Rules For Success? – Personal Objectives – The F-Words
Fame – Do you want to do this project to become a celebrity and have your fifteen minutes of fame? Like perhaps I am now!
But would you trust someone in a business venture, who wanted to appear on the X-Factor?
Financial – Do you sincerely want to be rich? This was said by a crook called Bernie Cornfeld, who started a vehicle called Investors Overseas Service or IOS.
I would put it this way. If your venture breaks even, and pays you a bit of a salary that’s good. But if it makes a small profit in the end, then that’s a bonus.
Fun – Perhaps this is the most important of personal objectives. If I don’t think my partners in a venture won’t be fun, then I don’t follow it through!
Friendship – I’d rate this second and confirm that with many of the things I’ve done, I’ve made a lot of strong very long-term friendships.
Some have been involved in more than one thing I’ve done, which makes ventures a lot easier.
Feelgood – Are you doing what the future will value.
Family – This is a negative objective, in that you mustn’t put too much strain on your family. I didn’t and was married to a marvellous woman for nearly forty years. But then Celia said she always married me because she knew life wouldn’t be boring. I’m hoping that I’m not letting her down with this talk and boring you stiff!
The Anonymous Widower 
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All the people I know who have started their own business and succeeded, have done so not for profit but for the satisfaction of the achievement. However; succeed and you will get rich, but this should not be the motive. Greed should never be a motive in anything one does.
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