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“Mark my words, if you want to stay competitive in the coming years – I don’t care if you’re in sales, tech, finance, publishing, journalism, event planning, business development, retail, real estate, you name it – you will still need to develop and grow your personal brand . Everyone-EVERYONE-needs to start thinking of themselves as a brand. It is no longer an option; it is a necessity. “   Gary Vaynerchuk, Crush It

Lana Kravsova, Daring Clarity

If Facebook was a country it would be the 4th largest country in the world. Youtube is the second largest search engine after Google. Twitter, Linkedin, Tumblr, Flickr… What are those social networks all about?

Personal brands.

We live in the era of personal brands.

Your personal brand is what sells your services, gets you hired, helps you develop relationships. Your personal brand is what makes your business recognizable and sets it apart from others.

Here is where a lot of people get stuck. Everyone tells you that you have to create a unique and compelling brand. And you probably have been thinking long and hard what your brand is all about and how you can make it unique and different.

Let me tell you the truth that you already know.

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Why Investing In Yourself?

We talked so far about “how to invest in yourself” but we didn’t talk about the “why?”. So, here we go: why investing in yourself?

Because, in the end, you’re the only one controlling your reality. The more you invest in yourself, the more independence and power you gain. And the more independent you are, the faster you’ll be able to cope with any change in your reality.

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“Your most expensive advice is the free advice you receive from your financially struggling friends or relatives.”~ Robert Kiyosaki.

“When your vocation becomes your vacation, there is no such thing as hard work.” ~Jimmy Smith

“A woman is like a teabag. You never know how strong she is until you put her in hot water.” ~Eleanor Roosevelt

My best advice: win little battles. Get in the habit of winning, of shipping, of having customers that can’t live without you. Once you’ve demonstrated you know how to do the art, then go after the windmills. ~Seth Godin

“You can only become truly accomplished at something you love. Don’t make money your goal. Instead, pursue the things you love doing, and
then do them so well that people can’t take their eyes off you.” ~ Maya Angelou

I can’t change the direction of the wind, but I can adjust my sails to always reach my destination. ~Jimmy Dean

Author: Steven Aitchison

The world is changing as you read these words and it seems the rate of change is getting faster all the time.  It seems everyone is able to change an aspect of their life with ease and yet some of us might find it difficult to change some aspect of our life – why is that?

There are many reasons we want to change in some way: to get more money in our jobs, to feel loved and start a new relationship, to feel good about ourselves and lose weight, to be part of something and join a club, to move home to accommodate our family, to start a new business to escape ‘cubicle nation’.  These are only a fraction of the aspects of our lives in which we are looking to change.

The top three reasons why people find it difficult to change

• We don’t know what we want
• We don’t know how to make the change
• Fear of the unknown

Here’s a few typical scenarios:

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“The human brain contains 15-33 billion neurons; do not tell yourself that you are not creative”

Author John Chukwuma Anyasor, the creator of HiLife2B, where he hopes to inspire people and to help them achieve their dreams. Follow him on Twitter: @CJAnyasor

1. Believe that even the smallest compliment can save someone’s life

2. Remember that one person can change an entire nation

3. Understand that kids are smarter than we make them out to be

4. Just because old people are old, doesn’t mean they’ve lost their youth

5. Talent can be found under the dirtiest rock or in the most hopeless slum

6. Just because someone is poor in wealth doesn’t mean they are poor in spirit

7. Poverty is the greatest gift you can give a person. It is only then that they will have a choice to either become valuable or die as a quitter

8. Let the naysayers say nay and allow the criticizers to criticize: in the end you will have found greater happiness having pursued your dream

9. If a baby can smile living off of only breast milk and a mother’s love, you can smile too

10. The prettiest people can do the ugliest things

11. You are no different than the squirrel on that branch. You both eat a lot, hibernate for the winter, and have a tendency to be curious of humankind

12. From the CEO of a major corporation to the lowly janitor who sweeps where his boss stands; they are all insecure

13. To be creative is the most valuable thing in the world; don’t let anyone tell you otherwise

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“Busy does not equal important. Measured doesn’t mean mattered.” – Seth Godin

There’s a hidden message in this post – it’s your free prize inside.  Whether you find the free prize or not, this post will make you think.  About your life.  About work.  About just about everything.  Why?  Because it’s a distillation of lessons from a man named Seth.  Seth Godin is an author, an agent of change, a meaning maker, and an Idea Merchant.

Top 10 Seth Godin Quotes:

• “Expectations are the engines of our perceptions.”
• “Ideas in secret die. They need light and air or they starve to death.”
• “Go ahead, do something impossible. “
• “You can’t shrink your way to greatness! “
• “I don’t know what the key to success is, but the key to failure is trying to please everyone.”
• “Instead of wondering when your next vacation is, you ought to set up a life you don’t need to escape from.”
• “Why waste a sentence saying nothing? “
• “If you could do tomorrow over again, would you?”
• “Change is not a threat, it’s an opportunity. Survival is not the goal, transformative success is.”
• “Are you a serial idea-starting person? The goal is to be an idea-shipping person.”

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By: Dan Schawbel

Glen Allsopp built his first website at the age of 15 and be 16, one of his websites was featured in a book called “Dj’ing for Dummies.” At 17, he was making thousands of dollars per month offering internet marketing services and by 18, he became a Social Media Manager for brands such as Nissan, Land Rover and Hewlett Packard. At age 19, he quit his jbo to work on his own websites and projects, and at 20 he sold the 10th biggest personal development blog in the world for a mid-five-figure fee. Right now he’s traveling the globe making a five-figure monthly income from his affiliate websites. Glen blogs at ViperChill.com.

“As a side-note to the parents reading this: if your child (or young adult son) is really passionate about something and wants to go for it, please give them all of the support you can. Even if they make mistakes, they’ll learn so much along the way.“

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You don’t like your life? Change it! Change your life for the better! Don’t have any clue on how to do it? Here’s a list of 100 ways in which you can improve your life.

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Atlanta photographer Alex Koloskov

Photographed by Alex Koloskov

Great emotional speech by Gary Vaynerchuk
Gary Vaynerchuk delivered this passionate and powerful speech at FOWA London 09 and it rocked the house. If you need a bit of inspiration (and a slight kick in the ass) don’t miss this one.

Warning: Strong language.
Gary Vaynerchuk has captured attention with his pioneering, multi-faceted approach to personal branding and business. After primarily utilizing traditional advertising techniques to build his family’s local wine business into a national industry leader, Gary rapidly leveraged social media tools such as Twitter and Facebook to promote Wine Library TV, his video blog about wine. As his viewership swelled to over 80,000 a day, doors opened to a book deal, several national TV appearances, and a flurry of speaking engagements around the world.

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Written by Lana Kravtsova from daringclarity.com for The Entrepreneur School

If Facebook was a country it would be the 4th largest country in the world. Youtube is the second largest search engine after Google. Twitter, Linkedin, Tumblr, Flickr… What are those social networks all about?

Personal brands.

We live in the era of personal brands.

Your personal brand is what sells your services, gets you hired, helps you develop relationships. Your personal brand is what makes your business recognizable and sets it apart from others.

Here is where a lot of people get stuck. Everyone tells you that you have to create a brand. And you probably have been thinking long and hard what your brand is all about and how you can make it unique and different.

Let me shine the light on this mystery for you.

You don’t need to create a brand. You don’t need to come up with anything unique and different.

Know why?

Because you ARE a brand already.

And this brand of YOU is as unique as it can get. You can try long and hard but you won’t find anything more unique than YOU. You are one of a kind. Don’t look any further.

All you really need to do is embrace your DNA, get clear on your core message and learn to clearly communicate that message to the world.

That’s what authentic branding is all about. And authentic brands are the ones that crush it.

So here are the steps you should follow:

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