🌎 World Domination Newsletter #2

Published: Tue, 05/04/21

WORLD DOMINATION

BY JOE

05/04/21

The day when inspiration, motivation and availability collided.

Avoiding getting locked up by fear. Understand the meaning of risk. Above all, never allow your plan to be so detailed that you become blind to changing opportunities around you.

Historically, fortunes are made when times seem to be the roughest. That is, when times are the toughest is when most people don’t act on their dreams but a few do. Most are afraid to make big moves when times are tough.

Is it the fear of failure or the embarrassment of failure? Is it the fear of circumstances outside of one’s control determining one’s fate? It almost seems as if there is a fear of wasted effort if one fails during hard times. “It was just too hard. I should have waited.”

“Times are tough right now. I would need to work two jobs and go to school to even be able to take a shot (risk?) on this business idea. What if I fail? Think of the effort that I would be putting in only to see it not work.”

These are all red herrings that cause most to pull back on their dreams. I believe it is actually a lack of vision and focus. Difficult times can often support embarking on new ventures. Look at the lockdowns that most of the country had to endure. Haven’t we all uttered, “If I only had more uninterrupted time, I could write that book, learn that new programming language, learn that new foreign language.

Did you do it? Many of us did not. Some of us did, however. So what does that mean then. It is NOT the motivation that makes the difference. It is easier than that. It is the establishment of habits that wins the day.

Many made their fortunes during the Great Depression. Some were creative. Some were illegal. But, in a very real sense, all took advantage of opportunities. They believed in themselves and they did it, doing what they loved or in some cases, found a new love to be successful with. Read about 10 such people HERE.

OUTSTANDING QUOTES

“My God, they’re purple and green. Do fish really take these lures?”
And he said, “Mister, I don’t sell to fish.” — DISCUSSION BETWEEN CHARLIE MUNGER OF BERKSHIRE HATHAWAY & A FRIEND WHO OWNED A FISHING STORE.

Our job as entrepreneurs is NOT to take ownership of the outcomes based on the use of our products and services. We advise our clients as to how to get the best outcomes. Whether or not they follow that guidance is out of our control. In the long run, it probably behooves us to focus on clients that actually improve their outcomes by following our guidance. They more than likely interact with like minded people.

“We can’t fix everyone and everything.” — JOE WISNIEWSKI

“We suffer more often in imagination than in reality.” — SENECA

“The truth is, we know so little about life, we don’t really know what the good news is and what the bad news is,” — KURT VONNEGUT

“Do you suppose that you alone have had this experience? Are you surprised, as if it were a novelty, that after such long travel and so many changes of scene you have not been able to shake off the gloom and heaviness of your mind? You need a change of soul rather than a change of climate.” — SENECA

“Perhaps our 'wanderings' need to be a purposeful, experiential exercise of the soul. Come what may. However, don’t miss what comes your way because you were focused on 'goals.' Focus on the experience. — JOE WISNIEWSKI

“Becoming free is learning about yourself; the scared and the insecure, the brilliant and the bold. Embrace both and the journey is yours and yours alone. No longer are you following another’s directions and your path and purpose will present themselves. Only then might you find another wandering soul doing the same thing, who can walk with you but on their own journey. All of a sudden you might find a shared passion and a wrinkled map on the trail that makes sense.” — RIITTA KLINKT

“If you ever stop doing what you do, I will be in tears.” — ONE OF MY BEAUTIFUL STUDENTS, MADISON BARTA

“When I go the distance I’ll be right where I belong.” — DISNEY'S HERCULES

“For what it’s worth, it’s never too late or, in my case, never too early to be whoever you want to be…I hope you live a life you’re proud of. If you find you’re not, I hope you have the strength to start all over again.” — BENJAMIN BUTTON (REFERRED TO ME BY A FRIEND FRIEND AND INSPIRATION, NIKELE WOOD

“God doesn’t make mistakes. — ERIC WISNIEWSKI, MY SON AND INSPIRATION WHO FELT COMPELLED TO SHARE THIS WITH ME AT A TIME, UNBEKNOWNST TO HIM, WHEN I NEEDED IT MOST.

NUGGET OF WISDOM

In the long run, it is the one who reads—reads everything she can that will have the best chance at happiness, love and success in life. One who reads (and reads broadly) will tend to consider other points of view than their own. Bibliophiles find inspiration in varied sources of books. They question their own point of view, which results in the deep research that readers engage in.

Active reading often does and should result in reflection and consideration and even wonder.

Finally, readers most often attract others who are likewise, considered in their opinions and make for good listeners. Take the time to read. Make the time to read and make it not only a lifetime task, but vocation and avocation.

FUN, FUN, FUN

Things I do for fun are probably a bit different from most.

I am having so much fun right now visiting and researching my top three locales to expand into: Idaho, South Dakota and Montana.

I have always had a “beyond the pale” fascination with astronomy; the aesthetic beauty, the science of astrophysics and recent science fiction. Have you ever seen any of the “dark sky” photos from those regions. It is beyond words. <put photo here>

I frequently rewatch with renewed fascination the movie“Arrival”. I am repeatedly held in fascination with the connection between language and time; especially the concept of non-linear time.

Similarly, “Interstellar” will always be a favorite of mine. I am bound by the connection posited between love and gravity; the only two known “forces” that are felt “from a distance”. There is so much that we don’t know, when we think we know so much.

I actually do try and have fun when teaching my students. I make it a point to, as much as possible, weave in humorous and related topics.

Watch this. It is called “Calculus Rhapsody”. It truly speaks for itself. (I LOVE my Calculus students!)

CALCULUS RHAPSODY

INSPIRATIONAL VIDEO

What Dreams Will Die With You?

WATCH THE VIDEO

I saw this years ago. I cried. The soundtrack from the first half of this has always brought tears to my eyes.

On our deathbed, will we be worried about how others view our “failures? Will we be embarrassed because of our failures? We have to ensure that we are not filled with regret.

Will we be surrounded by the dreams that came to us during our life? Will we have those dreams beg us to explain why they came to us, ONLY US, and we never acted on them. Will they be condemned to die with us; the dreams that CHOSE us, and we never acted.

That is my fear. I am crying.

READ THIS

Fear and Risk.

Tim Ferriss is one of the most relevant people I could ever hope to meet. In this article, he tries to help deal with fear and risk, generally as it is relevant to entrepreneurs, but is equally universally applicable. We don’t do an appropriate job of defining the terms “risk” and “fear” in our lives, so naturally, we lock up.

Tim wraps up this discussion, as he often does by quoting Seneca “We suffer more in imagination than in reality." Right?

TIM FERRISS SAYS YOU HAVE THE WRONG IDEA ABOUT FEAR AND IT'S KILLING YOUR DREAMS

EXPERT ADVICE

This week, my expert advice is

go back, print this newsletter and put it by your bed.

DO NOT focus on reading it all in one sitting. Take it and absorb one piece and contemplate it.

Go back and re-read another part of the newsletter that seems linked to what you just read. Stop and contemplate.

Go to bed. Think about what you read.

Tomorrow — repeat.

During all of this, print out this week’s blog post from me. It is my current story. Maybe it will help you in some way.

Please let me know if anything here helps you. Let me know what I could do more of to help you better. Reach out at [email protected]. Share with me your story.

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