Time spent whilst in a positive attitude goes by as quick as if you were having fun. Yet, it is not time wasted. It is life gained.
Stay Positive and Your Attitude Indestructible
Garth E. Beyer
Author: Garth Beyer
Preparation & Expectation Reversed
Whoever said “Prepare for the worst but expect the best” was wrong, very wrong indeed.
However, something I agree with – that surely you do to – is that “Actions speak louder than words”. Wouldn’t preparing for the best, be best? Putting forth the effort and action required to prepare for something that will be in the top 10% of greatest accomplishments is what is important. You don’t want to prepare for the worst as discussed in an earlier post (Safety First: The Art Of Preparation) So why not prepare for the best but expect the worst? After all, our greatest moments of happiness arrive when something that was positively unexpected occurs. This means that when whatever you prepared for was a success, you will feel a billion times greater because you thought it wouldn’t turn out that great.
After this, it might be better to start saying that actions speak louder than thoughts too.
Stay Positive and Keep Doing Better Than Expected
Garth E. Beyer
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Safety First: The Art of Preparation
While growing up one of the biggest influences in my life was my Uncle Chuck. All I would ever hear him saying whenever we would do something together was safety first, safety first, safety first. Before we pull out in a car, before we lit fireworks, before we hiked, before we traveled, before we did anything it was safety first. This life lesson has been most prevalent in my life and I respect and admire my uncle for teaching it to me – even though it would often get annoying. Then again that just means it’s important enough to be repeated. And it was.
Knowing me, I have to improve every lesson I learn and change everything I listen to and try to incorporate it to fit my life just as you should do with everything you hear. However, this lesson I learned from my uncle of safety first has evolved itself into every aspect of my life in the form of preparation. The best process of safely succeeding and being safe if failure occurs defines preparation.
There has been no art more simplistic, straightforward and rewarding than the art of preparation.
“Let’s proclaim that art has no greater enemy than those artists who permit their art to become subservient to socio-political issues or ideals. In so doing, they not only violate art’s fundamental sovereignty, they surrender that independence from function that made it art in the first place.” – Tom Robbins
At the heart of “safety first” is preparation. At the heart of “preparation” is the transformation of oneself into an outlaw, a rebel. For the only successful artists are those who break the boundaries, status-quo and socio-pathetic expectations. Now, disaster disrupts thousands upon thousands of lives each week. What separates artists from the disaster is not preparing for the worst, but preparing for the best. Contrary to belief, in life there is always someone there to recover you when disaster strikes. The laws of the universe and connection to all things living incorporate “safety first” into all of our lives. This leads to the necessity of an interrogation that will find out why so many people prepare for the worst case scenario when the safety net has already been placed. (It is beneficial to know that the safety net is placed as long as you accept the consequence of ill preparation)
As any art form that has ever been created, there are dozens of different ways to look at it. Preparation can compensate for lack of talent. Preparation creates confidence which results in the prevention of failure and assurance of success. Positive life impacts come when preparation meets opportunity. Know safety, no pain. No safety, know pain. By failing to prepare, you prepare to fail. Confidence is preparation, everything else is beyond control.
From now on, I expect and will hold you accountable to always prepare for the best. That is all your focus should ever be on.
Stay Positive and Safety First
Garth E. Beyer
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2 Business Ideas Seeking Feedback
In this age of abnormal business ideas, if followed through correctly can attract the most attention (and revenue). Recently I have had a couple wild ideas for both a hotel business and a restaurant business. I would love to get your feedback. Let’s jump right into it.
Business Idea Number 1: Creating a new string of Hotels that will beat all competitors within 5 years
There are quite a few areas of business that are nearly impossible to create a start-up in because the competition is too completely monopolized. The hotel industry being one of them. As far back as I can recall, there are only about 5 different hotels that completely dominate. Now tell me if this idea will not raise that number to 6.
To begin, open up a few hotels whose prices would nearly consider them to be non-profit while providing the best service. While other hotels succeed by incorporating one of the three factors of a successful business: lowest price, best quality, best service, these hotels would incorporate the two easiest, cheapest and most significant of the factors. After all, you can’t complain about quality if the service is the greatest you have ever experienced in an inexpensive hotel business.
Back on subject, with the two factors of low cost and best service being incorporated from the beginning, the hotels would quickly gain attention and a reputation which leads to increased revenue. Also from the start of the business, every customer would be told to keep their key cards which they can show at any other hotel and pay the same price that they originally paid for. Every year, a new key card would be given as the price increases. This is sending the message that there will be expansion and improvements in the near future that will lead to increased prices. The focus is to hit the 3rd factor of business success – quality. As you know, quality costs more money.By notifying customers that the price will go up within a year, it motivates them to visit and pay the minimum amount while they can. This instant increase in customers would provide the money to increase the quality and price for the next year.
Imagine a single room originally cost $45 a night. By the 3rd year of business, it has now increased to $75 dollars. Those who stayed a night at the hotel during the first year of business and kept their card would still only pay $45 dollars a night. All the while, the new customers who have to pay $75 a night will be able to redeem their card next time they stay for the same price. By the fifth year of business, we could be charging the average hotel amount, if not more, for a one night stay.
The difference in revenue with other hotels would be that they have a constant value they can calculate. At this particular hotel, the profit could be within a $100 dollar range. Regardless, I guarantee by using this technique the year-end profit would be much more than a competing hotel.
What do you think?
The Second Business Idea: The Take Home Restaurant
I am sure you can connect with my hatred for taking home food from restaurants. It is never good warmed up. It either tastes different, doesn’t warm up properly or get’s all soggy by the time you warm it up. The majority of take home meals just get thrown away. So what if there was a restaurant that was specialized and based solely on providing food that when taken home can be reheated and taste just the same.
But it doesn’t just stop there.
We all know buying in bulk is cheaper. At this restaurant, any plate you order, I would guarantee you could not finish. Of course, the meal would be free if you could. Being able to buy in bulk would mean that the food could be sold cheaper to the customer as well.
What do you think of this simple restaurant idea that would only serve food that could be taken home, reheated and taste great?
Stay Positive and Criticize Please
Garth E. Beyer
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Life’s Perfect Moment
Can you recall the last time you listened to music? Specifically, do you remember a short segment of the song where the sound went shallow, nearly quiet and suddenly there was a breakdown?
You can find the use of breakdowns in all types of music: heavy screamo, flamboyant alternative music, dub step and if you listen closely, you can find the breakdowns that happen in a classical Mozart song.
If you can, I encourage you to take a moment now and play a song that you know has a very noticeable break down and try to relate how you feel during the transition. May I suggest “Action is the Anecdote” by And Then There Were None as it is the song that inspired this post.
Now, I can imagine that you will rock along with the song and as it prepares for the breakdown, you prepare as well. Since the music has nearly paused, you can feel your heart beat a couple times before the breakdown occurs. If it’s a great enough lead to a breakdown, you may even get goosebumps. As the breakdown occurs, it is as if you were just given wings. The experience involves getting built up with an extreme form of unknown emotion and anticipation that is only released when the breakdown occurs.
What does this have to do with a perfect life moment? – Everything
It’s unlikely you can recall the last time you had the same experience in a life situation because life adds an additional step you have to go through.
Let me explain, everything is going smoothly in life until it begins to dim. You start feeling slightly depressed and things aren’t going the way you want, but nothing so bad that you can’t survive. As life flat lines at a low level, a surge of anticipation begins to seep into all of your nerves and before you realize it, your life’s scale instantly shoots up and out of the ordinary.
This moment never happens.
In life, the only way you can experience a sudden burst of happy progression is after hitting bottom – not flat lining above it. The closest analogy to this is to work off the saying the harder you fall, the higher you bounce.
The following three phase process would describe life’s perfect moment. Think of the first moment as a ball falling at it’s normal rate. The second phase is like magnifying the moment before impact that seems to last a life time. The third phase is the ball suddenly springing upward without hitting the ground.
However, in life the ball must always hit the ground in order to bounce higher then one could think possible.
Life’s Perfect Moment Is the moment when times get tough, a combination of excitement and anticipation overcomes all of your senses and you know that your quality and appreciation of life will – before you can fully comprehend – it completely amaze you. Why does this not happen? Why do we have to hit bottom? Why is it the only way for us to experience life’s perfect moment is in music?
Stay Positive and Defy Gravity
Garth E. Beyer
On a side note, while I was thinking about the ball analogy I realized something of key importance. Too often people will tell you that success is getting back up when you fall down. I say that success is taking the risks that made you fall down in the first place. Cheers
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The Difference Between Paying Attention
There is one huge difference between a person who pays attention and one that does not.
- The one who does not pay attention has the excuse that it’s there first time trying something new.
- The one who does pay attention succeeds the first time trying something new and get’s labeled as a natural.
When it comes down to it, getting labeled as a natural is rather, unnatural. People fail to see that you worked hard to pay attention so that you could fulfill the task without having to be told how to do it correctly.
Successful people do not fail to pay attention.
Successful people do not give the excuse that it is their first time.
Successful people take every opportunity to watch and learn how to do something the right way before even getting their hands dirty.
Most importantly, successful people don’t give a damn that their hard work goes unnoticed.
Stay Positive and Emulate Yourself To Success
Garth E. Beyer
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The Seven Step Technique To Getting Everything You Want, Literally.
If you can, I’d love to read any evidence you may have that disclaims the statement that what you focus on expands. Of course, there are various ways to say it: Where your attention goes, energy flows. What you think, so shall it be. However you say it, this is the key to acquiring absolutely anything you want, but too many people only get half of the technique. They believe that by only focusing on something that they will attract it. Contrary to belief, to truly follow through with the technique to get everything you want you have to think about what you want in thousands of different ways. Simply focusing on it in one way will not get you what you desire. The preceding actions are the seven steps you can take to focus in on what you want in different ways. We will use a new Mac computer for the example.
“action is just another way to focus on what you want”
1. Research
Don’t only think about the item you want, get specific with it! What details do you want? How would you describe the item to someone who specializes in creating it? How do you want it? Research the type of Mac you want, gain knowledge of the computers spec’s, operation system, software, graphics card, screen dimensions, amount of RAM, what battery it uses, how much the charging device is, what extras can you buy for it… and on and on and on.
2. Visualize
Let go of that image you have of the Mac at the Apple store. Why visualize it being there? You don’t want it there! You want it on your lap right? Or on your desk? Do you have a desk for it? To use the step of visualization, you have to picture having the item in a 24 hour period. Before going to sleep, visualize in the morning where that Mac is going to be when you wake up, when will you get on it, when are you going to bring it in to the living room, how are you going to take it to work, who else will use it throughout the day, what do you need it for, what outlet will you use to charge it? Visualize, frame by frame, where and how the Mac is going to be used. Speak and act as if you already have what you want.
3. Materialize
Also known as the action step. There are two factors in the materializing step. The first is going to the Apple store and getting your hands on the Mac. Get to know it, treat it to a date, type on those keys like you are trying to serenade it. This will also help with step two since you can visualize the real thing, not just a picture of it. The second factor of materialization is to begin taking action on what you can do to get the Mac. Do you need to work over time? Do you have money saved? This is not only when you need to ask how you are going to get the Mac, but to actually take the action steps to materialize it.
4. Ask questions
This is likely the easiest step. Begin going into the Apple store and asking about the Mac. Ask what others think about it. Surround yourself with questions and answers about what you desire.
5. Communicate
Talk with your loved ones and announce your desire. Share with everyone you meet that you will soon be getting a Mac. You will be surprised, that no matter what item it is you want, there will always be someone who has something to talk to you about it. They say actions speak louder than words, but actions still mean little without words to back them up. A person who goes and buys the Mac may be viewed as an impulse consumer, one that doesn’t think things through. A person who talks about going to buy a Mac and how they have asked questions about it, took action steps, visualized it, and researched it can only be envied and respected.
6. Plan
This step is simply put in for you to get excited. After attaining the first 5 steps, the 7th follows instinctively. But it’s worth shaking things up and creating for yourself the most happiness possible. Get yourself worked up that you will go get your Mac next Saturday at 6:30pm with your best friend. Hold out on yourself for a couple days to get yourself truly worked up and ecstatic about acquiring the Mac.
7. Attain
Most often, you will not have to take this step. It takes itself for you because you have already taken every thought and action possible to get yourself a Mac.
Now that you got your Mac, what’s next? 1981 Corvette T-Top? That lake-view home you noticed last week? There is nothing too big or too small that this 7 step process of manifesting can’t give you. Possibilities are endless
Stay Positive and I Always Like To Follow Up With A 2-step. Who Says You Can’t Celebrate With A Little Private Dance?
Garth E. Beyer
