What do you want to do with your life?

25 Things I'd Like to do Before I Die

1. Go to a 3rd world country
2. Sucessfully finish collage
3. Own and opporate a successful buisness
4. get a Dodge Ram 2009 in Pink and black
5. Have 2 kids
6. Go sky diving
7. Get over my fears of needles ( no passing out)
8. Go on a road trip
9. Go on a train
10. Be able to help my family with debt
11. adopt a child in need
12. learn to ride a motocycle
13. Kiss a celeberity
14. Meet Drake
15. Make a homemade movie with friends
16. Meet Mr. Obama
17. Go to my Bestfriends grave one more time
18. Buy a cabin on a lake
19. Go to Africa and see a lepord
20. Fly ina plane doing tricks
21. Be apart of a World wide Funraiser
22. Make a huge difference in someone life
23. Go onto Dragons Den and pitch a product
24. Go to MTV live show
25. Prank Paul.

Spa- Utopia

Levi started up his business, a spa, with a fellow friends in Vancover, BC. There goal was to create a enviroment where their customers could feel good and look good. They started out slow, but by this Christmas they had sold 20,000 gift card from there buisness alone. They have became a award winning spa, and it all just started by a idea to give there custome rwhat they need and wants. They now havr two other Spas fanchised in Langley and Pan Pasific.

Martha Stewart

Turning Food Into Art

Martha Stewart started out from a poor family who had to hand make everything from food to clothing. She had 6 siblings and she always tryed her hardest to help out her mom around the house, and constantly studing for schooling. She Started Modling for mag's to save up money for schooling. Soon after she meet her husband, had a child and worked full time as a Modle. She decided to start up her own catering service and her first one was a wedding. She Nailed the party and soon her buisness exploded. She became well known in the food buisness, releasing cook books and staring in some cooking chanells. Martha had became sucessful becasue of her passion and commitment to hard work and tasty food.

Martha is a excelent example of female entreprentur, because ever since she was young, she had the passion to get out of being poor like she grew up. And she took her life into her own hands and made it happen herself.

Ray Kroc- McDonalds

At the age of 52, Ray Kroc invested his entire life savings into becoming a exclusive distributor of a milk shake maker called the Multimixer. Hearing that a burger Stand, McDonalds, in California was running eight Multimixers, In 1954, Roy took a trip to California. He couldn’t believe how fast the service was and the happiness of the customers. He pitched the idea to open up several McDonalds to the brothers, convinced he could sell 8 multimixers to each restaurant In 1965, McDonalds went public with the companies first offering on the stock exchange. The First McDonalds out of USA was in Richmond, British Columbia, in 1967. Only a year later, The Big Mac Sandwich was introduced, soon followed by the Egg McMuffin Breakfast sandwich. Many Accomplishments have followed ever since.

Today, The is thousands of Mcdonalds around the world, serving millions of people everyday. The incredible growth and success of McDonald's can be summed up with the first thought that went through Ray Kroc's mind when he first saw McDonald's

Good to Great

BHAG:

Big Hairy Audacious Goal

 

My "BHAG" is to creat, design and successfully opporate at well known buisness, weather it be a resturaunt or a food insiried idea like catering or Deli. This is My "Big Hairy audacious Goal because to start up a buisness cost thousands of dollars and to make it sucessful and well known takes lotes of effort from myself and my employees.

Key Head Lines

• Level 5 Leadership

• First Who, Then what
• Practical principles
• Confront the Brutal Facts
• Remember the Stockdale paradox
• The hedgehog Concept

Facebook Privacy Changes

Facebook, with over 350 million members, has developed the option in which you can choose by what ever you post on facebook , who can see it. For example, I wrote something really personal and didnt want people i dont know readind it, i would switch the privacy level from everyone to just friends. I believe this is the most appropriate thing to put on their site because of the amount of people and how personal your facebook can be. Being a member of facebook for over 3 years now, many people who i have never meet or even live in a completely different country try to add you, weather it be just to talk or some perv/ Murder trying to pick up girls through the interent. It surprises me that only 15% to 20% of the site’s 350 million peole on have used the privacy option.

http://blogs.wsj.com/digits/2009/12/09/facebook-outlines-privacy-changes/

Mark Cuban

Mark Cuban's Blog is mixed with many different topics. Some are globall problems like " How to Jumpstart the ecomony and creat millions of jobs" and go to talking about google to What the age limit would be for Basketball teams. He has many strong thoughts about what he see's and believes, and demenstrates hes thoughts through his blog. I believe he bloggs for the freedom of speach, and to also get some feedback from his Blogg followers. "Im curious what readers think."
The one blogg that really stood out to me was the one called " How to jumpstart the economy- tax free small buisness", mostly because he explains how and what to do with a buisness and what tips will help you to start a buisness, wheather it be done by a millionair or someone just starting out. "In the Internet world, all you have to do is setup an account with an ad network, put it on your website, generate some traffic and they send you a check. . No licenses, no tax id, no announcements in the newspaper. It took me minutes. Its exactly what millions of people do as well and its created an entire Internet economy that lives off of Google, Yahoo, MIcroSoft, AOL, Ebay and others. Its the entrepreneurs path of least resistance, which is exactly why most take this route"

Souls Calling

Souls calling is a very interesting, unique company. Making items that a said to be helpfull to your soul and well being with differnt products with different meanings. I personally think that their product will sell more for the design then the actull meaning because its not proved to help or make many differences in your personal well being, unless you are 100% with what they say there products do, like rocks with the word love or confidence to try and help you subconsously.

BMW is a high class car, depending on year and price. I personally love BMW, they are my dream car's. I like BMW because of their huge range of different styles, colors and accessories to fit any celebrity or normal citizen needs. I would Highly recommend to get a BMW if your looking for a high, good quality vehicles, but the prices are high items like this.

Paul Watts of Graffiti Removal Services

I think graffiti removal sevice will be well used in the large cities where there is constant vandilizom on buildings, bridges and some important monuments that can turn down the value or respect of the buildings. Many people would pay tons of money to get graffity removed from there buildings. I think this is a good company and will do well.

Jump Forward

JumpForward entrepreneurs accepted $600,000 US for 50 per cent of their business during Shark Tank, From Jumpforward's original offer off $ 100,000 US. JumpForward is a team of former college athletes and coaches who use the Internet to help high school athletes navigate the recruiting process for college sports teams that fit into there own athletic needs.

The Pee Pee Pole

The Pee golf pole is made by a man who designed it for, basiclly, the lazy golfer who doesnt want to leave his ball and go to a washroom to pee.

I presonally think this is a stupid product because think of all the bacteria and whatever else may grow in in. This isnt a product that i would be interested in, but maby for the male golfer, it can be easy and sufficaiant.

Mr. Poncho

Mr. Poncho is a in home buisness that is a ipod or MP3 cover in which the ipod slips into the cover and the head phones can wrap around the a mental pireace on the pouch and the rubber piece flips over to keep them inplace and  un-tangled.                                   The Shark-tank didnt take there offer and it does make sence. Even though it is a good product, there are many different companys that design many covers of different designs that are more high tech and easier to use then the Mr. Poncho.

Mr. Bobbles'

Mr. Bobbles' Blankets is a small business based in Maryland, DC. There products are used in several daycare facilities across the United States, as well as the in-room cribs at a Hyatt Regency hotel in the Washington DC area. The company is owned and run by Renee Sirulnik - an entrepreneurial mom who has always loved sewing and creating things. Renee was surrounded by sewing her whole life - one grandma was a seamstress who worked in a garment factory in PA, while the other grandma was always crafting and working on a new creative project. Renee's mom is an avid watercolor artist as well as seamstress and generally creative person - the type of mom who made everything from bedroom curtains to fancy costumes. She also designed and made Renee's wedding dress. Renee's dad is creative in a different way - teaching her how to think "outside of the box" and come up with new ways to solve problems - to "invent" things using everyday objects.

Sucessful Entrepreneur By Eric Van Maren

7 Key tips

1. The Value of Hard work - Be Prepared to work harder then your employies
2. Be Passionate - Love what you do
3. Make Mistakes and learn from it- Dont make hasty decisions
4. Guard Your reputaion- Spend a life time building and one mistake to destroy it.
5. Networking. Build your Network - 5000 names in his contact. Use them, ask for help.
6. Hire Smart people
7. Partnerships- What does your partner bring to the table?

Known Knowns
Unknown Knows
Unknown unknowns

• Started a buisness after school
• Sucessful people is the one who works the hardest.
• The best employee you have is getting payed to little, no matter how much hes gettign paid.
• The worst employee is the one getting paid the most, no matter how much.
• Things that we know we know
• There are many unknown unknowns
• Has 10-12 buisness, 100 peak of employes
• Main role- Developing manager

Twitter

Twitter. NOT DONE

Creativity In Schools

Ken Robinson has been speaking widely for the need of change in the school, and the lack of creativity with in the education in schools. he mentions that " Why do they have to teach math, and not dance? Kids dance all the time..". Robinson looks more deeply into what creativity is, and how schools might better it. Creativity, he says, is the making of “original ideas that have value.” It should not be the special domain of a particular echelon of teachers; instead we should find ways to catalyze creativity broadly, systematically. Currently, we do the opposite. Developing new curriculum resources on creativity will help people have creativitly with some kind of value. Rather, because the “heart of education…is pedagogy,” improving teaching is the way to improve schools. As organizations of humans, we have to pay attention to how they are managed to nurture creativity and imagination sustainable sustainably. “The organization is the people. Their relationships, their motivations, their energy, their values, their aspirations or lack of them. It’s a living breathing thing.”

Richard Branson

Richard Branson is defently an insprision to any entrepreneur. He has/takes part in over 300 companys all over the world, making millions. He started, and make a successful buisness of a published magazine at a very young age of 16. He then got into the record buisness, opeining a chain of record stores, Virgin Megastores. Later her started Virgin Atlantic Airways and expanded Virgin Records music label.

Its amazing to think he only had a education level of grade 9, and made out-standing acomplishments, making the 261st richest person in the Forbes' 2009 Millionair list, with an estimated net worth of US $2.5 billion.

Purple Cow

In the book "Purple Cow: Transform Your Business by Being Remarkable", Seth Godin says that the key to success is to find a way to stand out. Godin himself may be the best example of how this theory works. The marketing expert is popular on the Web, a best-selling author, highly sought after lecturer, successful entrepreneur, a respected intellectual and high-profile blogger. He is uniquely respected for his understanding of the Internet, and his essays and opinions are widely read and quoted online and off.

Sam Walton!

• Sam Walton started in buisness as a paper boy
• First retail  job a J.C. Penney Company
• Married his wife on Valentines day
• Went to second world war
• Had a boy in 1944
• Wanted to open up a store at extremley low prices.
• Opened up his on retail store called WALMART
• Everyone thought it wouldnt work, to far fetched
• First year made over 1 million dollar profit.
• Got cancer
• Suprised and became more popular then the resent leader K-Mart
• Top leader and glabally know in the market currently
• Died at 74 years old

Sam Walton is inspriring because He went through the war, fought cancer and always sticked to his dreams and theroies. Sam had a dream of making a store that had the lowest prices to satisfy the customers became the largest company around the world.