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How Bad Do You Want Success?

11/24/2012

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Recently I came to see a video of an obstacle run that had a guy telling a story about a man that want to have success and his guru. The story caught my attention and I looked for more information about it. In fact, that story appears to be very famous and for those who did not listen to it, I can say that it is worth.

That story detaches one of the main skills that I believe that make entrepreneurs succeed: determination

You can watch one video with the story below:
If you prefer, you can read the main part of the story below: 
How Bad Do You Want Success by Eric Thomas.

It was young man who wanted to make a lot of money, so he went to this guru, right?
And he told the guru, "You know, I wanna be on the same level you on."
And so the guru said, "If you wanna be on the same level I'm on, I'll meet you tomorrow, at the beach, at 4am"
He thinks, "The beach? I said I wanna make money! I don't wanna swim"
Guru said, "If you wanna money, I'll meet you tomorrow. 4am."

So the young man got there, 4am. He's all ready to rock and roll. He got on the suit....he shoulda worn shorts...
The old man grabs his hand, say, "How bad do you wanna be successful?"
He said, "Real bad."
He said, "Walk on out in the water."
So he walks out into the water, listen carefully, when he walks out into the water, he goes waist deep. So he's thinking, "This guy is crazy. How am i gonna make money, he got me out here swimmin'? I didnt ask to be a lifeguard, I wanna make money." 
Guru said, "Come out a little further." So, walked out a little further, then he had it right the shoulder area.
He's thinking, "Yo this ol' man crazy! He makin' money, but he crazy!"
Guru said, "Come out a little farther." So, he came out little farther. It was right at his mouth. He thinkin', "Im 'bout to go back in, he outta his mind."
So the old man said, "I thought you said you wanted to be successful." Man said, "I do!"
Guru said, "Walk a little farther." He came, dropped his head in, held him down, hold him down, the guy scratchin'.

Just before my man was about to pass out, the Guru raised him up. He said, "I got a question for ya."
He said, "When you were underwater, what did you wanna do?!"
He said, "I wanted to BREATHE."

He todl the guy, he said, "When you want to succeed, as BAD as you want to breathe, THEN you'll be successful. You dont care about no basketball game! You dont care what's on TV, you dont care about nobody callin' you, you dont care about no damn party! The ONLY thing you care about when you tryin' to breathe, is to get some fresh air. That's it."
"...And when you get to the point, and WHEN you get to the point where all you wanan do is be successful as bad as you want to breathe, THEN you'll be successful."

And I'm here to tell you, number one. That most of say you want to be successful, but you don't want it bad! You just kinda' want it. 

You dont want it badder then you wanna party. You dont want it as much as you wanna be cool. Most of you don't want success as much as you wanna sleep! 
Some of you love sleep more then you love success. And I'm here to tell you today, if you're going to be successful, you've got to be willing to give up sleep. You've got to be willing to work off of three hours of sleep, two hours; If you REALLY wanna be successful, some days, you gonna have to stay up three days in a row!

Then you'll be successful.

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Reb Beach Games now is a Microsoft® BizSpark® start-up

11/13/2012

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For those who didn't know, Red Beach Games is the name of the company that I co-founded and that is developing the mobile games that I talk about here.

Last week I received the information that my company has been accepted as a Microsoft BizSpark start-up. The Microsoft® BizSpark® is a global program that helps software startups succeed by giving them access to software development tools, connecting them with key industry players, and providing marketing visibility.

We are very excited to participate in such pretigious program and if you have a software start-up I highly recommend you to apply for the program.
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Soon review about 2 tools for Corona

11/6/2012

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Andres Loew gentily gave me free licences to review two of his products. The products are:
  • PhysicsEditor: tool that helps you create perfect shapes for physics interaction
  • TexturePacker: tool that helps you create sprite sheets for your game

I will try the products and post a complete review here in this blog. In the meantime, I suggest you to check the programs' website because they appear to be very useful (and they work not only with Corona, but also almost cross-development platform).
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Entrepreneurs' life

11/6/2012

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Just sharing a cool video that I saw recently. If you are entrepreneur, I think you will identify yourself with the video.
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