Tuesday, December 28, 2004

A New Mission: My Commitment To You

So this week has been a BIG week in the mind of Jess. I was presented a more innovated outlook for my life through a book recommended by dear MELL. I've talked about this book with some of you online and in person, and I can't get enough of it. I rarely ever finish a book in a week but i did it. I did it cause this book had such a deep impact on my mindframe and you beautiful people will reap the rewards of this incredible literature. The book - Love is the Killer App by Tim Sanders.

Lessons This Book Help me Learn .. which in turn, I hope yall will try and digest:
1. Bizlove is the act of intelligently and sensibly sharing your intangibles with your bizpartners. It is a matter of sharing your knowledge, your network of relationships, and your compassion - or any combination of those three. And this is the killer app.
2. Nice, smart people succeed - not the shrewd, the mean.
3. Love is the selfless promotion of the growth of the other.
4. When we start a job, whther as a recent graduate or seasoned professional, we take on a contract to create more value than what we are paid. If we don't add value to our employer, we are value losses. What the hell is YOUR VALUE?
5. Without a network, knowledge is nearly useless. You get value from your knowledge, but it becomes real when you share it with your peeps.
6. Compassion is a personal quality a machine will never possess.
7. Attention is one of the world's scarcest resources and decsion-maker attention is something companies are willing to spend billions on. Attention is money. Bizlove gets you attention. Other get only time. The difference between having their time and their attention is the difference between ham and eggs. The chicken is involved, but the pig is committed.
8. Business education without execution is just entertainment. Execute your moves.
9. Dale Carnegie: "You''ll accomplish more in the next two months by developing a sincere interest in two people than you'll ever hope to accomplish in two years trying to get two people interested in you."
10. Don't just be involved, be committed to as much as you can in your life. Says me.

A lot of the above may sound a 'lil buttery, a 'lil cheddary to you, but at the end of the day, this is what counts and I have a gut feeling it's gonna make a difference, hence, from this day forth, I'm gonna try and stick with this newfound innovative idea and declare my commitment to be a guiding light, a helping hand in seeing that I will help you grow/succeed in any way I can. Anyone with me?

(If you read every word of this entry, I thank you sincerely for doing so, because you are THIIIIIIS MUCH more wiser and I hope you find at least one of those 10 things significant. Now go share it.)