This is just a quick exchange with a reader of one of my books ...
He wrote:
By the way, I'm amazed at the life you've lived. If I am your mentee, what's the best advice can you give me to "succeed" in life, and I mean not only financially.
I responded:
You are already successful… you can read, you have access to internet, you can type, you speak the language of opportunities: English.
If you think about how far you’ve come since you were a crying baby, you’ve realized how successful you already are. The main problem today is that we have an external locus of control. We compare ourselves to others, that way we loose the capacity to do amazing things. You don’t have to be better than anyone else, you just have to be better than yourself. If you do that you always win…
How is that for a start?
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What do you think???
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- Alicia Castillo Holley
- Alicia Castillo Holley is an international expert on entrepreneurship, venture capital and innovation. She has founded 9 companies, including Chile's first seed capital fund, and one non-for-profit. Member of Babson's Founders Club, Australian Association of Company Directors, Leanz, and the Innovation Commitee of Western Australia. She has been a panel member of many business plan competitions. www.ventureslatinas.com – Houston, www.wealthing.com – Australia.
3 comments:
That's perfect Alicia. :) It's all about our personal Evolutionary Progressions
Cheers, Thea
That's a great piece of advice!
We will always have a lot more than some people and a lot less than other people, so what is the use of comparing ourselves.
I use the same logic with doing what I want, not what others want me to do, because even if I tried, I could never have everyone happy... different people want me to do different things.
Thanks for the reminder. It's always great to read these reminders.
Love and health,
Patricia
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