Hi,

I am not too bad on the internet, but in real life I am a very mental person. Many people think this is a bad trait. I don’t. I am 15 years of age, I do not have to be completely serious at all times! I have never liked to be normal, and you will notice that within the next few months. How could you possibly be successful, depending on which definition of it you are using, if you just follow the crowd?

Do you follow the crowd? If so… why?! If not, what do you do differently?

Now I am going to give you a few ideas that make you, well.. me, stand out from the crowd. Some will not be to do with business, blogging or even success, you will need to adapt these methods to your career.

• Imagine you are walking down town, or perhaps around your office, everyone is acting completely normal. Jump. Yes, you heard me.. jump! Sure people will look around and think your barmy but so what? You would, and I do it often, do something different to what people normally do. Some may even like the idea of getting the attention, in business that is actually a very good thing… though of course in normal life it is often frowned upon. Other funny things like this is to try shouting, in finding nemo style, “BUBBLES!!”. Methods like this do actually work as it gives you more creativity.
• Go to your favourite Social Networking site and tell the world about other peoples websites. They will recognise and appreciate you more. Also, it will probably lead to future references from them. Whether or not you believe in karma, or anything like it, this surely must be worth a go? Be nice to other people and they will be nice back!
• Be charitable. I know, sounds silly doesn’t it.. spend money to make money. But it works! Remember, charity is giving but it does not have to be money. For example, you just had a drink but you pass by a young child selling lemonade but have no customers. Instead of just passing by, you buy a lemonade and give the child advice about how to be better in business. This idea is very heavily inspired by Shannon Lilly’s post which you can find here.
• Never have a rival. In business people say that everyone has rivals. This does not have to be true, in my opinion there is no reason why you cannot help other people in your niche. Of course some people are dead set against it, but if you try hard enough the rivalry can turn to friendship fairly easily. You just need to be willing to help people, even if they are trying to beat you at something.
• Create wacky things. Are you a blogger? If so then I can almost guarantee your theme looks very similar to many I have seen before, probably even this one. As I have said, do not expect this blog to look normal for it’s whole life. Oh no. It will probably be a few months before I tell you anything more than that, but just remember… normal is not good enough.

What ideas do you have?

Thank you for reading this and please don’t leave because you have figured out that I am crazy!

Shane