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“I predict we will surpass paperback sales sometime in the next nine to 12 months. Sometime after that, we’ll surpass the combination of paperback and hardcover,” Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos told USA Today.
Kindle books have already eclipsed hardcover sales; Amazon recently said it sells 180 e-books for every 100 hardcovers, with the ratio constantly shifting in e-books’ favor.
Many readers still favor the good old printed book. In a recent poll most Mashable readers cited a preference for physical books over e-books. However, with the e-reader/tablet battle heating up (the iPad is selling amazingly well, and Amazon recently launched a new version of the Kindle) — not to mention the increased convenience and accessibility of e-books via a range of mobile and desktop apps — paperbacks and hardcovers may soon become a minority in the world of books.
Are You Stuck? I saw something absurd the other day. A highly engineered and specially designed high-performance race car stuck on a 35-mile-an-hour downtown street.
That is not what that car was made for. That is not what its creator (Enzo Ferrari) envisioned for it.
This 6-speed, F140 Aluminum V12, 4700cc engine with 660hp was built to go 0-60 in 3.8 seconds and race at 217 miles an hour (2010 specs). But here it is… stuck.
Darrin Hardy of Success Magazine says, “I see this absurdity every day”.
But not only in the streets—in office cubicles, conference rooms, huddled behind computer screens, and dragging luggage through airports.
People who were specially engineered and designed with special talents, skills and abilities who are traveling down the wrong road, with their potential stuck in first gear; trapped and unable to race.
That is not what their creator had envisioned for them either.
Are you…
1. Stuck. Traveling down the wrong road? Are you in a job, company or business that has you boxed in on the slow lane? Is it keeping you from being able to get out of first gear and challenge your greater abilities?
Sometimes it’s not the car; it’s the road the car is on.
2. Traveling with Pintos? Are you going slow because you are keeping pace with ordinary cars, when you were designed for racing?
Sometimes it’s not the car; it’s the cars it travels with.
3. Are you even aware that you are a race car? You were specially engineered and designed for speed… to race. You were built for greatness. I’m not kidding. You are a miracle of machinery. Yes, you… the one reading this. It’s likely you have never even experienced half of what your top speed is.
Sometimes it’s not the car; it’s the one given the responsibility to drive it.
If you ever really gripped the wheel, braced your neck and punched the pedal with all your might… the awesomeness of your innate potential will shock and exhilarate you.
Punch it. NOW!
Who else do you know has greater innate potential than they might realize or be utilizing? Forward this post to them.
So, are you stuck? Are you on the wrong road, traveling with the wrong people, unaware of your true greatness? In the comments below share with everyone what you are going to do to “punch it” in your life, starting now.
