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6 Lessons 9yr Old Caine Can Teach Us All!

If a 9-year-old can…you can!

You may have seen the video about Caine, a 9-year-old East Los Angeles boy who created his own arcade using boxes, throwaway items and a lot of determination and ingenuity.

If you haven’t seen it already, please watch it, because today I’m going to focus on the lessons we can learn from Caine.

Pretty cool, right? Don’t you wish you could play at his arcade and support his business? For me, aside from being really impressed with this inventive little boy, I saw a lot of valid business lessons we can all learn from.

Here are my top six business lessons:

He took what he loved to do and made it a business. Caine loved going to arcades. You know by now that if you can do what you love, you won’t work a day in your life.

He capitalized on his curiosity by taking things apart to see how they worked and was resourceful, using extra boxes and his own toys to build the arcade. Money saved!
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Life is NOT a chess game

“Faith is taking the first step even when you don’t see the whole staircase.”–Martin Luther King Jr.

A lot of us tend to think of life as a complicated game of chess. “If I make this move, then I’m going to have to make that move, which will force me to make that move.”

In reality, life is not like a chess game and when we approach it as such, we are adding layers of complications to our lives we don’t need. Believe me when I say you do not have to evaluate every option and make a decision about all of them at one time.

If you do, you will almost always have regrets because life is unpredictable. You can do your homework, investigate every financial, emotional and personal angle of a decision and still find yourself in a place you didn’t expect to be. Why? Because with every decision and every change, the landscape around you also changes.

Chess Game For example, you get a new job and your income goes up or down. You have more, or less, disposable income for fun activities. Or you take a new job and your free time increases or decreases, or your commute increases or decreases, and so on. I recommend taking one step (one decision) and letting it settle in before you move on to step two.

One of my clients had a lot on her plate recently. She and her husband wanted to sell their house and move to another state. She has her own business but wanted to find a full time job. He had a job which he would lose by moving, and could either find a new job or start up his own remodeling business. And they were going to try to move before any of this happened, so they would move to a new state without having jobs! That’s a lot of ifs and unknowns.
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