John Barksdale Polymath, Cryptocurrency Specialist

When you go to a discussion session with a prospect for persuading him/her to buy what you are offering, you are likely to think that you need luck. However instead of praying that luck should favor you, you should make efforts to handle the session effectively. Of course, you need to prepare well before the session. As John Barksdale quotes Benjamin Franklin, "By failing to prepare, you are preparing to fail." Not only that, you need to put certain things out of your mind during the session. Let us now look at what these thoughts are. Never keep worrying over your own problems As an entrepreneur, you may be facing some problems in your business, but those issues should not distract you when you discuss with your prospects. Remember that when you allow yourself to be distracted, you will not handle the discussions efficiently. Customers can easily sense that you are not in your element. This may repel them and so, your efforts to persuade them will not fructify. Never a...

When you launch your business, you will be investing your money with the hope that you will succeed in your entrepreneurial venture. However, when something goes wrong or if you take a wrong step the implications of which are quite severe, you are likely to fear if things will become a muddier morass or if you will be able to come out of the boggy ground. You are already having the stress of not being able to produce the results you want to have. In addition, you will attract a lot of criticisms from all quarters. These criticisms will be adding fuel to the fire. In this context, you will not know how you should respond to such criticisms. Let us find out. Realize the fact that failures and roadblocks are a part of an entrepreneurial journey You should understand the facts that roadblocks and setbacks are bound to be there in an entrepreneurial journey. When you confront such situations, people including your partners, relatives and friends are likely to criticize you. You should...

If you are able to achieve work-life balance, despite being a business owner and despite devoting time for making all the efforts for growing your business, you certainly deserve accolades. However when you suddenly stumble upon a powerful idea that can catapult your business to great heights but that can also negatively impact your work-life balance, what will you do? Let us find out what aspects you should consider before making your decision. Recall why you are doing your business Recall what inspired you to choose the entrepreneurial path. Revisit the question once again. Most probably, the reason for your choice might be that you wanted to have complete control over your life. Of course, financial freedom might have been one of the reasons as well. What is work-life balance according to you? You may be a believer of what John Barksdale said quoting Rumi, "Live life as if everything is rigged in your favor." So, according to you, work-life balance means that ...

Is success only about financial profitability? Because if that were so, your journey to success would be longer than you would have imagined. While financial profitability of course is one major milestone of defining success, there are many non-financial milestones, that when crossed, would make you a successful entrepreneur. Success is of course subjective but most successful entrepreneurs define success through these milestones. Famous motivational speaker Zig Ziglar, once said, “The foundation stones for a balanced success are honesty, character, integrity, faith, love and loyalty”. Changing the definition of failure: Many successful entrepreneurs say that they felt successful when they changed their attitude towards failure. Failure is defined as not trying and not on the basis of the outcome. Level of engagement: The more engaged you are in your venture and passionate about it, the more successful you feel. If you feel it, you become it, says noted entrepreneur John Barksdale...

Being a business owner, you want to achieve success quickly, but remember achieving instant success is impossible whatever may be your venture. However it is certainly possible to achieve your business goal within a reasonable period. There are some experts who emphatically say that if you adopt certain ways, you can achieve success in your business within 11 months. Remember the words of Jim Rohn who said, "Success is nothing more than a few simple disciplines practiced every day." Let us find out what steps you should adopt. Get a firm grip on what you do You should first make a firm choice on what you want to do. Why should you take this step of making a firm choice? Only if you take this step, you will not get distracted from it. Before you make the choice, you should do a lot of research so the choice you make is perfect. It should not only suit you, but it should get you the success you are aiming for. Once you determine what you want to do, you should ensure to...

Once you launch your business, you will make plans and strategies for acquiring a customer base, expanding it, marketing, making sales and earning revenue. You may put in place an elegant and attractive website for the business. The process for setting up your business may start off fun, but all your efforts can turn out to be 'mechanical monsters' that may ultimately mean "Zero" because you may not get the customers you expected to acquire. This also means that you will not be earning the revenue you have been aiming for. This increases the chances of you becoming frustrated. You may even start doubting if you have made the right decision of entering the entrepreneurial world. Of course, such self-doubts are normal when you are not getting the results for which you have been working towards. Even highly successful entrepreneurs face such situations when they become start-up owners. So, what is the solution for this and what is the key component that will help you o...

You may not realize it, but a poker player and a businessman have more in common than you may have thought. Just like in the game of poker, you need patience and confidence to carry on with the situation at hand. Poker requires you to concentrate, be careful and have the ability to put off fire all around you. Along with these, what you need is precision. As John Barksdale , the successful entrepreneur once said quoting the Sufi poet Rumi, “Live life as if everything is rigged in your favor.” You have to be confident that the fate will turn in your favor and hence, you must act accordingly. Be disciplined and principled You may feel sometimes that you need to leave your principles for some gain or some advances. Do not do that because karma will follow you. Always stay resilient, fight with your principles, with your disciplines intact and you will certainly reap your rewards. It is an age old proven formula and you will benefit from it as well. Do not bite off more than you can c...