Motivation

What motivates you?
I guess motivation is the driving force of every single one of us. We suck when we’re not motivated and we’re the best when we are. So why is that?
Well, in order to be motivated what you need before anything else, is a goal. Your goal has to be realistic. Other thing to consider is that, you’ll probably need to set some mini-goals first, before you go for the big ones.

The other important factor is finish what you start. Don’t have all huge projects if you can’ take them forward. Be realistic on what you can do according to your availibility and current situation. Sure you can dream of reaching a higher goal but you’ll probably need to reach some smaller ones in order to get there, just like we discussed earlier.

So, now that you’ve set a goal and are decided to take it forward, what other things can you do?

If you’re interested in a certain subject, most probably you’ll want to discuss it with others, specially with people who share that same interest with you, and that will take your motivation sky high. It will easily increase your productivity and motivate you even further, because you now feel like you’re not alone on this, even if you are. Discussing your goals with other people will dramatically increase your interest and will be fairly important on keeping you motivated. Just try for yourself.
If you have a goal, and you keep postponing it, try talking about it with someone you think has a positive input to giveyou on the subject. You’ll get a whole new perspectives on how to take forward your goal, and motivation-wise it’s the best that can happen to you.

At this point you should grab your newly found motivation and start investigating which will be the best way to achieve your goal and getting to know everything you need to know about your goal.

Lets hope this works for you.

Is that a huge dog?

I promise i took this picture. No editing whatsoever…

Music Industry: The next step

This year the MP3 will turn 11 years old. I still remember downloading a Winamp version that wasn’t even a 1.o. My first MP3 had nothing to do with my music taste but it had some good sound effects and the fact that it had only 4.3 MB was amazing! Only 45 minutes to download a song seemed impressive.

11 years after that, here we are. There’s iTunes, Apple’s big, record companies are struggling to survive and people got tired of paying 15 euros for a CD with 2 good songs. So the music industry is going through a totally different scene as we speak. But do the people in charge know what they’re doing? Or does it take a 53 year old computer geek and one of the brightest minds in the tech world, to show them how its done? Steve Jobs, saw the opportunity and knew what approach to take. Sell a fantastic multimedia player and a kickass music store where people could buy songs individually. He might not be 100% right but he’s the closest one without a doubt.

Why do old people, no disrespect, run major media companies? They’re not up-to-date with anything because all they care about is making money and wonder off in their private jets, stepping on everyone as they pass. Someone needs to grab the music industry by the horns, and only someone with a notion of future, where music came from, and where it’s headed will be able to make things work for the music industry.

One of the best models in my opinion would be to create a music service where you pay a small fee per month, and we’re talking millions of users, and be able to download the albums you want. Obviously there would have to be limits or else you’d have the typical guys who download just for the “fun” of it.

People wouldn’t mind paying 5 euros a month to download up to 20 albums, now would they? Just do the math. In a universe of 10 million hypothetic subscribers you would have 50 million dollars a month! We’re talking 600 million dollars a year, and we all know there would be well more than 10 million subscribers a month, if this thing were to be well publicized.

So my advice to the music industry is:

Change your board of directors and replace those with money hungry ambitions and absolutely no clue of what people want, with youngsters who understand what’s happening.
Maybe hire musicians for your boards, since they’re the ones one the road gathering people’s opinion on what’s wrong with the music industry, and what solutions they’d like implemented.

Freedom Through Music Integrity (FTMI)

Still remember when MySpace was fun? Facebook them…

Well, what can I say. I heard rumblings that there was a movement going on, inciting people to close their MySpace accounts.

I had been thinking about it for sometime now and finally did it today. All I got from MySpace for the past months were Spammer’s Friend Requests, Spammer Comments, Spammer Messages and the list goes on.

Social networking should really open their eyes for the whole Facebook revolution and how they managed to come up with a whole new way of approaching social networking. Facebook is clean, nicely designed and most importantly, has unlimited potential. It is without a doubt the perfect solution for social networking and the antithesis of MySpace.

The whole Facebook revolution has three major advantages over MySpace’s

1. Applications:
   • With the introduction of Applications people’s connectivity reached a whole new level. You can now add any application you want that gives you the possibility of interacting with different people over different topics, may they be Politics or funny stuff. Also the power of Applications reaches a totally different level once you use them to interact with different people, for example, add Video or other apps capabilities, to Wall posts or PM’s
2. Clean and fast profiles:
   • One of the most important aspects, is the fact that you can easily browse other people’s profiles without the annoying : “look at my pimped up profile, full of songs, videos and slide shows, that is barable surfable”. You can easily access other people’s profiles and their Apps blazing fast due to their magnificent Web 2.0
3. No Spam
   • MySpace’s spamming was getting unbearable. 90% of requests, messages, or comments are SPAM. Well, when you have spammers taking advantage of a platform like MySpace’s who should you blame? Spammers or MySpace? I would say MySpace. People SPAM because the platform allows them to. You even have Windows Apps like MySpaceFriendBlasterPro that allows you to add millions of friends (supposedly).

So, follow the advice given by Wired and close your MySpace account.

You can’t just get rich with a great Web idea and then just leave it dying without improvements, bad management and bad future plans.

I rest MyCase…

Patience…

How much patience does it take to put up with someone?

There should be a patienceometer. You’ve always had different amounts of patience for different people. The decisive factor is, without a doubt, how much you like them and care for them.

The other factor has to do with reoccurrence. Sometimes you get so tired of the same problems reappearing, that you get tired of the same people exposing it to you.

Like Ralph Marston said: The keys to patience are acceptance and faith. Accept things as they are, and look realistically at the world around you. Have faith in yourself and in the direction you have chosen.

Patience is in fact something you learn, because you’re not born with it. Babies are patient to cry. They just do. In terms of their survival, they have to be impatient. So it would seem that patience is more a learned characteristic.

Patience: A single word that can determine the success of an individua. “Patience is waiting. Not passively waiting. That is laziness. But to keep going when the going is hard and slow – that is patience.”

So, just have some patience…. And you’d might be looking at a totally diferent and much better future.