LAW XII - The Law of the Appointment

A close friend of mine recently hit me up on the AIM with a simple, "only 16 days"?

I didn't know what the hell he was talking about so I responded with a smart remark. Of course...

-"16 days and no new LAW"?

I've been so consumed with work coupled with the fact that I've just relocated to Prescott, Arizona that I just haven't felt like my normal self. I haven't been feeling the force. This feeling came about last week when I got back from my trip to California. I was out there for a week taking care of a bunch of stuff re: our new office in Santa Monica.

Honestly, I felt like shit. I was tired from all the hustle in LA, stressed out because I hadn't worked out and just wasn't feeling "it". I didn't have wireless at the place we were staying at so when I got back home I was basically under water with work.

Last Wednesday I told myself to snap the hell out of it and I hit the gym pretty hard. I felt better but still wasn't right. The next night when I was running on the treadmill I was trying to figure out what could be wrong when mid stride and mid wolfmother lyric (of course I rock the iPod while pummeling the treadmill) it came to me.

I haven't been taking time for myself. When I first got into sales I used to drive to work in the mornings listening to sales tapes to get fired up. I'd listen to Zig Ziglar, Tom Hopkins, Brian Tracy, Tony Robbins, basically anything I could get my hands on. I was thirsty, I was hungry, I was fired the hell up is what I was... :) Anyhow... there was one part of a Tony Robbins CD set that really stuck with me. I believe the lesson was on Peak Performance and how to live your life at a level 10 (basically pedal to the metal with your arm out the window dropping hammers at the passerby's type of living).

He was talking about the most important appointment of anyones day is the appointment that you make with yourself. Of course, I didn't get it initially but as Tony went on it became more apparent. Tony explains that in this 15 - 30 minute appointment, however much time you can spend, you take a break from everything going on around you to think, to visualize, to read, to put yourself in a state of personal growth.

Think about what you are trying to achieve and why you are working so hard. Remind yourself why you are sacrificing time and energy every day. Visualize where you want to be and what you want to be doing once you've hit your goal. Read books that help to develop your mind to prepare you for obstacles that haven't arrived yet. Put yourself in a state of daily growth where everyday you are improving a little bit whether it be with clearer vision or with new found knowledge from a book related to what you are about to go through.

OF COURSE... I know you know that we all know these things. Anyone reading a blog about the 21 laws of force knows about these fundamental strategies. But we all have to be honest with ourselves. It has been a long time since I've practiced these personal growth fundamentals. I do know one thing; when I was rocking as a green horn sales rep I hammered every sales goal that was put in front of me. I was reading a new book every month, working out every day and had pictures of all the things I wanted up on my walls to remind me of what I was trying to achieve.

That being said; you bet your ass I went on Amazon.com and ordered some new books.

"Leadership Secrets of the World's Most Successful CEO's" - Eric Yaverbaum
"The Art of Project Management" - Scott Berkum
"The 360 Degree Leader" - John C. Maxwell
"Fundamentals of Technology Project Management" - Colleen Garton

Long blog post short: LAW XII - The Law of the Appointment is a law that must be practiced every day.

That's the thing with these books, they don't seem like much fun til you start practicing what you read. ;)

LAW XI - The Law of Dropping the Hammer

After bearing witness to the largest Acquistion that Google has ever made, I was inspired to publish a new law for the 21 irrefutable laws of force. I even posted on my CKMG blog about the event today.

Steve Chen and Chad Hurley started their company YouTube a little over 20 months ago in Chad's garage. They were running their company on credit card debt up until the time when they secured venture capital funding. To keep things slim they have been running their 65 person team in an office space above a pizzeria.

>>> Fast foward to October 9th, 2006.



This is the Law of Dropping the Hammer...

This was a great move for all parties involved. YouTube has become one of the stickiest sites on the web. There are people that spends hours viewing user generated clips. People are spending more time on this site than they are watching TV.

YouTooble is going to drop some serious advertising hammers on the networks and the networks will be out of their minds not to leverage YouTooble's readership to promote new programs, movies, etc...

Ahhh... you must love the power of great content!

Content on the Internet will continue to improve, it will continue to become more interactive and the amount of time people spend online will continue to increase. Every new page of content adds another valuable piece of organic real estate to your site. Just like every new video clip added another piece of organic real estate to YouTube.com.

The companies that truly understand this must take an aggressive posture to get positioned to reap the fruits of this explosion. It is stories like this that keep one motivated to continue building and coming up with creative approaches for ones business.

The Google Founders, Steve & Chad, and Sequoia Capital will be forever recognized as the group that inspired LAW XI, the Law of Dropping the Hammer.

They have seriously set the tone for the next 12 months. Let's see which social network is next to be scooped up by a search engine.

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