Hello and welcome to Pocket Thoughts! We’ve got an interesting episode for you all today! I will go more into depth on this at the beginning of the show, but we all gave each other a week to think about Educating Entrepreneurs and where we stand with it. Do we like it still? Do we want to move forward with it? Is someone in the group leaving? You will hear those answers and more during the episode! Thank you all for listening and have a wonderful week!

With graduation season upon us I wanted to share my three favorite commencement speeches with all of you!

You can't be perfect at everything. Heck you can't even be perfect at a few things. But you can always put your head down and continue to improve on a daily!

I was sat down once by a mentor and he said the following, "You don't follow complete a single project. You're an idea guy, not an entrepreneur." Here's the story.

You will get kicked to the ground over and over again on your road to success. The lucky thing is, everyone else gets kicked to the ground as well. If you choose to get up more times than everyone else you will succeed! I guarantee it.

You need to take advantage of others people experience. Think about it, any successful individual in your field has already discovered the road map to success and most of them are willing to share it with you as long as you provide enough value for them. If you sacrifice your time, effort, and sometimes money, ultra-successful individuals will share their knowledge with you. And trust me, that knowledge will likely help save you weeks if not months of time and thousands of dollars. It's always worth it!

Always, always, always put relationships before financial gains. Relationships and love are what makes us happy, not the other way around.

Whether you want to write a blog, publish a book, or just blow away fellow coworkers with your incredible emails, learning to write will play a key role in your professional success. The key to learning how to write properly is simple: “Write like crap if you have to. But write every day and always keep the streak alive” -Beth Dunn. You don’t have to write a lot, you just have to write often. And the reason you have to write often, is because you must develop a writing habit (we’ll get into habits in a different blog post) that differentiates you from the billions of people writing content every day.

How does crowdsolving look in practice? It usually involves an organization asking an online audience to submit ideas, prototypes, or feedback in order to provoke innovation. LEGO IDEAS, a site where LEGO asks its followers to submit new product ideas, is a real-life example of crowdsolving.

Although it may first appear as if crowdsolving is predominantly a means for an organization to access new ideas, this is not true. There are, according to crowdsolving experts Abrahamson, Ryder, and Unterberg (Crowdstorm), five main objectives that crowdsolving can achieve...

No matter the job type...Having the crazy belief that YOU can change the world is incredible! But it is definitely a lonely walk down the path to greatness.