Morning Folks!!
All you have to do is open the door
Create the opportunity
And move forward.
Rick Schwartz
Morning Folks!!
All you have to do is open the door
Create the opportunity
And move forward.
Rick Schwartz
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Morning Folks!!
My mom on the RIGHT. Her traveling friend on the LEFT. Our families have been friends for 44 years.
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Morning Folks!!
Have a GREAT Day!
Rick Schwartz
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Morning Folks!!
This will be the first time I am attending TRAFFIC as an attendee. No more getting in 5 days early to prepare for the show. No printing badges and preparing registration. No getting all types of last minute emergency emails. No floorplans, diagrams, setup or breakdown. No pressure to perform. Just a few relaxing days in Las Vegas with the brightest guys on earth and their families. I am looking forward to having free time and meetings with productive outcomes.
One of the things I am looking most forward to is meeting Joseph McClendon III
The reason is because it was Tony Robbins that
changed my life. I have written many times over the years about the cassette
tapes I bought back in 1992. It was like a set of 20. I failed. I made it thru only the 4th
tape and that was so life changing that I have never looked back. I just love
when folks can’t figure out how this stuff relates to domains. I think maybe because
domaining is the only business they have ever been in and they don’t quite
grasp that success or failure comes from within and your habits (Bad or good) are your destiny. That it transcends the product
or service or business you have. That your mindset will determine your success or failure before you
even begin. Also identifying the very thin line between failure, success,
determination and wasting time by going down a dead end. Knowing when giving up is because it is
time to give up or there is just a lack or perseverance or no chance of your vision coming true.
Rick Schwartz
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Morning Folks!!
Tia Wood made an interesting blog post about me and how I operate the other day. She articulated things I never could and then I did my best to follow up with the following comment. I am sure the folks the post is intended for won't give it a second thought. They do, one at a time. Not in mass. But for the umpteenth time over too many years to count I will try and explain how I see things.
"If I drive a Ferrari and a guy has a 15 year old junker, I will share my story of how I got the Ferrari and what I believe and how I see things but don’t expect me to get into the junker if I am not stranded. I already had my share of junkers. I was already where others were. All I can do is share what I personally learned and believe. I can’t force anyone, nor do I want to. I can lend a helping hand when I have time and willing to pull others up. But I do get annoyed when I lower my hand and others try and pull me down. THOSE are the people I have no time for. The time wasters with bad attitudes that are mad at everyone else for THEIR shortcomings. THOSE are the people I avoid in the domain business and in life in general. Pretty simple. The only ones that get offended are those very people. So they stick out and it makes it easy to exclude them. When they figure it out, they are included. I say it out loud and in writing because that is the foundation of my belief system. Surround yourself with people that pull you up not the ones that try and pull you down. SIMPLE! People that pull you up NEVER get offended by that or have to make snide comments. It only reflects badly on them. So what we see, they don’t. That’s the magic of life."
If I started in domaining today I would do it differently. I would have to do it differently even if I got into domains 6 months later than I did. The equation changes every day of our lives. Business does not stay still. It evolves and you have to evolve with it. But evolving does not change standard business principles and approach and attitude and behavior and many other things. That is the common thread and if that is flawed, everything you do is flawed because the foundation is not solid. Folks that are not making a lot of money in domaining can't blame anyone but themselves. I can see some getting red in the face just for saying something that is simple fact. Ok fine, blame me. Blame your mother. Blame the man on the moon. I am the one on the planet that has held you back. I am the bad guy. If not for me you would be a wildly successful. Just know that YOU are the only one that believes it and silly is the only word that comes to mind. YOU are in control of your destiny and you own it because you created it! A dose of reality is the way I give a helping hand and I can't help those that blame others for their failures or shortcomings. Until you get past that, you will never understand a word of what I am saying. Raise your game by stopping and thinking and accomplishing things and being deliberate. When you lash out, use that energy to pull yourself up because there is only one person on the entire planet that can hold you back and if you are looking my way, then you are foolish and it is time to adjust your attitude or suffer another year of anger and frustration. Want to be a winner? Then be a winner. It is your decision and I have no power to stop you nor desire. I do have a desire to lend that hand by posting in your face stuff that exposes the basic things that may be holding you back. Extend your hand and I will shake it. Bite my hand it and I will bite back. Attitude is everything and will determine your success or failure before you even begin your project.
Have a GREAT Day!
Rick Schwartz
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Morning Folks!!
My year started very interesting. I was stunned last week when Adam Strong advised me on New Years Day that Foreclosure.com parent company had declared Chapter 11 bankruptcy just a week earlier. I read the story in the South Florida Biz Journal with my jaw hanging down. Man, did I dodge a bullet! Then another article appeared today in a second publication Inman.com with more juicy details and some history and a couple pending lawsuits. BIG lawsuits.
Have a GREAT Day!
Rick Schwartz
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