Are you as TIMELESS as a ….

Morning all!

Today I awakened to the following in my mailbox from the DailyDose!  To wit:

…It would not be at all strange if history came to the conclusion that the perfection of the bicycle was the greatest incident of the nineteenth century.
 
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Really? Is the bicycle THAT amazing? You know what? It is. In fact, I think we definitely need to look deeper into this amazing device. But for today I’ll merely note one way in which the bicycle demonstrates its mojo:

Look at any college campus and what do you see. Lots and lots of bicycles. BUT. Are they all new?
 
The answer is – no. It’s staggering how many bicycles from the 1960’s and 70’s are still serving yeoman duty ferrying students back and forth. They’re such a marvel of design that they’re close to immortal. Slap some new tires on, lubricate the moving parts and you’re good for another few years of use.
 
They don’t just keep working – they keep working well. If they’re stolen they continue to be used – they’re not chopped up for parts as stolen cars are. Once a student graduates he might well just leave the bike – and it’s ready for a new semester with a new owner.
 
How many artifacts are there with the same degree of "works today, works tomorrow, never goes out of fashion?" Not many…MORE…

My imagination was captivated by the above words…so I decided to do some quality investigation over at your friend and mine, YouTube!  Check out the very first Bike tricks recording anywhere by Thomas Edison back in 1899:

Is that cool or what?  Think about it – an invention from over a hundred years ago…and you still see them here today!

Which brings me to the point of this post.

Tell me now, and be painfully honest….are your skills so timeless that no matter WHAT happens in the economy…you can turn on a dime and still be successful?

Hmmm?

Or are you one of those "Must…..have….latest……greatest……tool!" folk who continuously try this thing and that…but never stay long enough at something to truly master it?

Now so, more than ever, you simply NEED to put into place a process that WORKS.

And by WORKS, I mean something upon which you can depend to deliver a reliable income.  It could be your consulting, it could be your info-product selling, it could be your salaried paycheck….

SOMETHING.

This is NOT a time for analysis/paralysis!  If you are seized by an insane desire to succeed, you need to get yourself out there and create your own success….because nobody else will do it for you.

I remember back in 2004 when I broke the Google SEO code and brought in 250K that year.  Back then, I was able to achieve top 10 ranking for any (and I mean ANY, like "1957 ford" or "mesothelioma lawyer") keyphrase whatsoever.  But to design that pages that raked in this money, I had two choices – either teach myself complicated programming or fall back upon one of my Stone Age skills – that of masterful KSH hacking.

I opted for the second, and the rest was history.  I learned the sensual pleasures of KSH, gosh, hmmmm back in 1988…and was then able to apply those lessons 16 years later and milk Adsense to the hilt.

Gosh those were the days! 

Anywhos, the point remains.  Never abandon hard-won skills of your past simply because of the latest/greatest thingees that might emerge tomorrow!  To this day, I use my KSH skills to whip out scripted pages that would otherwise takes hours or days to complete.   Dinosaur-time?  Perhaps….but the end results speak for themselves.

Timelessness – make certain your reputation and abilities exude this quality.  It can truly make you stand head and shoulders above the crowd.

Enjoy,

Barbara Ling

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