Team,
The passing of Steve Jobs impacted me significantly and made me stop and reflect. I must admit being more aligned to Microsoft over time, although it was changing with the iphone and ipod and of course itunes and ipods. But I feel a huge loss over the passing of Steve Jobs. I can not think of a greater, more interesting, effective, world changing, inspirational entrepreneur than him. I cannot remember being affected by the death of a major figure in any real, Politics, Sports, Entertainment or Religion as I have been by Steve Jobs untimely departure. He and Steve Wozniak as did Bill Gates and Paul Allen changed the world with computerization. Undoubtedly his legacy is one of entrepreneurial brilliance and vision, innovation, marketing genius and molding the digital world. He got fired from the company he started and came back years later and changed the world again! He won the trophy in my book. Stay hungry and foolish says it all!
Steve Jobs' heart and intuition knew what he wanted out of life — and his ambitions took him, and us, to extraordinary places.
Drawing from the most pivotal points in his life, Steve Jobs provides valuable life lessons in the Commencement address he delivered on June 12, 2005 at Stanford University.
I hope you will take a few minutes to watch this inspiring video:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UF8uR6Z6KLc
1. Connecting the dots - "You can't connect the dots looking forward, you can only connect them looking backwards. So you have to trust that the dots will somehow connect in your future. You have to trust in something - your gut, destiny, life, karma, because believing that the dots will connect down the road will give you the confidence to follow your heart even when it leads you off the well worn path, and that will make all the difference."
2. Love & Loss - "Sometimes life is going to hit you in the head with a brick, don't lose faith. You've got to find what you love. Your work is going to fill a large part of your life. The only way to be truly satisfied is to do what you believe is great work. The only way to to do great work is to love what you do. Keep looking, don't settle."
3. Death – Remembering that I'll be dead soon is the most important tool I've ever encountered to help me make the big choices in life. Because almost everything — all external expectations, all pride, all fear of embarrassment or failure - these things just fall away in the face of death, leaving only what is truly important. Remembering that you are going to die is the best way I know to avoid the trap of thinking you have something to lose. You are already naked. There is no reason not to follow your heart.
If today were the last day of my life, would I want to do what I am about to do today? No one wants to die. Even people who want to go to heaven don't want to die to get there. Your time is limited so don't waste it living someone else's life. Don't be trapped by dogma, which is living with the results of other people's thinking. Don't let the noise of other's opinions drown out your own inner voice. Most important, have the courage to follow your heart and intuition. They somehow already know what you truly want to become. Everything else is secondary."
Stay hungry, stay foolish.
Keep Growing,
JR Ridinger
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reflect. I must admit being more aligned to Microsoft over time, although
it was changing with the iphone and ipod and of course itunes and ipods.
But I feel a huge loss over the passing of Steve Jobs. I can not think of
a greater, more interesting, effective, world changing, inspirational
entrepreneur than him. I cannot remember being affected by the death of a
major figure in any real, Politics, Sports, Entertainment or Religion as I
have been by Steve Jobs untimely departure. He and Steve Wozniak as did
Bill Gates and Paul Allen changed the world with computerization.
Undoubtedly his legacy is one of entrepreneurial brilliance and vision,
innovation, marketing genius and molding the digital world. He got fired
from the company he started and came back years later and changed the
world again! He won the trophy in my book. Stay hungry and foolish says it
all!
Steve Jobs' heart and intuition knew what he wanted out of life - and his
ambitions took him, and us, to extraordinary places.
Drawing from the most pivotal points in his life, Steve Jobs provides
valuable life lessons in the Commencement address he delivered on June 12,
2005 at Stanford University.
I hope you will take a few minutes to watch this inspiring video:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UF8uR6Z6KLc
1. Connecting the dots - "You can't connect the dots looking forward, you
can only connect them looking backwards. So you have to trust that the
dots will somehow connect in your future. You have to trust in something -
your gut, destiny, life, karma, because believing that the dots will
connect down the road will give you the confidence to follow your heart
even when it leads you off the well worn path, and that will make all the
difference."
2. Love & Loss - "Sometimes life is going to hit you in the head with a
brick, don't lose faith. You've got to find what you love. Your work is
going to fill a large part of your life. The only way to be truly
satisfied is to do what you believe is great work. The only way to to do
great work is to love what you do. Keep looking, don't settle."
3. Death - Remembering that I'll be dead soon is the most important tool
I've ever encountered to help me make the big choices in life. Because
almost everything - all external expectations, all pride, all fear of
embarrassment or failure - these things just fall away in the face of
death, leaving only what is truly important. Remembering that you are
going to die is the best way I know to avoid the trap of thinking you have
something to lose. You are already naked. There is no reason not to follow
your heart.
If today were the last day of my life, would I want to do what I am about
to do today? No one wants to die. Even people who want to go to heaven
don't want to die to get there. Your time is limited so don't waste it
living someone else's life. Don't be trapped by dogma, which is living
with the results of other people's thinking. Don't let the noise of
other's opinions drown out your own inner voice. Most important, have the
courage to follow your heart and intuition. They somehow already know what
you truly want to become. Everything else is secondary."
Stay hungry, stay foolish.
Keep Growing,
JR Ridinger
Follow me on Twitter
http://www.twitter.com/jrridinger
http://www.facebook.com/jamesridinger
http://machatterbox.marketamerica.com<http://machatterbox.marketamerica.com/JR>
Blog:
http://www.beingjrridinger.com<http://www.facebook.com/l.php?u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.beingjrridinger.com%2F&h=e2868>
Web Site -Portal
http://www.marketamerica.com/jr
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