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Financial Freedom Is Merely Organized Common Sense
Be The Best At Something
This book intrigues me. Just Start: Take Action, Embrace Uncertainty, Create the Future, I think because it suggests a course of action that I agree with. Its promise is this:
If you employ the handful of principles in the following pages, whatever you want will come closer within reach.
Postscript: We are not guaranteeing success. But we are guaranteeing that if you fail, you will fail quickly and cheaply and that (as you will see) is almost as good.
Its course of action involves several things I believe in:
- Mistakes are your friend. Learning From Failure Mistakes
- Don’t try too hard too fix your flaws. Do It Yourself is a Trap
- Build on your strengths. Aspects of Management
- Accept and Prepare for Failure. What Matters More
- Mediocre action today on a potentially high value project is better than perfect action sometime in the distant future. Incompetence Has Value
If you work on your strengths you can make them exceptional. If you work on weaknesses, you can those skills mediocre. Be the best at something and delegate the rest.
The moral: Fail Fast. Quit Quick. Learn from mistakes.
Don Shaughnessy is a retired partner in an international accounting firm and is presently with The Protectors Group, a large personal insurance, employee benefits and investment agency in Peterborough Ontario.
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