Weekly Wisdom from Karen
ILLUMINATION Edition #entrepreneurship #psychology #misogyny #lifelessons #selflove #bookreviews #filmreview
Business is essential to many people. Some businesses find success, others don't. Some entrepreneurs fail multiple times, others get their product or service right the first time.
The movie business is one we have all been enjoying this last year for entertainment. Netflix solved a big problem for the movie distribution economy. Making it easy for viewers to pay a reasonable fee to watch movies to their hearts' delight. A way to pass the time without fear of going to prison for illegally downloading pirate copies from thieves is a win-win for both parties.
We’ll start this week’s wisdom with an article from Joel Oughton. He lays out a comprehensive guide to setting up your business to solve a problem. If you think about it, readers want to know how to do well in the world. Success is a dream for many people.
Apparently, only 50% of all small businesses last more than 5 years, according to the U.S Small Business Administration. Perhaps this can be partly attributed to failing to build a product or service that solves a specific problem or for losing focus on why the business exists and who the business is providing a service or product for.
Nothing worthwhile is ever easy and Jake Neptune has experienced this first hand. And succeeded. His wisdom may very well inspire you to give something you love doing all your skill and patience to be successful.
For the longest time, I always wanted to make a living online. It all started in summer 2015 when I was 23 years old and had just left college. Then, I wasn’t very serious about life. I hung around the wrong company; all we did was drink alcohol, smoke weed, and partied till dawn.
This writer has achieved top writer status in three topics. Kara Summers’ personal experience in the workplace is an eyeopener where misogyny and hiring a woman for her looks is concerned.
I was 26 when I had my second ever professional interview. I felt so anxious and worried about anything that might happen. I had just been diagnosed with IBS and it appeared that my stomach was louder than the music in the lobby where I waited. I tried to focus on my breath, but the thoughts kept interrupting me: “What if they asked me a technical question that I didn’t know the answer to? What if they thought I had exaggerated on my CV? Why on earth did I think applying was a good idea?”
Do. Learn. Move on. This brilliant article from YJ Jun will help anyone who has difficulty accepting that some things have already been perfected. All you have to do is follow the simple instructions. Reaching that point of realisation can be slow going.
My kimchi was bad — again, for the fourth time in a row. I glared at my black marble countertop as I crunched, trying to make sense of how the pickled cabbage could taste too bitter and sweet at the same time.
Many of us are waking up to the fact that money really can’t buy you self-love. The Bumble Life knows you can’t buy self-care either. They share their wisdom with us to help us through our day.
It is more important than ever to practice self-care to help us with our ability to cope with these issues. Self-care is sold to us as fancy luxuries such as bath bombs, beauty products, and other purchasable goods. That said, I don’t subscribe to this myth as I feel the effects when I do not practice self-care.
Star Reads
This writer is a writing goddess in my eyes. Britni Pepper draws you in with her titles and header images and then causes your eyeballs to lap up her every word.
Someone mentioned Wild Animus, which was given away by the thousands when I was at university and is a textbook example of how not to write a novel. I was one with the reviewer who said they went into the outback and buried their copy under a rock. It was truly awful.
Britni’s review of The Dig also had to be shared with you, for several reasons. The first being the story and atmospheric filming which combine to produce the perfect movie. Secondly, the film is a wonderful insight into the despicable behaviour of greedy arrogant snobs.
Lastly, Britni brings her inimitable humour to the review and does justice to the film with her words.
Carey Mulligan plays landed gentlewoman Edith Pretty, who resides in a suitably ancient stone mansion, complete with butler at the door. Ralph Fiennes as the self-taught archaeologist Basil Brown is there ringing the bell, twisting his cap in a suitably working class way, and arguing over the weekly shillings he will receive in return for investigating Mrs Pretty’s mounds.
Thank you for reading.
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