You have to choose whether to succeed or not succeed.
So our success in business, Internet or otherwise, boils down to the choices we make. If we receive a lot of excellent advice but fail to do what we have learned we will certainly fail!
The Washington Post queried prominent historians in 1995 about whom they considered to be the most influential man of the millennium. Thirteenth Century Mongol leader, Genghis Khan, was their overwhelming choice! He brought relative peace to what began as many feuding nomadic tribes. He rewarded loyalty and demanded religious tolerance. He established perhaps the first public education system, opened trade routes, and established communication among many diverse peoples and cultures.
Urgunge Onon in The Secret History of the Mongols says the Great Khan with only 2 million people and 129,000 soldiers made the Mongols rulers of an empire extending from Northern Russia to China on the East, Poland on the West, and Arabia to the South. They did this while living beside much larger and more developed nations like India and China. The Mongols accomplished more because they weren’t restrained by the passive religious beliefs of
Buddhism or the rigid discipline of Confucianism. They were able to think outside conventional wisdom and, because they were nomads having no country restraints (not even a word in the language for country at that time), the entire universe was their country. They decided to conquer the whole thing!
Another idea to consider is what would have happened if all the Khans had not been required to return to the homeland every time a leader died so they could elect the successor. Remember, they went all the way to Poland and would certainly have reached the Atlantic Ocean had not somebody died. The Middle East would certainly have been quite different. After the sack of Baghdad Hulegu Khan was about to conquer many of the Arab lands up to Palestine; alas, he had to carry his army back to Mongolia to elect another leader. Alas, the opportunity was lost.
Genghis and most of his early followers believed in Shamanism defined by Thomas Cowan as ”the intentional effort to develop . . . relationships with . . . spirits by consciously leaving ordinary reality and journeying into the nonordinary realms of the spirit world.” And Urgunge Onon goes on to say “Shamanists believe the soul is linked directly to Heaven and the individual is therefore the center of his own universe. Heaven is nothing more nor less than the consciousness of each one of us. Heaven is our guide; under it we are born free and equal.” This is true unconventional thinking with respect to absolutely everything that happens.
Consider this last idea that the individual is the center of their own universe carefully. This is exactly a premise resulting from modern Quantum Mechanics. Quantum ideas are difficult for scientists and everyone else to wrap themselves around because some of the resulting concepts are, well, unbelievable. How can anything be in two places at the same time? It’s also hard to believe the Khans, through their Shamanic beliefs, actually recognized these Quantum ideas almost 1,000 years ago. They were remarkable people whose ideas can teach us much.
Another strong attribute of Genghis Khan is that many knowledgeable historians have called him the greatest strategist of all time. His armies were extremely mobile capable of covering 100 miles a day for continued periods. Mongols used longbows with a range of 200 yards or more with a pull strength of 166 pounds! The Khan used intimidation, negotiation, and cunning strategy to subdue his enemies. He would send a small force in a frontal assault while the bulk of his forces went a long way around through impassable swamps and swiftly attacked from the rear or other unexpected direction. Perhaps this is where the well known strategy “attack from the East while coming from the West” advocated by Mao Tze Tung came from. The two strategies are identical, except Genghis was there long before Mao.
What does this have to do with making money? There’s no way anyone can give you a blueprint “one size fits all” way to profit from your business. It’s all available from many sources on the Internet or local seminars. Google will find you entrepreneurs making hundreds of thousands of dollars each month who detail exactly how they are doing it. Other articles explain how to use leads, how to advertise, supply products online and off, and even provide gateway replicating websites ready made for you. But you need to have a plan for acting on all these ideas. For example, the replicating websites furnished are hard to get listed on most search engines; you must have your own domain with a page linked to your free site. Your page needs to have some information a person might want that contains a few key words so the search engines can find you. And just to be able to obtain leads guarantees nothing. You must act on the knowledge you have been taught about how to use leads.
Reach inside of yourself, like Genghis Khan, and choose to succeed.
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