How To Conquer The World: The Story of Alexander
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How did Alexander become Alexander the “Great”?
The year is 331 b.c. Alexander is still to become “Alexander the great.” Alexander has to fight a war against the king of Persia - Darius.
The war is very unbalanced and tilted in the favour of the Persian king Darius. Alexander’s army is outnumbered 20:1 in the battle against Darius. Furthermore, the Persian army is better equiped too. They have chariots and fancy weaponary.
Alexander realizes that it would be very hard to win against the Persian army. There is no way that Alexander could take on the might of Darius’ forces. So Alexander gives just one simple order to his soldiers:
KILL DARIUS.
Every soldier in Alexanders force has one clear mission, one clear target: Darius. They go after that one target in full force when the war beguns.
Their focus takes the Persian wing that protects Darius by surprise and Darius soon realizes what Alexander is upto. He flees to save his life. Seeing their commander and king run away, the other generals and soldiers flee too. And Alexander, with poor equipment and outnumbered soldiers, wins against the mighty Persians.
Alexander becomes “Alexander the great.”
Action summary:
- You too can become great. Greatness lies within you. The best and the quickest way to become more successful is to focus on your one main problem. Focus on your “Darius.” When your main problem is solved, you will find that the other minor problems you had took care of themselves or are not a problem anymore!
- “Gather in your resources, rally all your faculties, marshal all your energies, focus all your capacities upon mastery of one field of endeavor” - John Haggai.
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Very Militant! But I think I get where you are coming from…
…Now the only problem is, What is my Darius???
Posted 10 Oct 2007 #
I have to agree with you on this, focus on Darius. I suppose when it comes to blogging, what exactly is my Darius?
Obviously, it is to conquer the mighty bloggers, rise out of the pack to become the great one. Is it my content or is it my marketing or exactly what is it?
Sometimes I think Darius is myself. I know I am already a legend to my friends and family for all the things I have done in life up to now, so it seems like I have to focus on pushing myself through that legend to become something even greater.
Posted 11 Oct 2007 #
Forest Parks: Thanks. What I usually do is create a monthly mind-map. Of things I want to achieve. And then prioritize. What object from that list will help me the most right now? Focus all the energy and resources on that.
Mark: Content comes before marketing. So focus on content first. Then focus on marketing.
Posted 11 Oct 2007 #
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Posted 22 Oct 2007 #
Alexander Rules!
Posted 16 Mar 2008 #
Great cut-throat strategy for the real Alexander the Great, but a not-so-great movie about Alexander.
Thanks for the great post and interesting perspective.
Posted 14 May 2008 #