Today I am starting a project called Delivering Happiness in Real Time from the #1 book on the New York Times Bestselling List - Delivering Happiness
A Path to Profits, Passion, And Purpose By Tony Hsieh
Everyone has a story to tell and Tony told his. People are enthralled with the book from the second they open the front cover, including me. Why? Is it because he’s a millionaire? Is it because we all want something he has? Ummmm…yes, the answer would be yes!
But know this…It’s not the money and it’s not the power, it’s his attitude. Tony has learned to actually LIVE the secret…do what you love and the money will come! Tony stated, “For me personally, I guess I would think of happiness is when you are actually truly OK with losing everything that you have. It’s less about external and really more about what’s internal.” - Very powerful statement, but how do you get there? I guess we just all need to read his book and find out…
It seems as though he knows this book is bigger than himself already and I would consider Tony a “Transformer” - not the toy, just a person that can have the power to wake others up. Reminds me of Eckhart Tolle’s famous question - Are you ready to be awakened?
About me:
I was sitting in a college marketing class and one of my professors told the story of SMARTFOOD Popcorn and how the packaging (the black shiny crinkly bag) made all of the difference. He continued to share the founder’s successful journey and from that point forward I got the bug! I was determined to make money somehow, someway. Let’s see, (with family members or friends) I started a house cleaning business, a catalog business, an adventure company, real estate (buy and sell houses), a marketing company and presently my sisters and I own - HipPurse.com
Every company (besides HipPurse) was driven by money, no passion and had failure written all over it. HipPurse has a purpose… to make a woman’s life easier, give back, and to share empowering messages to all little girls. You’ll get a kick out of this story, so stay tuned…
I crafted this idea about a featured blog called Delivering Happiness in Real Time, wrote an email to Tony with the Subject Line: A Proposal for you and within 10 hours and 37 minutes he wrote back “i'm cc'ing jenn and eleen who will be following up with you!” Still amazed at how quickly he responded!
Overall, I want this blog to become the Julie and Julia for small business owners. We’ll go step-by-step and section-by-section utilizing Tony’s inspirational methods and philosophies and we’ll turn our small LLC into a monster corporation. It will be fun to see if we can actually make that happen! :) Our goal is to learn, share, connect and help other small companies along the way!
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