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Platform is the place whereby a person, group or businesses stands on and decides if they want to take the next step forward into their area of specialties.

Just like the high heels picture above, it is meant o give a lady a higher point of view, increase and help the lady look much taller, while highlighting the slender beautiful legs. High heels with well toned legs looks best when they are walking, or seated down for a pose during a photo-shoot. Platform is like high heels, giving the person a clearer picture of what an individual or group’s capabilities and showcasing it the the others if done the right way.

It is not like a stage, where performers perform and showcase their talents nor skills but rather a place, just a spot similarly to a cross junction whereby the person if not the leader of the group or business owner decides which road to take and than move forward deeper into their niche/market.

That is used when a person or a group decides on what is their goal and finding the right direction, the shortest possible route to reach their destination as soon as possible with the least amount of time. In order to do so, the person making the decision, must first have a clear idea of his or their group’s common vision. It just gives a user/person who is standing on a platform a clearer picture who he/she/they have on hand at their disposal before moving onto the next step.

Vision is like the future, to work towards a better brighter future of prospects, they must know what their core strengths and weaknesses are and choose the suitable route which allows individuals as well as team members to collectively display their strengths and with each others’ help compliment team members’ weakness as a group or organization for better results, performance and efficiency.

To have a clear vision, each individual must have already identified their own expertise so put the discussion and lay it out on the table to see how one another can help each other achieve success together on multiple areas with collaboration.

In short, every single individual must know what they will be doing, how they can contribute and be part of the formulation of success as a journey to create growing performance and results for themselves as well as for the business entity. Having said that, it is therefore paramount status that everybody knows their own identity.

If you don’t know it, start asking and find out what is your real identity and how you can tap on your skills experience and bring value to the others. That way you will clearly know how to get from rags to riches. Always be clear or what you are doing.

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Brand is a symbol, name, slogan or anything that is used to identify and distinguish a specific product, service or business. A business without a brand is like a headless body with no identity.

It is the title; subject who tells the audience, clients and passer-bys what this business, product or service is about. Without a good brand, it will send a wrong signal to the clients affecting the revenue and profit of the business.

If done properly, the business will have brand equity, equity, intangible asset, trademark and many others. It symbolized the quality assurance, reputable, creditable business offering products and services which the customers will trust without a doubt.

It is what separates and distinguish between successful wealthy big businesses versus small scale businesses that do not know how to optimize and leverage on their brand.

Making money is simple, making tons of money is difficult and it boils down to the brand, business strategies and how it intends to sell itself to the market. There’s lots of considerations, but start business off with the right footing, brand yourself, your business, products and services first.

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Tension is a strained relationship between both parties between individuals, groups or nations. It is the disagreements which both parties fail to come up with a mutually beneficial terms causing the relationship to be stretched and the bonding goes from thick to thin with each escalating issues surfacing.

It creates emotional strain, intense anxiety among everyone among those affected by the disagreements.

Tensions are everywhere, from average person walking on the streets to businesses, and even nations. All the way from the smallest average people like you and I to the biggest most powerful nations, all of us are living in a tensed up society these days with lots hidden unhappiness stored inside each nation waiting for eruption like a volcano. Each new failed or sour business relationship between two countries is like the sill of the volcano, the unhappiness among both countries is like the large magma chamber.

When a failed sour business caused relationships to take a slight turn for the worse, causing job losses in businesses affecting large scale especially among different countries, a parasitic cone is formed with lava flowing out from the parasitic cone slowly increasing the damage as it waits for the magma chamber to erupt with time.

There are so many examples to look at among different nations.

First up most frequently appeared in news media is China US bilateral ties issue which goes a long way, and is made worse with white house support Google from getting bullied by Baidu who is protecting the China identity at home and online.

Next up is US versus Iran, the quest to sweep the root of the terrorist clean and flush them out but it still has a long way to go. USA once missed the chance to plug out Osama Bin Laden as reported in one of the news reports last time, wanting to silence the ring leader, father of the terrorist who was personally trained by the US themselves.

Up next will be Thailand politics chaos situation, with the red shirt versus the yellow shirt. Former prime minister Thaksin Shinawatra who made billions upon using his politics influence to increase his wealth, avoided paying tax and accused by current prime minister Abhisit Vejjajiva who is constantly digging for new evidence to upset and reduce his influence in Thailand wanting to silence the opposition the red shirt but has yet to see any improvement, in fact he made the Thailand economy worse following the recent demonstration just in front of the Thailand airport causing it to be closed for a day, out of business suffering huge losses.

Up next closely is Korea, North and South Korea always appear in the news yearly due to tensions between cross-border with communist and democratic country respectively with the display of their military might and protection from strong nations from Russia and US respectively as backing.

The rest that follows are just minor national tensions purely for profits and tourism competition that not as important as those above.

Tensions arise for many reasons, without early antidote, it will escalate bigger and bigger over time like a volcano, once erupted, serious damage will be felt and casualties and business losses of people who live around the volcano area suffers.

Tensions are just identical to our health. A cold may be a minor issue which can heal and thus often overlooked, but it is leaves any after-effects, it will lead to serious complications, as cold, flu and cough are the minor symptoms.

Health is the core problem for individuals. Business tensions is the core problems for countries while politics and military related concerns affects the whole world if not at least the surrounding countries when there’s a surge in military might with purchase of weapons.

The next time you get into any disagreement, solve it instantly if not as soon as possible, else it will escalate into another business war whereby companies lose, profits reduced and only the consumers benefit from business battle. If it’s individual, sooner or later there will be more stares, arguments before turning to catfights or business sabotage depending on the genders.

So handle any arguments addressing right to the root of the problem, look at what caused the problem, don’t solve it only from the surface which will not help.

If you need examples: Look at hospitals around the whole world, the patients get sicker and more illness especially terminal and expensive illness find their way onto the patients increasing their burden. Have you ever heard of patients suffering from TCM, not even once at all since history?

Look at the difference, which medical practice should you seek help from, answer is obvious, if you want to save more money, choose TCM, but start early, and it will save you mountains of money bit by bit starting from young as TCM is all about healing all weakness of the body that cause a illness to surface, while western drugs only help heal the illness which has surface and not the root of the problem.

Understand the cause and effect, and entrepreneurship will be a breeze for those who understand it, building a strong mind with the right foundation as basics.

Good habits start from young.

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