Does it feel like your business is a battle sometimes? Like things are so complicated? Like you have to go through so much to accomplish so little? Take a step back and re-think your strategies.

This doesn’t really have anything to do with business, but it makes me lol every time!

Every characteristic of yours is an asset in business, sometimes we need to learn how to use it in sync with everything else, but nonetheless it can be a valuable asset. So what if you’re a little too creative, or perhaps too analytical, who knows even a little clumsy? Incorporate it to your brand, show the world who you are and allow them to engage with you because of it. So you have a “sneaky paw?” Don’t fight it, use it to get a better grip on that yummy bone!

J.K. Rowling speaks at Harvard Commencement about the benefits of failure, prepare to be enlightened:

“So why do I talk about the benefits of failure? Simply because failure meant a stripping away of the inessential. I stopped pretending to myself that I was anything other than what I was, and began to direct all my energy into finishing the only work that mattered to me. Had I really succeeded at anything else, I might never have found the determination to succeed in the one arena I believed I truly belonged. I was set free, because my greatest fear had already been realised, and I was still alive, and I still had a daughter whom I adored, and I had an old typewriter and a big idea. And so rock bottom became the solid foundation on which I rebuilt my life.

You might never fail on the scale I did, but some failure in life is inevitable. It is impossible to live without failing at something, unless you live so cautiously that you might as well not have lived at all – in which case, you fail by default”.

J.K. Rowling speaking at Harvard part 1:

Read the entire text, get mp3, or watch the full video at:
http://harvardmagazine.com/go/jkrowling.html