Great article for young professionals

25 Things Every Young Professional Should Know by Age 25. Great article, our favorite is #16

Yahoo holding N.Y. event to reveal 'something special'

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Yahoo invited press today to a product event in New York saying only that it will "share something special" soon after reports that the company is going to buy blog platform Tumblr.

It seems Yahoo has been very product-focused in the months since Marissa Mayer both took the chief executive corner office and demanded that critical employees not work from home.

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Sweet!

Nvidia Shield preorder live, still shipping end of June

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This sponsored post is produced by Dealzon.

Nvidia jumped the gun today, announcing you can now preorder their handheld Shield console three days earlier than previously publicized.

At $350, Nvidia’s Shield is an interesting gaming device. On the one hand, it’s a bit pricey as an Android gaming device. On the other hand, it’s a nifty mobile console, allowing you to stream compatible PC games from your desktop to the Shield (still in Beta) or to any HDTV via HDMI.

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Pretty cool!

Avoid the easy life!

Why You Should Avoid The Easy Life AT ALL COSTS

 

 

There has never yet been a man in our history who led a life of ease whose name is worth remembering. - Theodore Roosevelt

Never in history has the easy life led to a great life. Not in one case has something great come without tribulation, struggle, or failure. Instead of fearing struggle, strain, and tribulation, you should embrace it; nay, seek it at every opportunity, and incorporate it into your life daily. It’s in struggle that you experience growth. It’s in conquering obstacles that you experience life.

 

A Case Against the Easy Life

Ease isn’t living, it’s dying. It’s forgoing life and awaiting death. Ease brings a halt to your growth and evolution as a human being.

Every year I do an exercise where I write out my perfect day. The other day I looked back at what my ‘perfect day’ was 5 years ago. It was almost the exact opposite of what my vision of success is today.

Back then I wanted ease. I wanted no alarm clock, little work, and a life of luxury. What I’ve come to understand is that in creating the ability to have that life of luxury, I’ll have to go through my fair share of failures and struggles.

Those failures and struggles are where I’ll develop into a man, a success, and a better human being. Why, then, would I want to forgo that growth? Why, even if I’m able, would I reach my idea of success, and then simply stop my evolution by lulling in to a life of ease?

Today, I know I wouldn’t. Just because success is attained doesn’t mean our growth as people, entrepreneurs, or leaders, comes to a halt. Look at Teddy Roosevelt. He never stopped achieving, accomplishing, and growing as an individual until the day he died. The same with Steve Jobs, Napoleon Bonaparte, Andrew Carnegie, and any other person in history who accomplished anything of great value.

 

 

Ease is Not Only Useless, It’s Evil

There’s a commonly held world view that your life is your own and you have the right to do what you want with it. I disagree with one aspect of this argument, and that is with regards to laziness.

Just like ease has created nothing of great value in the way of great people on this planet, the fundamental understand that your time on this earth is limited and dwindling has led to great accomplishment, and names worth remembering.

It’s a universal truth that the day you’re born is the day you start dying. Those who accomplish greatness understand this, and they don’t let a day go to waste.

It’s also a universal truth – especially in this free, democratic, capitalistic society – that many have died so you and I can live the freedom you so casually take for granted. They’ve sacrificed their lives in battle. They’ve laid down their lives in protest. They’ve given their lives to innovation and helping others.

Those who came before you, and died before you, have done so in vain if you give your life to laziness, and that’s when laziness is no longer a right, but an evil.

Ease’s ugly cousin is laziness. To be a lazy person is a slap in the face of anyone who’s sacrificed anything to give you the life you currently enjoy – to give you the option of being lazy. Be it your mother, father, grandparents, or that soldier who died in the Second World War whom you’ll never meet, but owe so much.

 

How to Truly Live: Embrace the Struggle

The goal for all of us here at Addicted2Success, is to create a successful life. I’m sure we can all agree that a successful life, in part, is one truly lived. That is, a life filled with accomplishment, adventure, highs and lows, struggle, defeat, and victory. A life is filled with action, not ease.

Look back to the man who gave us that famous quote at the beginning of this article, Theodore Roosevelt. Roosevelt was a man who embraced the strenuous life. He saw the value in hardship, and the evil of a life of ease. As such, he accomplished more in his 60 years than dozens have in their 100.

To create a life of accomplishment, and one of success, YOU have to embrace hard work. Hard work creates grit. It gives us a sense of pride, purpose, and accomplishment; without which, we can never truly feel as though we’re giving our best to this dying flame we call life, or our true value to the rest of those we’re connected to on this planet.

Instead of looking forward to a future of ease, embrace your present hardships, and look to add more strain to your life. This is how you grow. This is how you evolve. This is how you live.

Work Hard, Play Hard!

Top performers were invited to attend last nights Sacramento Kings vs. LA Clippers game with the manager Eric. It turned out to be a great game, with the Kings lighting it up in the final few minutes to beat LA! Magnetic Consulting Group’s philosophy is to work hard and play hard, and reward those who demonstrate consistently high performance!

Reid, Tracy, Dasha, Prentice, Dustin, Kailie and Graham

Great last few minutes of the game to pull ahead and #BeatLA

Tiger Woods records his 75th career win

Great article on one of the greatest to play the sport! Starting the year off right!

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/01/28/tiger-woods-wins-farmers-open-torrey-pines_n_2568418.html

How To Develop Young Leaders

Never Too Young to Lead

The young people in your company are ready to lead. Here’s how to prepare them for the responsibility.

 

“We expect to lead and be led. In the absence of orders I will take charge, lead my teammates, and accomplish the mission. I lead by example in all situations.” — Navy SEAL Creed

My first combat mission with my Navy SEAL platoon was to secure a hydroelectric power plant in Northern Iraq. My role on this mission was to guide the helicopter pilots over the landing zone and manage the fast rope insertion for our assault team. At the time, I thought this was a lot of responsibility for a new guy. What I figured out after we nailed our landing, and after many other successful missions, is that age has very little to do with leadership ability.

The SEAL Teams are a relatively flat organization. Everyone goes through the same grueling training, and everyone is trained to lead regardless of age or rank. In the business world, emergent leadership is about team members taking the initiative to accept more responsibility and perform work outside of their general roles. If we, as leaders, encourage and promote this type of drive, our young team members will be ready to rise within the organization, and our companies will be better off for it.

Here are four ways we can prepare our young people for leadership:

• Showcase their talent. Don’t hide your young leaders. Show them to the world. Let them be the face of your company. Encourage them to contribute to the company blog or industry publications, take training courses, speak at conferences and trade shows, and collaborate on ways to improve company systems and offerings.
• Manage them, not their work. If you have the right people in the right jobs, don’t micromanage their efforts. Set boundaries and then back off. Allow them to be innovative and develop systems, processes, and methodologies that will get the job done. Doing this will not only result in a more confident team and better retention, but will give your team members a sense of ownership that they wouldn’t get by simply following orders.
• Let them fail.  While providing guidance and leadership, we must also allow for failure. Encourage your young leaders to take calculated risks when appropriate. When things don’t go as planned, use that as a coaching opportunity to help them understand how to succeed in the future. Any successful entrepreneur knows that they have gained the most wisdom through their mistakes.
• Link their effort to tangible results. Real leaders want to know exactly how their role affects the growth of the company. As you develop leaders, give them goals and milestones to hit so they understand the roadmap for success. Ensure that they know exactly how their efforts and results drive the company forward. As they develop in leadership roles, they will know how they got there and where they need to go next.

Let’s encourage our young team members and provide them the resources for success. If we can build our emerging leadership teams from loyal employees who started at the bottom, then our companies will be stronger and have a more loyal foundation for growth.

~Navy SEAL combat veteran Brent Gleeson