Worked on video podcasting technical stuff today. I’m currently working on getting iTunes feeds in place for my podcasts. I want to maximize this, so I’m taking the time to get everything done right and create compelling descriptive information for each podcast. I also found out that my latest video podcast episodes, here & here, are too high definition for a lot of people’s computer processors to handle playing straight from my website. This really sucks and I will have to figure out what I want to do to resolve this soon, because I want people to be able to watch my video podcasts without problems, but I also want quality without having to embed third party players.
Also, tonight, a friend encouraged & inspired me to write out a statement of what I’m looking for in an amazing girlfriend, or what I call my “rebel girlfriend”. This exercise proved to be extremely awesome & pleasurable. I’m very glad she brought it up to me tonight in the way that she did. My marketing training & self-knowledge really helped me write out an influential statement that nails exactly what I want that would light me up and fulfill me like crazy. So good. 
I think I’m in a mindset these days to continue engaging in militant productivity as well as my desires, which is the best of both worlds. 
Friday @ 3:43am ET – People who don’t strategically invoke and play with their emotions do not know what they are missing.
I’ve decided that as of today, May 1st, 2010, I will now publicly commit myself to consistently perform on creating content through my personal brand, OR ELSE! I’ve been creating content online, relating to my passions & interests, for over 5 years now. My own lack of diligence with this has caused me to be very inconsistent here. Between today, May 1st, 2010, and January 1st, 2011, I will consistently create content through my personal brand or else I will publicly post a video where I share my views on an embarrassing topic here on brianwatkins.com for the entire world to see. The key objective, beyond the production of content itself, is for me to establish the habit & pattern of diligence to consistently create content throughout the future of my life. I need to do this in order to get myself out there so that I can ultimately better create awesome connection & community with my types of people. This is going to be challenging & rewarding for me and I invite you to personally join me in this journey as I put myself out there more & more!
Other people’s money (OPM) is one of the most fundamental sources of OP Leverage that can be consistently utilized for massive financial profit. The more money you have access to for building wealth, the more leverage you have in building your net worth and purchasing power. I 100% believe in leveraging other people’s money. In fact, I would almost make it a sin to never utilize other people’s money. Other people’s money is a financing tool. It can enable you to take on ventures and investments otherwise out of your reach. It can turn an average yielding asset into a homerun. Remember that, fundamentally, there is always cost to taking OPM and that it is virtually always wise to do so if you can consistently outperform those costs.
As an entrepreneur, are you ready for the massive internet business tidal wave that is coming? I believe that the internet is going to revolutionize many industries of traditional business throughout the next couple to few decades. I believe that the primary thing that this coming tidal wave can be attributed to is the recent social media revolution that has occurred within the past few years. It will become the norm for most people to have a business or side project of their own, largely via the web, with economic earning potential. There are a few fundamental things that will likely cause this paradigm shift to progress and eventually achieve mass scale. Even though this shift may ultimately be more of a challenging environment to traditional professional entrepreneurs, like me, I definitely invite it to happen since it is good for humanity at large. I look forward to this paradigm shift in business and am going to work to position myself to support as many of these new wave entrepreneurs as I can.
Once you identify a potential opportunity in life within the realm of “If I do X, then I will likely get Y.”, the next thing you have to do is gauge how likely it is that you will actually do X consistently & effectively enough. This can be summed up in the mindset & questioning of “Will I?” The point here is that knowing whether you have the capability & will to actually execute to a consistent & effective enough degree, is extremely important. Knowing this gives you greater strategic options, if you find that it is uncertain or doubtful that you will actually execute according to your plan. If you have meaningful uncertainty or doubt in your ability to implement well enough, as prescribed by your plan, then you may want to consider some alternative strategic options at this point. The range of options typically falls within a scale of Outright Quitting to Building Capability to Producing Results. Being accurately aware of your real world present capability to implement consistently & effectively enough, relative to your solid plan, is often further enabling than leaving this fundamental variable unknown and unmanaged.
I’ve observed a consistent pattern in people, including personally with myself, that, as one’s expertise increases in any subject matter, they primarily utilize technical qualifications of ideas and opportunities. The less expertise that one holds in a matter of life, the less they will qualify ideas and opportunities on a basis of technical variables. Instead, rookies buy much more into ideas and opportunities based much more on the general vision of what is proposed. I would say that it is true that pros do have better averages of success than rookies, overall, when it comes to buying into what they believe to be good ideas or opportunities in life. Each individual instance is unique and any rookie can be much more capable and successful than any pro. So what are you, a rookie or a pro? The truth is that virtually all of us are both rookies and pros. So tell me… What are you a rookie or pro at in life?
