Yesterday I saw a news snippet from Carte Blanche, a news broadcaster in South Africa, and they had an interview with Malcolm Gladwell (author of the famous books, The Tipping Point; Blink and the new Outliers).

He has a very interesting philosophy about success and how the environment can play a nurturing role or a destructive role our journey to success. I firmly am of the class that you make your own path and the enviroment has no choice ut to follow your lead.

When I was young I could have allowed my friends and school mates to make choices about how successful I was to become by not setting the goals for my life first. But my goals and ambition led to me moving away from them and into new surroundings. These new surroundings, according to how I understand Mr Gladwell’s teachings, are more condusive to my success and support.

It trully emphasizes the old saying, “If you don’t have a plan, somebody else has it for you.”

Hope you have a great day.

In business you ill find that there are those who are content to just coast and do mediocre work to remain under the radar.

Fire them. They will doom your business. You do not have time to be a charity. Charities are suppose to be non-profit and you should decide early on if you are there to be a business or a non-profit organisation.

I asked this guy, who shall remain anonymus, to install a claiming system for my medical practice. After a month the bugs in the system slowed my cashflow to a crawl! I confronted him, gently, as to why it was not happenning smoothly. I got many answers and non of them solved my problem.

I had to change the entire system overnight and incurr more costs but a month later I am smiling because what turned out to be a disater for only one month was restricted to one month. Making a mistake and admitting it may hurt like hell but it saves you the agony of living with a festering problem that will cripple your whole operation and later kill it.

I am so glad to hear Russell say: Its not about what others say. You need faith and You will not starve. Security comes from the inside. Having my own business is exciting and I am enjoying it emmensely!!