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Taking it to the next level… whaaaat? – Part One

posted in: entrepreneur, money matters, personal growth, self-discipline - 5 Comments

12:01 am 12:01 am

With everyone talking about taking it to the next level, how about some help?

What does it mean to get to the next level?

What do I do to get there?

Horizontal Level

We typically grow along a horizontal level. By that I mean most of our growth takes place along the same dimension. For instance, we may graduate from owning a small house to owning a larger home. We may learn how to drive a small car then grow into driving an SUV or  a semi. Or… maybe we grow our sales figures from $100,000 to $1,000,000. These examples all represent growth along a horizontal level. To grow along a horizontal level you need to apply hard work and possibly a change in your skill set.

Dimensional Level

Here’s where it really gets interesting. A dimensional shift occurs when a new mindset is needed in order to grow. You shift when you break the existing rules in your life. Examples might include going from being a tenant to being a homeowner; going from homeowner to landlord; employee to manager; manager to business owner; no children to first child; follower to leader. In each of these cases to successfully make the shift you must change your mindset. To get to a new level dimensionally can not be accomplished by hard work or new skills alone.

In part two of this series, I want to talk about how to identify the type of shift you need to make. Stay tuned!

What’s your experience with horizontal or dimensional shifts? Let’s talk.

Money, money, money…..money!

posted in: generosity, money matters, ramblings - 4 Comments

8:00 am 8:00 am

Contest Results

In appreciate for all the people who helped me with my site tweaking, I just made a $25 loan to an entrepreneur named Firangiz Salimova in Azerbaijan. Together we have now made loans to six entrepreneurs in six different countries. Give yourselves a hand!!!

I also promised to give out two kiva.org gift certificates to the most helpful reviewers.

the ENVELOPE please… and the winners are:

“Jonathan at smartwealthyrich.com and Liz at successful-blog.com”

Thanks to everyone who gave me feedback on the site.

Even though the contest is now over, I would still appreciate any thoughts you might have about the site design and layout. I’m listening!

daveolson.ca is giving away money!

posted in: generosity, money matters - 7 Comments

10:00 am 10:00 am

Today is help someone help someone else day!

Last week we ran a successful experiment to do something for someone else. I learned something really important about generosity. Some people want to be generous but they don’t have the resources. I’ve been thinking about it all week and I have an idea.

Here’s my plan:

I’m going to give away two (that’s right two) $25 gift certificates for kiva.org. You can use the gift certificate to help out whatever entrepreneur you want. And when they have paid the loan back, you can lend it out again or keep it for yourself. (bet you won’t be able to keep it) :smile:

As an added incentive I’m also going to set aside $5 for each person who participates in this project. Whenever there is $25 earned, I’ll lend it to an entrepreneur at Kiva.org.

Okay now the rules:

Help me improve my site

Now you already know that I’m not big on site reviews. I completely agree with Bri on that one. However I do want your feedback so I’m asking you to leave a comment with a constructive review. Anything you can do to help promote this project would be awesome. If you have a blog and you want to write a review on your site and link back to me, that would be great too. I always appreciate the linkbacks as we all do in the blogosphere. I guess we just like people talking about us. :grin:

Let me know what’s good about the layout? What’s bad about the layout? What about the content, accessibility etc? Do you like the colours and graphics or not? What do you suggest I change?

The experiment is going to run for two weeks until the 26th of April. So late that night I’m going to choose two reviews that are the most helpful and I will award the gift certificates. And of course I’ll contribute to Kiva every time there are five new eligible comments.

Looking forward to your help! Join in.