Kent Griswold

As I am getting closer to moving from a day job to blogging and internet marketing full time. I need to step back and look at how I can make a part time business into a full time business and make it a success. There are 10 basic principals that lead toward success and I have listed them below. The object is now to make this a part of my life and apply it on a daily basis.

Success

1. Be Positive: How you think is everything. Think success, not failure. Beware of a negative environment.
2. Dream: Decide upon your true dreams and goals: Write down your specific goals and develop a plan to reach them.
3. Action: Take action: goals are nothing without action. Don’t be afraid to get started. Just do it.
4. Learn: Never stop learning, keep on going back to school and read books. Get training and acquire skills.
5. Persist: Be persistent and and work hard, success is a marathon, not a sprint. Never Give Up!
6. Details: Learn to analyze details, get all the facts, all the input. Learn from your mistakes.
7. Focus: your time and money: Don’t let other people or things distract you.
8. Innovate: Don’t be afraid to be different: following the herd is a sure way to mediocrity.
9. Communicate and deal with people effectively: no person is an island. Learn to understand and motivate others.
10. Be Honest & Dependable: take responsibility: otherwise, nombers 1-9 won’t matter.

For my wife’s birthday last week, I bought her a camera I have been wanting to test and maybe get one for myself for an all around, always with you camera. It is the new Canon SD880IS and is a 10 mega pixel tiny powershot camera with a 28-112mm lens. I bought her camera through B & H Photo Video in New York.

I’ve been looking for a tiny carry around camera with a wide angle lens and this one looks like it may fit the bill. I took it out for a few test shots on Saturday and here are a couple to show you what it can do. I like it, what do you think?

Both these shots are taken directly from the camera, no adjustments. The barn has been cropped to improve composition. Both shots were taken in manual mode, color set to vivid and -2/3′s. I like vivid as it brings out the color and reminds me of my favorite slide film, Fujichrome Velvia.

Anyway, I’m sure you are going to be seeing more pictures from this camera, if I can get it away from my wife every now and then.

Here is a cool video review of the camera, a little long but gives you most of the details of this great little camera.

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