by MADphilips

Created on: August 08, 2010

HOW TO CELEBRATE YOUR BIRTHDAYS AS AN ENTREPRENEUR

I marked my 26th year birthday yesterday (July 25, 2010) and I’m so sorry I couldn’t invite you all to come and jolly and party with me. So every year because of my inability to invite my online tribes for my birthday, I create and give away a remarkable birthday present that can be enjoyed by everyone anywhere in the world.

I learnt this philosophy from a mentor of mine, Seth Godin who uses his birthdays as a means of making a contribution with his life and gifts. This year he used his birthday to accomplish two great things; (1) He created and gave away an eBook he titled “THE INSURBODINATES” (2) He used his birthday to raise a sum of 50 thousand dollars for the provision of clean water supply for a poor village in Africa!

WOW!

We are all used to getting gifts or presents for our birthdays, while nothing might be wrong with this age long phenomenon, we can create a twist and use it to our advantage as entrepreneurs. Rather than expecting birthday gifts from others as usual (still collect when given, don’t turn them down), but do much more than collect; why not create and give out birthday gifts instead? You see as an entrepreneur everything matters, even how you spend your birthdays! Nothing must be overlooked or underutilized, every moment, every event and every action counts; nothing must be wasted. As entrepreneurs we owe a greater responsibility to the world; we are nature’s instrument for creation and therefore are custodians of the needs and problems of humanity. They look unto us for the continuous provision of timely, unique and useful solutions to their existing needs and problems. We must never let them down. We are to use everything about us for the common good of all!

The idea is to have each year of your life tied to one very significant contribution you want to make in the world through the use of your life and gifts.  With each year of our lives as entrepreneurs we are to use it as a benchmark of how much contribution we are making. The goal could be the launch of a new product or service to your existing line of business, it could be the launch of a new branch network, it could be the diversification into an entirely new industry, it could be the donation of a particular portion of your profit to any charity of your choice, it could be sharing for FREE your products/services to members of any community you like, it could be the sponsoring of one or

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