When I am at a crunch point, I must:

1. Stay calm

2. Be confident in my abilities

3. Dare to go forward

4. Get the facts

5. Take control

6. Cut my losses

7. Manage the crisis

8. Communicate constantly

9. Identify my constraints or determining factor

10.Unleash my creativity, any problem is solvable

11. Focus on key results areas

12.Concentrate on priories

13.Counterattack the problem!

14.Generate cash flow

15.Care for your customers

16.Close more sales

17.Keep things simple

18.Conserve your energy

19.Make your connection

20. Character is king

21.Resolve to persist until you succeed

Shopaholic Confessions

What I've bought at factory outlets and online over the last 4 months:

1. Old navy shorts $9.49

2. Old navy bag $6.99

3. 2 Old navy tank tops $20

4. 1 Urban outfitters pink tank $4.99

5. 1 UO dress $19.99

6. 2 victoria's secret bras $40

7. 1 VS black tube top $15

6. 1 Forever 21 shorts 9.50

7. 1 Forever 21 jeans $12.90

8. 1 Forever 21 vest $12.90

9. 1 Forever 21 earrings $3.90

10. 1 Forever 21 knit top $11.50, bra $4.50

11. 1 American eagle bra $14.99

12. 1 American eagle slippers $11.49

13. 1 nine west high heeled boots

14. 1 Guess high heeled clogs $24.99

15. 1 UO hinged wallet $9.99

16. Lancome sunblock,body scrub, blusher,contour powder

17. 1 GAP jeans $9.99

18. 1 GAP long sleeve $5

19. 1 Tommy long sleeve $12.99

20. 1 tommy cardigan $19.99

21. 1 old navy cardigan $19.99

22. 1 kennethcole down jacket $49.99

Do you really think that Facebook is earning big bucks? Think again. There is 'no revenue model embedded in its core business'.

Taken from http://www.fastcompany.com/magazine/125/nings-infinite-ambition.html
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"It would be very difficult for MySpace or Facebook to shift gears and directly offer a competing service to us," says Bianchini. "They have a huge set of technical challenges just scaling what they're already doing, and we have spent three years building a serious architecture and technology lead for what we do." She says one of her engineers compared that kind of course correction with "swapping out the engine of a 747 during midflight."
By the time Facebook -- or anyone else -- could do that, Ning may well have ridden its double viral loop to impregnability. Because once it hits critical mass, the road is paved.
Then no one can stop it. "

"Success comes to those that dare to dream dreams and foolish enough to try and make them come true..."

I hope I am foolish enough!

An interesting article related to my internship company...

MySpace, Facebook: Big not always better

CNN.com says "Forget Facebook, MySpace or any other online hangout that boasts tens or hundreds of millions of people.

Katie Ellis, 23, a tri-athlete, uses Athlinks as a networking site and even finds people she has unknowingly raced against.

For Teresa Munoz, Athlinks, population 34,000, is the place to be."

This lady can't find the people she can connect with for the sport.

This totally sounds out the focus of my company:

"Social-networking sites geared toward hobbies, sports and other specific interests -- alongside those targeting certain age groups, ethnicities or diseases -- are finding growing success as supplements to the larger online hangouts or even as replacements."

Join Orbius today!

Another argument for looking elsewhere for building communities:

"Why not MySpace or Facebook? Ellis said that after seeing her older brother use both, she's concluded "I think it's a waste of time." "

There is certainly a problem of "finding the right groups and identifying the most dedicated members" when it comes to building online communities.

Someone who is interested in joining few craft-related groups, tried doing that on Facebook but "found participants "all really young, immature and not very knitting-literate.""