David E Nielson is a life-long learner. He spent 18 years in the corporate world and another 33 years consulting to organizations and coaching executives. His book, The 9 Dimensions of Conscious Success: It’s All About You, is a reflection of all that David learned on his life journey.
Entrepreneurial Role Models:
- People who had come out of academia
- People that had spent time in the corporate world that jumped out and started doing management consulting
- Ken Blanchard
When business started difficulties overcame:
“probably the single largest difficulty was within myself and that was the fear of failure. I had a very high-paying executive level job in a Fortune 1000 company and I was choosing to walk away from that… I had to manage my own poverty paranoia. My own fear that well I am walking away from something that is roughly a steady job with a steady pay check. What will happen if I can’t make it? And so, the biggest thing that was a challenge for me early on was getting past that”…[Listen for More]
Favourite Books:
Man’s Search For Meaning: The classic tribute to hope from the Holocaust Book by Viktor E FranklFavourite Quote:
“Good judgment comes from experience, and experience comes from bad judgment.” Will Rogers
Recommended Online Resources:
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Best Advice to Other Entrepreneurs:
“spend the time upfront, not an inordinate amount of time, spend the time upfront, get clear about your purpose and then attack it with all the passion that you can muster”…[Listen for More]
More About David E Nielson:
David Nielson & Associates, LLC
Neil’s Quote at the Beginning:
“In order to make a mil you gotta have a plan” Lil Keke
Other Quotes From the Chat with David E Nielson:
- “you have to look at the man in the mirror and that’s the person who is responsible”
- “nine dimensions: purpose, self-awareness, social awareness, authenticity, work ethic and personal responsibility, listening, articulation, humour and gratitude”
- “what did I learn and candidly Neil if I learn somethings about authenticity or listening or humour it’s probably because I did them poorly at some earlier point in my life”
- “you do not have to use trial and error as a way to chart your own path to success there is some proven things. And somebody might say well what gives you the right to say that these nine other nine that are the most critical? Well the right that I have is that I lived life for those years and I sought the advice… I interviewed about 60 people and distilled all that data in the nine dimensions are what emerged out of all of that research”
- “I might have learned how to listen better because I wasn’t listening very well at a particular point in time”
- “there is no such thing as failure only feedback. Take what happens to you, even the things that are unpleasant and turn them into the useful lessons”
- “you have to get clear about what success means to you”
- “recognise that certain things are out of your control and certain things are in your control and do the best job that you can managing all of that”
- “be highly aware of how you are in the moment when you are confronted with change”
- “are you living on purpose. Well that has two meanings: number one are you living on purpose on the purpose that you have defined for yourself; and secondly you are living on purpose, are you living deliberately and consciously”
- “when I made a mistake or when something didn’t go well I was able to say ‘that didn’t at all match what I hoped to produce as a result’ so let’s start with what I supposed to learn from it and secondly how would I do it differently if I had the chance to do it over again”
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