Get Wired. Leapfrog. Discard The Crap. Make It Happen in 2011.

It takes passion and consistency to work on your goals. Start small with a big heart and it will help you swim with the flow and not against the flow. The waves are high. The opportunities are limitless. But take advantage of making one step ahead of other seekers. Grow unselfishly by having connected with a company of fun and generous with numbers. Reconnect to rediscover your new you by visiting your former buddies, dig the old ground of interests and assert the positive vibes.

Above note pursued me to share the blog on December 26, 2009, Start Small. Simplify. Connect and Reconnect in 2010.

It’s an amazing year 2010 we had. I thank God for His plenitude to our micro ventures. Our web+event company officially began holding an office near the prestigious Asian Institute of Management and Greenbelt in January. I thank my business partners for their dogged determination to help the group grow. They have the eye and appeal of persuading talents to work for us. All business partners got new gadgets. Employees have been rewarded. Inboundpass continues to share the most controversial stories in the UAAP, NCAA and pre-season leagues. Coach Now was implemented for another time with sponsors. We empowered some of our staff and helped them stumble on their other talents to lead a project.

It’s also a stupefying 2010 for our group of non-preambleists (the word “preambleist”, coined by my friend Rico Arce; I evangelize it). Our strategic collaboration of events, sound and lights, multimedia, and post-production has been consistent with a common goal – to be at our best, fairly. Kudos to my business partners who have been openhanded to our employees and clients. We may be working in a small scale with the very few clients. But more importantly, it’s our personal initiatives, may not be unparalleled but cannot be ceased even if we know that the competition is tough, have driven us to provide more than the professional way. We’re growing and connecting by upgrading the equipment and motivating our people on a task-and-result-oriented environment. We have also made ourselves connected with our own iPhone, iPad, and MacBook Pro.

In 2010, we soared like everybody was joyful. Our travel opportunities gave us the benefit of learning insanely different experiences like the first snowstorm in America, getting along with some of the guys who I met for the first time in the airport, and witnessing how others spend more than US$20,000.00 to buy branded bags and accessories for their wives. We were motivated, inspired, challenged and crazed. But we couldn’t just isolate how we were able to do everything, where we got our strengths, how we magically eased out the stress in 2010 with the sources of our inspiration – our families and God.

One of the best moments I had in 2010 was when I treated my parents to Las Vegas, New York, and Toronto. That was 9 years after they treated me to Los Angeles. It’s so happy to see my parents smiled and rejuvenated. It’s like my parents’ series of pre-nuptial photo shoots in Las Vegas hotels, Grand Canyon, Times Square, Manhattan, Central Park, Rockefeller Center, and the historical Empire State Building.

Those are just few of the results of having to Start Small. Simplify. Connect and Reconnect in 2010.

In 2010, you might have already started. You might have won or failed to simplify. You might have connected with real and virtual worlds. You might have reconnected yourself with your friends from the North America to the Land Down Under.

Today, I’m taking the courage to jolt you with the new hints on what to do to succeed in the year 2011.

1. Get Wired.

Do it again. But do it seamlessly. I mean, 24/7. You probably have all the gadgets you need to check your Facebook, Twitter, and Foursquare. Social Media has become a serious disease on a positive perspective that if you’re not infected with it, you will be killed by your own personal silence and secrecy. Before 2010 concluded, I upgraded into a fully loaded plan to be wired wirelessly (awkward to read or hear? ☺). Just like the same old feeling of fun for the new chance to quickly respond with unlimited calls, unlimited texts, and unlimited surf. Advise your friends, clients, and potential clients about the good news.

I know that not everybody can afford. But if you’re seriously considering a different dimension of relationship, think of its advantages.

Although this hint number 1 may not meant for you, there is still no rationalization of escaping from the virtual+real world. Again, that is if you want to succeed in the years ahead.

2. Leapfrog.

Others may already be doing what you intend to kick-off. Don’t worry. If you believe in your idea, your willingness to create a higher springboard is necessary. The problem of a leading competitor is how to sustain the leadership. Their threat is your ability to leapfrog from being bad to good, good to better, and eventually to becoming the best. People may not notice you now. But if you continue to develop your own personal branding (which includes not being late in meetings; wearing the right pair of sneakers, as I mentioned last year; and checking if you’re brain is properly working), an upheaval will be felt until you realize that the genius of what you have done for the year outshines what the others have invested for years. On the other hand, don’t be lax. Others may be reading this blog too and perhaps, will surprisingly plan the same thing to beat you.

3. Discard The Crap.

When Steve Jobs advised Nike CEO Mark Parker to get rid of the crappy stuff and focus on the good stuff, it made me realized that we have wrongly decided on accepting some accounts that instead of pushing a good start of relationship, it instantly throws the negative vibes in the air by agreeing on crappy projects. If you still pursue, the following will happen: Conflicts will be born. Curves, instead of alignments will happen. Orderly process will be broken. Formal introduction will be forgotten. Portfolio presentation will be ignored.

When I went to Sydney, Australia, I learned that the curriculum of the 1st 3 years of high school is designed to prepare for 4th year – to specialize on a particular field. Since not all can afford to go to universities (or “uni”, for short), high school graduates are prepared and still able to face the real world with the competency of what they will concentrate in their senior year. So I believe that instead of adding another year level in grade or high school, why not remove the not much practically valuable and design the curriculum into a much pre-career orientation.

Look up to the success of Nike and Apple even if you’re a small company. It’s not the size of the organization that matters most. It’s the discipline, principle and strategy that can encapsulate your greatness before unleashing the benefit

4. Make It Happen.

We are living in the generation of many options. The behavior changes. The culture can be influenced by another culture. More David and Goliath stories happen. The outliers may exist everywhere. People pray. Not all people obey. Many people still look back from where they came from and it is sometimes dangerous. I saw some idiots trying to push a troubled tourist bus backward instead of calling a tow company.

So many ideas are engendered. So many plans remain as plans.

Preambleists naturally exist. Oh please, let’s stop their instinct and raze the thought before they multiply.

Sometimes you have to stop dreaming for a while. Make one thing happen first. Act. Disrupt, if you want to break the old school rules. A Palanca awardee and entrepreneur once mentioned to me that many MBA lecturers cannot run a business. Financial analysis is taught in business schools but financial paralysis is still a mystery to be solved. I cannot imagine an entrepreneur without a vision or who cannot see the opportunity. An I.T. expert who cannot champion a new product still lives in the 90s.

Apple eclipsed IBM with its innovation of personal computers. Bill Gates’s dream of having a PC in every household made him the richest guy on earth. Mark Zuckerberg dethroned Google in 2010 by playing with his social media prowess. Before Facebook existed, I asked why is it so complicated to manage the content of a website. I thought of emulating Steve Jobs by developing a system or technology that is easier for everyone to manage. Until I knew that even a maid or a tricycle driver would have a Facebook account. We could have done something like that. But we just did not make it happen!

Sharing of thoughts, ideas, stories, and breakthroughs are gratifying wisdom to embed. But a ten, a thousand, a hundred, or a million ideas without making it happen is like a car with a flat tire.

If you had a goal or a dream last year that is not implemented, make it happen in 2011. If you did, you need to amplify.

Quickly respond to the needs. Technology has become more personal. Social media will help you in so many ways. Don’t forget to build yourself as a brand. Rebuild your old ways. The old boring strokes may still exist but fulfilling your tasks will refresh them into a new brand of you.

Moreover, it’s not about what you know or whom you know. It’s who knows you in this generation. Therefore, take advantage of the virtual resources. Collaborate them with the real world…and make it happen.