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Oyster Lee, Chief Name Designer at Namer.ca, came up with a question in the commentaries to my last post:

Who in your opinion are the top ten most successful people in the world? 

Good question! Think about it! For sure it depends on what one considers to be success. If one considers net worth the criteria, then its really easy: just go to the various forbes lists and see the richest people on the face of the earth. If one considers extraordinary skills or habits as a success, just go to guinnessworldrecords.com and pick some of your taste.

Which people do I pick than as the most successful people in this world?

Here comes my personal Top 10 “The most (living) successful people in the world”:

1. My Fiancé … the most successful person in living with me

2. My Mom and Dad … the most successful persons in educating me

3. Richard Bandler … the most succesful person in changing people

4. Arnold Schwarzenegger … the most underestimated person in the world (i bet 500 bugs he will be US president 2012)

5. Sergy Brin and Larry Page … the most influential persons on the face of the earth

6. Madonna … the woman that changed most in her life

7. Michael Jackson … the man that changed most in his life

8. My Coach … the person that helped me change most in my life

9. Dr. Leo Kirch … the person that tricked out most people

10. John Paulson … the most succesful contrarian on the face of the earth

Hmm … 12 not 10 but in the end of the day … its 5 billion

So … who are your 10 most successful people in this world?

Greetings from Namewise

This moring i stumbled upon Sahars post in his Blog, where he put up the question: What is the secret of my success? I really love Sahars posts, because in some way they make me think and often I disagree with him.

But lets see, what is the secret in Sahars eyes! It is the faith in yourself, having a library of pictures of your past where you succeeded and as a consequence, believe in yourself when no one believes in yourself. If you do not believe in yourself, if you do not try and if you do not push, you get no reward. Sahar says he never met someone who excelled at anything without hardwork.

Ok, you might say. This is common believe. So do i. Righty, right. Now comes the contrarian Namewise and simply answers: that is bullshit!

What is the secret then? This is the secret! Everything there is is this. This moment! There is nothing else. All the rest, are stories, concepts and theories. A waste of time and simply an illusion. All this crap with ‘You need goals in your life’ and ‘You need a vision’. All this crap with purpose and sense.

The secret is so obvious, that most of the people cannot see it.

What has the library of the past to do with the right now. Nothing! These are images your brain produces in absence of something else to do. Everything in life happens. Try it out! Try to have no thoughts!

Take some of the most brilliant brains and take your life. I bet that you did not plan what you are doing right now. That simply happend and that is great! Take Markus who created Plenty of Fish in one week and ‘works’ 10 minutes a day. It happend! And others go to work 40 hours a week and … that is also great!

It is simply us that labels a lot of stuff with sticker, that say: bad or good. See the current crisis. See people like Bernie Mad-Off. lol. They start to get greedy and they do not stop. Why? Cause they think, that when they have an extra 10 billion, an extra jet, an extra yacht, they might be more happy. This is simply an illusion. There will never be something else than this.

Concepts are like candy for your rational mind - like doing a crossword puzzle. And for sure they give you a feeling of security. It can be fun to think about them and this is also a part of it but an illusion.

Just my two cent and more food for thought!

Greetings from Namewise

Bonna Serra Amigos!

Ich wünsche euch allen ein gutes neues Jahr mit richtig viel Spass, bester Gesundheit und guten Geschäften!

War recht angenehm zwischen den Jahren die Füsse mal still zu halten. Wie Ihr sehen könnt hatten wir fetten Schnee! Konnte natürlich nicht ganz abstinent sein und hab an ein paar Ideen gefeilt, bald mehr dazu.

Freu mich jetzt so richtig auf die kommenden Events und neuen Projekte.

Servus sagt der Namewise