Tag: business development

Being Copied

Successful new businesses
are differentiated a bit
from their competitors.
That is why
customers choose them.

Successful new businesses
are also
copied.
Other people see their success
and want to be
just like them.

But these copycats
will never be
exactly like the original.

Their business builders
aren’t you and I.
They’re different people
with different outlooks on life
and different strengths
and weaknesses.

The copycat businesses will never
be known
as the first.
There is only one first
and our businesses
have that title.

Our businesses also
should be evolving
as the world around us
changes.

The copycat businesses
can’t permanently copy
our businesses.
They can only copy
our businesses
at one point of time.

If we’re worried
about being copied,
that is a sign
we’re not evolving.

Never stop improving.

Date Check

For the first couple weeks
of every January,
many of us will put
the wrong year on documents.
We’ll write 2021
instead of 2022.

This is normal.
This is expected.
Many of us do this.

Yet very few programs
will flag this
as a possible error.

If I spell any word wrong
here on this blog
or in a word document
or in an email,
the programs indicate that.

That word will be underlined in red
or the program will try to autocorrect it
or I’ll be asked if I want to use spell check.

If I use the wrong date
with most programs,
nothing happens.
There’s no indication
we’re dating something in the past.

I think of this
whenever people claim
all the big advancements
have been done.

One simple large improvement
hasn’t yet been implemented.

Someone has yet to ‘invent’
date check.