the world must be done while they are easy. The greatest things in the world must be done while they are small.
There is hardly one amongst thousands who can be a leader. One should always associate with those who advance in discipline in order to develop discipline for that is the root of discipline. Keeping the company of people who are more accomplished or more developed is the fundamental educational strategy based upon the principle of learning by osmosis as well as formal instructions and informal conversations.
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Unwinding the Clock: Ten Thoughts on Our Relationship to Time
Unwinding the Clock: Ten Thoughts on Our Relationship to Time
© 1999 by Bodil Jonsson
To take the first step you have to start getting used to thoughts about time other than such depressing statements as I just don’t have enough time, there is no time or I don’t know how I am going to find the time.
Consider the familiar all kind of wallets for holding money with the slot for your dollar bills. Then imagine there is another slot for the people around you, for the closest to you and for the other people in your life. The third slot is for the rest of your surroundings made up of the environment, nature and work. Finally there is a slot for what exists inside you, your thoughts and feelings. You will then see that an astonishingly large share of both individual and communal efforts is placed in the money slots.
The panic about what am I supposed to be doing, what am I forgetting and the anxiously murmured but, but, but, empty, empty, empty, what now faded away little by little. A preliminary stage to this collapse is that the more balls I add the longer it takes me to think and act. Maybe what we need sometime is to be a little bored. We need to let our thought age a bit before it can be processed in those parts of ourselves deep inside where we have no possibility of exercising control. I think we better stick to two types of time and distinguish between them - personal or experienced time and clock actually atomic time.
Some things can be done much better not only without interruptions but also after a certain set-up time. We should make use of the set-up time invested in focusing your thoughts. I divide tasks into the following categories. Easy and fun, easy and boring, difficult and fun, difficult and boring. It’s tempting to start with some of the easy ones. Everything would be fine if we had unlimited time but the result of the process described above is that we usually don’t even get to the difficult tasks. Only the nice and easy things get done is because we can’t make it through the unproductive set-up time preceding them. It’s more like set-up time anxiety. It takes a strong sense of awareness to prioritize and then make it through the set-up time required for a difficult task. I think the biggest responsibility of the younger generation should be to develop new ways of thinking and to show what happens when you start off with the completely new premise. You have to decide either that you have plenty of time or that you don’t have enough time. There is no middle ground.
The fact is that when I started telling myself that I had plenty of time and even started out loud I actually began to have more time. The first will have to do with safeguarding my set-up time and by taking it into consideration and advancing by planning for it. The second will have to do with not dividing my life into too many small pieces. Explain to yourself that there really is a difference between divided and undivided time. All trend breakers have at least one thing in common; they arouse strong feeling.
What makes me prefer both snail mail and e-mail over phone conversations is that I get to have my own time now relatively undisturbed. We count hours rather than kilometers now.
In his memoirs Bertrand Russell described what made life worth living for him - the search for knowledge a longing for love and empathy with those who are suffering. This outward attitude has to come when the child is ready and able to embrace it. The inner-dream life may be helpful and necessary for a while. It’s conducive to learning and tends to do good things as conducive to friendships.
It’s more common for us to be struck by the feeling that time is running way from us than by the feeling that the year has become longer. Human beings are on their ways to describing, reshaping and creating life. Human beings are on the way to making the boundary between life and death less distinct. Human beings are on their way to uncovering some of the mysteries of learning. Over the course of only a few years fundamental human ideas may be changed in a way that will affect everyone’s daily life.
It’s fascinating to meet people whose rhythms agree with your own. If the rhythms match your generosity in terms of putting up with each other can be almost unlimited. If the rhythms don’t match even the most trivial things can irritate you, because it’s so much fun when you find someone with the same thought rhythm.
One day I suddenly had a flash inside. Nobody could know what I am thinking, nobody could know what I am thinking, and nobody could know what I am thinking. It’s so individually individual. It helps me to understand how two people who have been in the exact same situation can still perceive it completely different. When each of them later recalls the situation in question the individual quality of the recollection process itself has turned the remaining abilities is the characteristics of the original impression. Once a suspicion has taken root it’s extremely difficult to get rid of.
There may be a way to get around this by turning back time to backcasting. Here it goes. Imagine all things to be in five years and position yourself there and then look back. Now try to figure out how you arrived there. Make a timetable, note down intermediate goals, deadlines before and after relationships and so on.
Many people have a remarkably difficult time making their visions concrete if they have to look ahead. I like to stand there in the future and look back in the rearview mirror, it works much better. You just have to start by pretending that we’re already there. Problems seen in the rearview mirror have merely the overwhelming significance that might have when we look back forward. Backcasting may become smaller, we see things in the rearview mirror the way we usually do when remembering. On the contrary, many of us have recollections that diminish the problems, which in spite of everything must have existed.
What if we already had taken the city, and then what will we use it for? The choice of an assault strategy seems to preoccupy all the thoughts of the attackers until someone steps forward and says what if we already had taken the city then what would we use it for? To achieve a specific goal, it pays to make an attempt to see with the eyes you imagine you might have after you have reached that goal. It is the time you spend on your rose that makes your rose so important.
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© 1999 by Bodil Jonsson
To take the first step you have to start getting used to thoughts about time other than such depressing statements as I just don’t have enough time, there is no time or I don’t know how I am going to find the time.
Consider the familiar all kind of wallets for holding money with the slot for your dollar bills. Then imagine there is another slot for the people around you, for the closest to you and for the other people in your life. The third slot is for the rest of your surroundings made up of the environment, nature and work. Finally there is a slot for what exists inside you, your thoughts and feelings. You will then see that an astonishingly large share of both individual and communal efforts is placed in the money slots.
The panic about what am I supposed to be doing, what am I forgetting and the anxiously murmured but, but, but, empty, empty, empty, what now faded away little by little. A preliminary stage to this collapse is that the more balls I add the longer it takes me to think and act. Maybe what we need sometime is to be a little bored. We need to let our thought age a bit before it can be processed in those parts of ourselves deep inside where we have no possibility of exercising control. I think we better stick to two types of time and distinguish between them - personal or experienced time and clock actually atomic time.
Some things can be done much better not only without interruptions but also after a certain set-up time. We should make use of the set-up time invested in focusing your thoughts. I divide tasks into the following categories. Easy and fun, easy and boring, difficult and fun, difficult and boring. It’s tempting to start with some of the easy ones. Everything would be fine if we had unlimited time but the result of the process described above is that we usually don’t even get to the difficult tasks. Only the nice and easy things get done is because we can’t make it through the unproductive set-up time preceding them. It’s more like set-up time anxiety. It takes a strong sense of awareness to prioritize and then make it through the set-up time required for a difficult task. I think the biggest responsibility of the younger generation should be to develop new ways of thinking and to show what happens when you start off with the completely new premise. You have to decide either that you have plenty of time or that you don’t have enough time. There is no middle ground.
The fact is that when I started telling myself that I had plenty of time and even started out loud I actually began to have more time. The first will have to do with safeguarding my set-up time and by taking it into consideration and advancing by planning for it. The second will have to do with not dividing my life into too many small pieces. Explain to yourself that there really is a difference between divided and undivided time. All trend breakers have at least one thing in common; they arouse strong feeling.
What makes me prefer both snail mail and e-mail over phone conversations is that I get to have my own time now relatively undisturbed. We count hours rather than kilometers now.
In his memoirs Bertrand Russell described what made life worth living for him - the search for knowledge a longing for love and empathy with those who are suffering. This outward attitude has to come when the child is ready and able to embrace it. The inner-dream life may be helpful and necessary for a while. It’s conducive to learning and tends to do good things as conducive to friendships.
It’s more common for us to be struck by the feeling that time is running way from us than by the feeling that the year has become longer. Human beings are on their ways to describing, reshaping and creating life. Human beings are on the way to making the boundary between life and death less distinct. Human beings are on their way to uncovering some of the mysteries of learning. Over the course of only a few years fundamental human ideas may be changed in a way that will affect everyone’s daily life.
It’s fascinating to meet people whose rhythms agree with your own. If the rhythms match your generosity in terms of putting up with each other can be almost unlimited. If the rhythms don’t match even the most trivial things can irritate you, because it’s so much fun when you find someone with the same thought rhythm.
One day I suddenly had a flash inside. Nobody could know what I am thinking, nobody could know what I am thinking, and nobody could know what I am thinking. It’s so individually individual. It helps me to understand how two people who have been in the exact same situation can still perceive it completely different. When each of them later recalls the situation in question the individual quality of the recollection process itself has turned the remaining abilities is the characteristics of the original impression. Once a suspicion has taken root it’s extremely difficult to get rid of.
There may be a way to get around this by turning back time to backcasting. Here it goes. Imagine all things to be in five years and position yourself there and then look back. Now try to figure out how you arrived there. Make a timetable, note down intermediate goals, deadlines before and after relationships and so on.
Many people have a remarkably difficult time making their visions concrete if they have to look ahead. I like to stand there in the future and look back in the rearview mirror, it works much better. You just have to start by pretending that we’re already there. Problems seen in the rearview mirror have merely the overwhelming significance that might have when we look back forward. Backcasting may become smaller, we see things in the rearview mirror the way we usually do when remembering. On the contrary, many of us have recollections that diminish the problems, which in spite of everything must have existed.
What if we already had taken the city, and then what will we use it for? The choice of an assault strategy seems to preoccupy all the thoughts of the attackers until someone steps forward and says what if we already had taken the city then what would we use it for? To achieve a specific goal, it pays to make an attempt to see with the eyes you imagine you might have after you have reached that goal. It is the time you spend on your rose that makes your rose so important.
Amazon: http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0156007606
The New Manufacturing Challenge
The New Manufacturing Challenge
© 1987 by Kiyoshi Suzaki
Eliminate waste in the factory - temporary storage, carrying heavy work pieces, counting the number of parts, keypunching information, watching the machine run, transferring parts over a long distance, overproduction and double handling.
Waste is anything other than the minimum amount of X which is absolutely essential to add value to the product.
95% of the time, the material in the factory is not being processed.
Seven wastes:
1. Waste from overproduction
2. Waste of waiting time
3. Transportation waste
4. Processing waste
5. Inventory waste
6. Waste of motion
7. Waste from product defects
Operators at each stage of production should think of the next process as their "customer".
Overproduction leads to extra inventory, extra space, extra handling, extra machinery, extra defects, extra people, and extra overhead.
Dispose of obsolete materials: housekeeping/workplace organization. Do not produce items not required by the subsequent process. Manufacture products in small lots.
Whatever time is not spent in adding value to the product should be eliminated as much as possible. Simplify, combine, eliminate. Watching a machine run does not add value to a product.
Unnecessary clutter should be avoided. Cut production lead time and transportation time, reduce setup time and decrease production batch sizes. Achieving quick setup is essential.
Separate the work that must be done while the machine is stopped (internal setup) from work that can be done while the machine is in operation. Reduce internal setup by doing more work externally. Reduce internal setup by eliminating adjustments, simplifying attachments and detachments. Parallel operations tend to develop a spirit of teamwork as well. Standardize components, parts and raw materials.
Scrutinize the layout, and the use of machines in our factories. Product flow, it assumes the material will not be stagnant at any point in time from the receiving of raw material to the shipping of finished products. On-demand utilization factor means that machinery is ready for usage every time you go to use the machine - no waiting.
Autonomous control (Jidoka) means adding "intelligent features to machines to start or stop operations as needed and emit signals for operators when necessary.
By putting man's intelligence into machines, operators can be separated from machine operation. Management by sight, or visual control. Ensure quality at the source, the longer the delay in discovering a problem, the higher the cost of recovery. Prevent defects at the source and not to deliver a defective product to the next process.
Tools should be stored in standard locations. Use charts to communicate quality data and prevent machine breakdowns.
Kanban is a display card in Japanese for production control tools. Use Kanban sequence table to prioritize work, product type, priority, green, yellow, red. If the next process is not ready to receive the materials, there should be no transportation.
What can I do to help you to make you job easier?
Challenge conventional beliefs, bias toward experimentation, tolerance for failure, trust, teamwork, flexibility, discipline.
1922: Henry Ford: Thinking always ahead, thinking always of trying to do more, brings a state of mind in which nothing is impossible. The moment one gets into the expert state of mind a great number of things becomes impossible.
1970: Taiichi Ohno: By actually trying, various problems became known.
Amazon: http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0029320402
© 1987 by Kiyoshi Suzaki
Eliminate waste in the factory - temporary storage, carrying heavy work pieces, counting the number of parts, keypunching information, watching the machine run, transferring parts over a long distance, overproduction and double handling.
Waste is anything other than the minimum amount of X which is absolutely essential to add value to the product.
95% of the time, the material in the factory is not being processed.
Seven wastes:
1. Waste from overproduction
2. Waste of waiting time
3. Transportation waste
4. Processing waste
5. Inventory waste
6. Waste of motion
7. Waste from product defects
Operators at each stage of production should think of the next process as their "customer".
Overproduction leads to extra inventory, extra space, extra handling, extra machinery, extra defects, extra people, and extra overhead.
Dispose of obsolete materials: housekeeping/workplace organization. Do not produce items not required by the subsequent process. Manufacture products in small lots.
Whatever time is not spent in adding value to the product should be eliminated as much as possible. Simplify, combine, eliminate. Watching a machine run does not add value to a product.
Unnecessary clutter should be avoided. Cut production lead time and transportation time, reduce setup time and decrease production batch sizes. Achieving quick setup is essential.
Separate the work that must be done while the machine is stopped (internal setup) from work that can be done while the machine is in operation. Reduce internal setup by doing more work externally. Reduce internal setup by eliminating adjustments, simplifying attachments and detachments. Parallel operations tend to develop a spirit of teamwork as well. Standardize components, parts and raw materials.
Scrutinize the layout, and the use of machines in our factories. Product flow, it assumes the material will not be stagnant at any point in time from the receiving of raw material to the shipping of finished products. On-demand utilization factor means that machinery is ready for usage every time you go to use the machine - no waiting.
Autonomous control (Jidoka) means adding "intelligent features to machines to start or stop operations as needed and emit signals for operators when necessary.
By putting man's intelligence into machines, operators can be separated from machine operation. Management by sight, or visual control. Ensure quality at the source, the longer the delay in discovering a problem, the higher the cost of recovery. Prevent defects at the source and not to deliver a defective product to the next process.
Tools should be stored in standard locations. Use charts to communicate quality data and prevent machine breakdowns.
Kanban is a display card in Japanese for production control tools. Use Kanban sequence table to prioritize work, product type, priority, green, yellow, red. If the next process is not ready to receive the materials, there should be no transportation.
What can I do to help you to make you job easier?
Challenge conventional beliefs, bias toward experimentation, tolerance for failure, trust, teamwork, flexibility, discipline.
1922: Henry Ford: Thinking always ahead, thinking always of trying to do more, brings a state of mind in which nothing is impossible. The moment one gets into the expert state of mind a great number of things becomes impossible.
1970: Taiichi Ohno: By actually trying, various problems became known.
Amazon: http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0029320402
Pour Your Heart Into It: How Starbucks Built a Company One Cup at a Time
Pour Your Heart Into It: How Starbucks Built a Company One Cup at a Time
© Copyright 1997 Howard Schultz and Dori Jones Yang – book
Passion
Pour your heart into your work and you can achieve dreams others may think impossible.
This is the story of the growth of Starbucks by Howard Schultz, CEO of Starbucks and the main driver of the growth of the business.
Notes and excerpts from book:
Care more than others think wise. Risk more than others think safe. Dream more than others think practical. Expect more than others think possible.
The key is heart. I pour my heart into every cup of coffee, and so do my partners at Starbucks. When customers sense that, they respond in kind. If you pour your heart into your work, or into any worthy enterprise, you can achieve dreams others may think impossible.
My mother gave him tremendous confidence. Over and over, she would put powerful models in front of me, pointing out individuals who had made something of their lives and insisting that I, too, could achieve anything I set my heart on. She encouraged me to challenge myself, to place myself in situations that weren’t comfortable, so that I could learn to overcome adversity. She willed us to succeed.
I’d encourage everyone to dream big, lay your foundations well, absorb information like a sponge, and not be afraid to defy conventional wisdom. Just because it hasn’t been done before doesn’t mean you shouldn’t try it.
He had a job at Xerox and did cold calls in New York City. In 1981 he noticed a retailer in Seattle placing unusually large orders for a certain type of drip coffeemaker. He said to his wife: “I’m going to see this company. I want to know what’s going on out there.”
The original founders of Seattle did not aspire to build a business empire. They founded Starbucks for one reason: they loved coffee and tea and wanted Seattle to have access to the best. In 1970 they decided to open a coffee store in Seattle.
Every company must stand for something. You don’t just give your customers what they ask for. Give them something they’re not accustomed to and you can create a sense of discovery and excitement and loyalty that will bond them to you.
I believe in destiny. In Yiddish, they call it “bashert.”
When I first asked for a job with Starbucks, they turned me down. What would have happened had I just accepted his decision? So many times, I have been told it can’t be done. Again and again, I’ve had to use every ounce of perseverance and persuasion to summon to make things happen. Life is a series of near misses. But a lot of what we ascribe to luck is not luck at all. It’s seizing the day and accepting responsibility for your future. It’s seeing what other people don’t see, and pursuing that vision, no matter who tells you not to.
In 1983 I went to Milan and discovered Italian coffeehouses. But I felt the unexpressed demand for romance and community.
Whenever you see a successful business, someone once made a courageous decision – Peter Drucker.
Gordon and I visited over 400 espresso bars in Italy and took pictures and video.
His first angel investor was Ron – “It appears to me that people who succeed have an incredible drive to do something. They spend the energy to take the gamble. In this world, relatively few people are willing to take a large gamble.”
He raised $400,000 in first round. In the course of the year, he spoke to 242 people to raise money and 217 of them said “No.”
If you ask any of those investors today why they took the risk, almost all of them will tell you that they invested in me, not in my idea. Those initial investors ended up earning a one hundred to one return on their investment.
The single most important thing you do at work each day is communicate your values to others, especially new hires.
If I sense that a person lacks integrity or principles, I cut off any dealings with him. In the long run, it’s not worth it.
If you want to build a great enterprise, you have to have the courage to dream great dreams.
He was walking around Chicago and said to his friend “Jack, five years from now, every one of these people is going to be walking around holding a Starbucks cup.” He looked at me and laughed and said “You’re crazy.” But I could just see it.
Starbucks offers a taste of romance, an affordable luxury, an oasis, casual social interaction.
Stock options were first granted in 1991. Each partner was awarded stock options worth 12 percent of base salary. A partner earning $20,000, for example, would be given $2,400 worth of stock options. They could vest and cash-in 20% per year for 5 years. The grant was increased to 14% of base pay. So each year the partner remains at Starbucks, he or she receives another 14 percent of his or her salary, awarded at the stock price. Someone making $20,000 in 1991 would have been able to cash in his 1991 options alone for $50,000 five years later.
What we did was to try to figure out how big we wanted to be in two years and hire experienced executives who had already built and managed companies of that size. A year after we raised 3.8 mil we raised 3.9 mil and in 1990 13.5 mil of venture money and then 15 mil of venture before going public in 1992.
I was badly in need of a mentor.
To any entrepreneur, once you have figured out what you want to do, find someone who has done it before.
I hired you because you’re smarter than I am. Now go and prove it.
Howard established tradition of sending birthday cards and starting-date anniversary cards to every Starbucks partner.
We never set out to build a brand.
At Starbucks, we have a different approach. We’re creating something new. We’re expanding and defining the market. We didn’t set out to steal customers away from Folgers or Maxwell House or Hills Brothers. If people believe they share values with a company, they will stay loyal to a brand.
Don’t do things the way they have always been done. Don’t try to fit the system. If you do what’s expected of you, you’ll never accomplish more than others expect.
Exceptional leaders cultivate the Merlin-like habit of acting in the present moment as ambassadors of a radically different future, in order to imbue their organization with a breakthrough vision of what it is possible to achieve.
We have to lead with our hearts.
But if you don’t aim high, if you aim for only “good enough” or “above average” that’s precisely what you’ll get. Why bother aiming high? Far too many people don’t. So mediocrity is far too common in America and throughout the world. In the ethical vacuum of this era, people long to be inspired. They want a break from the negative noise that inundates us all. They’re not just coming for the coffee. They’re coming for the feeling they get when they’re there.
It’s about how you conduct the journey, and how big your heart is at the end of it. It takes courage. A lot of people will try to tell you it’s impractical or impossible. They’ll tell you to lower your sights. They’ll tell your business can’t be benevolent.
I’d encourage everyone to dream big, lay your foundations well, absorb information like a sponge, and not be afraid to defy conventional wisdom. Just because it hasn’t been done before doesn’t mean you shouldn’t try it.
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© Copyright 1997 Howard Schultz and Dori Jones Yang – book
Passion
Pour your heart into your work and you can achieve dreams others may think impossible.
This is the story of the growth of Starbucks by Howard Schultz, CEO of Starbucks and the main driver of the growth of the business.
Notes and excerpts from book:
Care more than others think wise. Risk more than others think safe. Dream more than others think practical. Expect more than others think possible.
The key is heart. I pour my heart into every cup of coffee, and so do my partners at Starbucks. When customers sense that, they respond in kind. If you pour your heart into your work, or into any worthy enterprise, you can achieve dreams others may think impossible.
My mother gave him tremendous confidence. Over and over, she would put powerful models in front of me, pointing out individuals who had made something of their lives and insisting that I, too, could achieve anything I set my heart on. She encouraged me to challenge myself, to place myself in situations that weren’t comfortable, so that I could learn to overcome adversity. She willed us to succeed.
I’d encourage everyone to dream big, lay your foundations well, absorb information like a sponge, and not be afraid to defy conventional wisdom. Just because it hasn’t been done before doesn’t mean you shouldn’t try it.
He had a job at Xerox and did cold calls in New York City. In 1981 he noticed a retailer in Seattle placing unusually large orders for a certain type of drip coffeemaker. He said to his wife: “I’m going to see this company. I want to know what’s going on out there.”
The original founders of Seattle did not aspire to build a business empire. They founded Starbucks for one reason: they loved coffee and tea and wanted Seattle to have access to the best. In 1970 they decided to open a coffee store in Seattle.
Every company must stand for something. You don’t just give your customers what they ask for. Give them something they’re not accustomed to and you can create a sense of discovery and excitement and loyalty that will bond them to you.
I believe in destiny. In Yiddish, they call it “bashert.”
When I first asked for a job with Starbucks, they turned me down. What would have happened had I just accepted his decision? So many times, I have been told it can’t be done. Again and again, I’ve had to use every ounce of perseverance and persuasion to summon to make things happen. Life is a series of near misses. But a lot of what we ascribe to luck is not luck at all. It’s seizing the day and accepting responsibility for your future. It’s seeing what other people don’t see, and pursuing that vision, no matter who tells you not to.
In 1983 I went to Milan and discovered Italian coffeehouses. But I felt the unexpressed demand for romance and community.
Whenever you see a successful business, someone once made a courageous decision – Peter Drucker.
Gordon and I visited over 400 espresso bars in Italy and took pictures and video.
His first angel investor was Ron – “It appears to me that people who succeed have an incredible drive to do something. They spend the energy to take the gamble. In this world, relatively few people are willing to take a large gamble.”
He raised $400,000 in first round. In the course of the year, he spoke to 242 people to raise money and 217 of them said “No.”
If you ask any of those investors today why they took the risk, almost all of them will tell you that they invested in me, not in my idea. Those initial investors ended up earning a one hundred to one return on their investment.
The single most important thing you do at work each day is communicate your values to others, especially new hires.
If I sense that a person lacks integrity or principles, I cut off any dealings with him. In the long run, it’s not worth it.
If you want to build a great enterprise, you have to have the courage to dream great dreams.
He was walking around Chicago and said to his friend “Jack, five years from now, every one of these people is going to be walking around holding a Starbucks cup.” He looked at me and laughed and said “You’re crazy.” But I could just see it.
Starbucks offers a taste of romance, an affordable luxury, an oasis, casual social interaction.
Stock options were first granted in 1991. Each partner was awarded stock options worth 12 percent of base salary. A partner earning $20,000, for example, would be given $2,400 worth of stock options. They could vest and cash-in 20% per year for 5 years. The grant was increased to 14% of base pay. So each year the partner remains at Starbucks, he or she receives another 14 percent of his or her salary, awarded at the stock price. Someone making $20,000 in 1991 would have been able to cash in his 1991 options alone for $50,000 five years later.
What we did was to try to figure out how big we wanted to be in two years and hire experienced executives who had already built and managed companies of that size. A year after we raised 3.8 mil we raised 3.9 mil and in 1990 13.5 mil of venture money and then 15 mil of venture before going public in 1992.
I was badly in need of a mentor.
To any entrepreneur, once you have figured out what you want to do, find someone who has done it before.
I hired you because you’re smarter than I am. Now go and prove it.
Howard established tradition of sending birthday cards and starting-date anniversary cards to every Starbucks partner.
We never set out to build a brand.
At Starbucks, we have a different approach. We’re creating something new. We’re expanding and defining the market. We didn’t set out to steal customers away from Folgers or Maxwell House or Hills Brothers. If people believe they share values with a company, they will stay loyal to a brand.
Don’t do things the way they have always been done. Don’t try to fit the system. If you do what’s expected of you, you’ll never accomplish more than others expect.
Exceptional leaders cultivate the Merlin-like habit of acting in the present moment as ambassadors of a radically different future, in order to imbue their organization with a breakthrough vision of what it is possible to achieve.
We have to lead with our hearts.
But if you don’t aim high, if you aim for only “good enough” or “above average” that’s precisely what you’ll get. Why bother aiming high? Far too many people don’t. So mediocrity is far too common in America and throughout the world. In the ethical vacuum of this era, people long to be inspired. They want a break from the negative noise that inundates us all. They’re not just coming for the coffee. They’re coming for the feeling they get when they’re there.
It’s about how you conduct the journey, and how big your heart is at the end of it. It takes courage. A lot of people will try to tell you it’s impractical or impossible. They’ll tell you to lower your sights. They’ll tell your business can’t be benevolent.
I’d encourage everyone to dream big, lay your foundations well, absorb information like a sponge, and not be afraid to defy conventional wisdom. Just because it hasn’t been done before doesn’t mean you shouldn’t try it.
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