I am quite sure that we are all aware of the gadget called a computer. A computer does not think and it cannot transform itself like us human beings. A computer only takes in information that we input into it.
In today's modern world we are bombarded with news from the eNCA's (South Africa),CNN's, BBC's, France24's among others. However, have you noticed an interesting thing about news networks ?
If you take time to listen and watch them for 12 hours, you will agree with me that 99 percent of what they show us is negative. They want to show us cities that have been swept away by hurricanes, they only report on companies that have lost billions of dollars on Wall Street, they tell us how unemployment is risingand of late when they tell you how bad the recession is in the U.S. and Greece's austerity challenges, one would be forgiven to think it's impossible to run a business let alone a successful one for that matter.
Companies in the U.S. and Europe are reporting profits in billions of dollars. I posed this to a friend who is in media and his answer was that, "Don't you know that bad news sells".
There are some people who watch and listen too much to the news networks to the extent that they will not go against what was said on TV, that is why they are so afraid of venturing out and starting that businessthat could change not only their lives but the world and make it a better place. Most folks will tell you that they will start a business once everything is equal. Well I have got bad news for such folks because everything will never be equal.
What is important is for you to guard against what you read and watch because what you attract in your life is determined by what you have inside. And the quality of your life determines the quality of your decisions and the quality of your actions determine the quality of the result.
You cannot grow inside and remain static outside, no no, it just can't happen. When you grow everything around you grows. Until you change inside, nothing around you grows. So you can only grow inside because of the quality of information that is inside. Read empowering books, watch TV programmes which challenge you to raise the bar.
It does not matter whether there is a recession or not.
Do you know that that most big and successful businesses were started in a recession ??
In the United States, Federal Express Corporation began it's operations on 17 April 1973 as Federal Express, a nod to the Federal Reserve with whom Founder Frederick W.Smith had hoped to get a contract. He didn't but the company went on to deliver 186 packages to 25 cities on it's first night of operations now manages more than 7,5 million shipments everyday.
Microsoft Corporation wasn't always the jaw-dropping enterprise it is today. In 1975, when it was created by Harvard University dropout Bill Gates and his friend Paul Allen, Microsoft was just a little company in Albiquerque' N.M. It dealt in rudimentary computing languages and began it's climb to business stardom with the success of MS-DOS, which it sold and marketed to IBM Corporation and then IBM clones. Today the company is estimated to earn in excess of $100 billion in revenues per year and has branched out into new technology areas.
CNN might be a news giant now but in recession-plagued 1980, it was a little known station called The Cable News Network. It revolutionized how people receive information when it premiered as the first 24-hour all-news channel. Today 1,5 billion people across the globe watch CNN.
Do you see what I am talking about now ? Everything starts from the inside, it does not matter what the outside looks like.
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