Seth Godin has an uncanny way of observing things and stating something that everybody sees but never take note. Here are more of his statement of notes from his latest blog post.

1.) Real Security Comes from Growth.
2.) When your goal is to fit in, you won’t stand out later.
3.) Become wary of creating standards. when you do, people follow you, and if they can do it better or cheaper, then you’re out. Well, in short, really, whether you create a standard or not, you have to be ahead and stay ahead.
4.) its better to bet on change than in not changing.
5.) I agree wholeheartedly on this — doing something half good is sometimes more disastrous than doing nothing at all. As i said in previous post, if you don’t do it well,you create distrust. People who can’t do proper tech support for instance, or deliver a bad presentation creates a more disastrous effect than ifthey don’t do it at all.
6.) its all about execution, not the idea.

And an apt ending - don’t let the watermelon seeds prevent you from enjoying the watermelon!

Yesterday I attended a session on how to be successful. The speaker was the country managing director of IBM Philippines, Mr. Joaquin Quintos.

The important thing to realize, according to him, is that it is hard to monopolize the resources essential to success anymore.  There was a time when people could be successful because they have the advantage of location, of connections, of knowledge, of land etc.

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It seems like you have to be careful what you post.  A 22 year old woman was arrested after she tried to hire someone to kill another woman whose photo her boyfriend posted in his MySpace.com web page.  It wasn’t even clear if the boyfriend and the woman was romantically involved, but the woman obviously tried to do her boyfriend in. More ….

Last weekend,  I had a great time with my kids teaching the younger one ride a bike.  As I recall the many great time I had as kids, it pays to enjoy your kids and the memories will see you through a lot of challenging times.

 There are some simple skills that are memorable, as I am sure many of you will remember the first time — you ride a skate, ride a bike, learn swimming, fly a kite, learn to type.  These simple skills are go with you when you grow old, the memories of the first time always there, and knowing how to do these things increases also confidence.  Won’t you wish that when your kids reminisce that — you as a parent was there trying to teach them?