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Achieve Like Steve

Steve Jobs’ Bytes of Genius
for an Appledisiac

Elaine Wilkes, PhD

Published by W2, at Smashwords

Available in book, eBook,
app and audio formats.

ISBN:  978-0-9774287-1-7


Copyright 2011

Elaine Wilkes. All rights reserved.

http://www.ElaineWilkes.com

Elaine@ElaineWilkes.com

Elaine Wilkes is the award-winning author
of the highly acclaimed
Nature’s Secret Messages:
Hidden in Plain Sight
published by Hay House Publishers.
Awarded a rare star recommendation by the prestigious Publishers Weekly.

Here’s the Appledisiac for Your Life

Follow the leader.

Here’s the easy roadmap to Steve’s winning principles.

Here are 56 stimulating bytes of Steve’s genius (one for each year of his life) that will awaken you to the winning ways in your own life, with examples and lessons for each byte.

These bytes of his genius are aimed at all you Appledisiacs out there, and that includes all you Steve Jobs wannabes. You know who you are.

By the way, Appledisiac stems from aphrodisiac, or geek words, “insanely great.”

You’ll be inspired to be a positive influence in your world, and challenged to be “insanely great.”

You’ll find a byte a day keeps your troubles away.

Learn how YOU can Achieve Like Steve and be insanely great.

Remember, a byte day brings genius your way.

“Example is not the main thing in influencing others, it is the only thing.”
—Albert Schweitzer, M.D., humanitarian

Day 1

Cut The Crap

“Get rid of the crappy stuff and focus on the good stuff.”

That’s the advice Steve gave Mark Parker when he became the new CEO of Nike.

(http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s6GlhxtetjI)

Mark was waiting for Steve to laugh, like he could be joking around, but no laughter came. Steve was serious. His point to Parker was this; why have crappy stuff when they can produce great stuff.

Mark thought that Steve was absolutely right. Both agreed to only focus on what’s important and say no to the unimportant.

Mark made it his priority at Nike to cut the crap. Just don’t do it.

John Sculley, Ex-CEO of Apple, said the main thing he learned from Steve was, “the most important decisions you make are not the things you do—but the things that you decide not to do.”

Steve believed in saying no. He said to choose carefully because otherwise you’ll get off track.

“And it comes from saying no to 1,000 things to make sure we don't get on the wrong track or try to do too much. We're always thinking about new markets we could enter, but it's only by
saying no that you can concentrate on
the things that are really important.”
—Steve Jobs

How You Can Achieve Like Steve Today:

– Look over what you’re doing today.

– Are you doing too many things?

– Where can you say no, so you can focus more on your important yes items?

Day 2

Go Beyond The Walls Of Your Mind

In a meeting, Steve was really upset by the programmers’ lack of creativity. He started yelling for them to go beyond their limited thinking. He grabbed a chair and started hammering it against the wall with so much force that he smashed a hole big enough to see into the next room.

He dramatically made his point: there’s more beyond the four walls of a room and the “walls” of our minds.

Jobs shook up their reality in order for them to “Think Different,” as the Apple slogan goes. The answers are out there and can be beyond limited thinking.

"As long as one keeps searching,
the answers come."
—Joan Baez, Singer and x-girlfriend
of Steve Jobs