Comments on: Top excuses and tactics: Why haven’t you started your own business?

By: The Digitante: The man, the myth, the legend… : The Digitante

The Digitante: The man, the myth, the legend… : The Digitante — Tue, 01 Sep 2009 03:35:30 +0000

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Fri, 31 Jul 2009 19:20:50 +0000

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By: Mike

Mike — Wed, 01 Jul 2009 04:48:57 +0000

Great stuff! Both the initial post AND all the responses.
Taking the ’starting your own business’ plunge can be terrifying. But there are tons of success stories out there. We have a bunch on our site but I think my favorite is Lisa’s. She had a Fortune 500 job but was miserable. She took a risk and found an unexpected and couldn’t be happier running her own biz.
Check it out here:
ahamoment.com/pg/moments/view/3434

Enjoy!
-Mike
mike@ahamoment.com

By: Barbara Saunders

Barbara Saunders — Tue, 02 Jun 2009 19:40:17 +0000

Your Indian engineer reminds me of a guy I once interviewed for a technical position I was filling. He was somewhere in his 50s and had a PhD in engineering. This guy had a “flat” kind of facial expression and a sort of monotone voice.

When I asked him to tell a bit of his story, he revealed that he had wanted to be an illustrator. In the span of the single sentence in which he mentioned this, the vital emotion in his face increased exponentially. He Lit Up, as they say. In the next sentence, when he said he’d decided to go to engineering grad school rather than pursuing his dream, the color and liveliness drained from his face.

I found this truly sad.

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Thu, 28 May 2009 21:45:06 +0000

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By: Non-conformism and love-oriented work resource round-up - Alan Furth — The Blog

Mon, 25 May 2009 22:12:57 +0000

[...] is Pamela Slims’ view on the top excuses people have for not starting their own business. Again, I don’t think you can discover the work you love by simply doing the exercise of [...]

By: Fresh Insights + Timeless Wisdom

Fresh Insights + Timeless Wisdom — Mon, 25 May 2009 15:49:20 +0000

Awesome title.

I will check out this book and add it to the reading list for the second edition of my book, “Seven Gems for Entrepreneurial Success.” I teach practicle principles for aspiring entrepreneurs.

For a free preview click here http://www.lulu.com/content/e-book/seven-gems-for-entrepreneurial-success/2501303

Peace, Power and Plenty

By: Alan Furth

Alan Furth — Fri, 15 May 2009 21:21:42 +0000

Woah did this post resonate with me…

“They have never chosen careers or educational paths that truly match their interests (often due to societal or family pressure) so they just feel kind of numb.”

This morning I posted an article in which I analyze this numbness from the perspective of cognitive dissonance.

My conclusion is that unless people quit the jobs they don’t love, they won’t be able to effectively discover what their true passions and interests are.

“Because working in what we don’t love and realizing it’s not a good thing causes cognitive dissonance, our brains will quickly come up with all sorts of rationalizations for eliminating the contradiction:

‘Maybe our work is not so bad after all? Shouldn’t we be grateful to at least have a job with so many people living in the streets? The pay is actually quite good… maybe I should just wait for a while?’

Besides rationalizing the status quo, our brains will effectively block us from perceiving any clear opportunities for alternative lines of fulfilling work. This would worsen the belief-behavior contradiction. This is what psychologists call the phenomenon of ‘denial of disconfirming evidence’

But by quitting the work you don’t love, you cleanly and definitively cancel the contradiction.”

So maybe for people in extreme cases the bookstore library should come after they take the more fundamental step of quitting the jobs they don’t love?

Cheers!

Alan