Modern Samurai | Ancient Wisdom for the Modern World

If you do not go after what you want, You'll never have it, If you do not ask, The answer will always be no, If you do not step forward, you'll always be in the same place.

Curated by Martin R Ricketts Source: https://bit.ly/DSS-TheDoctrine-of-One

As entrepreneurs, it's important to remember that if you don't go after what you want, you'll never have it. It's easy to get stuck in our comfort zones and to be afraid of taking risks, but in order to achieve success, we must be willing to step out of our comfort zones and pursue our dreams.

This also applies to asking for what we want. If we don't ask for what we want, the answer will always be no. Whether it's asking for a raise, negotiating a deal, or seeking out new opportunities, we must be willing to ask for what we want in order to have a chance at achieving it.

Finally, if we don't step forward, we'll always be in the same place. In order to move forward and make progress, we must be willing to take action and make things happen. This means being proactive and taking the initiative, even if it means stepping out of our comfort zones.

Success is nothing more than a few simple disciplines practiced every day.

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Learning is the beginning of wealth and health. Learning is the beginning of life change.

Life change does not begin with inspiration; life change starts with education. So educate yourself daily. Be your own best teacher, make a list of areas where you might have messed up and go to work on yourself.

Curated by Martin R. Ricketts Source: Jim Rohn

Success cannot be defined in one sentence, but instead, it comprises many things. One could argue that the definition depends on the individual, and one size does not fit all. What is clear is that education is the foundation of success.

Our mission is to guide and empower our clients with technology and tactics, so they can discover their core competency, their brilliance, their Superpower.

By identifying jobs, you're not good at and hyper-targeting tasks you don't want to do, you can spend more time educating yourself and outsourcing everything else that doesn't enrich your knowledge and improve your life. This is only possible with automated systems and processes in place.

It takes time to build systems to outsource the jobs you don't like, so the sooner you get started, the better.

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Giving Tuesday, a global day of giving, was created in 2012 as a simple idea: a day that encourages people to do good. Over the last decade, this idea has become a global movement that inspires millions to give, collaborate, and celebrate generosity.

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You can volunteer your time; donate money; share your skills; campaign for something; donate goods, food, or clothes; or organize a community event such as a street or park clean-up or a coffee morning. The list is endless, so be imaginative.

BE PROUD! Tell the world how proud you are to donate, volunteer for, or support a good cause.

Service to others is altruistic, but it's also self-interested, and there's nothing wrong with that. It's a win win. Most people find profound joy in service to others—the greater the service, the greater your Fulfillment.

Digital Samurai’s core philosophy has always been about service. Samurai literally means “to serve.” So think about how you can contribute to your community and the world because the best way to get what you want is to get others what they want.

Celebrate service.

Celebrate life!

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There are some people who live to work. They relish being a hustler, grinding it out. They chortle at your nine-to-five regimen, and they can’t understand why anyone would be attracted to “quiet quitting.”

In this video Martin discusses what Millennials and Gen Zers really want.

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Source: https://bit.ly/3sNsNeZ

Reimagine the future of work. Design your future

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A successful man is one who can lay a firm foundation with the bricks others have thrown at him. Having the courage to overcome your fears is one of the essential attributes of a successful entrepreneur.

Curated by Martin R Ricketts Source: https://bit.ly/DSS-TheDoctrine-of-One

Bootstrapping a startup is the definition of uncertainty and not for the faint of heart. And as Steve Jobs famously said, "The only way to do great work is to love what you do."

At the most fundamental level, your most important job as an entrepreneur is to capture information coming into your digital world, process it and deploy it as valuable marketing assets that generate recurring revenues.

Building recurring revenues is a process over time. It's not transactional it's relational and it can't be rushed. Building automated recurring revenues is hard but it's also the only way you'll build a business that doesn't require you to be chained to your desk.

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Google announced that it is upgrading Cloud Storage from 15GB to 1TB for free. Here's what will be Changed.

Curated by Martin R Ricketts Source: https://bit.ly/3TT8qZZ

“Your storage is full.” You must have found this message a number of times while uploading files onto your Google Drive, adding a new Video or photo to Google Photos or even keeping emails stored in your mailbox.

Google is ending this hassle of managing storage for Google Workspace individual accounts. In an attempt to support users to expand their businesses, collaborate and communicate more effectively, Google is now increasing the current 15GB free storage to 1TB.

To be more competitive in the digital age, entrepreneurs need to systematize and formalize as many activities as possible. Google Drive is a complete system tightly integrated with other essential products that make collaborating and working with people across the planet much easier.

Improving efficiencies and lowering friction at a granular level reaps enormous benefits over time in critical areas such as communications, collaboration, data management, production and Logistics.

Google understands less is more. Technology should be effortless to use. Simple, elegant solutions for remote working are challenging to achieve unless you continuously remove technology friction in the user experience, and that is what Google Drive enables you to do. By raising the storage limit to 1TB, Google makes this invaluable tool even more useful.

Which cloud storage service do you use?

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The Modern Samurai interviews, with Martin Ricketts, the Digital Samurai, hosted by Anita Narayan. Learn faster, work smarter, get things done.

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In this interview, Martin talks with Anita about how to build your brand using social storytelling and targeted content that adds value to your target audience.

Curated by: Martin R. Ricketts

ANITA: I wonder, this is a good point too, to go onto the next topic, that the topic of content and there's kind of. about three things I want to explore with you. Firstly, what the relevance of content is, but also what sort of content entrepreneurs should be creating,, and also how they break that overwhelm of being consistent with it.

And I want to start that first bit, what is the relevance, by kind of putting a scope out there, because I hear like a scope of opinion on this . On the one hand, people say ‘you've got to post on social media four times a day’. On the other hand, the other end of the spectrum, I hear ‘no get right to the point, do a webinar or something that showcases your expertise.’ So with that in mind, what is the relevance of content in, in this whole sales and marketing process, Martin?

MARTIN: Well, it starts with the relationship people have to your brand and that is of course built over time. But the way you build that relationship, now this is the good news, is social media. People diss on social media, but it is the best way to build your brand and build relationships where, then people over time will get to know, like, and trust you and then buy what you have to offer.

It's a fantastic way of doing that, and the language of social media is storytelling. And for storytelling, you need video because people don't like to read. You can certainly do all the rest of the types of media, video, audio, text, all of that but video is really the one that's going to move the needle. And so content is king. That's an old saying, people have said that for a long time, but in fact, I would update that to say, content is king.

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How much time do you waste looking for files? 150hrs are wasted each year by the average executive looking for information. We call that the “Technology Chaos Problem”

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Source: https://bit.ly/DSS-TheDoctrine-of-One

Using technology can be effortless, but I realize that's not most people's experience. It's a journey. Creating effortless solutions takes well, effort, and time. Constant refinements, course corrections, and pivots are required.

Technology can be frustrating indeed, but when the right tech is properly integrated with elegant strategies designed to reduce friction and confusion, it becomes seamless, and ideally invisible. Like making a long-distance phone call.

So have you solved technology chaos? Do you want to?

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In this video, Martin talks about Our Targeted Learning Program, one of our most important differentiators. It was developed by my colleague Dr. Stephen Hobbs. Our production system is conversation-based, so you simply tell us what type of video you want to create without endless back and forth.

Curated by Martin R Ricketts Source: https://bit.ly/DSS-TheDoctrine-of-One

To provide an effortless user experience, Digital Samurai only uses the best tool for the job. We call this a proactive wise practice. Utilizing a guide on the ride, targeted Learning System is a proactive wise practice which lowers onboarding time and increases retention of information.

Click the Doctrine of One link to learn how we use proactive wise practices and inspired standards, why we selected the tools in our approved products list, and how you can use them in your business.

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The physical and mental effort required to operate at a world-class level in anything is considerable. It demands persistence, tenacity and commitment over time. But Digital Samurai agrees with Charles Darwin. The most important trait is the ability to adapt quickly to change and avail yourself of the new tools now available due to the exponential growth of technology and AI.

Curated by Martin R Ricketts

Source: https://bit.ly/DSS-TheDoctrine-of-One

That is the essence of the Digital Samurai system. Continuous refinement of your strategy, your content, your message and your offer over time so you can maximize retention of clients and conversion of prospects. The most reliable way to consistently improve all those metrics is to continuously evolve and improve the client experience.

The most successful entrepreneurs understand the critical importance of cultivating the right mindset and honing mental and emotional discipline. Having the focus and resolve to practice a few simple disciplines every day is just as essential for success as any tool or tactic you possess. Leveraging technology and AI tools is the best way to ensure you accomplish things. That's why we first teach clients how to take the friction out of their communications and data management, in other words, daily conversations and sending and receiving files.

We teach clients how to leverage Samurai Thinking. No improvement is too small in the art of wielding the Katana, the Samurai sword. To maximize economy of motion, striving to attain the perfection of technique is the essence of Iaido.

Our strategy and mindset program, eBudo, adopted similar Iaido principles. We focus on minimizing the friction in your daily Communications and data management. We start by fixing technology chaos by lowering friction and Noise because we understand the immense advantage clients have if they can stay in the creative state rather than being forced to answer technical or production questions.

Digital Samurai makes the technology and the production process invisible. So you can focus on elegance and beauty: intellect, sagacity, nuance and Cadence, Form and Function, complexity disguised as simplicity. We solve technology chaos so you can stay in the zone, the vortex, the flow.

We want to empower you to resonate with source energy, the Power of the Universe, the energy that creates worlds. We do that because we know that is where the magic happens and creativity flows.

The longer you can enable your clients to stay in the flow, the more they will appreciate what you have to offer.

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