Be So Silent That You Are Invisible. Be So Secretive That You Are An Abstract. Then You Control Your Rivals Fate... Sun Tzu The Art Of War.

Be So Silent That You Are Invisible. Be So Secretive That You Are An Abstract. Then You Control Your Rivals Fate... Sun Tzu The Art Of War.

Be extremely mysterious, even to the point of soundlessness.

Be extremely subtle, even to the point of formlessness. Be extremely mysterious, even to the point of soundlessness. Thereby you can be the director of the opponent's fate. 

(Be So Silent That You Are Invisible. Be So Secretive That You Are An Abstract. Then You Control Your Rivals Fate.) Sun Tzu The Art Of War,

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Leadership is solving problems.

                Leadership is solving problems.

Leadership is solving problems. The day soldiers stop bringing you their problems is the day you have stopped leading them. They have either lost confidence that you can help or concluded you do not care. Either case is a failure of leadership.
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Top 10 Reasons Why Playing Cashflow 101 Could Be Good for You

I think it was the year 2005 when I first attended the first Cashflow Event in the Philippines. I was still managing several traditional businesses back then and what prompted me to attend was when I have read the book Rich Dad Poor Dad of Robert Kiyosaki. So when it came in the Philippines for the first time, I grabbed the opportunity. I paid around 7,000 pesos for that 1 day event.

Of course I got a lot from attending it and I made it sure that the investment I put in will not go to waste. Although I was not also able to get out of the rat race the first time I played it, I went home fulfilled for getting worth a million of learnings. I realized that indeed, playing the game reflected my mindset and habits way back then when it comes to money and wealth. After that game, I became wiser and more keen when it comes to moving towards any goals I set myself for in business and life.

So why playing cashflow could do you good?

Here are my top 10 lists WHY:

1. You will be freed up.

What’s makes us poor is not what we have, its our mindset, our thoughts. Where we are is a result of the decisions we made. Everything that happens to us, we made it happen whether the result is desirable or not. Our success is a result of what's in our minds and most of the time we are prisoners of it.

What’s great about this? The keys to getting out and experience peace of mind is in your hands. The cashflow is just a tool, for it to be powerful tool will still depend on you on what you will do with it.

2. You get out of your comfort zone

“In this world you’re either growing or you’re dying so get in motion and grow.” – Lou Holtz

Playing the game allows you take risks, risks that you haven’t even taken in your life. What’s fun and exciting about this? Its just a game! and you can actually fail anytime.

3. You focus on your goal.

Of course life is not just about working our butt out day in and day out. There's more than staying in the four corners of our office or our home. Playing the Cashflow game opens to us what life is all about and its about working on our dreams and making it happen. Whether its our personal dreams or dreams for our family, community, people who matters to us or even our country. That day when I first played the game, I went  home inspired and happy knowing that my dreams are possible and I can achieve it.

4. You get advise from happy successful people.

A lot of times, people will have a lot to say about what we want and what we are doing however, most of the time, they are not even successful and happy or worst you don’t even see them becoming successful or even working towards improving themselves. When I played the Cashflow game, I got to seek advice and feedback from people who are really successful and are happy with what they are doing and are really walking their talk and not simply having opinions about things.

5.You experience the joy of celebrating success.

You will realize that it is not the destination that gives us joy and happiness but the journey of being able to achieve something, to get out of the rat race, despite fear, hesitation and doubt. 

6. You learn to get rid of bad debt.

 

The Cashflow game made me learn not to be attached on things including money. You will know what are those things or decisions that lead you to accumulate bad debts. Debts are not bad, what makes it bad is when we use it to pay for liabilities and not to create or build assets.

I learned to get rid of bad debts and became wiser the next time around. It's not gonna be easy but as according to Einstein, "we cannot solve our problems with the same thinking we used when we created them".

7. You learn what it is to give and receive.

I thought before that charity is only for the wealthy. Playing the game, it taught me  any person from any walks of life can do charity. At the same time, it taught me that giving is part of success. Successful people give. I realized that we all have the opportunity to do philanthropy and it is not exclusive only for the wealthy, the moment you start giving whether big or small that is philantropy already, you are wealthy already and it is not what we have that counts that makes us wealthy, its what we think and do whether big and small. Giving is a being of successful people and we have a choice now to be and feel successful.

Aside from this, we may not receive money in return to what we have given but I realized that what you receive is far more than that because you got help from friends, you got an information that can save you from getting into debt or worse getting bankrupt. Sometimes the money we give does not come back as money as well but goes back in the form of help, support, encouragement etc... and whatever that is, you learn to be a great receiver.

8. You learn from mistakes, big time.

What’s so powerful about the game? It makes you recognize your mistakes and put an end to the habit that keeps on repeating it. The game teaches you that it is ok to have mistakes but it’s not ok if we keep on repeating it over and over again. If we expect a different result yet we keep on doing the same thing, as Albert Einstein said,   that's insanity.

After playing the game, you go home accepting the mistakes you’ve done in life but being grateful and happy for finding out that you can now make better decisions to never repeat mistakes again.

9. You learn to spot opportunities. 

Playing the game will teach you to spot great opportunities. True, there are a lot of opportunities offered out there but ultimately its those great opportunities me must learn to spot that if we grab it and start working on it, will give us time and money freedom.

10. You understand that permanent residual/passive income is the name of the game. 

Whatever it is that we are doing now, if we stop working or die tomorrow, will money continue to flow and not just in our lifetime but to our next generation? In the game, I learned to take on urgency and not emergency, that success happens the moment I make that decision of taking charge of my future and that I can start doing something about it and start taking action!

"Know your enemy and know yourself and you can fight one hundred battles without disaster." ~ Sun Tzu, The Art of War

                                               
"Know your enemy and know yourself and you can fight one hundred battles without disaster."
~ Sun Tzu, The Art of War

The Sun Tzu's 'The Art of War' is one of the world's best books on strategy and competition.

                                                           
The Sun Tzu's 'The Art of War' is one of the world's best books on strategy and competition. It was written in app. 500 B.C. and established itself as the leading treatise on confronting and defeating opponents through superior strategy.

For over twenty-five hundred years, it helped its readers find competitive advantage using the secrets of Sun Tzu. Its competitive methods work extremely well. 

'The Art of War', the first of the military classic, offers a distinct philosophy on how to discover the path to success. This philosophy works in any competitive environment where people find themselves contesting with one another for a specific goal.

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Sun Tzu Five Elements for Comparing Competitive Position

                     
                                 Five Elements for Comparing Competitive Position

Philosophy: A competitor with a strong philosophy is a strong competitor. A clear philosophy makes decision-making easier. Understanding your competitor's philosophy allows you to predict them.
Heaven: Trends over time that are beyond your control. You must foresee these changes to adjust to them.
Ground: It is both where you fight and what you fig

ht for. The Ground is the basis of all competition because it is what people are fighting about. Competitors are distinguished by the position they hold on the ground. You can and must chose the ground over which you battle. Your choice of ground is a key aspect of your success.

Leader: The success of the competitive unit depends on five qualities in its leader: bravery, intelligence, strictness, trust in and care about people.

Methods: Methods have five qualities the make them effective: systems, organization, learning, support, and standards.

The Four Skills

The five elements that define a competitive position also create the four skills that define the competitor's interaction with the competitive environment:

Knowing
Vision
Action
Positioning... More

The Art of War
The Five Things You Must Know To Win
Victory comes from knowing when to attack and when to avoid battle... More
Planning

Warfare is one thing. It is a philosophy of deception.
When you are ready, you try to appear incapacitated...

More
Planning an Attack
If you outnumber the enemy ten to one, surround them.
If you outnumber them five to one, attack them... More

Weakness and Strength
Be skilled in attacking – give the enemy no idea where to defend. Be skillful in your defense – give the enemy no idea of where to attack.

Make war without a standard approach. Manage your military position like water. Water takes every shape. If you follow the enemy's shifts and changes, you can always win. We call this shadowing... More
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Sun Tzu Today's Success Story Gary Gagliardy

                                     

                                              Today's Success Story Gary Gagliardy

Gary Gagliardy, America's leading authority on using Sun Tzu's methods in modern competition, writes: 'Before I discovered The Art of War, I tried starting two businesses. The first consumed money for almost two years before we closed it down. The second fell apart and was sold within a year. After I started studying and using Sun Tzu's methods, the next business that I started went on to become one of the Inc. 500 fastest growing privately owned businesses in America."
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Sun Tzu Quotes. The Art Of War. Embrace his wisdom or fight in darkness

                           
                    Sun Tzu Quotes. The Art Of War. Embrace his wisdom or fight in darkness


Can you imagine what I would do if I could do all I can? 
Sun Tzu 

Be extremely subtle, even to the point of formlessness. Be extremely mysterious, even to the point of soundlessness. Thereby you can be the director of the opponent's fate.
Sun Tzu

All men can see these tactics whereby I conquer, but what none can see is the strategy out of which victory is evolved.
Sun Tzu

You have to believe in yourself.
Sun Tzu

If you know the enemy and know yourself you need not fear the results of a hundred battles.
Sun Tzu

All war is deception.
Sun Tzu

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The opportunity to secure ourselves against defeat lies in our own hands, but the opportunity of defeating the enemy is provided by the enemy himself.
Sun Tzu

Opportunities multiply as they are seized.
Sun Tzu

Supreme excellence consists in breaking the enemy's resistance without fighting.
Sun Tzu

He who knows when he can fight and when he cannot, will be victorious.
Sun Tzu

Know thy self, know thy enemy. A thousand battles, a thousand victories.
Sun Tzu

Invincibility lies in the defence; the possibility of victory in the attack.
Sun Tzu

Know your enemy and know yourself and you can fight a hundred battles without disaster.
Sun Tzu

He who is prudent and lies in wait for an enemy who is not, will be victorious.
Sun Tzu

Confront them with annihilation, and they will then survive; plunge them into a deadly situation, and they will then live. When people fall into danger, they are then able to strive for victory.
Sun Tzu

For to win one hundred victories in one hundred battles is not the acme of skill. To subdue the enemy without fighting is the acme of skill.
Sun Tzu

The supreme art of war is to subdue the enemy without fighting.
Sun Tzu

Victorious warriors win first and then go to war, while defeated warriors go to war first and then seek to win.
Sun Tzu

If you are far from the enemy, make him believe you are near.
Sun Tzu

The general who wins the battle makes many calculations in his temple before the battle is fought. The general who loses makes but few calculations beforehand.
Sun Tzu

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Pretend inferiority and encourage his arrogance.
Sun Tzu

All war is based on deception.
Sun Tzu

Now the reason the enlightened prince and the wise general conquer the enemy whenever they move and their achievements surpass those of ordinary men is foreknowledge.
Sun Tzu

Thus, what is of supreme importance in war is to attack the enemy's strategy.
Sun Tzu

In the practical art of war, the best thing of all is to take the enemy's country whole and intact; to shatter and destroy it is not so good.
Sun Tzu

Hence that general is skilful in attack whose opponent does not know what to defend; and he is skilful in defense whose opponent does not know what to attack.
Sun Tzu

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There is no instance of a nation benefitting from prolonged warfare.
Sun Tzu

It is essential to seek out enemy agents who have come to conduct espionage against you and to bribe them to serve you. Give them instructions and care for them. Thus doubled agents are recruited and used.
Sun Tzu

All warfare is based on deception.
Sun Tzu

Regard your soldiers as your children, and they will follow you into the deepest valleys; look on them as your own beloved sons, and they will stand by you even unto death.
Sun Tzu

To fight and conquer in all our battles is not supreme excellence; supreme excellence consists in breaking the enemy's resistance without fighting.
Sun Tzu

If ignorant both of your enemy and yourself, you are certain to be in peril.
Sun Tzu

It is only the enlightened ruler and the wise general who will use the highest intelligence of the army for the purposes of spying, and thereby they achieve great results.
Sun Tzu

Thus it is that in war the victorious strategist only seeks battle after the victory has been won, whereas he who is destined to defeat first fights and afterwards looks for victory.
Sun Tzu

The skilful employer of men will employ the wise man, the brave man, the covetous man, and the stupid man.
Sun Tzu

The quality of decision is like the well-timed swoop of a falcon which enables it to strike and destroy its victim.
Sun Tzu

The good fighters of old first put themselves beyond the possibility of defeat, and then waited for an opportunity of defeating the enemy.
Sun Tzu

If our soldiers are not overburdened with money, it is not because they have a distaste for riches; if their lives are not unduly long, it is not because they are disinclined to longevity.
Sun Tzu

There has never been a protracted war from which a country has benefited.
Sun Tzu

Of all those in the army close to the commander none is more intimate than the secret agent; of all rewards none more liberal than those given to secret agents; of all matters none is more confidential than those relating to secret operations.
Sun Tzu

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The general who advances without coveting fame and retreats without fearing disgrace, whose only thought is to protect his country and do good service for his sovereign, is the jewel of the kingdom.
Sun Tzu

Secret operations are essential in war; upon them the army relies to make its every move.
Sun Tzu

For them to perceive the advantage of defeating the enemy, they must also have their rewards.
Sun Tzu

Prohibit the taking of omens, and do away with superstitious doubts. Then, until death itself comes, no calamity need be feared.
Sun Tzu

When envoys are sent with compliments in their mouths, it is a sign that the enemy wishes for a truce.
Sun Tzu

If fighting is sure to result in victory, than you must fight, even though the ruler forbid it; if fighting will not result in victory, then you must not fight even at the ruler's bidding.
Sun Tzu

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To see victory only when it is within the ken of the common herd is not the acme of excellence.
Sun Tzu

The enlightened ruler is heedful, and the good general full of caution.
Sun Tzu

Hence the saying: If you know the enemy and you know yourself, your victory will not stand in doubt; if you now Heaven and you know Earth, you may make your victory complete.
Sun Tzu

If we know that our own men are in a condition to attack, but are unaware that the enemy is not open to attack, we have gone only halfway towards victory.
Sun Tzu
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The Sun Tzu's 'The Art of War' is one of the world's best books on strategy and competition.

                                            

The Sun Tzu's 'The Art of War' is one of the world's best books on strategy and competition.
2,500 Years Old, Still Young

"The Chinese classics were written in a very general universal style. They were meant to be templates for life experiences – templates to be used by anyone, at any time, in any situation. The written language of China lends itself well to this phenomenon. Each character, or

 ideogram, is a multidimensional picture of an idea. Each can be looked at from a number of angles and experienced in a variety of ways. This mutable quality in the written language somehow triggers responses that feel personal and timely."1

The Sun Tzu's 'The Art of War' is one of the world's best books on strategy and competition.

It was written in app. 500 B.C. and established itself as the leading treatise on confronting and defeating opponents through superior strategy.
For over twenty-five hundred years, it helped its readers find competitive advantage using the secrets of Sun Tzu. Its competitive methods work extremely well. 'The Art of War', the first of the military classic, offers a distinct philosophy on how to discover the path to success. This philosophy works in any competitive environment where people find themselves contesting with one another for a specific goal.

It is a work of subtlety and paradox that shows how to succeed effortlessly in rising to life's challenges. Sun Tzu believed that victory is won long before the confrontation and insisted that a skilled warrior can observe, calculate and outwit the adversary without ever engaging in battle.

Today, many leading business schools around the world teach their students how to create a competitive advantage by applying the methods of Sun Tzu. Sun Tzu's The Art of War provided a strong basis for the Positioning School of strategic management. This school was the dominant view of strategy formulation in the 1980's.

Today's Success Story Gary Gagliardy

Gary Gagliardy, America's leading authority on using Sun Tzu's methods in modern competition, writes: 'Before I discovered The Art of War, I tried starting two businesses. The first consumed money for almost two years before we closed it down. The second fell apart and was sold within a year. After I started studying and using Sun Tzu's methods, the next business that I started went on to become one of the Inc. 500 fastest growing privately owned businesses in America."

Excerpts from "The Art of War"
Going to War
You can fight a war for a long time or you can make your nation strong. You can't do both.

Field Position
Know your enemy and know yourself – your victory will be painless.

Know the weather and the field – your victory will be complete.

Types of Terrain
You don't know the local mountains, forests, hills and marshes? Then you cannot march the army. You don't have local guides? You won't get any of the benefits of the terrain.

Doing the right things at the start of war is like approaching a woman. Your enemy's men must open the door. After that, you should act like a streaking rabbit. The enemy will be unable to catch you.

Planning an Attack
The best policy is to attack while the enemy is still planning.

The next best is to disrupt alliances... More

Weakness and Strength
When you form your strategy, know the strengths and weaknesses of your plan.

When you execute, know how to manage both action and inaction.

When you take a position, know the deadly and the winning grounds.

When you battle, know when you have too many of too few men... More

Armed Conflict

Seeking armed conflict can be disastrous. Because of this, a detour can be the shortest path. Because of this, problems can become opportunities. Use an indirect route as your highway. Use the search for advantage to guide you. You must know the detour that most directly accomplishes your plan.

Do not let any of your potential enemies know of what you are planning.

Still, you must not hesitate to form alliances.

You must know the lay of the land. You must know where the obstructions are. You must know where the marshes are. If you don't, you cannot move the army.
You must use local guides. If you don't, you can't take advantage of the terrain.

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The Sun Tzu's 'The Art of War' is one of the world's best books on strategy and competition.

                                           
The Sun Tzu's 'The Art of War' is one of the world's best books on strategy and competition.
 It was written in app. 500 B.C. and established itself as the leading treatise on confronting and defeating opponents through superior strategy.

For over twenty-five hundred years, it helped its readers find competitive advantage using the secrets of Sun Tzu. Its competitive methods work extremely well. '

The Art of War', the first of the military classic, offers a distinct philosophy on how to discover the path to success. This philosophy works in any competitive environment where people find themselves contesting with one another for a specific goal.

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Five Elements for Comparing Competitive Position

Philosophy: A competitor with a strong philosophy is a strong competitor. A clear philosophy makes decision-making easier. Understanding your competitor's philosophy allows you to predict them.

Heaven: Trends over time that are beyond your control. You must foresee these changes to adjust to them.

Ground: It is both where you fight and what you fight for. The Ground is the basis of all competition because it is what people are fighting about. Competitors are distinguished by the position they hold on the ground. You can and must chose the ground over which you battle. Your choice of ground is a key aspect of your success.

Leader: The success of the competitive unit depends on five qualities in its leader: bravery, intelligence, strictness, trust in and care about people.

Entrepreneurial Leader: 4 Specific Attributes

Methods: Methods have five qualities the make them effective: systems, organization, learning, support, and standards.

The Four Skills of an Effective Competitor

The five elements that define a competitive position also create the four skills that define the competitor's interaction with the competitive environment:

Knowing: the ability to get hard information.

Vision: the ability to foresee the future.

Action: the ability to move or stay where we are.

Positioning: the ability to use the Ground to find success.

These skills define your external competence in the competitive world

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You must know five things to win:

Victory comes from knowing when to attack and when to avoid battle.

Victory comes from correctly using large and small forces.

Victory comes from everyone sharing the same goals.

Victory comes from finding opportunities in problems.

Victory comes from having a capable commander and the government leaving him alone.

You must know these five things. You then know the theory of victory.

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Going to War

You can fight a war for a long time or you can make your nation strong. You can't do both.
Doing the right things at the start of war is like approaching a woman. Your enemy's men must open the door. After that, you should act like a streaking rabbit. The enemy will be unable to catch you.

A Philosophy of Deception

Warfare is one thing. It is a philosophy of deception.
When you are ready, you try to appear incapacitated.
When active, you pretend inactivity.
When you are close to the enemy, you appear distant.
When far away, pretend you are near.
Tactics

If the enemy has a strong position, entice him away from it.
If the enemy is confused, be decisive.
If the enemy is solid, prepare against him.
If the enemy is strong, avoid him.
If the enemy is angry, frustrate him.
If the enemy is weaker, make him arrogant.
If the enemy is relaxed, make him work.
If the enemy is united, break him apart.
Attack him when he is unprepared. Leave when he least expects it.
Your will find a place where you can win. Don't pass it by.

Policies

The best policy is to attack while the enemy is still planning.
The next best is to disrupt alliances.
The next best is to attack the opposing army.
The worst is to attack the enemy's cities.
Tactics
If you outnumber the enemy ten to one, surround them.
If you outnumber them five to one, attack them.
If you outnumber them two to one, divide them.
If you are equal, then find an advantageous battle.
If you are fewer, defend against them.

If you are much weaker, evade them.
Small forces are not powerful. However, large forces cannot catch them.

Speed
The value of time, that is of being a little ahead of your opponent, often provides greater advantage than superior numbers or greater resources.
The essential factor of military success is speed, that is taking advantage of others' unpreparedness or lack of foresight, their failure to catch up, going by routes they do not expect, attacking where they are not on guard. This you cannot accomplish with hesitation.

5 Elements of a Competitive Position and 4 Skills of an Effective Competitor

The Sun Tzu's 'The Art of War' is one of the world's best books on strategy and competition. It was written in app. 500 B.C. and established itself as the leading treatise on confronting and defeating opponents through superior strategy.

For over twenty-five hundred years, it helped its readers find competitive advantage using the secrets of Sun Tzu. Its competitive methods work extremely well. '

The Art of War', the first of the military classic, offers a distinct philosophy on how to discover the path to success. This philosophy works in any competitive environment where people find themselves contesting with one another for a specific goal.

Five Elements for Comparing Competitive Position

1. Philosophy: A competitor with a strong philosophy is a strong competitor. A clear philosophy makes decision-making easier. Understanding your competitor's philosophy allows you to predict them.
2. Heaven: Trends over time that are beyond your control. You must foresee these changes to adjust to them.
3. Ground: It is both where you fight and what you fight for. The Ground is the basis of all competition because it is what people are fighting about. Competitors are distinguished by the position they hold on the ground. You can and must chose the ground over which you battle. Your choice of ground is a key aspect of your success.
4. Leader: The success of the competitive unit depends on five qualities in its leader: bravery, intelligence, strictness, trust in and care about people.
   The Four Skills of an Effective Competitor
   The five elements that define a competitive position also create the four skills that define the competitor's interaction with the competitive environment:
   1. Knowing: the ability to get hard information.
   2. Vision: the ability to foresee the future.
   3. Action: the ability to move or stay where we are.
   4. Positioning: the ability to use the Ground to find success.
   These skills define your external competence in the competitive world.
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