Wdprofile Test http://www.wdprofiletest.com/blog Just another WordPress site Thu, 17 Nov 2011 07:26:42 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1.2 Roger Hamilton explains the power of opposites http://www.wdprofiletest.com/blog/roger-hamilton-explains-the-power-of-opposites/ http://www.wdprofiletest.com/blog/roger-hamilton-explains-the-power-of-opposites/#comments Thu, 17 Nov 2011 07:26:19 +0000 admin http://www.wdprofiletest.com/blog/?p=30 Read more »

]]> “We have a paradigm in the west that there is ‘one right answer’”, Roger Hamilton explains, “There’s one perfect answer in the school exam, there is one perfect mate that we marry, there is only one winner in the sports tournament, and everyone looks to be Number 1, to win the gold medal.”

Eastern philosophy is quite different, and looks at all things as an interplay of opposites, where nothing is just black or white, yin or yang, night or day, but always an interplay of the two. At any one point, when we are forced to make a choice, we suddenly collapse our state into one of the opposites – and always to the one that is most natural to us:

“Try getting with a group of people you know and get everyone to fold their arms. Now look around and see how they are folding them. Some will be folding their left arm over their right arm. Some will be doing the opposite. Now see what happens when you ask everyone to do the opposite. It doesn’t feel as natural. If you’re doing anything that feels like hard work, you’re already doing the wrong thing.” – Roger James Hamilton

The Western way of thinking will try and get us perfect at all things needed for the one goal. To get that job, we should build our resume so we don’t have any weaknesses that will sabotage our strengths. When we are starting a business, we should work on our weaknesses so they don’t become the weak link in the chain. Yet the Eastern way of thinking is, if you’re yang, find a team to support your yin. If you’re extrovert and love meeting people, get support from an introvert that loves staying in the back office. In this way, you get to do what you love, and love what you do.

This is the core philosophy behind Roger Hamilton’s Wealth Dynamics and the XL Nation entrepreneur network. If you want to create the most innovative products and provide the most memorable service, you need to keep the development and management of them separate in the same way that if you want a hot meal with a cold dessert, you don’t mix the two together before you serve it.

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With the passing of Steve Jobs, it’s easy to think that Jobs’ career began and ended with Apple. It did, but the fastest way from A to B is rarely a straight line. In Jobs’ 2005 Stanford Commencement Speech, he talks about ‘connecting the dots’, saying “You can’t connect the dots looking forward; you can only connect them looking backwards. So you have to trust that the dots will somehow connect in your future.”

Here’s thirteen dots that for me defined the story of Steve:

DOT ONE: When Steve Jobs launched Apple with Steve Wozniak in 1976, they decided to name the company after the fruit that according to legend spurred Isaac Newton’s theories on gravity. Jobs then spent most of his life defying gravity, and defying the odds.

DOT TWO: Starting with the premise that the best ideas are already out there, Jobs negotiated with Xerox to grant Apple engineers access to the Xerox PARC facilities in return for selling them one million dollars in pre-IPO Apple stock. It was from this visit that Jobs collected the ideas behind the fundamentals of today’s PC – the graphic user interface, mouse and pointer.

DOT THREE: How did Jobs go from start-up to listed company in four years? By getting his mentors to work for him. Jobs brought on a local VC, Mike Markkula, who bought shares in the company and subsequently became CEO. He brought in Regis McKenna, the best public relations man in Silicon Valley, to market the Apple II. Markkula was responsible for the early financing of the company, and for taking Apple public in 1980.

DOT FOUR: Despite becoming worth $217 million when Apple listed, Jobs kept relying purely on his intuition. Apple’s head of marketing, Mike Murray, commented, “Steve did his market research by looking into the mirror every morning.” Sales stalled, Jobs’ management style was seen by his board as a liability and, in 1985, he was thrown out of the company he had started nine years earlier.

DOT FIVE: That might have been the end of another entrepreneur story, was it not for Jobs’ perseverance. Having left Apple, he launched NeXT, to provide PCs to the education market. Apple sued Jobs for launching in competition, prompting him to say, “It’s hard to think that a $2 billion company with 4,300 plus people couldn’t compete with six people in blue jeans.” Jobs sold all but one of his Apple shares, and Apple continued to languish, falling from 20% market share to under 5% by 1996. Jobs, in the meantime, struggled with NeXT, burning through $250 million of investors’ money as he tried to market his new computers.

DOT SIX: In the same year that Jobs founded NeXT, George Lucas was looking to sell a small computer animation group he owned. Disney rejected an offer to buy 50% for $15 million, and a deal to sell to Ross Perot and Phillips for $30 million fell through. Jobs ended up negotiating Lucas to under $10 million for the business, thinking he could market the high-end animation computers that the group had designed.

DOT SEVEN: Renamed ‘Pixar’, Jobs’ new company began marketing the Pixar Image Computer to the medical market – with little success. By 1989, with Pixar losing over $1 million each month, and NeXT faring little better, Jobs found himself left with less than 20% of the $150 million he had received when he sold his Apple stock. At the rate he was going, within two years he would be back to zero.

DOT EIGHT: Taking drastic measures, Jobs sold the hardware side of Pixar for several million, taking a massive loss. By luck, an animated short movie the Pixar team produced in their spare time, “Tin Toy”, received an Oscar, and in 1993, Disney approved a full feature joint venture with Pixar called “Toy Story”.

DOT NINE: The victory was short lived with Disney shutting production of Toy Story down later in the year after losing confidence in the script. Then in 1994, Disney lost four executives in a helicopter crash, including Chief Operating Officer Frank Wells. Jobs was left attempting to get Toy Story back on track while also having to close the NeXT manufacturing facility and sales operation. Most of the NeXT team left. The investors, having put in another $100 million, saw that money disappear too. Toy Story, now back on Disney’s agenda, it would need to earn at least $100 million for Pixar to make any money from it at all; more than any other Disney film had made at the time.

DOT TEN: Even so, an audacious Jobs, down to his last dollar, decided to bet that not only would Toy Story be a success, it would enable him to publicly list Pixar and raise further funds. In November 1995, Toy Story opened to enormous acclaim, becoming the highest grossing release of the year, generating over $450 million in sales. One week later, Pixar had its IPO. Less than twelve months after his worst year financially, Steve Jobs was a billionaire.

DOT ELEVEN: Then, in 1996, Gil Emilio (the new CEO of Apple) went hunting for a new operating system and finally found it… in NeXT. Approaching Jobs for his system, Jobs was only interested in selling the entire company. Apple bought it for $377.5 million in cash and $1.5 million in Apple shares. In one fell swoop, Jobs could pay off all his investors and was involved with Apple again – after over ten years.

DOT TWELVE: In 1997 Apple sales were $7 billion and losses were over $1 billion. Jobs took to the challenge of revitalizing Apple. By 1998, Jobs launched the iMac, followed with the iPod, iPhone and iPad. The rise of Apple to become the most valuable company in the world are well documented, but less is known of the trials that shaped Jobs in his darker times.

DOT THIRTEEN: In January 2006, Disney (having rejected the chance to buy 50% of Pixar for $15 million ten years earlier) bought a transformed Pixar from Jobs for $7.4 billion in stock, making Jobs Disney’s largest individual shareholder and a billionaire for the third time.

To become a billionaire is already rare. To become a billionaire from scratch (or from $1 billion in losses) in three entirely different industries is unprecedented.

Jobs died today with a net worth of over $8 billion after having worked for $1 a year for the last 14 years.

Many people have heard his quote “Being the richest man in the cemetery doesn’t matter to me… Going to bed at night saying we’ve done something wonderful… that’s what matters to me.”

What most don’t know was that this was from a quote in the Wall Street Journal in Summer 1993 – Not when he was sitting on a billion dollars, but in his darkest days, outcast from Apple and the Tech community, struggling with both NeXT and an aimless Pixar, and about to run out of money.

That was Steve.

 

]]> http://www.wdprofiletest.com/blog/my-note-on-steve-jobs-13-dots/feed/ 3 Roger Hamilton looks at the opposites of value and leverage http://www.wdprofiletest.com/blog/roger-hamilton-looks-at-the-opposites-of-value-and-leverage/ http://www.wdprofiletest.com/blog/roger-hamilton-looks-at-the-opposites-of-value-and-leverage/#comments Wed, 05 Oct 2011 04:24:53 +0000 admin http://www.wdprofiletest.com/blog/?p=26 Read more »

]]> Roger Hamilton explains the concepts of value and leverage by giving the analogy of a river:

“Water flows because of a height differential – from high ground to low ground. Money flows because of a value differential. All money flow is the result of a value exchange, and when you double the value, you double the speed at which money flows. Leverage, on the other hand, is not about the height of the river, but the width. When you increase leverage, you don’t change the speed of money flow, but you do change the volume at any one time.” – Roger James Hamilton

All money flow is as a result of value and leverage, and when you know how to control both, you can control money flow. But both come in opposites. Try crossing your arms, and see which way you naturally cross them. Left arm over right arm? Or right arm over left arm? Now try doing the opposite.

The opposite doesn’t come naturally. It feels like hard work. And as with all opposites, when you’re doing it one way you can’t be doing it the other. Value has two opposites, based on two different thinking dynamics – and one is the one you do most naturally, intuitive thinkers (who are ‘head in the clouds’ most naturally deliver value through innovation. People like Steve Jobs and Richard Branson create value this way. Sensory thinkers (who are ‘ear to the ground’ most naturally deliver value through timing. People like Warren Buffett and George Soros create value this way.

Roger Hamilton continues, with the two opposites of leverage, based on two different action dynamics. Again, one of these is your most natural action. Introvert activators (who naturally ask ‘how can this be done without me’) leverage through multiplying. They make things simpler, and make many. People like Jeff Bezos and Mark Zuckerberg leverage this way. Extrovert activators (who naturally ask ‘how can this only happen with me’) leverage through magnifying. They make things more complicated, and make only one. People like Oprah Winfrey and Donald Trump leverage this way.

Knowing your natural path ensures you focus at the simplest way to create value and leverage it – without it feeling like hard work.

]]> http://www.wdprofiletest.com/blog/roger-hamilton-looks-at-the-opposites-of-value-and-leverage/feed/ 1 Roger Hamilton explains the 5 Frequencies of Wealth Dynamics http://www.wdprofiletest.com/blog/roger-hamilton-explains-the-5-frequencies-of-wealth-dynamics/ http://www.wdprofiletest.com/blog/roger-hamilton-explains-the-5-frequencies-of-wealth-dynamics/#comments Tue, 27 Sep 2011 09:41:43 +0000 admin http://www.wdprofiletest.com/blog/?p=23 Read more »

]]> What are the origins of the Wealth Dynamics 5 Frequencies? As Roger Hamilton explains, these 5 frequencies are the same 5 energies in the Chinese I Ching, the basis of Chinese medicine and Feng Shui, along with the same energies found within the Indian and Western elements.

“The five frequencies form the natural cycle of flow: Water grows wood, which fuels fire, which settles to Earth, from which we Mine metal, that flows through Water. Each is characterized in our minds through five different questions: ‘Why?’ (water – flow), ‘What?’ (wood – grow), ‘Who?’ (fire – glow), ‘When?’ (earth – slow), ‘How?’ (metal – know)’ When we tackle any issue with these five questions, we get into flow. When we ask the wrong questions at the wrong time, we lose our flow and end up in conflict.” – Roger James Hamilton

The flow of these five energies is profound, as it is wisdom that goes back 5,000 years and that we find in everything from the five visible planets tracked by our ancestors, to the five days of the week (which with the Sun and Moon make up the seven), to the seasons (Wood – Spring, Fire – Summer, Earth – Autumn, Metal – Winter, Water – Spirit connecting them all outside of time).

As Roger Hamilton says “It’s not surprising that, when we go against the flow of nature, life can feel hard. Check with a surfer battling against the waves and tides rather than harnessing the flow.” All eight profiles of the Wealth Dynamics profile system have a mix of the four base frequencies, and as we build our consciousness of flow, our spirit – the fifth element, expands.

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]]> If you haven’t yet seen Roger Hamilton’s Wealth Vector cards, here’s an opportunity to dive deeper into the Wealth Dynamics system. Roger devised the 64 cards to give the specific actions on what to do (and what not to do) to stay in flow between any two profiles. So, for example, a Creator can see exactly how to approach an Accumulator in a way that creates flow, and vice versa.

“Whenever something blocks or breaks – whether a business or a relationship, this is a sign that you aren’t following flow. The Wealth Vector cards make it very clear what causes these blocks or breaks, and what actions keep you in flow.” – Roger James Hamilton

The Wealth Vector cards also apply to the stages of enterprise, so they can be used to ensure every team member is doing the most effective thing to build trust and flow within the organisation.

Roger Hamilton has based the 64 cards on the 64 hexagrams of the I Ching. This is the Chinese ‘Book of Changes’ which sees flow in time as one of 64 different ‘energies’. In the same way that we all acknowledge four distinct ‘seasons’ where we do different things in Spring than in Winter, the I Ching acknowledges sixty-four distinct ‘energies’ where we do different things in each to follow the natural flow. You can find out more about the Wealth Vectors at the upcoming Wealth Dynamics Academy, taking place in Bali this August.

]]> http://www.wdprofiletest.com/blog/what-are-roger-hamilton%e2%80%99s-64-wealth-vectors/feed/ 0 Have you taken Roger Hamilton’s Wealth Dynamics 2.0 Yet? http://www.wdprofiletest.com/blog/have-you-taken-roger-hamilton%e2%80%99s-wealth-dynamics-2-0-yet/ http://www.wdprofiletest.com/blog/have-you-taken-roger-hamilton%e2%80%99s-wealth-dynamics-2-0-yet/#comments Mon, 01 Aug 2011 07:31:06 +0000 admin http://www.wdprofiletest.com/blog/?p=17 Read more »

]]> Thank you to everyone who took part in the launch of Roger Hamilton’s Wealth Dynamics 2.0 in July. Roger James Hamilton and his team spent many months revamping the test, and the result is a fully updated high-value package when you take the Wealth Dynamics test for $97.

“Wealth isn’t how much money you have. Wealth is what you’re left with when you lose all your money” – Roger Hamilton

Wealth Dynamics is not about the money. It’s about the flow. As Roger says, a constant water supply doesn’t come from going out and chasing the water, but from channeling a river (or plumbing system) directly to your home. Wealth Dynamics gives the principles and formula for how wealth is created through value and leverage. Based on your strengths and weaknesses, there is a way to control flow that is natural for you.

Now, when you take the Wealth Dynamics test, you will receive a Power Pack of your Wealth Dynamics Profile, which include deeper insight into your profile from Roger James Hamilton and Topher Morrison.

]]> http://www.wdprofiletest.com/blog/have-you-taken-roger-hamilton%e2%80%99s-wealth-dynamics-2-0-yet/feed/ 2 What is Wealth Dynamics 2.0? http://www.wdprofiletest.com/blog/what-is-wealth-dynamics-2-0/ http://www.wdprofiletest.com/blog/what-is-wealth-dynamics-2-0/#comments Mon, 04 Jul 2011 05:49:16 +0000 admin http://www.wdprofiletest.com/blog/?p=15 Read more »

]]> We are excited to announce the latest creation by Roger James Hamilton – A full upgrade of the Wealth Dynamics reports and pack of resources when you take the Wealth Dynamics test!

It has been four months of hard work for Roger Hamilton and the team as they have revamped each of the Wealth Dynamics Test Reports, so they now integrate with the Wealth Spectrum, include case studies of famous wealth creators, and give tips for using Wealth Dynamics  in teams – How do you lead, learn and communicate most effectively?

Here is a video that Roger Hamilton created on the seven truths of Wealth Dynamics. Which level of truth are you operating on?Roger James Hamilton

]]> http://www.wdprofiletest.com/blog/what-is-wealth-dynamics-2-0/feed/ 0 How to use your profile to conquer the Wealth Spectrum Foundation Prism http://www.wdprofiletest.com/blog/how-to-use-your-profile-to-conquer-the-wealth-spectrum-foundation-prism/ http://www.wdprofiletest.com/blog/how-to-use-your-profile-to-conquer-the-wealth-spectrum-foundation-prism/#comments Tue, 28 Jun 2011 06:30:54 +0000 admin http://www.wdprofiletest.com/blog/?p=12 Read more »

]]> This year, Roger James Hamilton launched the Wealth Spectrum to provide the step-by-step guide for each Wealth Profile to move up their ladder of wealth. The Wealth Spectrum has nine levels, divided into three prisms. Roger Hamilton explains the first prism (the Foundation Prism): “Imagine a house with no foundations. It might be nice to look at, but it won’t last for long and it wouldn’t be wise to make it your home. Many build their wealth like this – with no foundation.”

Roger Hamilton adds “I’ve seen many entrepreneurs start a business only to end up in financial strife personally because they haven’t built their own personal financial system first. It’s like turning on the tap when the plumbing is broken. Each of us can use our Wealth Dynamics Profile to set the right system. For example, don’t ask a star to measure their money because they won’t. Don’t ask a Lord to market themselves, because they won’t. But when each profile follows their natural path, they soon set up a powerful cash management system that can support a million dollar cash flow.

Learn more about Roger James Hamilton’s Wealth Spectrum test, and how it links to the Wealth Dynamics Profile system by visiting the Wealth Spectrum test site.

]]> http://www.wdprofiletest.com/blog/how-to-use-your-profile-to-conquer-the-wealth-spectrum-foundation-prism/feed/ 0 How the Wealth Spectrum Levels link to the Wealth Dynamics Profiles http://www.wdprofiletest.com/blog/how-the-wealth-spectrum-levels-link-to-the-wealth-dynamics-profiles/ http://www.wdprofiletest.com/blog/how-the-wealth-spectrum-levels-link-to-the-wealth-dynamics-profiles/#comments Thu, 16 Jun 2011 08:44:42 +0000 admin http://www.wdprofiletest.com/blog/?p=9 Read more »

]]> Roger Hamilton talks about the eight Wealth Dynamics Profiles being about ‘who’ you are, and the nine Wealth Spectrum Levels as being ‘where’ you are. As you know, Roger James Hamilton loves to use metaphors and analogies. As he says in this case “If you think about the profiles as the different sports you could play, let’s imagine Creator was skiing down a mountain and Trader was scuba diving in the sea. The first thing you’ll know is you need to show up in entirely different places for your sport. Scuba diving on a mountain really isn’t going to work.”

Roger Hamilton continues: “Now if you’re skiing, which is your profile, there are different levels in skiing. And what you’ll notice is if you are on the black run, the people and their skill level are totally different from the red run or green run. Being a Creator is the same, there are nine levels of expertise and you need to master your level to move to the next. Being a Trader (and a scuba diver) is exactly the same. You need to master one level to move to the next or you will end up in trouble.”

Learn more about Roger James Hamilton’s two systems by taking the tests and reading the reports, which will be directly relevant to who you are and where you are today, and the steps to take to mastery.

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