Carnegie Steel

Success is Easy, But So is Neglect

2008-01-25T11:03:00.000-08:00

This a favorite from Jim Rohn - very thought provoking. I would urge you to buy the mp3 from iTunes or JimRohn.com if you like this, you'll love some of his audio programs.

Success is Easy, But So is Neglect by Jim Rohn

People often ask me how I became successful in that six-year period of time while many of the people I knew did not. The answer is simple: The things I found to be easy to do, they found to be easy not to do. I found it easy to set the goals that could change my life. They found it easy not to. I found it easy to read the books that could affect my thinking and my ideas. They found that easy not to. I found it easy to attend the classes and the seminars, and to get around other successful people. They said it probably really wouldn't matter. If I had to sum it up, I would say what I found to be easy to do, they found to be easy not to do. Six years later, I'm a millionaire and they are all still blaming the economy, the government, and company policies, yet they neglected to do the basic, easy things.

In fact, the primary reason most people are not doing as well as they could and should, can be summed up in a single word: neglect.

It is not the lack of money - banks are full of money. It is not the lack of opportunity - America, and much of the free World, continues to offer the most unprecedented and abundant opportunities in the last six thousand years of recorded history. It is not the lack of books – libraries are full of books - and they are free! It is not the schools - the classrooms are full of good teachers. We have plenty of ministers, leaders, counselors and advisors.
Everything we would ever need to become rich and powerful and sophisticated is within our reach. The major reason that so few take advantage of all that we have is simply neglect.
Neglect is like an infection. Left unchecked it will spread throughout our entire system of disciplines and eventually lead to a complete breakdown of a potentially joy-filled and prosperous human life.

Not doing the things we know we should do causes us to feel guilty and guilt leads to an erosion of self-confidence. As our self-confidence diminishes, so does the level of our activity. And as our activity diminishes, our results inevitably decline. And as our results suffer, our attitude begins to weaken. And as our attitude begins the slow shift from positive to negative, our self-confidence diminishes even more... and on and on it goes.

So my suggestion is that when giving the choice of "easy to" and "easy not to" that you do not neglect to do the simple, basic, "easy"; but potentially life-changing activities and disciplines.

Bringin' back the goose.

2008-01-17T03:52:00.000-08:00

Antilles Seaplanes, based in North Carolina is hoping to begin production of the Grumman Goose. The new version witll be called the Antilles Super Goose. Based on the legendary Grumman G-21 Goose, their version has been modernized to current day aviation standards to include turboprop engines, the latest in glass panel avionics, carbon fiber composite material technology, interior environmental systems, and a variety of other technological improvements over the original airplane.

http://www.antillesseaplanes.com

Owner's Manual

2008-01-14T13:59:00.000-08:00

Why don’t we all have an Owner’s Manual for our businesses?

Whether we are domainers, domain developers, or just entrepreneurs we should have an owners manual for our business. Now I know that you may be asking what the difference is between a “Business Plan” and an “Owner’s Manual.” I’m not quite sure I can quantify that for you. The difference I see is that when I read Berkshire’s Owner’s Manual I see a guiding set of behaviors and principles that define how the business will operate. When I read a business plan I see numbers and figures and projections that tell me what the business will do.

I suppose the difference is that the BPlan tells me What we are doing and the Owner’s Manual tells me How.

I think it would be important as an investor (and if you own a domain you are an investor) to know what management (sometimes this is you) plans to do with the domain and the Owner’s Manual tells the investor (this would also be you) how management will act/behave in attempting to achieve the objectives in the BPlan.

One of the reasons that so many people fail to realize their domaining or investing dreams is that they may be able to identify a promising domain, but then they don’t have a plan in place that explains what they will do with the domain and they have no plan for how they will act as the manager of the domain.

Read Warren Buffett’s Owner’s Manual (PDF) and then think about how his “Owner-Related Business Principles” could be applied in conjunction with your business plan. How could you use these as tools to increase your likelihood of success.

First 100 Domain Names

2007-12-20T20:43:00.001-08:00

List of the first 100 domain names

http://thelongestlistofthelongeststuffatthelongestdomainnameatlonglast.com/first71.html

New Domainer Tool

2007-12-11T17:40:00.000-08:00

I found a new domainer tool this evening!

I played around with it for a while and it some pretty nice ways of spinning keywords with pre-sorted dictionaries.

http://www.makewords.com/

Check it out if you get a chance and let me know what you think. A lot of these tools are really nice for prospecting. hmmm I think people will be searching for "Christmas" what are some ways I could spin that?

dancechristmas.com
filmchristmas.com
groovechristmas.com
hallchristmas.com
humourchristmas.com
movieschristmas.com
scenechristmas.com
salechristmas.com
christmasdigital.com

Granted, these are not the greatest domains that I have ever seen, but they get better with slightly more specific phrases or words. I had good luck with computer and internet related phrases.

Give it a shot.

Where Does The Time Go?

2007-12-10T15:56:00.000-08:00

Where does the time go? It seems like I posted on here just a few days ago! and it has been nearly two weeks.

I originally set out to work on this blog 3 times per week, but that doesn't seem like it is happening. I just need to get in the habit of putting some of the thoughts from my Moleskine in a digital format.

There is only one boss

2007-11-26T17:07:00.000-08:00

There is only one boss. The customer. And he can fire everybody in the company from the chairman on down, simply by spending his money somewhere else.
Sam Walton

I have been reading Sam Walton's autobiography recently and it is pretty fascinating. He was much more than a manager of a Wal-Mart. He was a visionary businessman and brought many of the practices that we consider essential to corporate America into existence.

Being Successful

2007-11-19T19:44:00.000-08:00

“The trick (Key) to being successful is doing the things that unsuccessful people will not do.”

John Paul Dejoria – Founder of Paul Mitchell Systems and Patron Tequila

Carnegie Steel

2007-11-19T19:37:00.000-08:00

I have changed the focus of this blog slightly. I had three blogs last week, and I combined two of those to form Carnegie Steel. Why you may ask would I pick the name Carnegie Steel, well, I happen to own the domain CarnegieSteel.com (it will be redirected shortly) and I am in the process of reading another Carnegie bio. While he may not have been perfect (only one man has ever been) he did have an astronomical rise in the world.

The purpose of this blog is to look at a number of different areas. While I am knowledgeable and passionate about business, the stock market, domain investing, general aviation, and life in general - I am not the most knowledgeable person in the field. Those distinctions are probably held by an old, grizzled aviator with an old Cessna and a grass strip in the Alaska wilderness, some finance professor at Texas A&M, or a crafty kid in the U.K. with a smoking computer and a case of Diet Coke.

While I may not be the most knowledgeable person with regards to every aspect of business, the stock market, domain investing, general aviation, and life in general, I am very resourceful and not afraid to knock on a few doors in an attempt to get the correct answer for you. Please feel free to send in your questions and comments and we’ll take an adventure together to get the answers.

One of the Reasons I started this Blog

2007-10-12T07:40:00.000-07:00

This is by Jim Rohn and it is one of the reasons that I started blogging.

The Key to Making Life Unique and Worthwhile by Jim Rohn

Now the key to make life really unique and worthwhile is to share. Sharing has a certain unique magic of its own. Here's what I learned in sharing ideas.

If you share an idea with ten different people, they get to hear it once, and you get to hear it ten times. So here's part of self-interest for yourself, getting you even better prepared for the future. Share ideas. Share with your family, share with the people around you, share with other employees, share with your colleagues.

Because by sharing, two things happen. Here's what we call it. I don't know how to explain it, but I do know it happens. And I don't know all about how it happens or why it happens, it just happens.

When one person shares with another, two things happen. The audience could be transformed, and so could the speaker. If you share with someone else, they could be transformed. You may have dropped in at the right time. This may be their moment. They've got three numbers dialed into the lock already, and if you say it well and say it right you'll be the fourth number that they can dial into the lock of their personal experience and the door will come open and there's opportunity they never saw before. The person who hears could be transformed.

But here's what else is exciting. The person who speaks could be transformed. Guess what we're all looking for…transformation for our new life. The new life tomorrow, the new life this month, the new life next year, the new life this year.

The caterpillar one day says, "I think I was made for more than this crawling on the ground." So the caterpillar climbs the tree, attaches himself to a leaf and spins the cocoon. Who knows what disciplined effort it takes to spin a cocoon. But something inside the caterpillar says, "I was designed for something more than being just a caterpillar."

And then when the cocoon is ready and it opens up, out comes a butterfly that flies away, maybe singing, "I believe I can fly! I believe I can touch the sky! I used to be a caterpillar on the ground, now I fly."

I'm asking you to go through such a metamorphosis. I'm asking you often to go through a period where you say, "New skills, new things are waiting for me," and part of this will come if you'll translate for other people what you feel in your heart and in your soul. As awkward as your language might be at first, don't hesitate to do it.

Here's what sharing does…makes room for more. Key question, if this glass is full of water can it hold any more? If the glass is full of water, can it hold any more? And the answer is yes, yes, if you pour some out. So jot that down. If you want more, you've got to pour out what you've got, then you have the opportunity to receive more.

Now, unlike the glass that remains the same size when you pour some out; not so in consciousness human beings. Your capacity will increase the more you share. You'll get bigger and bigger and bigger.

Now why the self-interest wish to be bigger? Here´s why… to hold more of the next experience. Some people can't hold much happiness because they're too small, their thinking is too small, their activity is too small, they're too small in their ability to share, they're just too small. Can't hold much, they're too small.

But the bigger you get, the more you will receive. When happiness is poured out, you'll get more. When joy is poured out on the nation, you'll get more. When bounty is poured out from the economy, you will get more, if you share what you've got and become bigger and bigger and bigger.

Now some people are not only small, they have their glass turned upside down. Hard to get anything in. But here's what you've done in coming here this weekend. You've come with an open mind, an open consciousness, ready to receive, and I promise you we´re going to pour everything we possibly can into every ounce of time we've got here to make it beneficial for you, give you not just your money's worth but your time's worth.

worlds largest registrars

2007-10-10T16:27:00.000-07:00

Here is a list showing the relative size (by numbers of domains registered) of the the worlds largest registrars.

1	GO DADDY	22.272%	20,056,910
2	ENOM	8.630%	7,771,268
3	NETWORK SOLUTIONS	7.418%	6,680,296
4	TUCOWS	6.588%	5,932,438
5	MELBOURNE IT	5.259%	4,736,181
6	SCHLUND+PARTNER	4.090%	3,683,104
7	WILD WEST DOMAINS	2.840%	2,557,350
8	REGISTER.COM	2.779%	2,502,627
9	MONIKER	2.650%	2,386,180
10	PUBLIC DOMAIN REGISTRY	1.957%	1,762,617
11	KEY-SYSTEMS	1.432%	1,289,654
12	DIRECTNIC	1.396%	1,257,294
13	DOTSTER	1.255%	1,130,579
14	35.COM	1.173%	1,056,156
15	DOMAINDISCOVER

Domain Mish Mash

2007-10-10T04:05:00.001-07:00

The world of domaining can often be a strange and confusing place to operate. When I first started domaining (technically in 1997) but not really until a few years ago, I had a number of people lend me a hand and show me around. I now often read the blogs of industry veterans/titans like Frank Schilling and Sahar Sarid.

So, the purpose of this blog is to help people in the industry whether just starting out or a multi-year veteran expand their knowledge base and share ideas.

Short and sweet, that is the first post - I will try to post back more often. Please feel free to send me a comment and I will be happy to help out as much as I can.