“Success is not the key to happiness. Happiness is the key to success” —Albert Schweitzer Click To Tweet
Love this quote.
A dear friend of mine is by all measures very successful; retired at under 30, living on a tropical island doing nothing but surfing while his business works for him somewhere at the other side of the globe.
Yet he’s unhappy. He’s bored out of his mind and has no idea what to do next.
Is he successful?
Yes.
Does that make him happy?
No. Far from it.
Happiness is a complicated concept, that I cannot pretend to fully grasp. But that’s the point; we need to remind ourselves that success is not the key to happiness. Happiness is something everyone should find their own way of seeking, working towards and creating. How? I don’t know. I’m still looking.
I’ve already been successful & miserable. I did that for almost two years when I was working for corporate (see Let’s Face It – Time To Move On & my personal story). That didn’t quite work out.
Now I’m trying to be successful, but more importantly happy. Ending up miserable is the ultimate failure.
$771 Giveaway + How Would You Like To Earn An Extra $10,000 This Year?
In this episode of The Inspiring Innovation Podcast, I am very honored to share the success story of Udemy as told by my guest, Dinesh Thiru — the Marketing VP of Udemy.
Oh, where also giving away $771 worth of gifts today, so Read on!
Udemy’s story began years ago in a one room schoolhouse in a small village in Turkey, and continues today as a multimillion dollar education marketplace that gives the equal opportunity for everyone to teach and learn online.
In 2012 it became an amazing sensation when the top 10 instructors on Udemy have earned together over 1.6 million dollars. Late in 2012 they announced that 1 of every 4 lecturers on the platform earns over $10,000 annually — from a course that takes 40-50 hours on average to develop.
To show you how much I believe in Udemy’s power, I’ve selected 4 courses that really helped me become a more successful entrepreneur, and I asked the teachers to donate some spots on their classes to the amazing listeners of the podcast. So here are the courses that you can win a spot in for free in todays giveaway:
Ari Meisel, tutor of ‘The Art of Less Doing – Make Everything in Life Easier’ has donated 3 places for our listeners, valued at: $147. This course has completely changed the way I manage my time and saves me hours over hours every single day. Say goodbye to the to-do list, say goodbye to trying to remember everything and learn about outsourcing and using an external brain to manage your tasks, free your time and energy, and bring happiness to your entrepreneurial life!
Ralph Quintero, tutor of ‘Entrepreneur Success Series’ has donated 5 places for our listeners, valued at: $95. In this ongoing series, you will hear from amazing entrepreneurs like Mike Michalowicz, Ali Brown, Grant Cardone, Pat Flynn, Ed Dale, Linda Hollander and many, many more. This course consists of a series of interviews & lectures with top entrepreneurs from around the world who share their stories about how they did it and works for them. Each interview and lecture is jam-packed with advice, tips, motivation and ideas that you can put to work for you and your business right away. Think of this course as a “virtual” mentorship program.
Farnoosh Brock, tutor of ‘The 10 Minute Daily Invigorator’ has donated 5 places for our listeners, valued at: $135! This course is your quick routine to a high-energy day. The number one benefit of this course is a boost in your natural productivity on emotional, physical, mental and creative levels and you can get to this benefit in only 10 minutes a day! This course shows you how to switch off your fatigue and change mid-day slumps with invigoration to productive afternoons. You learn to do all of this with natural and efficient techniques. Just imagine, what would it feel like to have more energy through the day? How would it feel NOT to have to fight that annoying fatigue when you have so much to do?
Benny Hsu, tutor of ‘Develop iPhone and iPad apps with no programming experience’ has donated 2 places for our listeners, valued at: $394 . Benny is the creator of Apple’s app of the week Photo365, that generated over $80,000. Benny developed the app with absolutely no knowledge in programming. To this day, Benny can’t write a single line of code to save his life. In this course he will show you exactly how you can take your idea, validate and test it, find a programmer and mange him to make your app idea a reality, and a huge success — without ever spending time on figuring out how to code it!
How To Participate In The Giveaway?
Dead easy! All you have to do is comment on this page, saying what course interests you. You are only allowed to mention a single course per comment, but you ARE allowed to comment 4 times if you are interested in all 4 courses.
If you are ready to become a better entrepreneur and get free access to these amazing courses, leave a comment now and tell me which course you want to take. The winners will be announced on episode #7 – two weeks from now. May the odds ever be in your favor!
P.S. Make sure you enter your correct email address so I can contact you if you win!
How Is The Giveaway Going To Work?
In two weeks, I will make a list of all the people who chosen each course, and will pick at complete randomness the winners for each course. As simple as it gets 🙂
$135 Gift To Every Listener – Everybody’s a WINNER!
That’s right. Udemy have been very generous with us, and allowed me to give each and every one of our listeners and readers a 50% discount on 3 of my favorite Udemy courses:
The discount is only valid till the end of this month, so hurry up! & Thank you, Udemy! You rock!
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Pat Flynn was rocking his career as a young architect.
Actually, Pat was one of the youngest people in the firm to ever become a Job Captain. Things were going great. He was working hard at the job he always dreamed of. He just got engaged.
Pat was one of the top performers in the company, but when the economy tanked – it didn’t matter. Everybody around him were losing their jobs. No one was building anything. The architecture market dried up completely.
One day, Pat’s Time Has Come.
He was called to his boss’s office. His safe job was gone. With no openings anywhere, Pat was stuck. What will he do with his life?
He remembered that he heard that some people were making money from the internet. As it turned out, due to his rigorous studying habits, he was sitting on “internet gold”. That’s how the story of one of today’s most inspiring and influential internet entrepreneur began.
Today Pat is the proud owner of Smart Passive Income, and is running a business generating over $50,000 monthly. How? That’s what we’re going to talk about today.
In this episode you will learn:
What it takes to succeed with your online business
How Pat earned $7,905 dollars on the first month of launching his first online product – and why it wasn’t an “overnight success”
How Pat added more businesses to his portfolio
How Pat runs his iPhone apps business
Why he shares his detailed monthly income report online
How Pat converted an avid hater to a fan
Pat’s tips for a new entrepreneur – do you need to follow a passion? and more!
How to find your unfair advantage and use it to stand out and succeed in a saturated niche
Who inspires Pat, and Pat’s favorite resources
How I scored this interview with Pat, and what’s the important lesson I learned from the process
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